[OOC] Pokémon: Start

[PlatinumSkink]

@Joshua Tamashii With all likelihood, nope. No problem. XD

[Rune_Alchemist]

@PlatinumSkink

Ho man, this is gonna be good....Looks great!

At least there's no glaring type disadvantages.

In fact, if Lure gets her bug butt in there, this could be pretty easy, heh. Unfortunately, she's outside nomming on the honey she found in the previous post and not caring at all.

[PlatinumSkink]

@Eklispe@Pikmin Eye@Pyromaniacwolf, there ya go, an "if you move on" post that holds the potential of moving on even if you don't, with a common Pokémon of Wet Caverns thrown in if you want it. Must be better than nothing for the moment. Hahaha.

[PlatinumSkink]

@Joshua Tamashii Oh, my. Amelia got serious. With a fancy new top-font, too. Teh-heh. Nicely posted.

I do think you've written that you're attacking the wrong Pokémon, but I'd like to think I know what you're intending.

[Joshua Tamashii]

@PlatinumSkink There's been too many Phantumps and Pumpkaboos XD

[Delta44]

@PlatinumSkink I hope my slow pace isn't causing any troubles for you, fam :D I think I'm getting my groove back so I'll see what I can do about getting something up in about 4 hours ;)

[Rune_Alchemist]

@PlatinumSkink

Hopefully I didn't get too carried away with that post and have Claire give too many orders xD

Anyways, lets see how this goes.

[PlatinumSkink]

@Delta44 I will say you've been worrying me, but as there are no players that are being delayed by you it's fine. As long as I know you intend to continue and you do get to post at some point.

@Rune_Alchemist *snicker* It'll do just fine. Nicely posted. That was fun to read.

[Pyromaniacwolf]

@PlatinumSkink gah I'm sorry I've got a exam tomorrow so I've been up to my neck in revision and past papers, I'll try to get a post up tomorrow when its done.

[PlatinumSkink]

@Pyromaniacwolf Alright. Thanks for keeping us updated.

I'll get a post up, for those who are waiting, tomorrow. Or tonight. Depends on real-life things.

Edit: For my own mental health, tomorrow, hopefully. There's the chance I won't get the time, but I'll make an effort.

[PlatinumSkink]

@Joshua Tamashii So, there. I assumed that Amelia wanted that tiny little Pumpkaboo that had come forth originally based on her reaction, but if that was incorrect then feel free to correct me and do your own thing. It's a pretty inexperienced one, as you might notice. And... yupp, this is the first example of that particular change of mine coming into play. I am not going to limit any Pokémon to only knowing four moves. So, Litwick now knows five. Any complications this causes should be routed to me so I can resolve them. Haha.

@Rune_Alchemist And you get some more things going. Since you're writing the percent health of your Pokémon... should I be writing down in percent how much damage they're taking? I did intend it to be a bit more unclear than that, as we only have eyes to tell the amount of damage with, but, I could do that. Or we could just continue. Yupp.

And yes, I sent that Zigzagoon to Lure entirely for the hilarity of it. Teh-heh.

[Rune_Alchemist]

@PlatinumSkink

Eh, if you'd prefer to keep it vague, that's fine! I just did that so I could sort if have some estimation of their ability after a fight/training. I can just take it out, if you'd prefer.

And that Zigzagoon is about to get a harsh lesson in 'don't take candy from strangers' xD

[Joshua Tamashii]

@PlatinumSkink When it comes to unlimited moves, I worry a bit since some pokemon have a massive moveset compared to others and some can have massive type coverage with the help of TMs and HM.

For example, Absol can learn, by default/leveling: Perish Song, Future Sight, Scratch, Feint, Leer, Quick Attack, Pursuit, Taunt, Bite, Double Team, Slash, Swords Dance, Night Slash, Detect, Psycho Cut, Me First, Sucker Punch, and Razor Wind. 18 moves in total.

With the help of TMs and HMs it can additionally learn: Calm Mind, Toxic, Hail, Hidden Power, Sunny Day, Ice Beam, Blizzard, Hyper Beam, Rain Dance, Frustration, Thunderbolt, Thunder, Return, Shadow Ball, Flamethrower, Sand Storm, Fire Blast, Rock Tomb, Aerial Ace, Torment, Façade, Rest, Attract, Thief, Round, Echoed Voice, False Swipe, Charge Beam, Brutal Swing, Will-O-Wisp, Payback, Giga Impact, Stone Edge, Thunder Wave, Psych Up, Rock Slide, X-Scissor, Dream Eater, Swagger, Sleep Talk, Substitute, Snarl, Dark Pulse, and Confide. Another 44 moves, bringing the total to 62.

Then, with eggs moves, it can additional learn one of the following: Assurance, Baton Pass, Curse, Double Edge, Hex, Magic Coat, Mean Look, Megahorn, Play Rough, Punishment, and Zen Headbutt. One out of eleven possible moves.

It's too many moves for one pokemon, not to mention the massive type coverage it has. Assuming there is a limit though, how many moves will one pokemon have.

[Rune_Alchemist]

@Joshua Tamashii

Personally speaking

I prefer the whole unlimited moves thing. It doesn't make sense that pokemon that learns moves naturally simply just...forget them. Never understood that in the games - it's only for some silly balancing purposes, but then I'm not fond of how battles are generally handled in the game or show. For default leveling, learning and being able to use all their moves is perfectly reasonable I think. Most movepools are reasonable for the pokemon, and those that do not have a movepool to learn from leveling whilst evolving simply could learn the movesets of their previous evolution instead.

The solution here with TMs would be to simply make them rare, and make a pokemon only capable of learning a few TMs at a time since they'd actually have to practice/learn them. I don't think HMs are going to be a thing either.

And it's not like Egg Moves are going to be a serious thing for pokemon you catch since that would be determined when you catch them, and they're probably not going to have more than one or two at most.

but that's just my two cents on it. I trust @PlatinumSkink not to let a pokemon have an absurd amount of moves like you described.

[PlatinumSkink]

@Rune_Alchemist We'll keep it as it is. I'll keep writing as I do, you do as you want, and we'll all be fine. Haha.

@Joshua Tamashii@Rune_Alchemist I find the standard movepool of each Pokémon to be largely acceptable for them to know all of, will make for some more flexible and imaginative battling when the Pokémon all know more moves. There's likely going to be some Pokémon with highly exploitative combos due to this, but heh, I sincerely look forward to seeing them. I will note that there are Pokémon that have moves they "learn on level 1" that they can legally only learn by using reminder things, those they won't have. That's just a little something I decided.

We can scratch the majority of the TM moves. Powerful TMs are both extremely rare and I am probably going to have a limit on how many a Pokémon can learn, yes. Also... some of those don't even make sense. An Absol knowing Blizzard, Thunder or Fire Blast? What? It doesn't even have the necessary organs for those. Does it grow new organs to be able to do those moves? I'm very iffy about that. I'll probably allow it if a player pleads enough, but allow me to raise an eyebrow. And the egg-moves I will largely not even consider unless you guys start breeding for them.

@Pikmin Eye Alright, nicely posted. Paddling Bulbasaur does make for an amusing mental image. And, alright. Goldeen engaged. A scene shall be made. Haha.

[PlatinumSkink]

@Eklispe *snicker* Not getting rid of it that easily, eh? Alright. Cute enough. Makes me slightly wonder how the world knows a Pokémon is wild or not, because that Wooper was clearly never officially released. Oh, well. Nicely posted!

@Joshua Tamashii Alright. Nicely posted. Now let me dig up the leaving thing I had already previously written to see if it still applies. Since you're heading all the way out, likely not, but heh. Anyway. One more companion, one encouraging conversation and one turnover to a new day. Nice.

And training to a set level. Alright. I did previously only level Pokémon up one or two levels when they say they're training, but you're making it easier for me by defining what level you want them to. Now I'll simply write what it takes to get there and if you can get there on this route. But, I will note that at the very least the new guy might need to be healed a time or two before he can handle some of the Pokémon around. Where would you then go to heal? Heh, the hut in Infested Woods is closer than the Pokémon Center in Pureplain but it charges money, though I won't make you post more times to heal for free. It might cost a little on Amelia's legs, though. Haha.

[Delta44]

@PlatinumSkink Sorry, but I think I might need to pull out of this, or at least go on hiatus - things have me really bogged down at the moment due to teachers dumping a bunch of last-minute assignments on us ;-;

[PlatinumSkink]

@Delta44 Hm. Acknowledged. I'll just assume you're somewhere in Pureplain for the moment, then. If you desire to, you're free to return whenever you wish. Good luck with your things, I hope things work out.

[Delta44]

@PlatinumSkink Thanks man! ^-^ I got two assessments to finish by tonight so this'll be an all-nighter :D Don't worry, I have a bag of Skittles to keep me awake ;)

[Rune_Alchemist]

I'll see about getting a post up later today

Whew, so many RPs decided to update at the same time and now I gotta post in like four different ones and a collab xD