https://x.com/WolfeyGlick/status/2041773577720955041
also its currently like this
- Fake Out cannot be selected after it’s used once
- Many widely-used items (Choice Specs/Bands, Life Orb, AV) are just missing
- Less than 200 Pokémon currently
- NS2 version is still low-res/30 FPS
- Stalwart Mega Skarmory
Also Mega Hawlucha can give its allies No Guard for 100% accurate 1-hit KO moves lmao
https://x.com/snacks_fruity2/status/2041880586457845879
My First Day in Pokemon Champions WolfeyVGC
This is intentional and good and I will die on this hill. A lot of older players completely lose perspective for how much information someone has to process who starts playing Pokemon in the 2020s. Me, I started playing in 2005 when there were “only” 386 Pokemon, there was only Choice Band (no specs/scarf), LO and AV didn’t exist either. I could learn about all the following 600+ Pokemon and items etc. gradually as they got introduced over the course of 20 years.
Imagine getting into Pokemon now and being expected to learn all of that at once before you have any chance at all of playing PvP. All of the 1000+ Pokemon, every item, move, ability, every generational gimmick with its intricacies.
Personally I think the lack of 6v6 is indefensible but on the limits on Pokemon and items I will, in fact, defend the billion dollar company.
they will add them eventually so your defence wont matter
By then, the kids that didn’t want to focus on Pokemon PvP until now (or have not played Pokemon in the first place) will already learn the current meta and be freed up for more. They’ll have to find new ways to ease in new kids in the next years, but for now building an initial casual playerbase is more important.
I’d agree more with this if Champions was some single-player thing.
for a window into this experience might I suggest Path of Exile (1)
oh they will add them, but behind DLC paywalls and expansion packs probably. So you will still have to learn the metagame with 1000+ pokemon and all the items, but you will need to continually relearn the metagame as xpacs are released and those who pay to win will have an advantage.
Having fewer pokemons is fine I guess but bringing over pokemons to newer games was the coolest mechanic the games ever had.
It’s cool yeah but requiring players to buy older games and in some cases older consoles isn’t great