@YoriNya Got all that?
Yeah there's some choices being made there for sure. I'm happy to see Ninja again, but the fact that his abilities were both nerfed makes him seem border unusable competitively, I don't know, though. I'll have to play test when I get the opportunity.
I'll HARD agree with Zacian, the fact that he got a constant +1 attack just for existing at all times was sort of absurd. I don't know if you played in the Ultimate Finale at all for SWSH, but they may as well have called it The Great Zacian Clash. I personally believe that there should never be a single mom so ridiculously strong that it is absolutely essential to have on a team to stand a chance competitively. I'm looking RIGHT at Mega Ray and Primal Groudon.
I didn't think MAXing was as big of an unbalanced issue as Mega evolution (even though, my god do I miss Mega Evo), but I like the unpredictability of Tera typing a lot, where as in SWSH you could scout out your opponent's team and almost always safely predict who was getting MAX'd and pick who was going in based on that, any Pokémon having the ability to Tera type and possibly gain a huge advantage makes things a while lot gamey-er and I think the competitive scene is going to be a hell of a good time once everyone has it completely figured out.
As far as the issues go with the software, the glitches, it's not a hardware problem. It's a Gamefreak problem lol. People are always giving them way more credit than they should. Sure, the guys struck gold with Pokémon and a franchise with a following like that has a certain expectation behind it, but they've literally never been a great development team all around. I also feel like they can't meet deadlines well, if they had a bit more time it would have been alright I think. I haven't experienced many issues other than minor frame rate drops here and there, myself. I think it's funny as hell what people are sharing though.
As far as the dex cut, they definitely should have come out and said it for what it was, that being a way to add longevity and playability to the game by not giving everyone everything right away. And THAT leads me to the fire lizard.
There's too many memories and too much money attached to Gen 1 for them not to do these things. I think all three of the boys should get equal fare, but Charizard is the one and the Pokémon company knows this. There are people who will base make or break decisions based entirely on whether or not Charizard is in it. Look at the Pokémon TCG singles market, every Charizard has that Charizard tax, for no reason other than being Charizard. I call it Gerrychamandering. He's always gonna get the shit, that's always how it's been and it's always how it's gonna be. But, look at the comments sections of anything including the Zard Tera raid event. We're not alone lmao.
For what we've got, though, I'm having an absolute blast with Violet. I put a day and a half into it and feel like I've gotten almost nothing done because it's so vast and I don't want to miss a single thing, I have one gym badge, one titan down and one base beaten and I have a fully evolved team lmao. I've got a lot of playing around to do with it to figure some Pokémon out and figure out Tera typing and how easy it's gonna be to train everyone up for competition, but yeah. I'm having a really good time.
