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Mar. 8th, 2024 06:49 amFinished reading that player's guide yesterday.
As it turns out, the eponymous sword and shield are explicitly rusted. No surprise there; to begin with, not only do they serve an actual purpose towards the respective mascot Pokemon (obviously), but the sword, also obviously, was never going to be the same one promoted in the unrelated SwordQuest. Nor could these be the same ones that would be distributed at the Pal Park, with four other artifacts alongside.
Well, at least they're accounted for now. Given the above, I have no reason to bother with Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.
With that, I went on in the afternoon to commission for that US reboot, and it seems I already have a winner so far.
Also went on to look up some random Pokemon, but noticed now that various moves lack any data in select games between gens VIII and IX. That is something I previously noticed only with Pikachu and Eevee's signature moves in Let's Go! Pikachu/Eevee, but just yesterday, I next noticed it with a move called No Retreat, only in BDSP (still learnable in Sword/Shield and Scarlet/Violet (why violet instead of azure?)).
Here is what I managed to google about that:
https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/333938/there-particular-reason-that-moves-were-removed-from-space#:~:text=However%2C%20moves%20like%20Heart%20Stamp,Cannon%2C%20Lucky%20Chant%2C%20Twinneedle%20and
Since Bone Club was the first move cited with no relation to Z powers or the LGPE starters, I decided to look Cubone up and compare its learnsets between gens VII and VIII (no data in Scarlet/Violet), and now, I have even more reason to compare movesets from VII onward if I ever rewrite Unwilling Service myself:
Its learnsets, while still containing mostly the same moves, have been completely reordered.
Obviously, it wouldn't make sense for a (regular) starter to learn advanced moves like Flamethrower, Solarbeam, or Hydro Pump before basic ones like Ember, Vine Whip, and Bubble respectively, but it doesn't seem like such a stretch for one individual Pokemon in a species to learn things like Focus Energy, Thrash, Fling, and Stomping Tantrum interchangeably from another, within the same region even. There are even Pokemon who can't do certain things that common sense dictates they should by default.
Should I bother accounting for levels at all in relation to what a Pokemon can do and when, or just let the plot, actual mechanics and resources, and however long a Trainer has had and made actual use of each Pokemon itself for, all handle that? Especially when it comes to the Battle Frontiers, when the main characters' entire collections, and individual details for each Pokemon therein, would depend on everything that had gone on since the beginning of the story?
As it turns out, the eponymous sword and shield are explicitly rusted. No surprise there; to begin with, not only do they serve an actual purpose towards the respective mascot Pokemon (obviously), but the sword, also obviously, was never going to be the same one promoted in the unrelated SwordQuest. Nor could these be the same ones that would be distributed at the Pal Park, with four other artifacts alongside.
Well, at least they're accounted for now. Given the above, I have no reason to bother with Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.
With that, I went on in the afternoon to commission for that US reboot, and it seems I already have a winner so far.
Also went on to look up some random Pokemon, but noticed now that various moves lack any data in select games between gens VIII and IX. That is something I previously noticed only with Pikachu and Eevee's signature moves in Let's Go! Pikachu/Eevee, but just yesterday, I next noticed it with a move called No Retreat, only in BDSP (still learnable in Sword/Shield and Scarlet/Violet (why violet instead of azure?)).
Here is what I managed to google about that:
https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/333938/there-particular-reason-that-moves-were-removed-from-space#:~:text=However%2C%20moves%20like%20Heart%20Stamp,Cannon%2C%20Lucky%20Chant%2C%20Twinneedle%20and
Since Bone Club was the first move cited with no relation to Z powers or the LGPE starters, I decided to look Cubone up and compare its learnsets between gens VII and VIII (no data in Scarlet/Violet), and now, I have even more reason to compare movesets from VII onward if I ever rewrite Unwilling Service myself:
Its learnsets, while still containing mostly the same moves, have been completely reordered.
Obviously, it wouldn't make sense for a (regular) starter to learn advanced moves like Flamethrower, Solarbeam, or Hydro Pump before basic ones like Ember, Vine Whip, and Bubble respectively, but it doesn't seem like such a stretch for one individual Pokemon in a species to learn things like Focus Energy, Thrash, Fling, and Stomping Tantrum interchangeably from another, within the same region even. There are even Pokemon who can't do certain things that common sense dictates they should by default.
Should I bother accounting for levels at all in relation to what a Pokemon can do and when, or just let the plot, actual mechanics and resources, and however long a Trainer has had and made actual use of each Pokemon itself for, all handle that? Especially when it comes to the Battle Frontiers, when the main characters' entire collections, and individual details for each Pokemon therein, would depend on everything that had gone on since the beginning of the story?