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I've yet to play Sun & Moon. Don't want to buy a Nintendo 3DS tho, would rather get a Switch when I'll eventually upgrade.

Yup. Last pokemon game I played on the DS was Black/White.

Pokemon X/Y were so good. Y is one of my favourite pokemon games (Y is over X cos I prefer Ylvetal over Xerneas, I love a dark type Pokemon and still haven't worked out how best to utilise a fairy type.)


It loved the fact that you could actually train your Pokemon, Sun & Moon would've been much better had that feature been included too. 

I usually buy every Pokemon game but I'm not gonna bother with any more 3DS games, (so no Ultra Sun & Moon for me) the Switch is a much better console and I'm excited to see what Pokemon will look like on it. And knowing Nintendo any game I miss will probably end up on the Switch anyway. 

My hope is that any combat changes will be around the amount of powers that a pokemon can learn or an ATB sysytem rather than turning it from turn based to real time. I'm not sure I could play a Pokemon game with real time battle system. 

I don't really want ATB either but as long as it has a wait mode then it functions like a more traditional turn based system and I could put up with that, whereas I don't think I could put up with a real time combat system. 

Ideally the gameplay overhauls I'd be looking for are:

Pokemon being able to learn more moves - limiting the moves a pokemon can learn by type, rather than limiting them to just 4 in total would add flexibility to the game while preventing a player from having a ton of powerful moves to destroy each other during tournament play. This also would reduce the need for a HM slave meaning all 6 of the Pokemon you had were useful team members. 

New & Improved Supertraining. Loved Supertraining as a way to actually train your Pokemon that wasn't just having them fight, somthing I've always felt was missing from Pokemon games. More mini games, more ways to pet & interact with your Pokemon, a way to work with your Pokemon to change its nature (like spending time with a lonely or shy Pokemon could change their nature).

A way to train Pokemon you weren't using that was more directed than the traditional day care or Pelago. Instead of a Pokemon just learning which ever move is next on their list until their slots have filled up and then missing their chance to learn all their other moves, I'd like to be able to select which moves I wanted my Pokemon to learn. That way I could more easily swap out team members in late game, if I was getting bored of using a particular pokemon or wanted to try a new one. 

And somthing that I know will never happen, but a way to evolve Pokemon that can only be evolved when traded without having to trade them or an easier way to do this online. When I was a kid finding people to trade Pokemon with was easy, we could trade Pokemon, they'd evolve and then trade back, but these days it is impossible to find anyone to do this with so I have to hunt out an old 3DS & have a second copy of that gens game to get them or just go without. I love Graveler, Gengar and Scizor dammit, make it easier for me to get them. 

Completing a Pokedex is just such a monumental task that I have never even tried. I just focus on getting as many of the new Pokemon as I can.

I've mostly given up on using Pokemon that trade evolve too, I do have a Graveler & Gengar storied in my Pokebank, but they are too high level to use until late game and at that stage I have a core team that I've balanced well so switching out a Pokemon becomes awkward. I lost my original Scizor and I've never been able to evolve another one. 

Adding some NPCs that you can trade with and then trade back with would be a simple solution. 

Golem - not Graveler - ooops - now I must hide my shame 



I recently got Pokemon yellow for my 3DS and thought it was easier than I remembered too. I think it was probably due to the fact that all the Pokemon only have a single type, so it makes them much weaker to their weakness than in later Pokemon games. 

Psychic types were a huge pain in the ass, luckily outside of the psychic gym they were few and far between. A Jolteon or Pikachu and a Blastoise both with a vitamin boosted special attack & defense were my go too Pokemon for a psychic type battle. Ghost attacks did major damage against psychic types in Gen 1 but Ghost Pokemon were super weak to psychic attacks so there was no point in having one on the team.

I am playing Pokemon Ultra Sun again...and I wanted to use a rockruff, but I keep getting bad natures that boost his useless special attack stat. Catching Pokemon is so hard for me. I mean not the actual catching..that's fine...but getting good natures. I have the worst luck! RNG hates me.