The latest trailer for Pokémon Sun & Moon has been released by The Pokémon Company. This trailer reveals a lot of new Pokémon and features in the game. First they reveal Alola Forms. These are new variations of classic Pokémon. Exeggutor is Grass/Dragon with the ability Frisk Vulpix and Ninetales are Ice and Ice/Fairy with the ability Snow Cloak Sandshrew and Sandslash are Ice/Steel with the ability Snow Cloak There are new Pokémon.; First is Oricorio with four different forms, Fire/Flying, Electric/Flying, Psychic/Flying and Ghost/Flying. Its ability is Dancer which copies dance moves. Minior is Rock/Flying with the ability Shields Down Yungoos’ evolution is called Gumshoos. Two new Pokémon are Formantis and its evolution Lurantis. They have the abilities Leaf Guard and the new move Solar Blade Mudsdale’s pre-evolution is the Ground-type Mudbray with Own Tempo and Stamina
Pokemon has had one of the worst barriers to entry for competitive play. Prior to Gen 6, you had to learn to abuse the RNG to even get flawless eggs in any reasonable amount of time. Even with perfect parents, you only inherited 3 IVs from the mother and father. So literally your options for BW was either to learn RNG mechanics (lol chatot) which was an exploit or hack the Pokemon.
Gen 6 comes along and introduces Destiny Knot! Now you get 5 IV inheritances. That means if you have two flawless parents and are breeding for a perfect baby, your odds are just now 1:6. Assuming no special genders, etc that would affect your odds. But even with that… You’d have to have two perfect parents to reduce your odds down that low. Or else your still going to be breeding imperfect parents and then slowly combining the better stock once you luck into RNG giving you the right inheritances. With a perfect ditto obtained from a prior generation however, you could simply just roll your odds with any parent and the flawless ditto and sport 1:120 odds which isn’t horrible. Considering the atrocity that BW odds were even with flawless parents.
Now we have Generation 7 and Hyper Training. You know what your odds are for a perfect mon? 1:1! And why is that? Well. Even if you roll a 0/0/0/0/0/0 mon, you can just use bottle caps to adjust it. No RNG BS no nothing. Want to use your in game Delphox on your competitive team? Go for it. Tired of soft resetting for legendaries with those bad 1:2000+ odds that takes you 30 hours to get. Don’t have to anymore!
Hyper training lets you use your in game mons on competitive teams! It lets you breed for stuff without worrying about iv inheritance or any of that garbage. I’m hyped to be able to use in game Rowlet or any other in game partner on a competitive team! I suppose I grow a bond to my mons and knowing I can use in game ones makes me hype!
It lets you know that any mon you catch can be on your team because it has unlimited potential! Not just fodder to be released!
I mean. If you want. You don’t even have to breed for it. Just go catch your desired mon in the wild and throw bottle caps at it.
As a competitive player. Even with access to flawless parents, it still takes way too long to breed and train a team. And I’m the outlier with access to high quality breeding stock. A player with no stock or limited stock was in for a bad time. Granted Flawless Ditto goes a long way but still. No one wants to worry about IVs or if RNG liked them for the night. Or any of that shit. They want to know if they want a 31/31/31/31/x/31 Beedrill. All it means is they have to go catch a random weedle, level it up to 100, and throw bottle caps at it to get the desired results. Easy!
Anyone who thinks Hyper Training is bad is either elitist or wants to gate keep.
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