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BDSP have been out for just over a month, so I thought a thread would be nice for everyone to collect and post their opinions. Right off the bat - I dislike the chibi used in the overworld. While it would manage to be merely uninteresting, the frequent shifts from the top-down perspective look...

Restricted Sparring is a Battle Facility included with the first Sword and Shield expansion, The Isle of Armor. It's an endurance mode where heals are not provided for free after every battle; instead you must carefully select when to use two of them throughout your streak. This means even the...

PP is, theoretically, a way to balance better moves by giving them less uses. In practice, though, most moves have too much PP for it to matter much. Even moves with 5 PP often only require a modicum of restraint to maintain. This applies especially to individual battles, where PP is usually a...

Eternamax Eternatus is a new Pokemon so ludicrously overpowered even in the realm of ubers that it only exists for the player to fight against, not use. Its defenses alone sum up to a BST that surpasses all existing Pokemon besides Mega/Primal ubers. And while its offenses seem microscopic in...

Pokemon Platinum Trainer Data Hello! This pastebin contains data on all the trainers in Pokemon Platinum, excluding those in the battle facilities. By and large, this is data you can find on Serebii or Bulbapedia, but here's it's more localized instead of having to sift through multiple...

There's numerous Pokemon one has to ask themself if it's even possible to beat the game with: Ditto, Wobbuffet, Sunkern, Magikarp...but one that goes under the radar is Azelf. To date, no one has even attempted this ludicrous challenge. Today, that's going to change. I'm even going to give...

Egg moves have been a long-standing mechanic of Pokemon, being introduced in Gen 2. For the most part, they exist to expand a Pokemon's flavor without bloating their Level-Up movepool. Since they tend to be weird amalgamations of moves, I've always thought it would be a fun challenge concept to...

Back in the old days of Pokemon, moves were either physical or special based on their typing. For the most part, Pokemon were designed accordingly. Physical types were attached to physical Pokemon, and special types attached to special Pokemon. Even somewhat strange Pokemon like Flareon, a...

Back in April, I did a run through Yellow version without using Pokemon Centers or Marts. The idea was to make healing items a limited resource by limiting them purely to what could be found on the land. This worked well for a while, but as the game went on my stockpile got bigger and bigger, to...

I’ve wanted to do a challenge run that involves items in some meaningful way. I usually ban items in battle, relegating them to the mundane task of healing between battles. My issue with them is that they’re extremely powerful without restriction, and their intended restriction of costing money...

Aurorus is one of my favorite Gen 6 Pokemon – everyone goes gaga over the Tyrantrum line, but Aurorus is way cooler (and also based off the coolest dinosaur). It uh, also kind of sucks, especially for something with 521 BST. Aurorus is slow and has several common weaknesses (most notably 2 4x...

Note: I am aware that this thread about a Low Level challenge exists, but the focus of this run isn't quite the same, so I think it deserves its own thread. If OI mods think otherwise, I can post in that thread instead. Pokemon Black/White had an amusing anti-piracy technique- if you played on...