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Pokemon Black and White (SPECULATIONS ALLOWED HERE)
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Because the move (Seasonal Beam) depends on what the current season is, not what form the Pokemon is in. Maybe I'm wrong, though.
What about Random Battles then, there is no host.
It kinda does. If all persons have the same month it would work. But if someone where to change the actual month, it would be troublesome if the move does change according to seasons. It's tricky. We'll just have to wait three days.
Personally, I don't think there is a move that changes. It's unnecessary and to troublesome.
mattj
blatant Nintendo fanboy
Probably the same way it used to work with Deoxys and his formes.
Unfortunately, I highly doubt Denchura will get Bug Buzz. Only the winged bugs get it, and it's flavour text: The user vibrates its wings to generate a damaging sound wave, kinda rules out Denchura from learning it. If it's lucky, it'll get Signal Beam (-15 drop in power though from Bug Buzz!). Hopefully it has 90+ SpA stat and respectable speed.
Adaptability on Basurao sounds killer, as long as they don't ruin it by "balancing" him and giving it like 60/60 offense <_<.
Are you sure? I assume the game would just choose a host randomly. Halo 3 has hosts for its matchmaking games but no one actually decides to become the host.
I suppose Season Beam could just use the season of the Pokemon using it. It seems like a pain to program but it's probably easier than changing seasons every month.
I'm helping you out SuperJOCKE. Not attacking you; just letting you know ahead of time.
Besides with what SuperJOCKE said above, having seasons would kind of perform the same tasks weather is already doing. Especially Summer and Winter. I can't see them doing anything else other than performing the same task that Sunny Day/Hail already performs.
What's this Season Beam you're talking about?
And that host thing. In some games, like Super Street Fighter IV, a host creates a room with the rules he/she wants and then other players can search for a host.
Thanks for the silhouette. I hope they make this Fire/Ghost offensively built. It would only have problems with Heatran, Tyranitar, Dark/Dragon, none of whom appreciate a Focus Blast :)
I don't think seasons will have an effect on battles at all (at least not in the way of weather effects). I'm just asking because its possible that Shikijika and Mebukijika's Antler attack may change depending on what season it is (because I'm sure their different forms have more than just to do with their appearance). If that is the case, seasons are necessary for the deers' usefulness.
If its always 'spring' online, for example, their signature move would be just as useless as Nature Power or Secret Power are online.
Exactly.
But what would the change be... The type? The effect? Like I said, it's almost too much for a Game Mechanic.
Wait, has it been confirmed that the season deer Pokemon explicitly change everytime a new season rolls around, or is like West vs East Shellos, where the aesthetic change is permanent (ie, deer caught in the winter will have it's winter form forever or only for the season of winter)? This would mean "Season Beam" would be type-exclusive to the certain forms (Winter = ice, blah blah).
?_? know what I mean? It seems more logical to me to have it that way, than having the thing cycle through sprites and attack type every month lol.
?_? know what I mean? It seems more logical to me to have it that way, than having the thing cycle through sprites and attack type every month lol.
That's the part that really doesn't work then. Can you imagine having hail in the summer? Or it's bright and shiny or raining or even a sandstorm blowing in the middle of winter? I really think the season is there just for appeals and to make obtaining pokemon seem more natural.
The antler attack, I believe is just a physical grass move that it uses. It'll probaly end up on other pokemon that has branches or sticks of some sort to use the move.
blasphemy1 meantioned a move called Seasonal Beam.
Pokemon (currently) and Left 4 Dead also work like Super Street Fighter IV but what I'm saying is that someone doesn't need to choose to be the host for the game to choose a host to do all the calculations and stuff in.
Edit: It does hail in the Summer and I've seen it be sunny or raining in the middle of Winter as well. It technically shouldn't be able to sandstorm anywhere where there isn't sand, but Pokemon are magical creatures; they can do whatever the hell they want.
Oh I didn't think of this possibility! :<
I always assumed that they change with the seasons. In the anime, at least, Shikajika grows grass-fur when the season changes, so I thought they'd implement it in the game, too. But it would be much simpler if they just stayed the form they were caught in.
Ugh, rumors start mixing with facts and I fuck things up. Seasonal Beam isn't even real, rofl. Sorry for that.
I guess so, but there have been weirder things in Pokemon. And who says it can't rain in the summer or hail in the spring? :X IF Season Antler really does change its typing depending on the seasons there should be the option to keep it a certain season in online battles. I'm sure seasons won't make any visual effects or anything besides changing Mebukijika/Shiki's sprite/attack (if it were implemented in online battles).
I'd be fine with it being just a Grass attack, though. It'll be on my team no matter what. ^_^
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