Wow Kommo-o. You might actually be on the way to redeeming yourself! I sure hope it doesn't get locked to the final island again. I didn't use it on my in-game team for Sun and the only one I have so far is just False Swiper relegated to S.O.S Battle Hell. If Jangmo-o becames available just a wee-bit sooner, I'll definitely run it on my team this time!
Also, can I just say how much I am
LOVING those battle remixes right now. The I already loved the Trainer Battle theme but now it feels fresh with a whole new vibe! It's still fun and energetic but has a more serious tone that feel serves as a cool contrast to the last one. On the other hand, I utterly
despised Sun and Moon's Wild Encounter music. I still cant' forget the disappointment I felt when I saw it play during those trailers last year. It had a cool beginning and then turned into a bland mess. (Thank god for the anime version. Why don't they release its soundtrack?). The new version is a much needed improvement that just blows the crappy old version out of the water, fixing all the places that sounded so week in the last one.
And now that I we'll be getting news more frequently, here's my hopes for the things US/UM will address that I didn't like in SM:
- Reintroduce the National Dex. I have one of each of 721 Pokemon of Gens 1-6 and I have little motivation to add versions of all of them to SM because since there's no National Dex, and you can't bring them back to Gen 6, what's the point of getting one of each in SM? There's nothing else in game to show for it. Not getting my hopes up for this though.
- Improve the reinforcement call rates for evolved/high level Pokemon. It was so aggravating trying to grind EXP in SM because the wild battles for the higher level mons on Poni Island only called an ally successful for like 1 out every 12 attempts. As if S.O.S grinding wasn't annoying enough. Speaking of which...
- Let us rematch trainers freely. Whooping the Elite Four over and over gets boring real fast. Not to mention all the cutscenes and junk. Also...
- Fix the blasted EXP gain formula! I don't get why they made Hyper Training only possible at level 100 while making the end game grind unbearable.
- Wicked Tutors. But this is to be expected honestly. Really I just want to see more Alolan Pokemon viable. (Cough*Give Lycanroc all Fangs and Play Rough*Hack*And a Ground move too while you're at it*Horf*). Ahem sorry. Nasty cough.
- Alolan Forms for Pokemon OUTSIDE of Gen 1. Pokemon like Magcargo, Maractus, and Whiscash could use an overhaul too you know.
- Give us a faster way to get precise EVs outside of battle. Super Training was perfect as we could EV train our mons the moment we got them with ease. The Poke Polego by contrast takes forever.
- Allow the main character to EMOTE. Seeing the main character with a happy dandy face while Lusamine turned into an eldritch abomination was such a mood killer.
- Make the Alolan mons more common please.
Let us explore Kalos in the post game.
Well I think that rounds it out. Here's hoping US and UM really deliver this time around.