Tag: QandA

I really liked your posts about every region’s champions and teams. They were interesting and made me think (ex: realizing that Steven could have been so much more). Could you analyze more humans of the pokeverse?

Hmm.  Maybe?  The trouble is that there are relatively few human characters that get a lot of decent characterisation in the games.  I don’t think I could come up with enough material for a full entry on a Gym Leader or Elite Four member, for instance.  Maybe the Professors…?  Or rivals…?  Yeah… yeah, I could probably do a series on the rivals.  At some point.  I can’t remember at the moment what I was planning to do after my next thirty-odd anime episodes; it can’t have been that important…

TL;DR – suggestion noted.  I’ll think about it.

So far, ( apart from both protagonist’s hairstyles) what do you think of Black and White 2? I quite like it, and as much as I wish it, I sorely doubt we’ll be going back to Hoenn in this game.

Honestly?  Too soon to say.  Game Freak are clearly putting way more effort into them than I thought they would (I’d expected something similar to Crystal, Emerald and Platinum, only paired instead of alone), so I’m just going to keep my mouth shut until I see the finished product. This entry might amuse you, although much of it has been superseded by newer information.  I tend to avoid spoilers as far as possible going into a new Pokémon game, so you probably shouldn’t expect any comment from me until they’re released in New Zealand (normally happens at the same time as the European release).

If you had the chance, how would you recalibrate the Pokemon typing chart to make it more balanced? For example, Ice is probably the worst defensive type, and Poison and Normal are probably the worst offensive types. I was thinking Poison should be super-effective on Water, Water should resist Fighting, Ice should resist Dragon, etc.

Oy vey.  Okay, I don’t pretend to have thought through this in any great detail and I promise I will someday do a whole entry on this, but I don’t believe any of these changes would break anything…

– I probably would throw in Poison-beats-Water and Ice-resists-Dragon; maybe not Water-resists-Fighting, though, since Water is a pretty good defensive type already.
–  Some of Steel’s resistances need to be eliminated; I think Ghost and Psychic are reasonable.
– Bug used to be super-effective against Poison; I don’t think it would hurt to make it neutral now.  Grass has more offensive weaknesses than any type in the game and I don’t think it would be unreasonable to make Grass attacks neutral to Bug or Flying types (or both).
– I’m tempted to say Normal should be super-effective against *something* but I’m not sure what yet…