new toy syndrome ahh team

>Radical Reddit but Emerald

>>58406599
why can't we have a fun tryhard competitive hack where we aren't given multiple 450+ bst pokemon and every single held item before beating the second gym leader? what's wrong with having a held oran berry be challenging? make the rare single stage shitmon actually great in the early game cause it dwarfs the prevos. i guarantee that by the time you reach flannery, your team can be practically unchanged from then till the elite 4 since everything is optimized. the movesets are kinda in the right direction

>>58406859
Level caps keep starters in line with the rest of the shitmons. For lucid in particular things like heart scales and stones are still locked off behind midgame

>>58406599
Isn't Brawly a surfer?
I'd give him a team composed of A-Raichu, Poliwrath and Hariyama, that's it.
I prefer custom teams that try to fit a theme than let's see how annoying we can make this fight kinda teams.

>>58407277
i feel like a problem is, if you want a lot of battles, you'll get exp and levels way faster. that either means more level caps or evolutions happening earlier. i think more difficulty romhacks should prolong the time spent in a pre evolved state by raising the level requirements. maybe you could also start adding egg, event, old gen, or even entirely new moves to levels 50-100 since the progression at that point is pretty barren

>>58407302
this is a romhack thread, trying to integrate gameplay and story in a way that'd actually improve either is strictly forbidden
>>58407307
>maybe you could also start adding egg, event, old gen, or even entirely new moves to levels 50-100 since the progression at that point is pretty barren
yeah that's actually a genuinely good idea to include egg/event/oldgen/etc moves in level up movepools, for QOL reasons and because it'd be lame to have to give up your mon you've used frequently since you got it just because to get an optimal moveset you have to breed a new one
there's generally not much in there past the 50s for 95% of lines beyond maybe a few very strong moves per mon, if they even get anything past that point
obviously for sanity purposes it'd be dumb to put weak moves in the upper half of the level range but you can always put the weaker moves in the earlier levels

>>58406599
This looks too easy bro... do you think I'm 10?

>you can get zubat and sableye in granite cave
>there's wurmples in the previous routes that are begging to be used for that fighting resistance as well
>some of brawly's pokemon don't even have a full moveset
>the strongest base power fighting moves across the board are force palm and double kick
>you have a quick claw to outspeed everything
lmao get good, be thankful that there's no pawmot there

>>58406599
>everything but annihilape and tauros-aqua has a beneficial non-neutral nature
why do those two have neutral natures
seems like an odd design choice considering everything else in the team

oh btw that annihilape is 5 levels below its minimum legal level