If you could (or had to) bring back one gen 1 mechanic,

Counter behind substitute

>>32846398
Speed based critical hits.

Yea, I want to fuck the meta.

>>32846398
Moves like fire spin and wrap stopped you from fighting, and when they continue their attack, they dealt some good damage. I have a Vulpix on Red and I overleveled it just by battling and using Fire Spin against other NPC. I mean, that's the way it should really work. Your Pokemon is technically trapped and can't move

>>32846398
Hyper Beam not having to charge if you KO an opponent with it
It would be fucking crazy

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>>32846398
The special stat

Combined Special stats.

I don't know who's bright idea it was to split them but it just made everything more complicated for no reason.

But this is GF

90 Accuracy Blizzard. I don't battle competitively but that sounds like it could cause a lot of rage

>>32846476
This. Extend the effect to Giga Impact, Blast Burn, Frenzy Plant, Hydro Cannon, and Prismatic Laser too.

>>32846502
It wouldn't.

Pretty much anything under 95% accuracy is outclassed by a more reliable move or even a status move.

>>32846465
>>32846476
>>32846496
>>32846502
These were all symptoms of a game never intended to be multi-player, link battles were a last minute addition which is why they balanced that shit in future games

>>32846398
Definitely Hyper Beam (and its clones) with no recharge if you kill the opponent. Could make for lots of interesting mindgames.

>>32846519
How's the ELO hell?

>>32846481
>>32846496
Only if Blissey's is her Special Attack

>>32846496
>I don't know who's bright idea it was to split them but it just made everything more complicated for no reason.
you can't possibly think this

Overworld effects of cut

>>32846519
Ah, that makes sense. I guess I'd bring back the multi-hit moves thing then. That or the Wrap/Fire spin thing but that might cause more rage in-game than in competitive

>>32846538
Ask yourself, "What's the point of having two defense stats?". If they bring back the combined Special I would prefer it to just function as the Special Attack. HP could function as the "Special Defense" so everything would just balance out.

It wasn't broken so Gamefreak shouldn't have "fixed" it.

>Skill link Cloyster @scope lens with Gen 1 multi-hit crit mechanics

Yaaaaassss

Toxic becoming poison on switch out. Fuck stall.

>>32846610
anon I bet you play for the story

>>32846429

This. Speed is so pointless anyway, literally the most pointless stat since you go first 99% of the time unless you're using graveler or something.Might as well just repurpose such a pointless stat into a psuedo crit rate

Having no abilities. Imagine the rage.

multi-hit crits for all my Skill Link buddies

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>>32846476
Oh God, yes please.

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>>32846555
Yes please. I want to mow the lawn again

>>32846610
>HP could function as the "Special Defense"
Have you got any idea what you're talking about?

>>32846610
>HP could function as the "Special Defense" so everything would just balance out.
You were right until here. Special should be only special attack. Special defense should apply to normal defense as well.

>>32846512
Prismatic Laser isn't a Hyper Beam clone, Roar of Time is and Rock Wrecker.

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>>32846512
>Blast Burn
MFW this happens

>>32847264
>clefable fucking dies

>>32847871
Prismatic Laser is a hyper beam clone.
>Prismatic Laser inflicts damage and then forces the user to recharge during the next turn. Unless this attack misses, the user will always have to recharge the next turn.
>and then forces the user to recharge during the next turn

Just because it has 100% accuracy and is slightly stronger doesn't mean its not a hyper beam clone.

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>>32846610
>It wasn't broken so Gamefreak shouldn't have "fixed" it.

>>32847993
>Just because it has 100% accuracy and is slightly stronger doesn't mean its not a hyper beam clone.
That's exactly what makes Prismatic Laser to not be a Hyper Beam Clone, anon.

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>>32846746
>this actually happening

>>32846398

Frozen Status being fucking Frozen and you had to use a fire move to melt it. Come on now, it's bad enough that Ice Types are useless and it's even worse that Freezing means shit.

>>32846610
"I never used a psychic type in gen 1" the post

>>32846519
t. sub 1000

>>32846519
>Pretty much anything under 95% accuracy is outclassed by a more reliable move or even a status move.

Yeah, Focus Blast is one of the worst moves in the game, never seen a single opponent use it

>>32846398
No ability. Fuck sableye and regenerator. Sorry if my nigga azurmaril goes NU or PU

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>>32848822
>Not using a safari normal type
>Not using Rhydon
>Not using Jolteon

>>32846398
Special is 1 stat again.

>>32846398
Every attack having 1/256 chance of missing.

If I get to choose 2, I want Agility and Swords Dance to negate the speed/power loss in paralysis/burn. Both this and the low chance of any move missing need to be re-implemented.

Also, why is the word "fuck" censored on this? Are there really such wimpy faggots on /vp/ that they can't handle the fuck word?

>>32849209
The original image is decade-old SA text copypasta and SA has/had wordfilters if you're not logged in, such as 'ass' being 'rear end' and so on.

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The ability to cut tall grass. I never used that shit, but I remember being surprised when I first found out about it in Silver and fuck I miss it.

>>32846398
Use counter to OHKO moves

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>>32846429
>Speed based critical hits.
This so much. It'd make the stat a lot more interesting and Paralysis more significant, not to mention underused moves like Agility relevant again.

>>32848855
>pretty much means everything
name a reliable alternative to focus blast for the mons that use it

multi-hit moves using the same damage number.

>>32850193
Aura sphere if it was a TM or a tutor move would be nice for those.

>>32846519
85 acc fire blast is still the preferred choice over flamethrower.

90 acc blizzard would be used by literally almost everything that gets it. Ice coverage at 110 BP is that good.

The Fun.

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>>32846746
You mean Toxic and Leech Seed damage combining?

>nice Chansey faggot

>>32846429
>>32846854
>>32850188
t. Never played gen 1

Speed is already the most important stat. You'd just be fucking over slow mons even more.

>>32849209
>every attack but sure hits
ftfy

>>32846398
Toxic and Leech Seed stacking.

>>32851056
Make Meganium Great Again

>>32846502
Only gets used on Hail teams anyways

Hyper beam no recharging if you get a K.O

Make the move a high risk high reward move

>>32851212
That's why it would really fuck all the thing.

>>32846398
All of them. Gen 1 meta is best meta.

>>32846398
Toxic becoming normal poison after switch easily.

>>32854878
Exactly. Think how Greninja would be with the mechanic that makes multi-hit moves deal the same number for damage added to the mechanic that correlates speed with criticals. Water Shuriken would be broken as hell.

>>32846746
>>32848091
>>32851056
Even better if they limited the move so not every pokémon can learn it

>>32846398
Poison being weak to bug and as a result allowing Twinneedle and other Bug moves to be able to poison pokemon usually immune to the status effect.