Why doesn't gamefreak just make more items to give shitter

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>>32885674
Or they could stop giving already good Pokemon megas, Z-moves, and forms.

IDK, why can't they poach 1 balance specialist from DotA or LoL and just stop making 90% of mons either worthless in battle or a copy of another mon?

what item could they make that would benefit bad pokemon but not good pokemon?

>>32885674
Do you mean one-pokemon specific items, like the Stick or Lucky Punch?

>>32885674
what is a mega stone?

>>32886608
>balance specialist from LoL

as a leaguefag let me tell you that this very idea is shockingly laughable

>>32885674
I liked what the Mystery Dungeon games used to do where every pokemon line had their own items specific to them that would give them buffs.

>>32886757
The difference in power between the strongest and weakest LoL champ in a given role is 10% the difference between the strongest and weakest pokemon in a given role.

*gamefreak's balance is so bad that hiring someone from LoL would vastly improve it* should be the takeaway.

>>32886842
I meant more the idea that Riot keeps "balance specialists" and doesn't just have minimum wage just-graduated 22 year olds do all the champion tuning behind the scenes.

>>32885674
SHOULD pokemon be balanced though?

>>32887650
i feel they should be 'balanced' in the same way that a fighting game roster is balanced -- there are some clearly better/more meta picks, but all of them should be useable in the hands of a good player.

>>32887650
Would you like to see pokemon teams that aren't consisted of Lando-T, UB's and Tapus? I which you have a gigantic pool of viable mons, each coming with its owns pros an cons, from which you can choose whatever tactic you want to compose your own 6 to use a strategy that you came up with. Endless possibilites.

But nah, fuck it, let's have Ledians and Kricketunes of this world and ridiculously overpower some legends. Also don't forget to pander to the audience with extra buffs for already strong and min-maxed mons, which will only deepen the powercreep.

Balance is what keeps this franchise from rising to the respectable competetive scene

>>32886680
A held item that boosts the stats of a fully evolved Pokemon with a low BST by 1.5

>>32886680
An item that when held, nullifies the user's ability.
Becomes a buff for pokemon with shitty abilities like Slaking/Regigigas, while also being useful to shut down annoying abilites from good pokemon like the Terrains.

Reminder that pocket monsters is an rpg and isn't supposed to be 'balanced'. Please understand.

>>32885674
Megas was a great idea, Mawile and Beedrill are the proof of that, but they fucked up and give to pokemon that already are strong.

>>32885688
this. the numbers don't lie

>>32888209
>A held item that boosts the stats of a fully evolved Pokemon with a low BST by 1.5
you realize cancer like Azumarill and Breloom have low BST and yet outclass other mons with higher BSTs?

>>32887732
but like lots of pokemon shouldn't logically be able to defeat legendaries and stuff. like what would that be like? at level 100 friendship makes everything converge on roughly the same stats?

>>32888969
This could be approached in some ways, f.e. design the weaker ones to mostly supportive, or have their gimmick help be rather unique that the skilled players could pull this off with the right setup, moveset etc. Also it would be cool if different mons would react differently to the level of happiness (throught their abilities) - caring about them would make them stronger what would be rather sweet and would tie idealy to the whole theme of the games.

Or the most logical and easiest to do - simply ban legendaries from comptetitive, just like in any other multiplayer game they ban the broken characters to keep it balanced. Let us have fun with their broken power in singleplayer or in free play but get them out of competetive. This could be that simple, easy to explain why they are banned and would reshuffle the meta significantly. Also, don't min-max the pseudos and remove Megas.