I know that no items were mentioned, but I think it’s a huge missed opportunity for the gym leaders especially when previous generations would have at minimum a sitrus berry on their ace.

@rotciv557

11 ай бұрын

Even if they didn't want to make the ace too complicated to fight, they could have at least given berries to hold to the secondary ace, like Iono's Bellibolt or Eri's Annihilape.

I love the smaller considerations, like pincurchin being found near Levincia meaning it's on Iono's team. Really well made!

If theres one thing i'd also add to these is the addition of Tera Blast to the leaders Terastalized ace for two reasons. It helps the earlier leaders, like Katy and Brassius, have a stronger movepool on average instead of a single weaker move, and show off Tera Blasts gimmick of changing types to match the Tera type of the user and it's 18 different animations that nobody will ever actually see in practice.

I can definitely feel the struggle trying to maintain the difficulty, especially, yknow, not letting kingambit have its signature ability and come in later in the fight as a funny prank

I like having some Pokemon coming in and out of these teams. It would make the fights seems just a little bit more different on repeat playthroughs. It's also a bit more thoughtful than I would expect Game Freak to be lol.

@Raggy54

10 ай бұрын

Sword id not bad

Lack of level scaling was my single biggest issue with these games (including glitches). Wish I could’ve played your version instead!

Thanks for making this video. Having no level scaling was my main gripe about these games as they severely lower the replay value. Imagine how many ways you could tackle this game if you really had to choose to start wherever you want. Also, this video was so well made. Well edited and put together. I mainly watch you for your Pikmin vids but this was awesome👍

This video has some great editing. This quality definitely deserves more views!

This would be an amazing mod, honestly. You did excellent research for this!

I'm really happy you made a video about this

When the commercials and trailers talked about "go on any path in any order" I legit ran *all the way to Grusha* as like my first gym so Ice had a chance of not being curb stomped by a late game team.. so you saying Grusha made me feel called out lol Like legit Grusha's cutscene involving a Cetoddle made me expect they had a dynamic system going on (ie later would have a Cetitan walk around).. but nope they just wanted to give me false hope Anyways.. learning that Mela wasn't the intended first Star base felt so off when they showed off Katy and Klawf, both their intended path's first bosses.. but no.. Giacomo is the first... Like Game Freak made all the paths follow an intermingled curve instead of each being their own thing.. made me feel so weird that the last two Star bases are higher than Grusha but less than Rika.. I would be less offended if they didn't try to do fake "open world" with the pendulum-like intended path... it's like they just took a normal game and threw darts and were like "okay that's where the boss fight goes" Anyways after it was all said and done I legit left Katy until last out of spite I didn't consider having the scaling involve *all* the human bosses.. that makes me even more peeved about the whole thing lol And if Titans were involved... most of the script for them would just be "levels increased/decreased" accordingly with probably very minor moveset changes... Btw I am surprised you didn't take into account all the rematch teams and just scale some of them back..

The editing and look of video is gorgeous

Excellent editing!

I would have loved this. Some flags in the code to indicate what team is chosen based on bosses beaten up till the challenge

Double Leg sounding like a Trading Card move LOL (Love your vids btw Heff)!

This is super cool. I always wondering what scaled teams would look like

This was fun to watch. Would have loved to see these ideas implemented in the actual game

really like the video, fitting with what I did last night I reworked kalos gym leaders and elite 4 and I also did the johto gym leaders (I just did it cause I was bored, I left it in the discord lol)

Huge Power Azumarill with Aqua Tail and Play Rough is devious. Love it

The fact that level scaling isn't a thing in these games is awful there still great games though! I think Implementing a level scaling system would be good.

@mysteriousmog51

11 ай бұрын

@pantsmonsterv6 🤓

@ShnoodleMc

11 ай бұрын

I actually love the no Level scaling because you can get moments where you try Beating Grusha with an underleveled team

@chubymcold

11 ай бұрын

​@pantsmonsterv6🤓

@tacticalbooty8700

11 ай бұрын

@@ShnoodleMcFun fact, you can still do that with scaled levels, it’s called changing your team out constantly and not grinding. Just look at older Pokémon games, people enter bosses underleveled all the time. More in game variety is never a bad thing.

I know it's kind of unique to paldea but this would be cool to see for all other regions too.

WOAAAHHH ITS BACK

Heff out here with killer content once more

Silly Heff. Klefki can’t learn iron head. Good video though! I like the way you evolved some of their Pokémon early, some of the gym leader aces are very weak compared to other Pokémon they use lmfao

@realHeff

11 ай бұрын

I read this comment and immediately cringed because I knew that yet still it ended up in the final draft lol

Why is kofus Veluza stuck with mokd breaker over Sharpness. It's pretty much built around it

32:20 haha fire lizard go BUUUUUUURN

Heracross defo should defo have Megahorn at lvl 55. It not like you wouldn't at that point. Luxray should probably have Thunder Fang instead of Volt switch and upgrade to wild charge in later levels, as there isn't much physical stuff on Iono's team. Crabominable at boss 4 seems insane with Crabhammer, so I would have kept it at Crabrawler till at least boss 6, witch matches Ursaring. I feel like Ryme's team should have utilised the double battle gimmick she has better, having reflect as well as light screen, and maybe something like Ally switch on Houndstone or Grassy Terrain on Brambleghast. I think Abomasnow probably should have come back straight away at level 41 in boss 9 as the ice type really does need snow to be good. I know this comment probs sound nitpicky, and I guess it is. But I do like the idea, these are just a few things I personally would have changed.

Why the lack of moves???

iono is actully gym leader 3 but what evs

I never understood why gym leaders had pokemon of another type become their gym type (mismagius to electric). I was expecting iono to have say, magnemite grass type, to combat ground type weaknesses

What about scaling the Titan battles?

The thumbnail is you vs the twink he tells you not to worry about

PROJECT POCKET MONSTER IS BACK BAYBEEE. i agree SV surprised me - i enjoyed it even tho it's very very silly and poorly made hahaha

Heff just letting you know the description is wrong EDIT: Seems like he fixed it now

This 1 thing would have improved the game 10fold

MAKE SOMEONE A ROCK SPECIALIST PLS

@chebikitty5566

4 ай бұрын

The elite 4 and champion are supposed to be the specialist for the elements that the big bosses have. Geeta does not make a good rock specialist.

wooooooo

I keep forgetting that heff does NOT, in fact, only play pikmin.

I love this so much that im a little sad about the missed potential While Its definitely fun to try and beat things earler than expected I think the things you gain from this outwights the things you lose from not implementing this system Buuuuuuut to be fair, its not like they had much time to implement this correctly anyways with how unstable and rushed the game was

0:17 And even in Sword and Shield that isn’t entirely true

Your description is wrong

@realHeff

11 ай бұрын

My description is a work in progress

Was iono THAT hard for me she was the easiest gym fight

Not gonna finish this video just cause of the SwSh slander!

Eh, it was fun to try to beat Grusha as my first gym leader. Just had to ambitiously grind to get levels for him. Luckily, similar to late gym leaders having high levels, their surrounding wild Pokemon are a high (although not has high) levels too.

You know what I find odd. The Isle of Armor DLC for Sword and Shield had level scaling so you could do it whenever. They had the means to add it in the game easier than one would initially think. That tells me they specifically avoided doing it in Scarlet and Violet for one reason or another, or simply ran out of time or didn't bother. The state of gamefreak's development team intrigues me with the decisions that make it into the games. Either way Scarlet and Violet are objectively better than Sword and Shield so that makes me happy regardless.

@realHeff

11 ай бұрын

This also confuses me, but pokemon has never introduced features one gen and taken them away the next

Real talk kinda lost me with your opinion in the first 30 seconds. I preordered violet, and still haven't been able to bring myself to finish it due to it being such a mess but shield was the first time I actually had fun playing a pokemon game since gen 3.

@ndartehkewl1282

11 ай бұрын

I mean I sorta enjoyed it but what does sword and shield have that the rest of the series doesn’t do better? It has some nice visuals and more unique areas than the rest of the series as well as the usual good music I suppose but the routes themselves are the most linear in the series, the story is probably the worst in the series, the characters are nothing special, the base game had approximately zero places to explore outside of where the main game already takes you, and it’s arguably the easiest game in the series (though xy and sv certainly give it a run for its money.) scarlet and violet aren’t great (eg. boring and pretty bad visuals, empty open world, no level scaling, no reason to fight trainers since you get too much exp from the main story, which is also pretty boring as well as really bare bones, etc really the only redeeming part is area zero) and if it’s not your thing its not your thing, mine neither really besides the end, but like did you not play the previous four generations cause swsh absolutely failed to live up to their expectations

@Hjordtheskeleton

11 ай бұрын

@@ndartehkewl1282 I honestly think the story in sword and shield is the best the series ever had. For the record I also had played through the entire pokemon series over the course of a month before play through shield. For me everything past gen 3 felt like a chore until I got to shield

@ndartehkewl1282

11 ай бұрын

@@Hjordtheskeleton man no way you played black and white and b2w2 then decided swsh had a better story. You sure you didn’t just get burnt out or something cause the gameplay was largely the same in gens 4, 5 and 6 as it was in 3, and even though sun and moon and usum were definitely cutscene games and changed up a lot it still had an actually good story. there’s just nothing I can even think of that swsh really does good in that department nevermind the best.

@Hjordtheskeleton

11 ай бұрын

@@ndartehkewl1282 dude straight up the B&W games were the ones I disliked the most and took me the longest to get through (discounting violet as I've yet to even beat it.) I actually think the story problems started in gen 3 but the overall game made it easier to ignore but past that the games just kept getting too outlandish with the whole deal of a random kid having to save the entirety of creation. Sword and Shield actually was a breath of fresh air on that front and the pure fact you didn't even start dealing with legendries until AFTER you were the champion and it became your actual job was pretty great.

@tacticalbooty8700

11 ай бұрын

@@Hjordtheskeleton “You don’t even start dealing with the legendaries until after you were the champion.” And “the past games kept getting too outlandish for me with the whole deal of a random kid having to save the world and the entirety of creation.” Are funny quotes to me. Did you forget about Eternatus? The massive world ending threat, unleashed by the worlds dumbest man, a beast that the champion fails to beat in its first form, which you take on, beat in a form that is canonically stronger than GOD and which you are then forced to catch.

30:12 _Her_ ace? Pretty sure thats a guy Mr. Heff, smh so rude

@foxfox1422

11 ай бұрын

She/They Grusha

@Silver-Rexy

11 ай бұрын

@@foxfox1422 Her pronouns are they/them 😭

@cloudbankcity

11 ай бұрын

​@@Silver-RexyLMFAOOOO

@cloudbankcity

11 ай бұрын

non-binary icon grusha 😍😍

@realHeff

11 ай бұрын

I tried my best to be gender neutral in grushas section exactly for this type of comment lol in a 26 page script I might’ve had one accidental “her” lol

FYI you use a female pronoun for Grusha twice in this video.

Honestly feel like level scaling would suck,you could have more variety. Tho few fights would be iconic,like Eri is super hard eppsially on replays and would suck it that coule be skipped

@tacticalbooty8700

11 ай бұрын

This problem is solved by the fact there is so much variety, with so many different ways to beat the gym challenge there could many more opportunities for more difficult fights just because of the fact there are so many different teams to fight. Hell with scaling that very same fight can still happen. Bringing more variety to the game add to it and makes playing through the game less boring. Yeah I know that you can fight gyms out of order but it doesn’t change the fact that their Pokémon will be the same no matter what. Oh and it just makes sense in the worlds lore when you remember that this is supposedly how gyms work.

@viola8422

11 ай бұрын

@@tacticalbooty8700 I'm a big fan of players should make there own fun. Tho this system just kinda leads way to into least resistance

@tacticalbooty8700

11 ай бұрын

@@viola8422 well from the way I see it, with level scaling Players have way more ways to make their own fun. Players who want an easier experience can take a path that could potentially make the end game fights easier by taking on bosses who could potentially be much more problematic later earlier in the game, leaving fights they feel better equipped to handle for later. While players who want to face some of the toughest challenges possible could deliberately fight the easier bosses in the early game and leave them with a truly terrifying endgame gauntlet of bosses. With the way the game is currently, most players are incentivized to play in order without nothing to explore anywhere outside of their level group. The game becomes memorable because each player can forge their own unique path through the game.

erm... this isn't Pikmin? unsubscribing.