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not a hot takePower creep is a very real problem with little real way to solve it,
It's not as hard as it sounds. The first step is to try to not make it worse.Power creep is a very real problem with little real way to solve it,
For any normal game, combating power creep would be nigh impossible. However, dexit makes that herculean task laughably easy. However, not contributing to power creep is more difficult than it sounds. A guaranteed way to do this is to make all new pokemon underpowered, but that would essentially make the meta the same as it always was. Game Freak has done a surprisingly good job of balancing adding fresh things to the meta with not causing power creep all things considered. Most of the relevant new pokemon in gen 9 have a weakness. Gholdengo and Glimora are rather slow, and not too bulky, while weak to the best type in the game, dondozo turns doubles into a raid boss, which makes it very susceptible to counter play, Ting Lu is incredibly passive, and Walking Wake is weather dependent. They have also tried to combat the ridiculous Mon with more Mon that would keep them in check. The pokemon that would be fast a generation ago are outsped by the 5 billion 400+ speed Mon introduced, who are in turn countered by Palafin, Raging Bolt, and Kingambit, who are in turn countered by Farigiraf and Upper Hand. Gholdengo and Glimora are threatened by Maushold, who can not only clear hazards despite Gholdengos best efforts, but who also becomes an unstoppable death machine on the same turn, but that pokemon has terrible stats. The new stall Mon are countered by the many new setup sweepers, who are countered by Dondozo and Clodsire.It's not as hard as it sounds. The first step is to try to not make it worse.
For example, moves like Dire Claw are just poorly designed.
The thing about mons is that everything is so precariously balanced that anything can shift the meta wildly, especially some nerfs like what they did to Talonflame.For any normal game, combating power creep would be nigh impossible. However, dexit makes that herculean task laughably easy. However, not contributing to power creep is more difficult than it sounds. A guaranteed way to do this is to make all new pokemon underpowered, but that would essentially make the meta the same as it always was. Game Freak has done a surprisingly good job of balancing adding fresh things to the meta with not causing power creep all things considered. Most of the relevant new pokemon in gen 9 have a weakness. Gholdengo and Glimora are rather slow, and not too bulky, while weak to the best type in the game, dondozo turns doubles into a raid boss, which makes it very susceptible to counter play, Ting Lu is incredibly passive, and Walking Wake is weather dependent. They have also tried to combat the ridiculous Mon with more Mon that would keep them in check. The pokemon that would be fast a generation ago are outsped by the 5 billion 400+ speed Mon introduced, who are in turn countered by Palafin, Raging Bolt, and Kingambit, who are in turn countered by Farigiraf and Upper Hand. Gholdengo and Glimora are threatened by Maushold, who can not only clear hazards despite Gholdengos best efforts, but who also becomes an unstoppable death machine on the same turn, but that pokemon has terrible stats. The new stall Mon are countered by the many new setup sweepers, who are countered by Dondozo and Clodsire.
However, Game Freak obviously can't plan for everything. Maushold and Farigiraf are not very relevant, Upper Hand was completely worthless, and the Mon that they planned to be balanced by weaknesses were not. Palafin switching out was no big deal, Houndstones bad stats were easily worth the instakill button, the fast mons and Kingambit were a bit stronger then they thought, and Great Tusks speed was overcome with Rapid Spin, and not that big of a problem in the first place thanks to its great bulk. Then, the Hisui mons dropped, who were probably not playtested at all (still not an excuse to give an already fantastic Mon Dire Claw). Also, making mons balanced in both singles and doubles was a sisyphean task. Houndstone and Palafin were practically irrelevant in doubles, but were very quickly banned in singles. Game Freak was all set up to make a fantastic meta, but they had too many ideas, and some of them were not thought through enough in the 2 year scramble to get SV out so the cards can make money again. Like Icarus, they were victims of their own hubris, and thus, the nightmare of OU on release was born.
Yeah, look at VGC when all the big dog legendaries aren't available, or even Incineroar in the past 2 games.Does set rotation and the like actually handle power creep in practice?
I genuinely don't understand. If power creep is the devs continually making new stuff that's comparatively too strong, what does their ability to handle current and old stuff have to do with it? For that matter, VGC comes off as being really bad at addressing current problems (no communication, a year or more lag on action, only two restricted mons still being very overwhelming when your total team is 4/6) so why would that be a reason to believe they are good at addressing future problems?Yeah, look at VGC when all the big dog legendaries aren't available, or even Incineroar in the past 2 games.
Wait, what?I genuinely don't understand. If power creep is the devs continually making new stuff that's comparatively too strong, what does their ability to handle current and old stuff have to do with it? For that matter, VGC comes off as being really bad at addressing current problems (no communication, a year or more lag on action, only two restricted mons still being very overwhelming when your total team is 4/6) so why would that be a reason to believe they are good at addressing future problems?
Not strictly whether it would work, whether it does work. TCGs for example have had a lot of both rotation and power creep at the same time, and it's hard to argue that gen 9 did not include significant power creep "despite" Dexit.Wait, what?
I said that they could use Dexit rotating the available pool of mons to not go overboard with the powercreep because the new stuff will have its time to shine anyway.
Then you asked if that would work, I replied with VGC being an example of it working because just cutting off the legendaries work as a great example of how to keep powercreep in check.
For me, something like Incineroar or CHALK shows that there needs to be a different framework with faster responses than the next game or generation (as well as potentially different formats for different power levels). In which case, once a good framework for targeted bans exists, sweeping bans for everything in a given time frame are redundant.Incineroar is another example because it's been one of the best mons in the format since USUM iirc, without it around, other mons have their time to shine.
The same concept is used in Smogon tiers. When something gets banned, the meta readjusts itself.
I'm not saying Game Freak is doing a great job at it, on the contrary. But the framework is already there, so it would be possible.
Oh.Not strictly whether it would work, whether it does work.
Not even that burger sauce at Maccas?Ketchup is the only acceptable burger condiment. Mustard and mayonnaise can both go to Hell.
Isn't that sauce a mixture of mustard and mayonnaise? That's double the sin.Not even that burger sauce at Maccas?
It also has relish, onion powder, paprika, and salt but what do i know?Isn't that sauce a mixture of mustard and mayonnaise? That's double the sin.
first of all, which The Batman are you referring too, the movie, or the better one.the MCU was never good. I hate the debate surrounding it. It wasn't ruined, it just lost the formulaic method that nerds loved jerking off to. The Guardians and Spider-Man movies are good, the original Iron Man, Thor 3 and Captain America 2 and 3, Infinite War and Endgame are good movies. The rest is somewhere between mediocre and dogshit. It was low-quality escapism for weirdos that collected funko pops
I am not entirely against superhero movies. I love basically every Spider-Man movie, especially the Spiderverse ones, I love The Batman and the Dark Knight trilogy is alright too. But the MCU is like Burger King
That movie had an amazing villain though. Like say what you will but Mysterio was a fucking chad. I read the comics and I was still surprised by how well done the twist wasfirst of all, which The Batman are you referring too, the movie, or the better one.
second of all, you reminded me of this