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Proposal on how the Speed stat could further impact the game

As many of the original series Pokemon fans know, Speed is a very important stat in the the game.

"The Speed stat (Japanese: 素早さ能力 speed ability) determines the order of Pokémon that can act in battle. Pokémon with higher Speed at the start of any turn will generally make a move before ones with lower Speed; in the case that two Pokémon have the same Speed, one of them will randomly go first. An in-battle change to a Pokémon's speed stat will not take effect until the following turn."

However in PoGo,there is no turn based combat in play, and in its place is a dodge-charge-spam attack system. Many "faster" pokemon have been handicapped in the beginning of the game as Niantic only took atk,hp,def stats from the OS series. Later the faster mons received buffs to their attacks as the equation now factors part of the speed stat from the OS, as well as a stat equation redistribution and rebalance for all mons. My friend suggested that since speed cannot really help with "dodging" or turn based combat in PoGo, he thinks that the faster mons should have faster cooldowns for their attacks(both fast and charge) and higher EPS gain compared to slower pokemon. He said this will greatly benefit the glass cannons like gengar, alakazam and starmie. What do you think?

Asked by Danicajet077 years 8 months ago

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I agree that speedy mons are handicapped, and it is a bit sad. Also many pokemon that were made viable by their abilities are totally useless on Go. I really hate that Niantic is trying to balance their game based on less than HALF of the original game mechanics, totally ignoring speed, SPA, SPD, abilities etc.
Balance was never good in the original pokemon games to begin with. I wish that Niantic would stop this half-assed copycat theme since they cant do it properly, and would make their own balance mechanics. It doesnt even have to be based on the original games. Just make more pokemon viable and stop this "5 top tier pokemon and the rest are shit" meta.

Edit: And if for some reason they do want to continue this copycat theme, atleast do it properly. Copy the whole system from the original games with all of the stats and abilities. Make it turn based etc. All of the data already exists, they dont even have to "do anything", all of the leg work has been done already. Atm it just feels like Niantic has no idea what they want to do or can do.