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Additional PvP Leagues

Despite being limited and simple, I'm really enjoying PvP, especially with the second-move addition.

Now I'm wondering what updates there'll be in the future. I've had some thoughts in the past, but now that we have an actual system in place and a good idea of how it works, I thought I'd share some.

Chance League: Game selects 3 pokemon at random from your entire collection. Very random.

Type League: The game selects a type (Grass, Psychic, etc...) after you accept the battle, and you need to choose 3 pokemon of that type.

Color League: The game would select a color, and then you must choose pokemon based on that color. The game would filter out the pokemon that don't meet the color criteria. This would give shiny pokemon a chance a greater chance to be included in more battles. Not much to strategy here, but a fun idea.

Date League: The game would select a date range (ie March 2017 - December 2017) and you're allowed to choose pokemon that were caught within that range.

Weight League: The game would select a weight range (ie: 40-80kg) and then you're allowed to use pokemon within that range.

Sex League: The game would choose between Male/Female genders (so no legendaries and oddities) and you have to select your fighters based on that.

HP League: Similarily to the weight league, the game would select an HP range (ie: 60-99HP) and the player can select pokemon within that range.

So those are some ideas, some silly, some I think would be interesting in actual gameplay. Pokemon has so many characters, that variation is important in gameplay. We don't like catching the same pokemon over and over, don't like battling the same pokemon again and again, using the same teams/pokemon, battling in the same league, so having a few additional leagues later would be a nice addition for variety.
Ideas for any more?

Asked by zap6 years 7 months ago

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I wouldnt mind them adding a few more leagues. I'd also like them to add a feature where you can run into random guest NPC's from the Pokemon universe to battle with. And they need to be way more challenging than the team leaders, who are way too easy.

Agree the team leaders are way too easy & can be done with one Pokémon. Maybe 3 difficulty levels would be the way to go here plus a random selection instead of battling the same mons over & over. I know it goes against what they're trying to do here but personally, I would love to enter a lobby & just battle random players & have some kind of trophy/leaderboard system. You can then battle as much as you like without the current constraints. Above all, it would be fun. Unless you actively play in a group or you have many like minded ultra or best friends, PvP is not giving you much of an experience at the moment. I think PvP should be the thing to do when you're bored at home or work & can't go out catching/gymming or raiding & not another social feature to get people together, we already have those in place.

Instead of completely random selection of a team out of your whole bag, I think the more ideal solution would be for you to make a pool of 15 or so pokemon and then 3 are randomly selected from that.

The problem with that is that peoples who obsess with Pokemon WAY TO MUCH would just have Like 3 Mewtwo or whatever ALL the time. Not a big enough pool.

Lol “peoples who obsess with Pokémon WAY TO MUCH” In other words anyone who have better Pokémon than me!!!

No, in taking about people who play 5 hours a day at minimum, have caught 200,000 plus Pokemon, done over a thousand raids, etc... I don't have all the best Pokemon and IVs, but I've been showing it to those who play a lot more than me that their valiant 20x4 XP grinding isn't enough to beat me when it comes to battles.

Only other mobile game I play has battles like this, Jurassic World Alive. It picks 4 out of a mid sized pool, doesn’t seem “random”. Grateful for that bc I want raptor and Irritator G2 (offensive weapons) picked most of the time. Niantic would find a way to require an Aggron in everyone’s pool.