Pokémon gyms are already an essential part of these games, and although they have been from the beginning, some players are already getting tired that the operation of these is almost always the same. In this post from Reddit, SingleYike user tells us how Game Freak could improve this part of Pokémon games, and turn gyms into a real challenge for players. It has been so many years of this game, and we still remember the first Pokémon that created Game Freak.
But the user not only complains about the way these gyms work, but also brings its own vision of what the company should do if you really want to improve the quality of the game. And since we touched on the subject, the canonical Pokémon games are not the only ones that have problems in this particular, since Niantic also criticize the gyms of Pokémon GO, ensuring that there are many improvements to be made in the combat system.
A boring experience
In the first paragraph of his post, the user assures that, although the Pokémon series gyms have been changing over time in design, they have stagnated as far as operation is concerned. In each of the gyms we will find trainers belonging to the same type of Pokémon, and beating them is as easy as entering with a moderately trained Pokémon and whose type is superior to those of the gym.
This tactic is only affected on some occasions, such as when clashes have more than one Pokémon as an opponent, but there is not much more difficult than battles in a gym. This makes the gaming experience is less entertaining and, in the long run, become tedious or boring.
SingleYike also ensures that, while understanding the need to show new players how the Pokémon world battle system works, there are other ways to do it. It is not necessary to make each gym belong only to one type Pokémon, when we could have an initial gym that will explain to us with several stages and several clashes of the same type which Pokémon is more vulnerable to which.
How to improve Pokémon gyms?
Once this initial gym is over, the game should look for a new way to propose the clashes that follow. Whether with teams that use the weather as an advantage, or that focus on moving first, or that include more state changes in fights, there are other ways to generate a challenge to the player, instead of always using the same dynamics of a Pokémon of one type VS a Pokémon of another.
This would make players focus more on how to use their Pokémon and think in a more strategic way that moves away from the classic «this gym is fire type, I will enter with my best Water type Pokémon». In addition, we would be forced to think at the same time of the battle what are the best ways to emerge victorious from there.
It also ensures that this does not have to be left alone in the gym, but also could somehow adapt to all enemies
One of the most important advances in the history of the saga
The amount of data the Pokédex offers us is overwhelming, and it is somewhat ridiculous that of all the information we have, the only one with true relevance is the type to which our Pokémon belong and those of our opponent. It's been 20 years since the start of the first Pokémon game, and from the beginning we have been working in virtually the same way.
The inclusion of gyms of multiple types would be a great innovation in the saga, and if they do it in a correct way, we could be facing a real and important advance in the mechanics of Pokémon games. This would also give some importance to the MT and MO that we are finding along the way, since we would have a reason to look for them and to use them, and with that to improve the strategy that we use, instead of bringing a group of Pokémon with such high levels that it is practically impossible to defeat them.
Many players praise how Raihan was used in the game, a coach who approached this proposal a bit and gave one of the most entertaining fights. Some fans of the saga have criticized that Raihan's Pokémon have not been dragon-only, this being his style, but others liked that Game Freak dared to give a more dynamic touch to gym fights. Some of the comments in the post say it was the only battle of Pokémon Sword and Shield that really gave them a sense of trouble. The game is so simple that a user managed to pass this game using only a Wooloo.
It's been more than twenty years since the first Pokémon game came out, and recently the anime also fulfilled them. As a commemoration, we have a lot of sketches twenty years old in which we can see the first strokes that gave life To this vast universe.
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