Why doesn't Game Freak just add a "Hard Mode" where every pokemon is 2-5 levels higher to their games...

Collectively, the eeveelutions have the most posts. Granted e621 isnt exclusively porn nor exhaustive
e621.net/forum_topics/33499

well no shit if you combine that many together it'll be higher, we're talking individuals

If I recall, Gardevoir/Charizard/Umbreon/Loppuny/Pikachu/Braixen

>list counts megas, gigantimaxes, regional forms and beta designs separately
I can't fap to this statistical methodology
at least the top 5/bottom 5 by gen doesn't do that.

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A level cap would be more effective.

>Easy (default)
No level cap

>medium
Capped to 5 levels higher than the opponent

>hard
Capped to the opponent's level

>expert
Capped to 5 levels below the opponent.

>2-5 levels higher would be hard mode
All this does is inflate exp gain and you'll still be 5-10 levels higher than the npc trainers regardless. Pokemon isn't easy because of numbers. It's easy because they refuse to implement AI that uses moves strategically, nor do they give npc trainers pokemon that have good moves to begin with.
Why?
Because "competitive" pokemon just isn't fun and they know it. Only the most autistic of pokemon fans play pvp beyond a couple of battles. The entire battle system mechanics have to be overhauled into something actually entertaining and not a single person that works for gamefreak has the intelligence, creativity, or bravery to actually do it.

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isn't umbreon up that high due to literally one autist?

still there's no way lucario isn't on the list, it's always changing but i'd be fucking shocked if it was bumped off

I also dont understand why thats the case but i guess those categorizations might be distinct enough when you're actually searching for wank material

Its leading by a huge margin

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that looks about right, lopunny lower than expected and i forgot how lewded normal eevee was

They are games for literal children, just because adults can enjoy them does not mean the games should pander to the fart sniffing metafags.

the best part about pokemon is they are simple games. No stress unless for force it on yourself.

what does that have to do with an optional hard mode?

Only adults can enjoy a challenge according to zoomers

There is as many optional hard modes as you want, you just need to impose them on yourself.

go play some NES games retard, shit even SNES is probably "too hard" for your stupid ass

all these were made for kids

No pokemon hentai is more kino than machoke/champ/hypno/drowzee x girl

not at all. a lot of the trainers in the games have a hodgepodge of pokemons on their teams with little care for strategy and synergy. adding a hard mode with actually well thought out teams for the trainers is something that you can't do on the player side.

Machamp has to be, with Hypno, one of the lamest choice for PokemonXFemale trainer porn.

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Know thew difference?
Those are console games lil zoom. You see back in those days Portable games and Console games were designed very differently. Gameboy games were designed to be fast n simple games, because they were meant to be played in chunks, while out n about.

While NES games, they really came in two flavors when they were hard.
The early ones were based off Arcade games, thus made to suck quarters, later NES and SNES games were designed around getting kids to rent them over and over and over and over and over and over again. They were not designed to be hard because that was "fun" or they thought that is what kids liked.

Rapidash

You know what I want.

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bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Key_System#Difficulty
They already did.
And like every good new feature, it never came back.

Would of been a lot better if you didn't have to beat Black 2 to unlock it or have someone who has beaten it to transfer they key to your game. Thank god of PkHex.

That too. What kind of retarded decision even was that to make the unlocking methods as stupid as possible?

japanese devs did not design their games with the rental industry in mind you stupid fuck

>It seems like the easiest fix on Earth
That's because you're a fucking retard. Your idea only extends the grind, nothing more.

It would be more work than just
>higher levels, less XP!
>Better mons, attacks, and AI!
They would have to design every single trainers team, they would have to ensure the player does not run in to a wall.
>Here is the very first trainer you run in to on Route 1
>It has a level 10 Geodude and a lvl 8 Pikachu both with perfect IVs, has Egg attacks/TMs that counter it's weakness, It's EV trained, holding an item, has an ability that's actually useful
>Your team?
>a half dead starter that at level 6 and the basically dead rattata you just caught at level 3.

lol, LMAO.
Ok zoom zoom weeb.

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An actual hard mode where enemies have proper teams/strategies/movesets/EVs and IVs would be awesome

all they need to do is make exp share optional so you can control the level range of your party. as is it always spirals out of control, forgoing a bit of grinding to fight higher level pokemon in not ideal scenarios is part of what makes pokemon "hard". but with XP share you just whip out whichever flavor of monster is going to one shot the opponent while your entire party out levels the entire game.

Small Indie company, please understand.

Play that one emerald rom hack. It made trainers harder. Basically the pokemon moves arent designed that way. A few acc downs and the next pokemon does eva + and you are fucked. The whole thing is designed for children, kind of like how smash bros is designed for fun party fighting and its autistic fgc counterpart is just sad that watch.

there's basically no way to actually make a pokemon game hard while maintaining the pokemon feel.
level imbalance, great AI, access to egg moves and TMs, none of it will ever outweigh the player's ability to simply overlevel, spam items, use setup moves, change team composition to hardcounter the AI, etc.
there's a lot of hacks that do make the game hard, but they feel more like a battle simulator than a pokemon game.

Hyper potion bombing until enemy runs outta pp saved me a bunch on some of those harder pkmn romhacks. >AI difficulty is just a meme in these games

How about Set style only, and you are forced to use the same amount of Pokemon as the other trainer.
No battling with a 6v2 advantage against a gym leader.

eh, that would still be a pushover.
it doesn't really matter that you can only bring three pokemon to fight the bug catcher, or that you can't switch.
you're still gonna be able to sweep his team with your fire type, the other pokemon on your team don't even matter.

pokemon is inherently broken as a single player game due to all enemies being balanced around the pvp aspect

enemy design in rpgs needs a completely different approach than it uses

Said mode was only unlockable by trading a specific item from the other game and then doing NG+.

and even after all that bullshit it was easier due to higher exp gain

you're underselling it
Its not just higher levels, challenge mode gives trainers better ai, better ivs on their pokemon, extra held items sometimes, altered movesets, and even gives gym leaders extra pokemon
The worst thing about challenge mode is that unlocking is is fucking asinine

Yeah

No it's Lucario by a long shot. Lucario has 17060 vs 14672 of Gardevoir. Use rule34.xxx for raw numbers since e621 has sfw and rule34.xxx pulls directly from it and other sources

Lol

>Goodra in the top 20
I find this funny for some reason

it's the ultimate fetishbait mon, where braixen was the perfect vanilla furfag bait

they calculated this

Pokemon Legends actually changed some statistical values and now levels matter less, so maybe Gen 9 has an actual chance

Going against high leveled mon with a team of lv 1 shitmons is not a hard mode

A good hard mode would be if all the trainers you fought had max ivs and max evs, battle items and a smarter AI

Many, many years ago someone from /vp/ has asked Masuda and Ohmori about that and their answers(in particularly Masuda's) has permanently mindbroken /vp/ forever
archive.alice.al/vp/thread/21918111/#21921231
>Real OP here. I asked about the difficulty setting.
>Masuda: *laughs* I don't really know.
>Ohmori: *laughs* If we implemented that feature, nobody would be able to beat the game then!

>Here are their autographs for all you forgers out there

>grinding xp
you didn't beat the game

Pokemon isn't boring because it's too easy. It's boring because it's the exact same unchanging formula but with stupider and uglier designs each time.