Come up with an original new battle format.
Hard mode: not just multis with more mons.
>>26464901
Underwater battle. Only swimming mons can participate.
New Battle engine. Pokemon is so fucking dated compared to modern JRPG's style. It was pretty current back in 1996 but the fact that its only been improved in minor amounts is embarrassing.
Overhaul when.
>>26464901
Lava battle, you need to acquire a special suit that acts like a key item, similar to the suit in ORAS, and only Fire Types may enter
Roulette Battle
You can't switch normally but a random pokemon is switched in at the end of every turn.
>>26464956
>every turn
bullshit that wouldn't be fun
how about every x number of terms, like say 5?
>>26464901
Double rotations.
>>26464970
Make it 3 and we have a deal.
Just official fucking Free For Alls. 4 trainers, last mon standing is the winner.
For random play online:
You and your opponent switch teams after pokemon selection and order selection.
Sinnoh Battle Arcade style roulette, but it can't inflict Burn/Poison/Paralysis/Sleep/Freeze. Instead, it can cause permanent weathers (that can still be temp altered, but return to the roulette weather after their duration ends), permanent terrains (Electric, Fairy, Grass, and the Pledge combo terrains), or battle-long causing normal confusion/infatuation/taunt/torment/heal block/embargo/trapped upon switch-in. (only one of these is chosen by roulette, but that one is applied to all pokemon upon switch-in for that battle(regardless of gender for infatuation)(these can be snapped out of or wear off as normal moves that cause them, if they would wear off))
For some kind of tournament play:
Emerald Battle Factory style in a way, where you can choose to exchange your team with your most recent defeated opponent's, before seeing your opponent's available pokemon.
>>26465145
Forgot to mention, but the two in the first part would be two separate battle types, not together at once.
you use your stylus to power-up moves
Permanent Trick Room.
Active Time Battle
>>26465167
>>26465167
Battles drop the turn-based aspect. All moves now have a built-in cooldown which you must wait for it to recharge roughly equivalent to thier PP. In general there would be no global cooldown so you could spam a number of moves at the same time if you wanted to (with some exceptions; Hyper Beam would cause a GCD for instance).
>>26464901
it's this thing called VGC. its the real competitive format and you can meet real people and make lifelong friends playing it, and win real prizes. it also gets you out of the house
We ride on motorcycles while we battle. The pokemon run alongside us while we battle.
>>26465646
The only way that that could sound any dumber is if you'd gotten trading cards involved.
>>26465664
Trading cards huh? Not a bad idea
Im telling you its going to be huge! You'll all see!
>>26464901
Stack 'em Battle!
You send out three pokemon, that stack on top of one another. Heavier pokemon are sorted under lighter ones. Only the topmost pokemon gets to attack, and most attacks hit the bottommost pokemon. Some moves, like waterfall or something can hit up the stack.
You must be careful when switching to not upset the weight ratio, if you do your stack falls and spends the next turn climbing back on top of eachother. For that turn, all of your mons may be hit by anything, and can get hit by wide range attacks. Moves like Dragon Tail switch out a random stack member.
Some moves and abilities will be retooled in how they are used in a tower, and various moves will be introduced that do nothing in other formats.
>primary type interacts with moves normally, STAB is 1.5, super effective is 2 and not very effective is 0.5
>secondary type interacts with moves less dramatically, STAB is 1.33, super effective is 1.5, not very effective is 0.66
>>26464980
I'm sold
Pokemon are the trainers.
It's now all about BDSM and the humans need not cry uncle.
>>26465258
How about moba-like field where you can micro all your 6 pokemon at the same time
And weather/hazard only takes 1/3 of the field
>>26464901
That thing in the PWT where you and your opponent chose mons from each other's teams to add to yours, so half your team if half their team and vice versa.
>>26465018
This.
>>26464901
ARAZ
All-Random-All-Zoroark
Each player gets a random team featuring one Zoroark and you need to identify it, once you think you've found it you can press the 'stop' button and choose which one you think it is. Right and you win wrong and you lose. Obviously team preview is disabled.
Press TurnIt'd be too broken in Pokemon.
Battles where speed means more than who moves first. Also means how often you can move. Specific moves have their own "speed" as well. This allows for a wider variety of moves to serve a purpose. If you can use Bite 3 times in the same time-frame that you could use Return once, it makes even basic moves worth considering. This also solves low accuracy moves as you can make them slightly higher "speed" to balance their chance of missing and so on. Could also make slower mons more useful by having buffs (not necessarily stat increases , though that would be an interesting change, think reflect, weather, trick room) reset based on the mon's speed, so the slower the mon the longer it keeps a buff.
>>26464953
its a game made for kids, i dont think it needs an overhaul
>>26464901
Timed battle starting at a minute and thirty seconds, each KO you get adds 30 seconds to the clock.
>>26465512
It's shit
1. Bring 6 but your opponent picks the 3 you'll battle with
2. You and your opponent battle against a dummy object with infinite HP and whoever does the most damage wins
3. 9/11 was an inside job
>>26465512
>Real competitve format
Wew lad, go tell that to your M-moms+Landos
Battle Frontier-style facility where you submit a team of 6, and they are randomly sorted into two teams of 3 that then face off against one another
Mirror Battle
Both players choose three Pokemon from their party of six, the six chosen Pokemon are the team for both players
>>26464901
Eeveelutions only
It allows players to use the same eeveelution multiple times, but only eeveelutions are allowed
>>26466233
Kids, not fucking toddlers. Even the most autistic kids these days know how to install eighty individual modpacks into Minecraft and troubleshoot it, an updated battle system shouldn't be a fucking problem.
>>26464901
a format that lets you equip things to pokemon
not like holding items but real armor and stuff
like you can give your galade a sword and you can get mewtwo's armor
things like that
3 and 4 way battles. Each player brings 3 mons and only one is out on the field, and it's pretty much like any other multi-battle, but you'll have 2 or 3 separate targets.
A new form of triple battle with rows.
Two front and one In the back.
Everyone can attack at the same time(speed still determines order)
However you can't attack the mon in the back row unless there is no front row.
Two mons can give up their turns to switch places.
Mob battles.
6v6 all at once.
>>26466743
Also moves that hot everyone only hit the front row.
Random selection battles. Each player gets a random Pokemon from their party sent in to start, and they can't switch them out until they faint, at which point another random Pokemon from the party is sent in.
>>26466793
That's funny, I didn't even notice >>26464956
>>26465842
I love it
>>26464926
>>26464954
>>26464980
its sad vp thinks these are fun ideas
>>26464901
Physical/Special swap
Physical moves run off of the Special stats and vice versa.
>>26466921
>double rotations being anything but the next logical step.
Battle Frontier:
Triple, your team size is 6 and the enemy's is endless. Every time an enemy dies, it's replaced by a random pokemon. The goal is to survive and to kill as many of the enemy pokemon as possible.
>>26467429
Interesting, because the immediate thought is "setup sweep" but you'd run out of pp. The only mon that has a way to recover pp (leppa berry recovery) while have a good setup move is tropius, harvest+dragon dance.
Tropius secret meta?
>>26467445
oh whoops forgot klingklang got recycle, that'd work too.
Battle Castle except the points are used for this
Blind battles. You don't know what mon your enemy is using or how much HP it has left, but you can see status, condition, switches, and moves used.
>>26465018
>everyone toxic and protecting throughout the battle
Support battles, you send out one main mon and a support mon. The support mon moves for every two turns your main mon dies and any stat boosting moves your support mon uses benefit your main mon. The support mon has increased HP, Def and Sp. Def and decreased Atk, Sp. Atk and Speed. Your opponent can attack either your main or support mon. Once your main mon is KOed you can send out another one, likeiwse for your support.
>>26467445
>>26467452
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Bestow_(move)
Tropius can learn it AND he gets Harvest as a HA, while also getting access to synthesis, sunny day and tailwind.
Combine that with someone who has access to heal pulse and dual screens and you have the ultimate support for a setup sweeper. Could probably have your middle mon get a baton-pass chain, probably best to just pass bellydrum and a few cosmic powers. Have your sweeper just spam rockslide or something and GG.
>>26467553
This is basically what I already do with double battles. If people had to only hit my Tyrantrum instead of the Gourgeist spamming trick room and trick or treat, then my Jurassic Park strategy would get a whole lot scarier.
Metronome is the only move allowed.
>>26467617
Make a team of Clefairy with only Metronome and a Leppa Berry, trade them to another game, challenge them into battle and record it as a video. Then use that same team to mock battle it on the VS recorder and bob's your uncle
>nobody says rental battles
You all should be ashamed of yourselves.
>>26464953
Pokemon has probably the best battlesystem of every jrpg in this world.
Fucking easy to go in and it is also fucking deep if you fag ever played online
>>26464980
that is scary
>>26466676
>file name
kek
>>26466240
I love it.Stallfags deserve it.
Bullet Battle: very little time per move. If your move time is up, your Pokémon can't move.
Second option: chess style. A bit like Conquest, but with interchangeable moves and only 1 Pokémon per turn, but the player decides which one.
>>26466676
>Just fuck my game up
>>26466676
>multi party rotational inverse trick item no preview coop timed contest poffin making extravaganza
>>26467703
That's hardly a new format, though having the option for battling outside a facility would be nice (or just having the option in game at all).
A more daring idea would be a rental system where you rent from your opponent. To avoid having your opponent only bring shitmons, you could have your team combined with half from your team and half from your opponent team, but without any choice of which from each. That way, you could easily end up with the shitmons on your team.
Doubt said format would work in any manner though, probably all sorts of broken.
>>26464953
Fuck off.
>>26464901
Sky Battles now have positioning so you can move your pokemon around
Think like a mini tactics RPG.
Pokemon Crossing
Tom Nook is a Zigzagoon with a new name.
Celeste is a Rowlet, etc.
>>26467888
Zigzanook?
>>26464901
6v6 VGC singles
also, monotype
>>26467912
I like it.
>>26464901
Something along the lines of knock out ping pong?
Free for all with multiple players but only two fighting at any one time
>>26464901
No randomness:
Crits are removed unless forced.
Moves with %status inflict chance are changed to inflict status every X turns.
PP is balanced to account for all moves having 100% accuracy.
>>26467888
How is a crossover spinoff a battle format? Idiot
>>26464901
Platform Battles:
The player and opponent's Pokemon each stand on top of a platform suspended in mid-air.
These platforms have their own HP independent of the Pokemon, and if the platform's HP reaches 0, it falls down and it is an automatic lose for that team.
The heavier the Pokemon standing on the platform, the more HP it loses every turn as it is weighed down.
The platform can also be damaged by both friendly and opposing attacks.
Flying and levitating Pokemon are also forced to stand on the platform to avoid keeping its HP undepleted, removing their immunity to Ground moves.
>>26466240
>>26467703
>>26467916
These are the only ones proposed ITT I'd ever play
Conquest-style battles
