Gameplay Changes

General

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Economy Management

• Each Trainer has a dedicated amount of money they give you upon defeat.
• Some sell-only items can be found, either as part of routes or as rewards after defeating Optional Trainers.
• Most battle items are now single purchase.
• Additional methods of earning money have been disabled.

Battle

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Dynamic Speed

• Full Dynamic Speed has been implemented.
• Mid-turn Speed changes will take effect immediately, which commonly includes Mega Evolutions altering Speed, and effects like Tailwind in Double Battles.

Stat Rank Stages

Stat Stages now scale at a lower rate than before, with a base of value of (3 / 3) instead of (2 / 2). The new stat rank chart is now:

Status

• Pokemon are cured of Status effects when they enter battle.
• Yes, this explicitly nerfs Guts and Channel.

Burn

• End of Turn Damage: 1/8 (12.5%) → 1/12 (8.33%)

Confusion

• Always lasts 2-3 turns.
• Self Hit Chance: 50 → 33%

Fatigue

• Replaces Frozen.
• Reduces the damage dealt by Special moves by 50%.
• Increases the PP consumption of moves by 1.
• Psychic-types are immune to being Fatigued.

Frozen

• Removed

Paralysis

• Speed Multiplier: 25 → 50%

Sleep

• Always lasts 2 turns.

Terrains

Electric Terrain

• Raises the power of Electric-type moves by 50 → 20%.

Grassy Terrain

• No longer reduces the power of Bulldoze, Earthquake, and Magnitude.
• Raises the power of Grass-type moves by 50 → 20%.

Misty Terrain

• No longer reduces the power of Dragon-type moves.
• Raises the power of Fairy-type moves by 20%.

Psychic Terrain

• Raises the power of Psychic-type moves by 50 → 20%.

Twilight Terrain

• Raises the power of Dark-type moves by 20%.
• Prevents stat changes while in effect.

Weather

Sun

• Increases the damage of Fire-type moves by 50 → 20%.

Rain

• Increases the damage of Water-type moves by 50 → 20%.

Hail

• Raises the Defense of Ice-type Pokemon by 50%.

Encounters

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• Catching Pokemon is guaranteed in Vaniville Town, Route 1, Route 2, Santalune Forest, Route 3, and Route 22.
• All Fishing is done with the Fishing Rod key item, and Fishing encounter tables have been squished to just one table.
• Pokemon have a 20% chance of having their Hidden Ability, if they have one.

Surf

• Removed

Rock Smash

• Removed

Trash Cans

• Trash Cans will always shake, and are guaranteed to have a Pokemon encounter.
• Tuesday/Thursday Trash Can Encounters have been removed.
• You can no longer find items in Trash Cans.

Invisible Grass

Sorry about this, overworld graphics are difficult.

• There are invisible grass encounters in Vaniville Town and Berry Fields.
• The Vaniville Town grass is at the south square of the town.
• The Berry Fields grass is a single vertical strip on the left side of the Fields.

UI

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Pokemon Information Panel

• Displays Hidden Power type.
• Displays IVs.
• Toggle between Stats and IVs with the L & R triggers.
• If the Pokemon has a non-neutral Nature, the positive change is now colored Green and the negative Red.

Settings Menu

• There are now settings for Level Caps and Shiny Rate, with a wide variety of options for player choice.
• Battle Style defaults to Set Mode.
• Text Speed defaults to Fast.

Misc Changes

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Pokemon

• Basculin has had its regular and shiny textures repainted to White to match its form.
• Magby, Magmar, and Magmortar have been given new regular and shiny textures to match their unique type combination.
• Ninetales has had its regular and shiny textures swapped.
• If anyone ever asks why their "shiny" Ninetales doesn't have a sparkle animation, just send them a screenshot of this change.
• Rotom-Fan now has Hurricane instead of Air Slash as its signature move.
• Shaymin now remains in Sky Forme regardless of circumstance.
• Gracidea can be used to toggle between Land and Sky formes.

Other

• Natural Objects have been removed.
• Waterfall can be used in the open world after obtaining the 6th Gym Badge from Valerie.