I'm wondering whether hidden abilities, when added, will be obtainable by already existing caught and bred Pokemon?
The reason I'm asking this is because there are rumours that they could be added in the near future together with dungeons?
It might not seem that important at first glance, but there is a lot of players with 5x31 or even 6x31 Pokemon, which they have invested a lot of money and/or time into.
Considering how important and powerful certain hidden abilities are, those nigh-perfect or even perfect IV and natured Pokemon may become obsolete - you wouldn't want to use them and nobody would want to buy them for PvP either.
Things get considerably more tragic if the Pokemon in question is also a shiny Pokemon, as the ammount of time and money invested into breeding the same form of a shiny Pokemon is much, much greater.
My suggestion would be to add a special ability pill of some sort as a rare drop in dungeons that would change the Pokemon's ability into the hidden one - that way people would have more incentive to do them (besides grinding for rare and shiny Pokemon, as is always the case). Or something along those lines... the main point is to let people make better use of their already owned Pokemon once hidden abilities are a thing.
As as example of such a tragic occurance in case of only newly caught Pokemon having access to hidden abilities I present one of my own competitively bred shinies (I know it's not perfect, but it's very close; I'm sure there are plenty players with even better IV shinies) - a shiny Nidoqueen, which desperately needs access to the hidden ability Sheer Power to really shine in NU (or even UU):
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I'm wondering whether hidden abilities, when added, will be obtainable by already existing caught and bred Pokemon?
The reason I'm asking this is because there are rumours that they could be added in the near future together with dungeons?
It might not seem that important at first glance, but there is a lot of players with 5x31 or even 6x31 Pokemon, which they have invested a lot of money and/or time into.
Considering how important and powerful certain hidden abilities are, those nigh-perfect or even perfect IV and natured Pokemon may become obsolete - you wouldn't want to use them and nobody would want to buy them for PvP either.
Things get considerably more tragic if the Pokemon in question is also a shiny Pokemon, as the ammount of time and money invested into breeding the same form of a shiny Pokemon is much, much greater.
My suggestion would be to add a special ability pill of some sort as a rare drop in dungeons that would change the Pokemon's ability into the hidden one - that way people would have more incentive to do them (besides grinding for rare and shiny Pokemon, as is always the case). Or something along those lines... the main point is to let people make better use of their already owned Pokemon once hidden abilities are a thing.
As as example of such a tragic occurance in case of only newly caught Pokemon having access to hidden abilities I present one of my own competitively bred shinies (I know it's not perfect, but it's very close; I'm sure there are plenty players with even better IV shinies) - a shiny Nidoqueen, which desperately needs access to the hidden ability Sheer Power to really shine in NU (or even UU):
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