I suggest improving the pokémon rewards we get from PvP, official tournaments and official events. I will split this suggestion into some sections depending on the type of event we get the pokémon from:
Why? These Pokémon should have perfect IVs for competitive use, otherwise they are not worth using over other with better IVs. We should also be able to choose 4 moves because some pokémon may need more than 2 egg moves, not many pokémon need this but an example I can think of is Sneasel for NU or UT, Icicle Crash, Bite and Pursuit are egg moves and they are useful together in a CB set.
What impact would this change have? When it comes to the economy of the game it would have no impact because they are untradeable and the number of shiny prizes that are given every day is insignificant compared to the number of shiny pokémon that spawn. It may also attract more people to the competitive aspect of the game which would be helpful for the current players since the playerbase of UU, NU and Doubles is not that big.
Official Events Shiny Pokémon Prizes
For consistency and for the same reasons that were stated above they should have the same change that the official tournaments shiny pokémon prizes:
I suggest reducing the number of non shiny prizes and restrict them only to rare pokémon (Starters, Eevee, Beldum, Porygon, Larvesta,etc.), this would encourage more people to play tournaments.
While it is true that we get a lot of Community Combat Tournaments they are still tournaments and should have perfect pokémon as reward. They already give $$$ instead of RP.
Would this affect economy? No, because the amount of competitive pokémon obtained from Community Combat is much lower compared to the amount of pokémon that are bred every day. They are also untradeable.
PvP 1200 Points Rewards
Getting these rewards is much easier compared to the other ones so they should not be perfect, otherwise they may hurt economy so I suggest these changes:
Why? Some pokémon need 3 selectable IVs to be worth using them, specially mixed attackers and defensive mons with 0 speed like Bronzong. Regarding the upgrade from 25 IVs to 27 or 29, this change would make those mons more useful which is good for new players but it may hurt economy to some degree, I believe increasing the IVs from 25 to 27 wouldn't have a significant impact but increasing them to 29 would so I guess 25->27 would be the best option. Leaving them at 25 is also an option but I believe 25->27 is better.
These changes wouldn't fix everything because mons like Gliscor are useless (or less useful) without their hidden ability. I think the rewards shouldn't come with HA but we need a Prismatic Pearl rework which is too expensive to get right now. I may do a new suggestion regarding this later.
A known issue is that people want to increase the IVs from the pokémon they obtained in past events/tournaments because they had worse IVs than the current ones. This would be even a bigger issue if these changes happened, to fix this an item that changes the IVs from gift pokémon could be released but this would be a totally different suggestion.
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VadimEmpoleon
I suggest improving the pokémon rewards we get from PvP, official tournaments and official events. I will split this suggestion into some sections depending on the type of event we get the pokémon from:
Official Tournaments Shiny Pokémon Prizes
I think these pokémon need this improvement:
Why? These Pokémon should have perfect IVs for competitive use, otherwise they are not worth using over other with better IVs. We should also be able to choose 4 moves because some pokémon may need more than 2 egg moves, not many pokémon need this but an example I can think of is Sneasel for NU or UT, Icicle Crash, Bite and Pursuit are egg moves and they are useful together in a CB set.
What impact would this change have? When it comes to the economy of the game it would have no impact because they are untradeable and the number of shiny prizes that are given every day is insignificant compared to the number of shiny pokémon that spawn. It may also attract more people to the competitive aspect of the game which would be helpful for the current players since the playerbase of UU, NU and Doubles is not that big.
Official Events Shiny Pokémon Prizes
For consistency and for the same reasons that were stated above they should have the same change that the official tournaments shiny pokémon prizes:
Official Tournaments and Events Non Shiny Prizes
I suggest reducing the number of non shiny prizes and restrict them only to rare pokémon (Starters, Eevee, Beldum, Porygon, Larvesta,etc.), this would encourage more people to play tournaments.
Community Combat Tournaments
While it is true that we get a lot of Community Combat Tournaments they are still tournaments and should have perfect pokémon as reward. They already give $$$ instead of RP.
Would this affect economy? No, because the amount of competitive pokémon obtained from Community Combat is much lower compared to the amount of pokémon that are bred every day. They are also untradeable.
PvP 1200 Points Rewards
Getting these rewards is much easier compared to the other ones so they should not be perfect, otherwise they may hurt economy so I suggest these changes:
Why? Some pokémon need 3 selectable IVs to be worth using them, specially mixed attackers and defensive mons with 0 speed like Bronzong. Regarding the upgrade from 25 IVs to 27 or 29, this change would make those mons more useful which is good for new players but it may hurt economy to some degree, I believe increasing the IVs from 25 to 27 wouldn't have a significant impact but increasing them to 29 would so I guess 25->27 would be the best option. Leaving them at 25 is also an option but I believe 25->27 is better.
These changes wouldn't fix everything because mons like Gliscor are useless (or less useful) without their hidden ability. I think the rewards shouldn't come with HA but we need a Prismatic Pearl rework which is too expensive to get right now. I may do a new suggestion regarding this later.
A known issue is that people want to increase the IVs from the pokémon they obtained in past events/tournaments because they had worse IVs than the current ones. This would be even a bigger issue if these changes happened, to fix this an item that changes the IVs from gift pokémon could be released but this would be a totally different suggestion.
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