I've raised this criticism before going back to Halloween and Anniversary events, but I think the amount of random stuff that bosses/raid mons have been doing has been turning into a huge undocumented mess, and has been resulting in a huge lack of respect for player's time, and making the content or rewards for the associated events less accessible. Let me elaborate a bit more.
When going through the raid battles for the first time, there's been some random abilities that especially aren't apparent upon playing against these mons compared to vanilla mons. How am I supposed to know that Slaking has a group paralysis effect under 50%? How am I supposed to know that these mons eventually shrug off status effects, flinches, stat drops, etc? Can I transform into them? How is Torment supposed to work? Can I use imprison? Can use Shedninja, or count on some BS ability nullifying Wonder Guard?
The answer of course to all of this is to try the strategy, lose, then try out another one to find out that the boss isn't subject to a niche move interaction. I'd argue this isn't fun at all, and where a big lack of respect for player's time happens, and dissuades players from trying out certain kinds of content entirely. This is especially a larger problem with Raids, where you have 3 other real players working with you who absolutely could get mad that you're trying to "experiment with strategies" at the moment.
I get it that gimmic strats are trying to be avoided by creating a bunch of these special interactions/nullified moves, but I think the only thing that has been happening as a result of it is a very limited/uncreative way to approach the bosses, and just creating tedious difficulty.
There are frankly amazing guides like this that the community has invested a bunch of time into to document what each Pokemon does at what time. But an argument of mine is that the community shouldn't be having to do this, and this shit should really be written down from the start to respect player's time.
I think some really solid rules of what can/cannot be done to a boss, and their abilities, phases, etc should be part of patch notes, or at least be released by the developers when they come out.
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I've raised this criticism before going back to Halloween and Anniversary events, but I think the amount of random stuff that bosses/raid mons have been doing has been turning into a huge undocumented mess, and has been resulting in a huge lack of respect for player's time, and making the content or rewards for the associated events less accessible. Let me elaborate a bit more.
When going through the raid battles for the first time, there's been some random abilities that especially aren't apparent upon playing against these mons compared to vanilla mons. How am I supposed to know that Slaking has a group paralysis effect under 50%? How am I supposed to know that these mons eventually shrug off status effects, flinches, stat drops, etc? Can I transform into them? How is Torment supposed to work? Can I use imprison? Can use Shedninja, or count on some BS ability nullifying Wonder Guard?
The answer of course to all of this is to try the strategy, lose, then try out another one to find out that the boss isn't subject to a niche move interaction. I'd argue this isn't fun at all, and where a big lack of respect for player's time happens, and dissuades players from trying out certain kinds of content entirely. This is especially a larger problem with Raids, where you have 3 other real players working with you who absolutely could get mad that you're trying to "experiment with strategies" at the moment.
I get it that gimmic strats are trying to be avoided by creating a bunch of these special interactions/nullified moves, but I think the only thing that has been happening as a result of it is a very limited/uncreative way to approach the bosses, and just creating tedious difficulty.
There are frankly amazing guides like this that the community has invested a bunch of time into to document what each Pokemon does at what time. But an argument of mine is that the community shouldn't be having to do this, and this shit should really be written down from the start to respect player's time.
I think some really solid rules of what can/cannot be done to a boss, and their abilities, phases, etc should be part of patch notes, or at least be released by the developers when they come out.
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