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by the way, if you throw a shitfit in the comments about this decision, i will bite your head off and that's a promise

i will personally come over and destroy you

venusaur crest, makes the opponent venusaur and every pokemon in both trainer's parties venusaur

I've gotten more packages from this delivery person than my parents. I feel a special connection to Delivery Guy. Up there next to Truck Guy

do i gotta point out that these changes are preliminary. apparently i do so here's a thing i put in rejupdates channel on the reborn evo discord after some discussion that occurred in rejuv gen the day this post came out I get that people are upset that it's looking like we're toning down the difficulty, because................. yes that's kind of what we're doing. HOWEVER, easier =/= bad. It's because for the overall QOL of the game it'll be infinitely better if the difficulty curve isn't as fucked up as it is right now. For people who want the game to remain challenging, hopefully the passwords we'll likely be adding in will help with micromanaging difficulty better and make it so that people can still enjoy getting pulped by every fight if they want that. I want to make something VERY clear though before people get up in arms in that we're ruining the experience for some. You know who gets the most shit thrown at them if the game doesn't feel fun to play through because people complain about the difficulty being unfair at many points? It's Jan. (which y'all shouldn't be doing btw because that's fucked up. stop harassing devs over things that REALLY do not matter that much but which you don't agree with. thanks) He also has told us in the dev server that he doesn't even like testing his own game anymore because the battles feel like a hassle to get through. And as he mentioned in the post where he announced Intense is getting discontinued, if Jan stops having fun, Jan stops working on the game. The vanilla experience NEEDS WORK. And that's what we're trying to do. Besides, it's not like Normal mode is getting COMPLETELY reworked like Casual/Story mode is, the latter is what truly will be the easier experience if people just wanna go through the game for the story. Normal will still keep challenge to it! It just needs adjustments in a lot of places in order to not have people get completely walled as often in the vanilla experience as they do now. The survey results post will go into further detail, but the explanation for the boss bars being removed is because according to our current survey results, more often than not people struggle on the fights that use boss shields, especially from Chapter 8 onwards. We understand that the boss bars are great from a narrative perspective because of the visual impact it has, hell it's literally the main reason why we decided to put those in in the first place—but in the mechanic's current state it's not fun to go against for several reasons and adding those in essentially did not pan out as we hoped for. This is not only a sentiment shared by a lot of people who filled in the survey, it's also something most of us on the dev team agree on. If it's any consolation for those who REALLY do not want them to be gone—and this is literally a development that started yesterday, so we don't have anything concrete yet don't YELL at me—we're currently looking into possible alternatives for the ways shields function, as these are the main reason why the battles don't feel fun as of right now. If we find something that works as a better middle ground that makes the shields less of a pain in the ass to deal, hopefully we can use that instead. But if we cannot find a solution that doesn't feel jank to go up against, we'll stick with our current decision to remove them entirely from main story fights and find a different approach to make boss battles stand out altogether. Please, have a bit of faith in us. We're doing our best to make the game a good experience for as many people as possible. I know it's impossible to please EVERYONE, but please also try to understand that Pokémon is literal ass to balance in such a way that everyone is pleased, especially with such a diverse and huge playerbase. We're trying to keep options open.

Now i will have to say i am saddened by this decision, as intense mode did hit a certain "right" amount of difficulty that worked for me. putting aside some hickups in difficulty scaling that could be fixed. But ultimately if jan does feel that it warps what he wants out of the game then it's his right and he absolutely should to do what he thinks is best for his own project. I will note about the argument of toxicity over the difficulty, and people can feel free to disagree with me on this, that intense mode is a bit of a scapegoat here. People that that want to be elitist, that want to make themselves look better by judging people how well they do at a videogame (if this sounds silly, that's because it is) will always find other ways to make themselves look "better" than others, other things to judge over so i do think in terms of elitism and gatekeeping, this more like treating a symptom and not the disease. so I personally don't agree with this part of the reasoning. And i say this as someone that has seen people judge people for playing "not intense" or using certain mons or what have you, this is not really a case of what they are judging for and almost always a case of who is doing the judging, these same people will just find other things to judge for.

Lmao entei

Move at your own pace and take your time testers! We trust y'all! At least I do lol. Azery sending my energy to you fam! Good luck!

On danger of this post being a bit controversial i do have a few things to say: first the positives, of the shown field changes i am pretty much in favor, "balanced woods" did get its moniker for a reason and some toning down is definetly acceptable. Sky fields seed was frankly always a bit of a sore point as it essentially forced a counter seed of your own against souta or just fight at a much bigger disadvantage, which while i may take that challenge at times probably shouldn't be the standard, over the new effect can be argued ig but automatic tailwind is scary business, not only on souta either, so also welcomed. i am a little ??? on some of the (frozen) dimensional changes but rather see it in action than complain about them now, as it's not too egrious chandelure not being legitimate for that level is an odd thing to say about a stone evolution, but ig i can see the reasoning otherwise, i am not entirely sure how drifblim getting a burn from the seed is relevant last i checked normal mode drifblim was aftermath.... but once again not the end of the world. Crawli on swamp should be interesting, swamp is a field that doesn't usually get much spotlight so i am all for it really, even if I question how well the general audience will like it, swamp is a bit hit or miss in the likability of it. okay well that was less of the good and more a commentary on the changes, but mostly positive now to my beef: I really am not a fan of some of the charaterization that has cropped up lately. from zumi's post not the only ones but some of these feel like wanting a challenge is an unaccepted playstyle now, now granted i assume zumi is just done due to direct messages from more unsavory complainers, so i am just gonne give the benefit of the doubt here. now i will say this i disagree and am mildly insulted at the insinuation that all people that play (played) and liked intense mode are "birds of a feather" if you will, so no, i do not feel intense mode players as a whole have to apologize for anything, the people that were hounding jan, zumi and other devs have to apologize or realize they are not wanted, and i refuse to have intense players be put into the same box with them thank you very much. I feel sorry for jan and zumi having to deal with these people, but those have precious little to do with the whole of intense mode players I said it when the post about cutting intense mode was posted and i will say it now, making Intense mode a scapegoat for the bad behaviour of certain individuals helps no one at all. I have noticed a trend that feels like people that liked having more of a challenge being pushed away from the community whether they were elitist or not. and while with the former, they need to get their head on straight, the latter are as valid as players of this game as anyone else. And liking the challenge and liking the story is not mutually exclusive as some people might imply. that would be all, thank you.

i think this justifiable enough as far as im concerned, regardless of my personal feelings. personal views purely for novelty: i dont know about anyone else, but the main reason seeing the mode go saddens me, is because of: 1) rejuv has somehow managed to create the best gameplay elements out of every other fangame i've seen. harder modes tend to showcase, and create the need to use more of those gameplay elements in order to succeed, which is why i find them interesting. i know the game is veering towards being story driven, but lets be honest, replaying the game more than 2 times (good and bad ending) has value only because of the gameplay alone. and rejuv was liek the one fangame that i was seing myself doing a lot of runs of long-term, past its completion. 2) the difficulty hitting that exact spot that fits with me personally (hard enough to push me to think, but not to the point where it reduces the fun) 3) azery doing a superb job with making intense mode battles interesting. (3) gets plus sad points because the mode going away feels like wasting his talent. we had already discussed on some ways to tone things down a little because when we went back to look at it, some v13 battles (and ryland) felt, pure mathematically, a little more overtuned than desired. all things considered this sounds like the more practical decision. i'll keep my challenge runs hiatus'd for that possibility and continue only my main file, and any new runs i start. i'm funnily curious to see how normal mode is for the first time.

Wigglytuff Crest- Doubles the holder's attack stat, but the holder cannot faint a target unless the target has directly damaged the holder. After all, why faint a potential Friend? Meowstic Crest- If held by Male Meowstic, Prankster moves receive +2 priority instead of +1, and work on Dark Types. If held by a Female Meowstic, uses holder's speed stat in Special Attack damage calculations. Lycanroc Crest- If held by Midnight, the holder becomes part dark type and their normal type moves become dark type moves. If held by Midday, the holder becomes part ground type, with the same bonuses. If held by Dusk, the holder becomes part fire type, with the same bonuses. Bellossom Crest- The holder's dancing moves activate twice. Alcremie Crest- Based on the holder's type of Sweet, provides a different boost. Strawberry Sweet: The holder's draining moves deal more damage and absorb more health. Berry Sweet: When the holder hits a target or is struck by a target, the target's attacking stat is decreased. Love Sweet: The holder's clerical moves (Aromatherapy, etc) have increased priority and bypass Taunt/Torment. Star Sweet: Upon entry, all of the holder's stats are raised by 1. Clover Sweet: The holder's atk stat is always equal to their spatk stat, including boosts etc. Flower Sweet: Holder's speed and special attack are 1.5x in Sun. Ribbon Sweet: Holder has an innate +2 to their crit ratio. Dubwool Crest- Nullifies the drawback of Fluffy. The move "Body Press" becomes normal type when used by this pokemon. Morpeko Crest- Holder's stats vary wildly when in different Hunger form, with the usual form being bulky and hangry being offensive. Quagsire Crest- The holder becomes golden in appearance, reflecting it's godly nature. Gains complete immunity to grass type moves. It's defensive stats are increased when in rain. Rapidash Crest- If held by Kantonian Rapidash, increases the damage of "charging" moves, such as Wild Charge, Flare Blitz, etc. If held by Galarian Rapdiash, increases the user's atk when using the move Calm Mind and increases the chances of additional effects occurring (like Serene Grace)

I voted 'Yes', because potentially getting locked out of playing the game for a potentially absurd amount of time with no counterplay other than knowing one of a specific handful of Fire Moves- many of whom aren't even that viable in most other situations- is not engaging gameplay, it's getting completely dicked over by RNG. Frostbite at least allows you to keep going, albeit with potentially reduced firepower and a timer on your head- any damage dealt is a lot better than 0, after all.

Everyone's talking about the riddle, but not thanking the delivery guy... See ya SPU Delivery Guy Thanks for the delivery!

I feel bad for Jan and Zumi because they have to go through all of these submissions.

i have a few. i cannot guarantee they'll be any good, though. Samurott: uses any Slashing or Sword move in it's first moveslot when it's sent out, a la the Castform Crest. otherwise what could also work is Gale Wings, but with Slashing/Sword moves. Spinda: While it is on the field, all Pokemon who are confused have their speed cut in half. it should maybe do a bit more than that. Leavanny: Freshly fallen leaves are hard to burn, and Leavanny Drapes itself in leaves every day. so, Fire Attacks deal no damage to Leavanny, and instead give +1 Special Defense Gigalith: The Pokedex Entry states that Gigalith Shoot lasers, but Gigalith are infamously poor at actually doing that. so, why not make the Crest swap Gigalith's attack and Special Attack? Vespiquen: Queenly Majesty and +1 Priority on the "Order" moves. basically, Vespiquen invoking her title and moving before all y'all. Throh: Whenever it uses a contact move, the enemy is put under a "Bind" effect, meaning preventing the enemy from switching out for 2-5 turns, and Residual damage similar to Bind. Sawk: All Contact Moves from Sawk Automatically remove enemy Screens, like Brick Break. Primape: Permanent Rage. every time it's hit by an attack, it's attack raises 1 stage. Chesnaught: Protect and Spikey Shield effect allies in Double battles, but only on the first usage. Greninja: has a 10% Flinch Chance on an attack and Water Shuriken hits Five times, but both of these effects can only be used on the first turn Greninja is sent out. (This one is probably the most underwhelming, but it's the only effect i could think of that fit the "Ninja Surprise Attack" Fluff.) Delphox: Copies the effects of the first Status Move the enemy uses (If the enemy pokemon uses Substitute, Delphox uses Substitute. if the enemy uses Thunder Wave, Delphox uses Thunder wave on the opponent. this is like some kind of "Spellthief" effect.) Hitmonchan: Punching Moves heal half the damage they deal (This attempts to make Hitmonchan an Endurance Boxer.) Hitmontop: Give it Dancer (Hitmontop is based off of Capoeira)

You know, this is perfectly fine. People have been going overboard and honestly quite toxic towards Intense Mode. Like bullying others when they are not playing on Intense Mode, I say go right ahead with this plan.

silly rejuv devs, i won't be fooled that easily

i consider it an honor and a privilege to be the 164st commenter. unfortunately for everyone, these crest ideas are the best. you just can't do better than this lemme tell ya. magikarp crest: magikarp can leap over mountains. splash is now a 250BP move that always paralyzes (due to the shock of being hit by a fish at mach 4.) grimmsnarl crest: takes ur kneecaps g-weezing crest: gives your character sprite a top hat a-eggy crest: makes all pokemon on the field have a long neck deliberd crest: each use of present gives you 2000P. happy birthday! g-meowth crest: using payday summons Smauououoaouuauouag from LotR who then takes your money and incinerates the field cresselia crest: hacks GF's servers to permanently change cresselia's name to "crestselia" darkrai crest: upon equipping, loads up pokemon desolation in the background gyarados crest: makes gyarados water/dragon like it fuckin should be sunkern crest: gets +6 in all stats upon entering battle. there will be no survivors. primarina crest: upon equip, changes all in-game music to Adele. "WE COULD'VE HAD IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL" tropius crest: tropius now also grows oranges hydreigon crest: gives hydreigon a fourth head metagross crest: the X on metagross changes to a V and metagross can now use V-create mega-ray crest: dragon ascent becomes dragon descent- rayquaza becomes ground/dragon and can only use dig regice/rock/steel/gigas crest: with a full team of crested regis, they all fuze together to great a giant megazord (is that what it's called) landorus crest: makes landorus stop existing garchomp crest: kills you magneton crest: erases your hard drive slowking crest: changes slowking's name to slowqueen. plays "we will (kings) rock you" on repeat simisage/sear/pour crest: plays a random short from the Donkey Kong TV Show after every move ninetales crest: gives ninetales a 10th tail aegislash crest: you now wield aegislash. if aegislash is shiny, Link now wields aegislash polteageist crest: now also serves coffee g-max eternatus crest: changes form to master hand. you are now playing Super Smash Brothers sobble crest: through the power of tears, turns the field underwater. this field cannot be changed. miltank crest: HE NEEDS SOME MILK throh crest: attacks now throw mario at your opponent draco/arctofish/zolt crest: swaps the top and bottom of the opponent's pokemon giratina crest: makes giratina a giraffe snom crest: snom now wields aegislash stonjourner crest: grants +6 culture and centers the world map eiscue crest: gives eiscue 4 customizable hair styles sirfetch'd crest: aegislash now wields sirfetch'd wooloo crest: rolls away malamar crest: flips the game screen upside down. using topsy turvy spins the screen a random number of times. incineroar crest: deal 50% bonus damage to pokemon that are not in smash keldeo crest: keldeo is now friends with grass, and takes neutral damage from it cryogonal crest: deals additional scaling bonus damage based on your high score in Super Hexagon klink crest: deals double damage in Gearen City escavalier crest: implements the weapon triangle: all sword based moves have 10 less BP and 10% less accuracy. all attacks against sword-based pokemon have 10 more BP and 10% more accuracy emolga crest: cinccino crest: cinccino now wears each scarf you have in your bag. it's very fashionable. mesprit crest: adds an "i" into its own name so it spells "mespirit" which is correct togekiss crest: your opponent can no longer attack shaymin crest: punts posty ambipom crest: automatically uses helping hand each turn budew crest: good choice. you win the game. bidoof crest: displays a random prequel meme at the start of each turn jirachi crest: spoils the ending of reborn wynaut crest: asks the opponent "why not". if the opponent does not respond, gain one extra turn. glalie crest: kecleon crest: inverts color change. when using a move, become a random type that resists the move you just used lunatone crest: becomes Lunala solrock crest: falls to ground, does not become solgaleo. go to jail (that was @Kin9ofparadise's and i think it's great) wailord crest: splash now has an effect depending on the field. uses any combination of surf, earthquake, avalanche, or rock slide as appropriate delcatty crest: normalize now works like type-mummy. anything that makes contact with delcatty is now a normal type. shedinja crest: you now take super effective damage from all moves permanently upon receiving this crest. get some better strats, dum dum pelipper crest: pelipper opens its mouth to reveal dory. dory's fluency in whale summons wailord, who attacks twice with crest effect. pelipper has no other moves. ludicolo crest: recieve a special item from the spinda cafe! quagsire crest: battle ends cuz everyone's just vibin mewtwo crest: spilts into two mews. the fight is now in doubles. snorlax crest: all the opponent's attacks are ineffective unless they use a poke flute porygon crest: at the end of the turn, porygon disappears and is never seen again chansey crest: egg bomb throws an entire a-eggy at the opponent. lickitung crest: lick now has a base power of 120 and the effect of wrap. mlem. politoed crest: summons the power of the mystic mungus gengar crest: animates gengar's sprite like in pokemon stadium seel crest: gives you the 14th gym badge slowpoke crest: all attacks now work like future sight where they do damage in three turns unown crest: hidden power now hits 5 times, with the 2-5th times being of a random type ho-oh crest: alternate form- changes its name to "ho-ho!" and attacks with an army of stantler. ducklett crest: steals your opponent's item. all sound based moves flinch your opponent. diglett crest: diglett is now able to learn all kick-based moves available via move tutor. oddish crest: attacks do double damage if you live in a place where marijuana is legalized sandshrew crest: dig now hits twice in a single turn pikachu crest: you are now worth $103 billion. arbok/ekans crest: your player name is now spelled backwards pidgeot crest: your first move is replaced with judgement and always deals super-effective damage kakuna/metapod/silcoon/cascoon crest: harden now also applies endure. squirtle crest: your opponent is now on fire. they are dying, squirtle. zacian/zazamenta crest: zacian/zazamenta can now learn fling. fling has a base power of 1000 and hits both opponents. there is also a small black and blue imp on their back. barraskewda crest: every arrow in the game is now replaced with barraskewda's pokemon menu sprite. cinderace crest: all sound effects are replaced by the sonorous, relaxing tones of a vuvuzela stakataka crest: begins a game of jenga with your opponent kartana crest: folds your computer into a paper crane cosmoem crest: cosmoem now his its own field of gravity. gravity is always in effect. dying to physical damage results in the opponent being hit by black hole eclipse bruxish crest: bruxish's teeth now sparkle. this crest is sponsored by Crest comfey crest: you and your opponent exchange friendship bracelets. the battle ends in a draw. ribombee crest: streeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetch gumshoos crest: no one really understands what you are or what you're doing. avalugg crest: hitting a steel type changes the field to underwater aurorus crest: aurorus now learns aurora veil and power gem come on gamefreak what the fuck it's right in the name morpeko crest: you are worth $103 billion dollars in monopoly money. florges crest: florges now also has grass stab, and its speed doubles in sunlight. unfezant crest: unfezant becomes staraptor. breloom crest: kicks you from the discord server meloetta crest: seriously just let me use melo virizion crest: you now get 5 bars of cell signal, regardless of location cofagrigus crest: mummy now turns the attacking pokemon into cofagrigus phione crest: turns phione into manaphy probopass crest: adds disguise to probopass's abilities. pokemon that use thief/covet gain disguise and have groucho marx glasses added to their sprite. ok. all crests are done. you're welcome, florida. (ideas that might actually be useful are italicized) bonus crests: seaking crest: the wrath of poseidon is called to rain down death upon your enemies. instant OHKO to mons weak to water. meganium crest: the disrespect has finally trigged a powerful rage that buffs attack and special attack each time meganium is hit by a move. there is no limit to this. each stage over +6 adds 50% more to the relevant stat. hitmontop crest: the accuracy of all hitmontop's moves is either set to 100% or 0% depending on whether you think the ending of inception is a dream or not. you are not told which is which. popplio crest: popplio receives the signature attack "boop", which renders the opponent unable to attack for one turn. sharpedo crest: sharpedo now explodes if an opponent makes contact. luxray crest: luxray is now a dark type, and the AI now thinks you're 50% faster than you actually are. (i always think luxray is faster than it actually is. that's the joke.) alcremie/swirlix crest: the opponent's biting attacks now heal hp. cramorant crest: the cry of all flying pokemon in the game is replaced with the "moip" sound from finding nemo sudowoodo crest: sudowoodo becomes an actual cut tree that only tells lies. pupitar crest: in true bug evolution fashion, makes harden the only move pupitar can use ampharos crest: beep beep you're a sheep. (getting this one is really fuckin hard) q-rem crest: gives ice types rights gardevoir crest: makes you a significant character in your favorite pokemon fangame omanyte crest: once per battle, transform into arceus greninja crest: turns greninja into yoshi. tongue based attacks add a random pokemon egg to your inventory alolan raichu: using the move "surf" instantly wins the battle oricorio crest: when fighting a ghost pokemon, dance moves will result in all active pokemon doing moves from Thriller dialga crest: a random PMD song is now stuck in your head. you will never get it out. (and sky tower is now stuck in mine. fuck.) dratini crest: the boss is pleased. you now inherit the "family business". hatterene crest: all events in the game have a chance to be interrupted with a violent vibe check blaziken crest: your attack always goes last grovyle crest: absorb's base power becomes 80. opponents who lose to you in battle are sent to the slateport pokemon center. arcanine crest: F scizor crest: all your attacks are 4x more effective against kartana kartana crest 2: all your attacks are 4x more effective against roggenrola roggenrola crest: your name is really dumb. all game dialogue takes 20% longer to progress through because characters have to stilfle their laughter. boldore crest: all your attacks are 4x more effective against scizor tauros crest: Your balancing powers will be put to the test today when your desire to fight conflicts with your need to plan. You might be even more indecisive than usual as a result of this internal tension. Be aware of time and the restrictions that it puts on you. Devise a plan that uses your energy in the most efficient way possible. It's especially important for you to think before you act. flareon crest: allows flareon to learn solarbeam furret crest: furret gains the ability long reach murkrow crest: murkrow faints three turns after entering the battle girafarig crest: turns girafarig into giratina qwilfish crest: just keep keepin it real, man alomomola crest: upon entering battle, you hear a bidoof in the distance scream in horror. kricketune crest: instantly defeat the second gym leader glaceon crest: i like you. spiritomb crest: after running from your past, it finally catches up to you. take 100 points of psychic damage. you know what you did. gurdurr crest: if you are playing stakataka jenga, you can cheat. krookodile crest: all your attacks are super effective against monkey-based pokemon. scraggy/scrafty crest: you have deep pockets. all uses of fling hit twice, and fling does not consume an item. zoroark crest: if illusion is broken by an attack that makes contact, the attacker takes 1/6th recoil damage for cutting themselves on dat edge

I am currently playing through Rejuv and excited to see this. Take your time Jan and don't burn out. Loving the game so far.

jesus christ

Hey so I have made a big mod that included adding a ton of crests into the game, I'll just copypaste the list of the ones I have made already. Note that a lot of these are very OP because they are used by the enemy trainers in my mod, and it's meant to be very difficult. Beautifly Crest - Multiplies Sp. Attack by 1.1. Gives you the effects of Gale Wings and Technician. Dustox Crest - Multiplies Sp. Defense by 1.3. Sp. Attack now scales off of Sp. Defense. Poison type attacks used by Dustox are now super effective against Steel types. Drampa Crest - Makes Drampa faster the lower their health is. Maxes out at 3x speed when 33% health or below. Delibird Crest - Makes Present 200 BP, and gives Delibird Refrigerate. Mightyena Crest - Raises Mightyena's speed and accuracy by 1 stage upon KOing an opponent. Dewgong Crest - Gives Dewgong the effect of 2 Stockpiles permanently. Kecleon Crest - Adaptabilty. Chimecho Crest - Chimecho now boosts allies attacks by 30%, their accuracy by 20%, makes them take 30% less damage, and heals their status effects at the end of each turn. Seaking Crest - Swift Swim now doubles attack instead of speed. Mamoswine Crest - Makes Angie's Battle music play and increases the power of Ice type moves by 20%. Wigglytuff Crest - Gives the effect of Fluffy Flareon Crest - Automatically Burns Flareon and increases its speed by 20% Samurott Crest - Increases the power of slash/cut moves by 50%. Emboar Crest - Heals Emboar for 25% HP and Increases Speed by 1 stage upon KOing an opponent. Jolteon Crest - Jolteon does more damage the faster it is than the opponent. Maxes out at 1.5x damage when you are 1.5x faster than the opponent. Vaporeon Crest - Vaporeon automatically activates Aqua Ring, and heals more from it. Heals for 1/12th instead of 1/16th. Espeon Crest - Espeon can hit dark types supereffectively with psychic attacks. Purugly Crest - Nullifies damage from Fighting moves and boosts Attack when hit by one. Tropius Crest - Tropius eats its own fruit at the end of each turn, granting various boosts. Costs 1/8th HP each turn to eat a fruit. Turn 1, +2 attack and sp. attack. Turn 2, summons sun. Turn 3, summons tailwind, Turn 4, heals for 50% HP. Throh Crest - Gives Throh priority on its first move Froslass Crest - Gives the effects of Prankster and Technician

I hope your family member gets well soon. Thank you for your work and don't worry about time.

Hey guys! Just wanted to let everyone know that the apps are now closed and we now have new team members! (I'll let them introduce themselves at a later time). I want to thank everyone for applying and showing their eagerness to help me out on this overly ambitious project. We received a ton of applications and although we obviously couldn't accept everyone, I still want to restate my gratitude. Also like... Y'all are so talented?? There were so many great apps and because of that this was a very difficult process . I know where to look if I'm ever in the need for help in the future! - Jan

Zumi is kinda sus right now

Unfortunately this isn't really feasible on our end. Logistically speaking it's a much bigger hassle to deal with 100 people reporting the same common bugs over and over again, which is why internal & alpha testing take place before public release so we can catch the most common ones early by only a handful of people, and won't have to worry about having these same common issues in public release, making it possible to sift through more different uncommon bugs people find in the public release faster. That way we can keep things easier for us to manage as well! New story is meant in the sense of that a new chapter of the game is being added, so the story continues from where it ended in V12. There are also a ton of revisions coming with V13 to older content in order to improve story flow and/or fleshing/balancing things out better where the game was lackluster at first -- partially based on feedback we've received over the course of time, but also simply because we ourselves realized that some stuff needed improvement. And trust me guys, we're aware of how excited you all are for the release of V13. Hell, we all on the dev team are super stoked for people to finally play the game again after two years! But we really do need to get through the last few layers of testing to make sure the game doesn't break at every turn or at crucial moments, so bear with us a little longer please!

bro why did you feel the need to comment if you're not impressed

Rejuv in v14

That @Marcello guy is great. He even programmed the clusterfuck that is Dragon Darts. This was a great devblog post, especially the part that praised him. :]

OMG Spacea and Tiempa (Despite me wanting to kick them in the head) look amazing! So glad Novae has official art now.

The time has come, execute order "play rejuvenation until passing out"

well, this post is basically an advance notice for the release so..................

whos cass

We'll get 'em next time.

hhhhhhhhookay so I think I need to clarify something and apologize here before more people think I'm blaming the WHOLE audience that's saying they like the challenge Rejuv offers for what we have to put up with; please understand that this is not the case and the comment was not aimed at everyone in that group. I thought it was pretty obvious that the pointed comment of "MUH CHALLENGE" (and pretty much everything else at the start of the post) is directed at the ones who do harass the devs over any changes we make—even if it's a vocal minority who make those comments, we still end up seeing those messages often and it's pretty demotivating if you have to be on the receiving end of those on a frequent basis as often negative comments usually stick out more than the positive comments. Regardless, the comment is not aimed at everyone who says they enjoy the challenge of the game, but it ended up surprising me that more people took offense to it than expected. I am not trying to lump in the intense crew by association if that's what people were getting from it, and we are not trying to alienate everyone who does like a challenge as we're trying to keep options open for that crew through passwords and letting people increase difficulty for themselves that way. But yeah, I can see how it might've come off as a bit too aggressive and how it unintentionally hurt more people than the intended receivers, so I'm sorry if it came across as hurtful in that sense. Apologies y'all

Stantler will keep its crest. Same with Samurott and any other Pokemon that gets a new form. It's a different way to play existing Pokemon so there's no need to remove any of them. So like, I spoke about this with a few of my dev members and we're actually considering it. No idea if we will though. I was really hoping they'd learn a new move or something to allow them to evolve, but they dont. The answer for right now is no clue I haven thought that far ahead yet. Hisuian Samurott is the worst regional form Sir that's a man in a suit. No, it takes place between v13 and v14's story. It takes place during the last month of december when they wait for the final battle to happen. You can only do these when you finish v13 story so yes. It is not a separate game. I just said it's like WLL in terms of narrative. Think of it as one big help quest. Oh, I didn't see it! I'll take a look soon!

the box contains tissues to remove the tears you get from playing insane mode

Hi friends, wanted to chip in on the discussion about boss bars and explain that while yes, for more experienced players they feel like less of a roadblock and more like "a slightly bigger hurdle than usual", for new players they can straight up be run killers. I've seen several people grow frustrated and quit the game because they couldn't get past certain fights, and without giving too much away about survey results (as I want to cover some more stuff about balancing in a later post) we've seen the numbers that people struggle more often on fights with boss hp bars than not, so please also understand as of why we've come to this initial conclusion. If passwords are being added, you'll likely can micromanage the difficulty yourself and make things harder again if you want. Things are still subject to change, like Jan said! But we're trying to look at things from the perspective of less experienced/new players too, and make the experience more smooth overall so people don't have to get walled at every turn.

A fair criticism. I should reiterate that all these plans are long term goals and may or not be acted upon depending on feedback from the community. So if a majority of the community feels as though boss battles should stay-- Then that outcome is considered. Currently they are pretty restrictive, and if a player chooses to want to cheese a fight that is too hard for them then they should have the right to do so. I feel as though the freedom to cater to your own playstyle is just as important. A slippery slope, though. Regardless, we're as previously stated we are -constantly- looking at feedback so if there are things people are not happy with, this is the time to speak up, as you have.

can meloetta have a crest where i get one on my team

Sincerely appreciate all the kind comments!! I tried out a couple of new things while working on the backgrounds and I personally am pretty proud of the result, so I'm glad that people like them! Like Jan said, I don't know how many more custom bgs will be introduced for V13, but if I have spare time, I'll probably tackle another background that can be recolored for multiple purposes (even though with caves and forests out of the way i'm starting to run out of things dhjfdkd). Otherwise it's gonna be field effects or custom bgs for important fights! Who knows!!!

Me as soon as it hit midnight

are, uh, y'all doin ok in here

...And closed! That's all I'm taking for now! This goes without saying, but there's no way we can implement every single crest idea-- Heck, I don't think we'd implement most. There were HUNDREDS. I wouldn't be surprised if there were thousands. Next time remind me to post a limit, haha. That being said, please also note that these suggestions, if picked, are not guaranteed to be in V13. As mentioned before, there are just... so many lol. It takes time to implement crests, so... Yeah. We'll keep these suggestions for future versions as well. If you missed your shot, I might accept suggestions at a later time as well. Thanks again, guys. :]

im counting my blessings that i'm not really in charge/responsible for any of this when i look at the sheer amount of suggestions y'all are putting out, god damn