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Creative Projects / Re: Pokemon Orthoclase & Microcline: Migrants always welcome!
« on: June 04, 2012, 08:21:58 am »Is there some specific reason why mon should not learn moves every 5 levels? Other than it being silly? I was just thinking that there could be one mon with weird levelling and dapparition being weird psychic head thingie seemed like good candidate for that.
Tssss already learns moves every five levels, so the "wierd leveling" already applies to one thing. Also, the original plan for Dapparition was that it would be functional in contests (which we didn't know if we were going to have at the time), hence it's unusual appearance.
@Johuotar: No specific reason why to make mons learn moves at interesting levels, other than to keep it interesting. Like you mentioned, though, this makes it so that mons that learn moves every 5 levels are pretty unique and gives them some flavor of their own. Generally, though, I only remember legendaries learning moves every 5 levels (and it always seemed like a cop out/laziness because they had already leveled past the vast majority of the moves anyway), just as a note.
From what I see by quick bulbapedia/guide searching, this is the case. I fail to see any non-legendary that follows a boring pattern. The reason I recommended the more interesting move ranges is because certain areas (such as the original 15-25 move range) was more condition usefulness moves, which tend to be learned faster than a damage primary move (Such as Psychic). Additionally, status guarentee moves (such as Hypnosis, Confuse Ray, etc.) tend to be learned at a slightly slower rate (except for the Grass and Bug type ones), so I stretched out when they should be learned.
