u/korpenskorv

pidgeot (twister, feather dance), azu and bastidon set up at 2200 elo (i dont remember the order) against my altaria, pangoro and stunfisk.

I catch a twister on my U-fisk, he stays in for some strange reason. I tanked about 6 feather dances, correctly shielded 2 twister and as mentioned ate the first. Lost count tbh but he tanked like 5 discharges exept 2 shielded ones and put me at a ~10% remaining hp. Even kept throwing several feather dances after shields went down almost like a BM.

I knew something was wrong here because that pidgeot woulda literally won an impossible matchup if he didnt BM/i hadnt shielded correctly by chance. Still eeked out 2 discharges into an azu he put out there without a care in the world. Again, looked like resisted damage. I go on to lose handsomely, despite correctly investing shields on a stunfisk of all pokemon and catching the right moves. How?

Wish I had recorded.

Recently saw a comment mention this and thought it would make the game more strategic and would enable more pokemon in play than the current 3v3 format in a way. This is the standard tournament format for good reasons and it would be really cool if this was a built in feature. Do you agree? And if so could this be pushed for in some way?

Pvp isnt amazing design-wise in pokemon go, but the cool thing about it is rarity of pokemon and the unique ways in which you get them. You do timed events for legacy-moves, use limited incense for galarian moltres, trade hatched honedge and virizions for otherwise impossible pvp-ivs, you hunt scarce shadows and change moves with elite tms from routes, mega evolve gengars for sableye XL candies, stop players at the street and ask for regionals, etc.

I cherish a built rare pokemon but lets face it: a 30 rank difference isnt really a huge deal outside of major tournaments. That iv difference would however be critical if it decided the moveset-typing of a pokemon.

Hidden power has almost never been a good move, which is a shame because it squanders a MASSIVE potential aspect of collecting and hunting pokemon.

Please please please buff this move. I don't care if some of your togekiss without the right typing would fall out of the meta: thats the entire point. It should be extremely rare to get THE togekiss, THE suicune (legacy which makes it even more fun). It would be a catastrophe if honedge just spawned wild frequently or galarian moltres came to raids. It should be a grind to get an extremely rare pokemon and anything which further makes rarity a determining factor to who wins should be implimented. Thats what the game is all about.

Hunting ivs is a major interest in the game already and a buff to hidden power would only further expand this hunting.

I was curious if this is a widespread sentiment and if so what it would take for niantic to make the move actually viable.