Triple and Horde Battles

[Richard Nicholson]

I've just got this game and it's excellent, I've known about it for a while but I didn't realize it was this far along! I was reading about the latest updates and that it included Fairy types which means that this game is very up to date in that perspective so I started thinking about other features that the latest and upcoming Pokemon games have and that's Triple Battles and Horde Encounters.

I understand that double battles are in the works and that the engine is being rewritten a bit? So I figured I'd suggest this as a future feature. Triple battles would range 3 Pokemon vs 3 to 3 Teams of trainers vs 3 and then Horde Encounters would happen mostly in the wild or during events were it is 1 Pokemon vs 5, etc. Basically instead of limiting the engine to 1 vs 1 or 2 vs 2, it could be designed to be x vs x.

EDIT: After looking around it sounds like Double and Triple battles are planned and the the battle system is planned to be more open for modding so this suggestion is mainly for the ability to fully customize battle sizes, then I could create an insane mod where the player has to battle 10 angry Zubats at once whilst escaping a cave they fell in or something!

 

[DevoidLight]

I can see Team Rocket abusing horde battles to great effect. Sounds like a great way to add some challenge.

 

[abovo]

The idea of horde battles would really add weight to 'support' pokemon. Until now, alot of pokemon were really useless because they learnt too much status effect moves or support moves which really aren't helpful in a 1v1 battle. Battling multiple pokemon at once would change the way players build their teams and even older players would have to adjust their style of play.

 

[beta379]

I never thought of it like that.......Cool.

 

[abovo]

Maybe my dream will come true and Square Enix will merge with Game Freak and make a Dragon Quest Monsters: Pokemon. Until then, this will have to do.