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Pokemon stamina possibly figured out!

Smash legacy

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Please bear with me on this I think it might be a good strategy.

So we have three pokemon for the pokemon trainer Squirtle, Ivysaur and charizard.

Each of these pokemon weigh differently and are of different sizes.

Sakurai brought up there being a stamina feature for the pokemon trainer and people seem to have just brushed it off as nothing because there was no evidence in the gameplay, but there is and goes like this.

Squirtle is used first because he is small and weighs in the least of the three, he goes first because you start the match with no damage percentage and he works best with little damage. He works best with low percentage because he has a lower chance of getting knocked off the screen thus is best at low percentage and he lasts longest this way.

Now Ivysaur comes next because his weight percentage is in between Charizard and Squirtle. Ivysaur is used when you are Squirtle and you start to get knocked back easily because of higher percent damage lets say around 100 percent and your weight becomes a disadvantage. Then Ivysaur is used because his body weight suits him in the hundreds and when he starts to get knocked back easily you switch to charizard who will be last and will last longest in the hundreds.

So mabey sakurai made Squirtle a first evolutuin because he was meant to be used first and Ivysaur a second evolution because he is supposed to be used second and charizard a third evolution because he is supposed to be third. Each of the pokemon are siuted for a certain damge range. Squirtle 0-100, Ivysaur 100-200 and Charizard 200-300.

Squirtles speed advantage keeps him from getting hit because of his low wieght.
Ivysaurs vines keep him from falling off of the edge and give him more mobility for his size. Charizards wings allow him to move around quickly and easily at high percentages and his fire allows him a good distance which is needed because of his high damage percent.

Each suited for there own percentage.
Thus making them all a very good team and worthy adversaries.
Thks what do you guys think?
 

Chaosblade77

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Pokemon stamina info has been around for a while, famitsu covered it.

After two minutes your pokemon get tired and cannot fight as well and show it (dropping their heads, Ivysaur's bulb withers). What happens over the two minutes doesn't matter, it's just a two minute limit.
 

Smash legacy

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Pokemon stamina info has been around for a while, famitsu covered it.

After two minutes your pokemon get tired and cannot fight as well and show it (dropping their heads, Ivysaur's bulb withers). What happens over the two minutes doesn't matter, it's just a two minute limit.
Never heard about this, thanks for the info.
 

Epsilon52

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thats irrelevant....you can choose which Pokemon you want to start with....

your saying we should always start with squirtle?
 

Chaosblade77

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Another odd thing that was mentioned in Famitsu is that Ivysaur is the second lightest starting character, only Fox (go figure) is lighter. Squirtle was actually quite a bit heavier. I didn't quite understand Sakurai's logic in all of that but it will make things interesting. Makes me think Squirtle is the "middle pokemon" and Ivysaur is the faster, weaker one for some reason.
 

Rakath

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It probably should have been Bulbasaur Wartortle Charizard... that'd make a bit more sense all around. Ah well, Ivysaur has one of the strongest attacks in the game, so I'm set. ^_^
 

Epsilon52

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what attack does ivysaur have that so strong?

i think this should be in the pokemon trainer discussion section now that i think about it
 

Erimir

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What we don't know yet actually, is how the stamina recovers.

Sakurai said something to the effect that you shouldn't be switching too often, which of course means that once it's been 2 minutes and say, Squirtle is tired, switching three times will not result in Squirtle being rested again.

So there's obviously some mechanism for recharging the stamina. The question is how long it takes, and how much of a difference switching repeatedly makes (if switching a lot reduces stamina more than not doing so, that is). One minute? Two?
 

Time/SpaceMage

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Ah geez, my Brawl support is still up! Thanks for pointing that out indirectly, haha; good to see another fan of FF3/6. That tagline's reminiscent of my intent to give tips to newbies, not that Vanish/Doom does anything now X)

To stay on-topic, I wonder if switching often will drain stamina as well as not let you recover it?
 

UrajKingofDarkness

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I'm pretty sure the reason he chose the exact evolutions: "Squirtle, Ivysaur, Charizard", is simply the favoritism of these 3. The first-gen starters are among the most famous pokemon besides Pikachu; he simply picked the most recognized evolutions of these 3:

Of course the goal was to get one of each evolution stage represented.
-Charizard is the most popular of all 9 evolutionary stages.
-Squirtle is the most popular evolution of the Blastoise chain (Blastoise might be more popular, but Charizard is definitely more so than Blastoise, so Squirtle it was).
-Ivysaur comes from the least popular of the starters, and while Venusaur is somewhat popular, the 'final evolution' slot was already taken by Charizard, so Ivysaur it was.

Hope that made sense.
 
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