Pokemon Umbral Discussion 38: Shenanigans At Dawn, Sir!

[Geminex]

Oh good lord what the hell is this crap.
If we devoted all this time to actually doing something productive, like, say, taking over the world, we'd at the very least be in charge of Africa and a few parts of Asia by now. I mean dammit, guys.
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Anyway, back to what I do best...

So, if the Demon class can get all the higher level upgrades of Overblade without having to spend 5+ levels of slayer to do so AND get other stuff they'd rather want instead of RDPA or accessories or Sweep, then why does Overblade exist aside from a roleplaying perspective?

Well, from what I've observed so far, the higher your level in a certain class gets, the better your upgrades are. More or less. Since you only get demon after level 5, you'd need to invest all of the levels you get after 5 (all of them) into demon to get the good stuff. That sorta makes up for the customization aspect, even if, I think, the power increases that come later are fairly minor (since, after all, equal power.)

If we each get to customize our own advanced classes, Menarker is going to min-max his shit so hard, and AB will aprove it, and then we will have to go through this little trainwreck between the two of you again and I won't have it.

Ok, what if Menarker promises not to do that? Menarker, in the interest of ending this discussion, will you promise not to do that? Or would you agree to a clause in the Regulations that says if you do that, everyone else gets to go medieval on your ass?

The rest of the stuff...
Eeeh.
While there should be some stuff done in regards to the pokebrids, (though probably different from what you're suggesting, that just seems rather awkward) and I like the idea of making Slayers more accessory-focused, I feel that a lot of the other discussion could be avoided if we just finish discussing the "total customization" point. And agree on it.

And just a preview of what my stance will be if that gets thrown out the window: Second hold items: Extremely iffy. I'm sure there's another way to solve Drac's dilemma.

Ability shift: I made a suggestion for that before, whereby trainers picked a pool of 3-5 abilities that're thematic and about equal in power, and then got to switch between those for a minor rage cost (maybe depending on the strength of the ability?) whenever it suited them. I'm not sure whether this was gonna be just for leaders or for every pokemon. I'd say, if it's limited to leaders, the ability pool is 5, if everyone gets it, it's limited to 3. What d'you guys think of that?

Battle Masters deploying both pokemon: Again, eeeh. I'd reallly have to think about it. It is rather strong, after all. Hell, you could take a few levels in trainer, 8 in Slayer and go out into the field with the equivalent of 6 pokemon attacks! If we decided to self-customize, this'd probably be the "ultimate upgrade", the really strong one you get near the very end.

Edit:
And how are xth stage pokemon so powerful? I thought they just got a minor stats boost and a slightly stronger ability.