Pokemon Umbral Discussion 32: Ultimate Showdown of Ascended Classes

[Astral Harmony]

First, before we start this back and forth about balance and whatnot, let's begin with a visually pleasing picture...



Now that our minds are calm and our noses are bled dry, here comes the avalanche...

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Wow, that's actually not a ridiculous number of questions in all the time I was away. Oh, well. When I present the documents at the end of this post, I'll probably kick off a storm of questions from that alone.

Giving a Pokemon the Almighty type is something quite strange. I really want to say no outright because Almighty is the rightful owner of demonic and angelic beings and Boss Monsters, not humans and Pokemon. On the other hand, if you can provide a good enough theory on how a Pokemon can be the Almighty type, I'm willing to accept it when you complete it.

When you get a Pokemon of your own, including Legendaries, you can do whatever the fuck you want with it. Even put a laser beam on its head. 'Cause, y'know, nobody's ever thought of that before.

Matthias's Paradigm Shift not wanting to be renewed is taken into account. Thank you.

I think that's all that was asked. Okay, here're the droids you've been looking for.

Battle System Tutorial 1 hasn't been updated any since the last time it was posted. Most likely updates to occur should be about the new status effects and about fighting in different types of hazardous environments.

Battle System Tutorial 2 is updated with Muon Harper and Lexhur's information. That's it. It'll be updated by quite a large amount after Mission 3.

Powers lists all upgrades of all classes...almost. Here's what you need to help me with. There're many different types of Magatamas out there, and the results of ingesting one or the other should result in different and unique upgrades, shouldn't you say? So, instead of creating a large series of different upgrades depending on a variety of Magatamas I could think up, I've decided to let you use your creativity to think of the kind of Magatama you would ingest should you go for the Demon Half and Demon upgrades. Do you want ice powers? More Almighty powers? Maybe some psionics? Throw me a suggestion of what you want and I'll cook up your very own demon upgrades. Demon Half level 1 is already decided, but the other nine levels are left to your imagination.

You'll find levels for accessing new Signature Techniques and Love Techniques at the very bottom after the empty Demon upgrades.

If you look closely, you'll also notice a handful of new status effects, like Exhaustion, Apathy, and Berserk. Don't worry about what those do now. Pretty soon I'll have those added to both the Battle System Tutorial 1 and the Characters and Terminology document which still needs some work done on it.

When the Characters and Terminology is done, which should be sometime this week I'm hoping, it'll be posted here. You can find paragraphs of information on the characters (alphabetized by their first name) and on various terms used in this RP. Like all other documents, I think it's good as reading material, but you should mostly use it as a reference if there's something you just don't understand.

Right, now onto the real discussion. Obviously, looking at all the upgrades and comparing, I tried to do my best to keep balance in mind while also trying to establish a clear difference between each and every level. Well, I tried my best despite the distraction of finally seeing Lucky Star for the first time. It's a strangely appealing anime and I'm very glad I picked it up.

Hammering out the clusterfuck of upgrades into something balanced will be all of our jobs. After all, they're all our upgrades, right?