Post by Venominon on Sept 29, 2023 13:10:15 GMT 11
Hey there, people. What's up? It's ZZ's one and only master of all things Poison, Bug, and soon to be Fighting, here to bring to the table a suggestion that's been naggin' at me for quite some time now.
The Mirror Herb and it's connection to egg moves.
For those of you who don't know, please allow me to explain. The Mirror Herb is a brand-new item that debuted in Scarlet and Violet, and is now available here on ZZ, courtesy of the Natural Remedies Herbal Shop in Goldenrod City. Anyway, the Mirror Herb's primary function is to increase the stats of any Pokemon holding it by the same amount as the opponent's stat increase, but it only works once. However, the Mirror Herb's true power lies within its secret secondary function.
But before I get to that, let me ask you all something. What if you spent days, weeks, months, or even years training up a Pokemon, developed a real bond with it, but still wanted one of its egg moves? Sadly, your only option would be to breed a brand new Pokemon with the egg move, say goodbye to the older and higher leveled one, and start over from scratch. That is, until the Mirror Herb became a thing.
You see, starting from gen 9, if you want an egg move on a Pokemon, but don't wanna start over from level 1, then the Mirror Herb is the answer to your prayers. First, you have to give the Mirror Herb to the Pokemon you want to inherit the egg move, and make sure that at least one of its four move slots is empty. Then, you add another Pokemon to your party. One that already knows the egg move you want the Pokemon holding the Mirror Herb to learn. And finally, just have a picnic in the game, wait a few minutes, and BAM! Your Pokemon will learn the egg move right then and there!
Can ya believe that?! The two Pokemon don't even need to be opposite genders or in the same egg group! If ya ask me, it's amazing! Absolutely amazing!
However, and I'm not trying to start a war or insult anyone's decision making when I say this, but that secondary function doesn't exist here on ZZ. I'm not sure whose decision that was, but I have to say, that bums me out. So, here's my suggestion. Let's add that function in. Granted, there will have to be some limitations. For example, since your Pokemon has to have an open move slot for this process to even work, you'd have to reach Ecruteak City to make that happen, since that's where the move deleter is on ZZ and only they can make that happen. Additionally, the cost of a Mirror Herb may need to increase to a certain degree, depending on how, if at all, we decide to implement this whole process.
Perhaps we could also make it like the Heart Sweet move tutor and add a Mirror Herb move tutor to Ecruteak City. They'll teach your Pokemon egg moves, but only if you have a Mirror Herb and you can pay whatever cost they demand. Obviously, same as the Heart Sweet move tutor, stronger moves will be more expensive. Also, maybe we could just keep the Mirror Herb in the Goldenrod City Herbal Shop and at the same price they are now, but also make them a single use item. Like, one Mirror Herb and XXX amount of cash/coins/RTs/etc., will get ya one egg move. And only one. If ya want two, then ya better have two Mirror Herbs.
Now, I know all your breeders out there might feel threatened by this, thinking that if we can just get egg moves this way, then what's even the point in breeding anymore? Well, all I can say is please don't worry too much about it. By no means am I trying to make breeding useless. Breeding will still have plenty of other uses, of course. I'm merely trying to offer an alternative method for people like me who want the egg moves but have neither the time nor the desire to start up a nursery, raise their nursery's grade, then start all over with a hatchling Pokemon at level 1.
So, does anyone have any thoughts or opinions on the matter?
Also, side note, we still need a place on ZZ to buy the Mints needed to evolve Toxel into Toxtricity and the Sweet Items needed to evolve Milcery into Alcremie. Just sayin'. I'm not sure what's goin' on with that, but I'd appreciate it if someone could please do somethin' about that much at least. Thanks.
The Mirror Herb and it's connection to egg moves.
For those of you who don't know, please allow me to explain. The Mirror Herb is a brand-new item that debuted in Scarlet and Violet, and is now available here on ZZ, courtesy of the Natural Remedies Herbal Shop in Goldenrod City. Anyway, the Mirror Herb's primary function is to increase the stats of any Pokemon holding it by the same amount as the opponent's stat increase, but it only works once. However, the Mirror Herb's true power lies within its secret secondary function.
But before I get to that, let me ask you all something. What if you spent days, weeks, months, or even years training up a Pokemon, developed a real bond with it, but still wanted one of its egg moves? Sadly, your only option would be to breed a brand new Pokemon with the egg move, say goodbye to the older and higher leveled one, and start over from scratch. That is, until the Mirror Herb became a thing.
You see, starting from gen 9, if you want an egg move on a Pokemon, but don't wanna start over from level 1, then the Mirror Herb is the answer to your prayers. First, you have to give the Mirror Herb to the Pokemon you want to inherit the egg move, and make sure that at least one of its four move slots is empty. Then, you add another Pokemon to your party. One that already knows the egg move you want the Pokemon holding the Mirror Herb to learn. And finally, just have a picnic in the game, wait a few minutes, and BAM! Your Pokemon will learn the egg move right then and there!
Can ya believe that?! The two Pokemon don't even need to be opposite genders or in the same egg group! If ya ask me, it's amazing! Absolutely amazing!
However, and I'm not trying to start a war or insult anyone's decision making when I say this, but that secondary function doesn't exist here on ZZ. I'm not sure whose decision that was, but I have to say, that bums me out. So, here's my suggestion. Let's add that function in. Granted, there will have to be some limitations. For example, since your Pokemon has to have an open move slot for this process to even work, you'd have to reach Ecruteak City to make that happen, since that's where the move deleter is on ZZ and only they can make that happen. Additionally, the cost of a Mirror Herb may need to increase to a certain degree, depending on how, if at all, we decide to implement this whole process.
Perhaps we could also make it like the Heart Sweet move tutor and add a Mirror Herb move tutor to Ecruteak City. They'll teach your Pokemon egg moves, but only if you have a Mirror Herb and you can pay whatever cost they demand. Obviously, same as the Heart Sweet move tutor, stronger moves will be more expensive. Also, maybe we could just keep the Mirror Herb in the Goldenrod City Herbal Shop and at the same price they are now, but also make them a single use item. Like, one Mirror Herb and XXX amount of cash/coins/RTs/etc., will get ya one egg move. And only one. If ya want two, then ya better have two Mirror Herbs.
Now, I know all your breeders out there might feel threatened by this, thinking that if we can just get egg moves this way, then what's even the point in breeding anymore? Well, all I can say is please don't worry too much about it. By no means am I trying to make breeding useless. Breeding will still have plenty of other uses, of course. I'm merely trying to offer an alternative method for people like me who want the egg moves but have neither the time nor the desire to start up a nursery, raise their nursery's grade, then start all over with a hatchling Pokemon at level 1.
So, does anyone have any thoughts or opinions on the matter?
Also, side note, we still need a place on ZZ to buy the Mints needed to evolve Toxel into Toxtricity and the Sweet Items needed to evolve Milcery into Alcremie. Just sayin'. I'm not sure what's goin' on with that, but I'd appreciate it if someone could please do somethin' about that much at least. Thanks.
