VN Ren'Py Pokemon Academy Life Forever [v12.27.2024] [Pokémon Visual]

[Caroline-is-best-girl]

I found it pretty solid in my experience so far, because with the Hustle ability it has, it hits like a truck with physical moves. So while yeah, it's normal it'll get outpaced, getting outdamaged and dying before the opponent can be another story altogether. Granted, this is not very useful in farming where you don't want your team to take damage at all, but in trainer fights this is less of a concern.

Hustle wont help Deino deal more dmg than something like Dragon Rage. Deino's base atk is 65, which is ~27-40 at lvl20, depending on IV and nature. If he uses, let's say Headbutt for 70pow, against even something like a Falinks, he'd do around ~10-16 dmg, or ~14-23 dmg with Hustle, non-STAB and with a 20% miss chance. Meanwhile, Dragon Rage is just flat 40 dmg, ignoring type resistances and defenses.

While early on, you can use him to bully other babies with Dragon Rage, he doesn't really stand a chance against some of the stronger ones like Miltank or most of Blue's mons. Plus, the avg lvl is getting to the point where most mons are starting to evolve and leave Deino in their dust. The stat-gap is only going to grow wider and even spike when most get their final evo before Deino even gets his first.

Whilst Deino isn't impossible to utilize, it would take more effort to have him "help" than not. Cyclizar or Turtanator handle the strong mons. Bagon also learns Dragon Rage but is faster. Both Bagon and Dreepy can learn Legacy but are faster. Deino is just there. But we cant ditch him because he will eventually become a Hydreigon which is the only offensive sp-based dragon available so far.

 

[Arty_Wolf]

You can use Escape Rope to leave the area without spending the turn??
Did I get that right or am I misunderstanding?

I typically don't have issues with healing, since I just spam Struggle and Regenerator on Cyclizar, and xp-share whoever I'm trying to level. I also don't mind the time spent, since I've done it so rarely. I just pull up a 1-2 hr podcast and stop farming when it ends. Last run got me around 2000 by the time I was done.

You got that right, it's even in the in game description for escape ropes in case people forget. It was a big help now for keeping up with the characters' side stories along with having my Pokemon be decent levels.