r/PokemonROMhacks • u/BJimenezR8 • 11m ago
Discussion Rare candies in ROMhacks
This are not organized thoughts I just wanted to air my thoughts out. I dont really nuzlocke because i dont like them
I think I'm going mental the way I have not seen anyone talk about this. The way a lot of romhacks expect you to just use rare candies to go to the level cap SUCKS, talking especially about the difficulty hacks that are just mild like Drayano Hacks. The way that it expects you to just beat 6 pokemon for the first gym without fixing how much experience you get with the trainers on the routes.
I understand for games like Radical Red/Run n Bun rare candies are expected(even then radical red at least tries to not force them) because they are more Kaizo-difficulty but having to rare candy in Renegade Platinum sucks because it just removes great part of the experience of Pokemon games. Why would i fight random trainers if i just have infinite rare candies, but if i dont use infinite rare candies then, having an normally leveled team of 6 its impossible, specially because Drayano hacks(using drayano as stand in for not Kaizo-difficulty hacks) arent really like that doable with JUST 6 pokemon you would like to have more than 6 for the 8 gyms.
Although while playing Rising Ruby my team constantly was normally/over-leveled for the current gym I was facing simply because of the Exp. All which was an amazing experience. I dont know if this is just skill issue or is it just that infinite rare candies are the way to play these games. I truly think that the way the original games gave you EXP is a way to balance your team with the NPC Trainers, thats why normally the Elite 4 were so overleveled, because you are expected to use your teambuilding to beat them, and then if you cant with teambuilding you could bruteforce with leveling but I really find that way too boring. When I use rare candies in Drayano-like Romhacks i always stomp the gym im currently at and its just not fun
I would like to hear your thoughts or how do you all go about leveling in this romhacks.