History YMMV / PokeRole

** ''Ninjask!'' Take ''everything'' noted under multiple actions and multiply it ''[[UpToEleven times eleven!]]'' Not only is its dex stat naturally high, its ability, speed boost, but also increases its dex by one for each round of combat. Note that it's ''each'' round of combat, not a static boost like most other stat-boosting abilities. This all results in what would normally be a FragileSpeedster being turned into an absolutely ''monstrous'' GlassCannon. Because the [=PokeRole=] system always has ScratchDamage in effect for battles, this means that at the minimum, Ninjask has the ability to deal ''5+ damage'' to a single Pokemon in a single round. In a system where most fully evolved Pokemon have 8+ HP at most. This isn't even getting into evasion mechanics, which ''further'' negates Ninjask's drawbacks.

** Ice types have been noted as being rather OP in this system compared to how they are in the games proper. As mentioned with Alolan Vulpix, they often get access to [=AoE=] ice type moves early on, which is quite potent starting off. Hail also boost most of their ice-type moves as well as give a plus to their defense, negating one of the things that kept them balanced in the games proper. On top of all that, their moves have disproportionately high odds of freezing the opponent, which in this system, requires them to deal a set number of damage to the ice in order to escape it. Combined with multiple actions, [[GradualGrinder this allows the ice type to effectively keep the opponent freeze locked while they whittle away at their HP]]. It's to the point where an ice type team can rather effectively [[ScissorsCutsRock take out most of the types they're supposed to be weak to with ease]].

** Of individual Pokemon in the system, ''[[LethalJokeCharacter Lopunny]]'' is surprisingly potent. While klutz means they can't use held items, they make up for it with high dex, agility to further boost their dex by two and having multiple attacks that can paralyze or confuse the opponent. What makes them extremely dangerous however is their other ability, Cute Charm. Because of how infatuation works in the system, all this means that the opponents Pokemon likely won't ever get an attack off and, if they do, they'll either miss from paralysis and/or damage themselves in confusion.

** While the system works fine with smaller groups, as the core rule book intends for one-on-one battles or two-v-two battles, the game was ''not'' designed with larger groups of players in mind. Anything 6+ can and usually does result in the players being able to brute force their way through otherwise impossible encounters based on sheer numbers alone. This is ''especially'' notable for the PMD supplement, as a lot of the drawbacks intended to keep horde battles from happening don't apply to it. (It's hard for Pokemon to get confused by trainer orders when you're playing the Pokemon.)
** Multiple actions as a whole are all kinds of busted. The idea was the ability to get in more than one action a turn at the cost of reduced accuracy. However, the sheer number of Pokemon with naturally high dex plus moves that further boost dex and specializing in whatever your moves specialized accuracy is can often result in a Pokemon who can get in ''five actions'' in a single turn; often being able to take down an opponent's Pokemon in a single turn.

** ''Ninjask!'' Take ''everything'' noted under multiple actions and multiply it ''[[UpToEleven times eleven!]]'' Not only is its dex stat naturally high, it's ability, speed boost, increases its dex by one for each round of combat. Note that it's ''each'' round of combat, not a static boost like most other stat boosting abilities. This all results in what would normally be a FragileSpeedster being turned into an absolutely ''monstrous'' GlassCannon. Because the [=PokeRole=] system always has ScratchDamage in effect for battles, this means that at the minimum, Ninjask has the ability to deal ''5+ damage'' to a single Pokemon in a single round. In a system where most fully evolved Pokemon have 8+ HP at most. This isn't even getting into evasion mechanics, which ''further'' negates Ninjask's drawbacks.
** Alolan Vulpix and/or Ninetales hold the trophy for being the most busted Pokemon in the 1.0 rulebook, being comparable to that of Clerics from ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' fifth edition. On top of ice/fairy being amazing offensively, it has access to Snow Warning starting off. Not only does hail deal one damage to all Pokemon on the field (in a system where the highest average HP a Pokemon can have is between 12-15) the book writers decided to give hail a buff by increasing the defense of ice type whiles it up by two. That's right, Vulpix starts off with three defense points right out of the gate, in a system where most Pokemon start out with two to three attack. Ice types crippling weaknesses against hard-hitting physical moves like rock or fighting? Completely negated! Factor in the number of moves it gets that automatically lowers enemy dex and Alolan Vulpix can sweep teams at way higher levels than were ever intended.

** 1.0 examples:

* ScrappyMechanic: Happiness, loyalty and disobedience, as well pain penalizations are common rules to homebrew out in most games, mainly for different reasons.
** Happiness, loyalty and disobedience are supposed to be ways to balance out more powerful Pokemon by making it so they don't always listen to you. However, there's no real defined mechanics to it other than 'GM's choice', meaning it's completely up to the GM how they act in battle. Not only is this [[KillerGM incredibly abusable by GMs]], even more fair [=GMs=] will get accusations thrown their way of 'sabotaging' a players game by making it so their Pokemon doesn't listen to them.
** Pain penalties make it so the more a Pokemon gets damage, the less dice they get to roll on their actions, up to -3 dice. Not only does it make attacks more RNG heavy, it can quickly lead into a slippery slope of one PC getting completely swept due to luck of the dice.

** ''Ninjask!'' Take ''everything'' noted under multiple actions and multiply it ''[[UpToEleven times eleven!]]'' Not only is its dex stat naturally high, it's ability, speed boost, increases it's dex by one for each round of combat. Note that it's ''each'' round of combat, not a static boost like most other stat boosting abilities. This all results in what would normally be a FragileSpeedster being turned into an absolutely ''monstrous'' GlassCannon. Because the [=PokeRole=] system always has ScratchDamage in effect for battles, this means that at the minimum, Ninjask has the ability to deal ''5+ damage'' to a single Pokemon in a single round. In a system where most fully evolved Pokemon have 8+ HP at most. This isn't even getting into evasion mechanics, which ''further'' negates Ninjask's drawbacks.
** Alolan Vulpix and/or Ninetales hold the trophy for being the most busted Pokemon in the 1.0 rulebook, being comparable to that of Clerics from ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' fifth edition. On top of ice/fairy being amazing offensively, it has access to Snow Warning starting off. Not only does hail deal one damage to all Pokemon on the field (in a system where the highest average HP a Pokemon can have is between 12-15) the book riders decided to give hail a buff by increasing the defense of ice type whiles it up by two. That's right, Vulpix starts off with three defense points right out of the gate, in a system where most Pokemon start out with two to three attack. Ice types crippling weaknesses against hard-hitting physical moves like rock or fighting? Completely negated! Factor in the number of moves it gets that automatically lowers enemy dex and Alolan Vulpix can sweep teams at way higher levels that were ever intended.

** Pain penalties make it so the more a Pokemon gets damage, the less dice they get to roll on their actions, up to -3 dice. Not only does it make attacks more RNG heavy, it can quickly lead into a slippery slope of one PC getting completely swept due to luck of the dice.

** Of individual Pokemon in the system, ''[[LethalJokeCharacter Lopunny]]'' is surprisingly potent. While klutz means they can't use held items, they make up for it with high dex, agility to further boost their dex by two and having multiple attacks that can paralyze or confuse the opponent. While makes them extremely dangerous however is their other ability, Cute Charm. Because of how infatuation works in the system, all this means that the opponents Pokemon likely won't ever get an attack off and, if they do, they'll either miss from paralysis and/or damage themselves in confusion.

** ''Ninjask!'' Take ''everything'' noted under multiple actions and multiply it ''[[UpToEleven times eleven!]]'' Not only is its dex stat naturally high, it's ability, speed boost, increases it's dex by one for each round of combat. Note that it's ''each'' round of combat, not a static boost like most other stat boosting abilities. This all results in what would normally be a FragileSpeedster being turned into an absolutely ''monstrous'' GlassCannon. Because the [=PokeRole=] system always has ScratchDamage in effect for battles, this means that at the minimum, Ninjask has the ability to deal ''8+ damage'' to a single Pokemon in a single round. In a system where most fully evolved Pokemon have 8+ HP at most. This isn't even getting into evasion mechanics, which ''further'' negates Ninjask's drawbacks.

** Multiple actions as a whole are all kinds of busted. The idea was the ability to get in more than one action a turn at the cost of reduced accuracy. However, the sheer number of Pokemon with naturally high dex plus moves that further boost dex and specializing in whatever your moves specialized accuracy is can often result in a Pokemon who can get in ''five plus actions'' in a single turn; often being able to take down an opponent's Pokemon in a single turn.

** Multiple actions as a whole are all kinds of busted. The idea was the ability to get in more than one action a turn in at the cost of reduced accuracy. However, the sheer number of Pokemon with naturally high dex plus moves that further boost dex and specializing in whatever your moves specialized accuracy is can often result in a Pokemon who can get in ''five plus actions'' in a single turn; often being able to take down an opponent's Pokemon in a single turn.

** While the system works fine with smaller groups, the game was ''not'' designed with larger groups of players in mind. Anything 6+ can and usually does result in the players being able to brute force their way through otherwise impossible encounters based on sheer numbers alone.

* MorePopularSpinOff: Despite the amount of effort put into the core rule book, most [=GMs=] tend to run the PMD supplement over the main book when hosting campaigns.

** ''Ninjask!'' Take ''everything'' noted under multiple actions and multiply it ''[[UpToEleven times eleven!]]'' Not only is its dex stat naturally high, it's ability, speed boost, increases it's dex by one for each round of combat. Note that it's ''each'' round of combat, not a static boost like most other stat boosting abilities. This all results in what would normally be a FragileSpeedster being turned into an absolutely ''monstrous'' GlassCannon. Because the [=PokeRole=] system always has ScratchDamage in effect for battles, this means that at the minimum, Ninjask has the ability to deal ''8+ damage'' to a single Pokemon in a single round. In a system where most fully evolved Pokemon have 8+ HP at most. This isn't even getting into evasion mechanics, which ''further'' negates Ninjask's drawbacks.

** ''Ninjask!'' Take ''everything'' noted under multiple actions and multiply it ''[[UpToEleven times eleven!]]'' Not only is its dex stat naturally high, it's ability, speed boost, increases it's dex by one for each round of combat. Note that it's ''each'' round of combat, not a static boost like most other stat boosting abilities. This all results in what would normally be a FragileSpeedster being turned into an absolutely ''monstrous'' GlassCannon. Because the [=PokeRole=] system always has ScratchDamage in effect for battles, this means that at the minimum, Ninjask has the ability to deal ''8+ damage'' to a single Pokemon in a single round. This isn't even getting into evasion mechanics, which ''further'' negates Ninjask's drawbacks.

** ''Ninjask!'' Take ''everything'' noted under multiple actions and multiply it ''[[UpToElven times eleven!]] Not only is its dex stat naturally high, it's ability, speed boost, increases it's dex by one for each round of combat. Note that it's ''each'' round of combat, not a static boost like most other stat boosting abilities. This all results in what would normally be a FragileSpeedster being turned into an absolutely ''monstrous'' GlassCanon. Because the [=PokeRole=] system always has ScratchDamage in effect for battles, this means that at the minimum, Ninjask has the ability to deal ''8+ damage'' to a single Pokemon in a single round. This isn't even getting into evasion mechanics, which ''further'' negates Ninjask's drawbacks.

** Of individual Pokemon in the system, ''[[LethalJokeCharacter Lopunny]]'' is surprisingly potent. While klutz means they can't use held items, they make up for it with high dex, agility to further boost their dex by two and having multiple attacks that can paralyze or confuse the opponent. While makes them extremely dangerous however is their other ability, Cute Charm. Because of how infatuation works in the system, all this means that the opponents Pokemon likely won't ever get an attack off and, if they do, they'll either miss from paralysis and/or damage themselves in confusion.