First Time Playing a Pokemon Game

[Just-Jinxx]

Hello, everyone! I'm Max and I just recently go myself a copy of Pokemon Ultra Sun. This is the first pokemon game I've played before and I was wondering if anyone has any tips/interesting things I should know? No spoilers for the game please!

 

[DJStarstryker]

The first thing you'll want to know really is that Pokemon is ultimately a more complicated version of rock paper scissors. If rock paper scissors had 18 options to pick from instead of 3, that's what it is.

For example, fire is weak to water. So if you have a fire Pokemon, it will take more damage from water attacks. However, fire Pokemon are strong against grass Pokemon and will do more damage against them.

Pokemon Ultra Sun will help you out in that, once you've encountered a particular Pokemon at least once, it'll tell you how effective each attack will be against them. But there's also type charts on the internet that will tell you that too in case you want to look that up while you're still learning the type matchups.

Something related to types that the game does a bad job of explaining itself - there's something called Same Type Attack Bonus, or STAB. This means if you have a fire Pokemon and make it use a fire move, it will do more damage with it than it would by using other typed moves. Why? Because it's the same - fire Pokemon, fire move. If the fire Pokemon used a normal type move, it wouldn't get STAB. It's worthwhile to have type coverage, so you don't want your fire Pokemon to have only fire moves. What if fire doesn't do much damage to something? But when fire is super effective, then you probably want to use it over other moves because it's STAB. I hope that makes sense.

There's more to Pokemon battling than type matchups, but that's the important thing to learn at first.

 

[Soot Sprite]

I think sun is a good game to start out with, it does a lot of explaining and like DJStarStryker said,it takes a lot of the guesswork out of remembering what's effective and what isn't against an opponent.The mechanics of it are pretty simple once you get the hang of it.

I started with SoulSilver and didn't know anything about STAB attacks or the more complicated things until I started trying to breed better pokemon.