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There are about three dozen support Pokémon in total, and they include legendary Pokémon like Reshiram (powerful straight-line laser attack), elemental starters like Frogadier (water-spraying attack), and adorable series mainstays like Eevee (health-recovering cheer). These support Pokémon are organized in pairs: You choose one of two supports at the start of each round. You don't control support Pokémon directly but can send them out to perform a specific attack or healing, buffing move when you build your support meter up by fighting. On the bright side, outside of the thematic questions raised by Pokkén Tournament being a fighting game rather than an RPG, the base selection of Pokémon is a nicely diverse cross-section of types and styles.īesides the main playable Pokémon, you can choose support Pokémon to assist you in combat. With 750 Pokémon currently in the canon, you'll probably be missing some of your favorites. The inclusion of Gardevoir is extra-strange, because the plant-psychic-type Pokémon has an alternate evolution named Gallade that is psychic fighting-type, and would have fit more with the idea of a tournament fighter.
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Blaziken, Lucario, and Machamp are the only fighting Pokémon available the rest are other types and elements. And while this is a fighting game, there aren't many fighting-type Pokémon. It makes the decision to include Blaziken, Braxien, and Charizard all on the roster a bit disappointing they're all evolved fire-element starter Pokémon, and they play differently from each other, but thematically and within Pokémon logic they're all very similar. Even with just 16 playable Pokémon, there's some weird variety going on. Gengar is a ghost, while Chandelure is a ghost chandelier. Pikachu is a quick, balanced electric fighter, while the masked wrestler Pikachu Libre favors a faster, rushdown style (though they're technically the same type of Pokémon, and play similarly). The pure fighting Pokémon Machamp is a four-armed bruiser. The fire, fighting Pokémon Blaziken is a kickboxing bird with shades of Eddy Gordo from Tekken. Pokémon Picks You can choose from 16 different Pokémon across a wide variety of elemental types and fighting styles. The premise didn't need to be tweaked at all. You're a trainer and your Pokémon are fighting other Pokémon in stadiums. It's a rare example of ludonarrative dissonance in reverse the distinction between real-time combat and turn-based moves is purely mechanical to begin with, so there's no actual need for the story to justify the genre change. Welcome to Ferrum Pokkén Tournament takes place in the Ferrum region, where instead of carrying out conventional Pokémon battles, trainers use "synergy devices" on their ears to directly guide and encourage their Pokémon in fights. It's very name implies a combination of Pokémon and Tekken (producer Katsuhiro Harada is also the producer of the Tekken series), and ultimately that's exactly what Pokkén Tournament is-a Pokémon fighting game. This $59.99 Wii U ($979.99 at Amazon) game takes Pokémon out of the turn-based JRPG conventions of the main handheld series (and the coliseum-style, home-console side games) and puts them in a real-time tournament fighter. Bandai Namco's Pokkén Tournament simply shifts the genre a bit. Pokémon has always been about getting cute creatures to fight.