Winter Holiday Cave 2024: Feedback and General Thoughts ❄️

[Deleca]

Overall good HC In my opinion. I only have a few things to bring up here:

• Not specific to this HC. I know why this happens ( para can make moves fail and orbs are technically just moves ), but It’s silly and makes these orbs much more useless than Intended. If the para debuff can be bypassed on recovery Items like that, or at least don’t consume the Item If It fails, that would be nice!

@notarealnoivern

drops by Kyurem help normalize the number of cookies per run

• About this. I actually got the slate on my first run, meaning the cookies didn’t drop, which was a bit sad. Is It possible to make them a guaranteed drop somehow? Kind of like how SF bosses can drop two Items

@MissinDaSylveon

Every single Pokémon that was introduced in this HC has a move and/or ability that doesn’t work. Seriously, you can’t release something that isn’t finished!

• I agree with this a lot and mentioned It In the last HC feedback thread. I get there was a crunch for this HC and not everything can work day 1. It’s still rather frustrating though when the things that set apart Pokemon In the first place are not there. Sharpness Is essentially Iron Fist which already does work. Should we expect the unique things to Pokemon to never be released with them, ever? Forgive me If I’m being too negative about It, I can’t remember the last time a Pokemon with a signature Ability or move was released with It working though. I don’t understand why they keep being done after the fact. Transparency about when we can expect them or If they’re being worked on at the least, would be appreciated. If you’re gonna make people grind 500 currency for a Kleavor then the things exclusive to It should at least be functional. That just seems fair. And I get that It can be hard coming up for ways certain things that have only ever been In the main series should function In PMU. If that’s ever a hurdle I personally think It could be fun to bring player Ideas Into It
• I don’t know why the breakable objects are there besides It’s funny. If they could have Items In them like cookies, that would be a wonderful Idea and I would love to see something like that

@Gelius2

OK, no there’s a glaring flaw imo in Woodland. Toxic on Sawsbuck is just too much. Yes, you have Lumiose Galletes to heal the poison off, but i think Toxic in general is a bad idea when there’s already plenty of status in the dungeon.

Does It actually have Toxic? I know I got poisoned once but that was due to Secret Power, and I have a feeling no one knew what effect It would have or even thought about that move at all