Pokémon, Experience, and Erratic Difficulty Curves · 9:17pm Dec 12th, 2021
I remember, among many, many other things, the uproar that came when it was announced that the EXP Share mechanic in Pokémon Sword and Shield was going to be something you couldn’t turn off. It had been an immensely contentious mechanic to begin with when it was introduced in the X and Y, but at least back then you could just choose not to deal with it if you didn’t want to. Now there wasn’t a choice in the matter, you were just going to have to accept that your whole party was