10 Big Issues With Pokemon GO

Abilities

After seeing how Niantic was able to work their way around Slaking and its ability of Truant, it’s no joke that Pokemon Abilities in general will cause a lot of headaches for these developers. For one, players are currently awaiting the release of Shedinja. In the Mainstream Pokemon Games, Shedinja is a very unique Pokemon. To start, it comes from Nincada after it evolves; however, Nincada does not and cannot evolve into Shedinja. Instead, Nincada will always evolve into Ninjask, and if a player has a remaining open slot in their Pokemon Party, the old skin that Nincada shed while evolving into Ninjask will become Shedinja. But that’s only the first thing interesting about Shedinja!

You see, Shedinja only has one hit point. That’s right, Shedinja is the only Pokemon in existence that does not have a true Base HP Stat. Instead, as mentioned, it will always have only one hit point at full health. This is because Shedinja has the exclusive ability of Wonder Guard. With Wonder Guard, only attacks that are super effective against Shedinja will land and instantly defeat this Pokemon, with all other attacks failing to land and do that exact thing. Since Pokemon GO does not feature abilities, Shedinja, at least if a loophole of sort is not made on its behalf like it was with Slaking, will instantly die after being hit by another Pokemon at a Gym regardless if the attack is super effective or not.

After Shedinja, there are still plenty of Pokemon in the Generations still left to come to Pokemon GO that have special abilities that make them unique. Shedinja is merely just the tip of the iceberg, the first of many questions Niantic must solve when it comes to Pokemon Abilities.