POKEMON GEN 6 ANNOUNCED

[Phantom Killah]

I've been thinking about it. And you know what I would do to make everything work the way I want it? Have every Pokemon have the same base stats total.

Base stats usually give a general idea of the strengths and weaknesses a specific Pokémon will have. Pokémon often focus on some stats more than others. For example, Umbreon is mainly a defensive Pokémon; therefore its base stats in Attack and Special Attack are low compared to their corresponding defensive stats.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/L...base_stats

Every Pokemon would still have different base stats of course, but their total would always add up the same. At least for their 3rd stage.

Don't think that would be fair? Take a look at this:
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/C...tat_totals
As you can see there are a lot of Pokemon who share the same base stat total but are wildly different.

Look at this for example:
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/C...tal_of_540
We have 9 Pokemon that have a base stat total of 540 but all have different stats, moves, types, and abilities.

So it could work. Maybe.

One problem with this is that some pokemon have abilities and typings that would make it so it's still unbalanced. Slaking, for example, would be pretty useless if his base stats were as low as everyone else's.

I do agree that pokemon maybe should be more balanced than it currently is, so that a larger set of pokemon would be competitively viable, but I don't think there's an easy fix. One thing I think they could do is change the movepools. Some pokemon aren't given any useful moves, and end up outclassed by similar pokemon who have better stats and better moves. But if you gave these guys moves that their competitors don't have, they might be able to find some kind of useful niche.