Renegade Platinum Move Updates v1.3.0
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Powered by AI'Draining Kiss' power increases to 75, though recovery is reduced to 50% due to engine limits, balancing offensive potency with reasonable healing. 'Flame Wheel's' power rise to 75 from 60 reflects a focus on strengthening weaker moves to maintain competitive utility. The adjustments show a design priority for making traditionally weaker or less-used moves more viable .
The move replacements introduce newer-generation moves like Draining Kiss, Scald, and Wild Charge in place of older moves like Barrage, Brine, and Volt Tackle. This modifies gameplay strategies by offering players contemporary move options that include different type advantages, effects, and increased power, affecting both offensive and defensive tactics in battles .
'Scald' replaces 'Brine', enhancing strategic choices with added burn potential, which can fundamentally alter battle dynamics by crippling physical attackers. Its ability to thaw itself adds defensive utility, encouraging players to capitalize on both offensive damage and status effects, far surpassing 'Brine's' limited use-case for dealing extra damage to already injured foes .
Changing 'Curse' to Ghost-type aligns with its thematic role and provides a stat-altering move that now benefits from Ghost STAB effects. Making 'Cut' a Grass-type move increases coverage options for Grass Pokémon, allowing them to harness the move's type advantage while benefiting from STAB, thus influencing battle strategies involving type effectiveness .
The shift of 'Cut' from Normal to Grass with increased power (60 from 50) and perfect accuracy allows it to serve as a powerful STAB option for Grass-types and extends its utility providing type coverage. The addition of a high critical hit ratio can transform it from a simple utility or HM move into a strategic attack option within certain team compositions .
By increasing power and accuracy, moves like Blaze Kick (now 90 power and 100 accuracy) and Fly (100 power and 100 accuracy) become more reliable and impactful, enhancing their utility significantly. This reliability boosts their effectiveness in battles, making them preferable choices for players seeking consistent and powerful attacks .
Enhancing 'Strength' power from 80 to 100 and adding a 10% chance to boost attack transforms it from a situational utility move into a valuable offensive option, providing a generic yet reliable physical attack with a chance for self-buffing. This elevates its role in battles, encouraging its use more broadly across different scenarios .
Replacing 'Horn Drill', an OHKO move, with 'Drill Run' likely aims to minimize the impact of luck-based victories and enhance skill-based gameplay. 'Drill Run', with its high critical hit ratio, rewards strategic use and successful predictions, thereby encouraging more thoughtful play rather than dependence on the low-accuracy instant knockouts of 'Horn Drill' .
Some moves in Renegade Platinum, like Hurricane, lose their secondary effects due to the Gen IV engine's replication limitations. Moves like Draining Kiss have adjusted recovery percentages from 75% to 50% due to these constraints, showcasing how engine limitations necessitate creative solutions in balancing and implementing game features .
Renegade Platinum updates the numbers of all moves, such as power, accuracy, PP, effect chance, and priority, to match those in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, ensuring continuity and enhanced balance with newer generations .