YMMV / Pokémon Quest

• Game-Breaker:
  • A lot of support stones have effects when equipped. The best one of these depending on the Pokemon is 'hit healing' which heals the Pokemon for a certain percentage of its health every time it does damage. Combine this with a multi-hit attack and the Pokemon can heal itself to full health with just a couple of moves!
  • Bulk Up increases both attack and defense, and with Sharing Stone(s), it can be used to also buff the attack and defense of your other party members; It should be noted that defense buffs make your Pokemon much harder to be knocked out and attack buffs allow them to defeat enemies quickly, which allows your Pokemon to possibly take on and clear expeditions that have higher suggested power than their actual team power.
• Heartwarming Moments: Seeing your Pokemon interact with each other, such as sitting on top of others and playfighting, can be cute and a little hilarious.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Pixelmon is an unofficial Minecraft mod that started in 2013 and rose to global prominence alongside Minecraft. Initially, it used 3D models that were ported from the Pokemon side series of games into Minecraft before it eventually started using blocky, cube-shaped originals to fit in with the Minecraft aesthetic, essentially predating Pokemon Quest by 6 years.
• So Okay, It's Average: How one might react to the game as it has a neat art style, good music and unlike most Free-to-start games the only real Microtransactions are DLC for aditional cosmetics but the gameplay is rather shallow if not outright dull and the roster of Pokèmon you are given only covers the Kanto region.
• That One Attack
  • Any attack that causes burns is this. All other status effects have their own annoying problems but burns have the double whammy of doing continuous damage AND seriously decreasing the damage you do in the process. A heavy attack-oriented pokemon taking constant damage and only able to deal scratch damage itself is soon beaten.
  • The secondary final boss of Farside Fjord that you'll rarely encounter is Dragonite. And for good reason: After losing more than half of it's HP, it starts using an aerial bombardment attack that will instantly KO any of your PKMN with one hit even when they're at full health.
• That One Boss: Some of the possible bosses in the postgame can surprisingly wipe your party out if you're not careful.
  • Magikarp will initially only use Splash, but it does an unexpectedly high amount of damage. And then its HP reaches 50%, it pulls out Hyper Beam, which deals damage in the high thousands, to the point of a One-Hit Kill without the defense buff.
  • Blastoise's Bubble move will target and hit your Pokemon so frequently that they'll die before it can be defeated.
  • Farfetch'd's swipes deal high damage and can kill your Pokemon in a minute.
  • Before you reach the postgame you'll run into a cave with a bunch of Nidoran. Given this you're expecting either Nidoking or Nidoqueen to be the boss. You're only half right. You have to face both of them fighting in tandem and they each have their own specialties. Nidoking is a close range fighter who uses earthquake and another faster move where he creates a small explosion in front of itself. Nidoqueen attacks from a distance, uses swords dance to buff itself and uses growl to debuff your team. Depending on your teams makeup and the support stones you have equipped your party could get wiped out before making any progress.

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