[Meta Thread] Lord Windos' PokeRole Adventure 2: The Wild Lands

[Dragonstrike]

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Speaking about Team Star, aka something from/related to Paldea (maybe slightly offtopic, related to TheWildLands at the end)

I'm currently having a blast watching my favorite Vtuber's playthrough of Pokemon Violet while drawing and scribbling. Bonus points for her being unhinged and me building an informed decision on these games. ...While there are things that are nice and cool, there are also a lot of things that would personally put me off as a player in the long run, it's been the right decision to move away from the official games.

However, what came to great a suprise to me that I've grown quite the liking on the mechanic of Terastallizing! Gamefreak did particularly great on my two favorite Types, Dark and Fairy (images and screenshots incoming)

Dark

Evil smug face ready to beat you up, yes please.

Fairy

Just a cute winged heart for the extra <3

Bonus - Ghost

That's actually the unidentifyable ghost-sprite from Red and Blue, and the iconic Ghost from Lavender Town and Pokemon CreepyBlack. Very clever.

And now the master question. Does Terastallizing exist in Sutalör? I loooowkey doubt it because it's directly linked to Terrapago and Area Zero, but if it DOES exist, I'm totally interested in getting Bernhard a Terra Orb in the long run and playing around with that on top of spells. (Terastallizing Myra into Ghost-Type due to her background? Heck yes. Terrastallized Noxfor even more dragon or dark power? Heck yes x2.)

Also to quote something from the second post of this MetaThread:

(...)Mega Evo, Z-Moves, and Tera Transformation all have their special mechanics that will be revealed as PCs gain access to them(...)

.....?!

The mechanic is genuinely very fun and creative.  But man, do top level singles players have mixed feelings on pokemon being able to flip their type matchups on a whim...(VGC players don't mind it at all though)

I find it really funny that some folks complain about the silly hats, suggest a bunch of smaller details to identify the type changes, and they're all details that are already implemented alongside the hats (a crystalline sheen of the type's color and particle effects swirling around the pokemon's model being the big two).  The hat just gets the most attention because it's the easiest thing to point at (which is entirely the point of it being there at all).

Seddi could have started the game with access to Windos's version of Tera, so using it ourselves is definitely a possibility down the line.  It's absolutely a mechanic I want to play around with too because of both the potential it has and the flavor of Seddi being Paldean.  Off type teras are normally pretty rare without special circumstances or outside intervention of some kind though, so expect to see a lot of default STAB Tera types.