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I think it would be appropriate to categorize damaging moves by power, and perhaps accuracy too. The Pokemon are already categorized by their stat totals, yet the power on moves is much more relevant to the games. [[User:TehPerson|TehPerson]] ([[User talk:TehPerson|talk]]) 07:02, 15 July 2015 (UTC) | I think it would be appropriate to categorize damaging moves by power, and perhaps accuracy too. The Pokemon are already categorized by their stat totals, yet the power on moves is much more relevant to the games. [[User:TehPerson|TehPerson]] ([[User talk:TehPerson|talk]]) 07:02, 15 July 2015 (UTC) | ||
The use of PP for classifying whether or not a move is a variation of another move is unnecessarily strict and unclear. | |||
== Removal of PP as criterion for move variation == | |||
1. The rule of 5 PP is completely arbitrary rule and would lead to much confusion. For example, Reflect is obviously a variation of Light Screen, yet not classified as variations of each other due to having a high PP difference. However, by this definition, Reflect can be a variation of Safeguard (20 vs 25 PP), and Safeguard can be a variation of Light Screen (25 vs 30), but since Reflect and Light Screen have a 10 PP difference, they cannot be considered variations of each other. Either make it that PP must be exactly the same, or not have this criterion at all. | |||
2. Moves with identical power, accuracy, effects, etc should obviously be variations of each other. Defend Order and Cosmic Power do the exact same thing, yet cannot be classified as variations of each other simply due to a PP difference. If someone wants to find a Water-type equivalent for Scratch, they should be able to navigate to Water Gun, since they are both 40/100. The difference in PP is probably just common type-discrimination by game designers and shouldn't be accounted for anyways. | |||
tl;dr - PP is the weakest criterion for classification as a [[move variation]], because the rules revolving around it are both arbitrary and unclear. | |||
[[User:TehPerson|TehPerson]] ([[User talk:TehPerson|talk]]) 08:38, 15 July 2015 (UTC) | |||