Pokemon Ascent GBA ROM
Hack Name: Pokemon Ascent
Hack Original: Pokemon Emerald
Status: Alpha v5, 27.08.2022
Language: English
Hack Original: Pokemon Emerald
Status: Alpha v5, 27.08.2022
Language: English
Story
Ascent is a combat-focused rush of trainer battles with roguelike-inspired progression. The gameplay loop lacks the adventure side of the normal pokemon experience, in favor of refined competitive battles. You start at the bottom of the tower with three starter pokemon and progressively make your way from floor to floor, earning currency to upgrade pokemon and items. Each floor has a variety of quality-of-life features to get your team ready for the next gauntlet without the regular headache of grinding. See if you have what it takes to ascend to the top!
List of Features
FEATURES
- Every floor has unique battles which must be completed in sequence to progress
- Losing resets the floor battles. The flow is: prep->complete all battles without a pause->progress to next floor
- Alternating single/double battle floors
- Rotating trainer teams. Trainers have additional pokemon and may switch them out randomly between attempts. Operates on a slot by slot basis.
- All pokemon up to gen 8
- Mostly upto gen 7/8 battle mechanics, items, moves, abilities, with some adjustments and additions.
- 3 different currency rewards at the end of each floor.
- The same shops on every floor.
- Battle points: Pokemon shop, convert to a shiny shop
- Money: Held items shop, TM shop
- Heartscales: Move relearner shop. Egg moves will be added to learnsets as needed to keep things tidy.
- Free: Nature adjuster, ev adjuster, ev reseter
- Choose one starter of every type.
- A built in nuzlocke mode. Receive a gift on every floor from that floor's new pokemon. Pokemon automatically removed when fainted. You will lose their held item.
- 3 difficulty settings which adjust ev/iv amounts for trainers.
- No bag use in battle.
- No money loss on lost battle.
- Forced set mode.
- Held items restored between battles.
- All of the player's pokemon have perfect IVs and always start with ability 1.
- No exp. All pokemon are level 50.
- Room battle hints. Talk to the trainers on each floor for a small amount of information regarding their strategy.
- Bag sort
- Evs on status menu (press a)
- PC from start menu
- ~20 custom abilities, some may not be on any available pokes yet though.
- ~5 custom items
- Poison now reduces Sp. Attack
- A few new natures with either multiple boosts or double boosts
- Hail boosts ice defence by 1.5x
- Reduced button prompts for cleaner battles and menus. No more spam clicking a in battle.
NEW ABILITIES
- Holy Aura: Heals you and your partner by 10% at end of turn
- Bull rush / Obsession: The speed/sp att versions of gorilla tactics
- Intrepid Wand / Dauntless Crown
- Trick room and tailwind set on switch abilities
- Hazard Crew: A hazard version of screen cleaner
- Inversity: Flips this pokemon's type weakness chart
- Clutch: Overgrow/blaze/etc... but for all types
- Vampire: Fang moves heal user
- Water lily: A rain version of flower gift
- Oppression: A sp att version of intimidate
- Killing spree: No cooldown on recharge moves if KO
NEW ITEMS
- Hourglass: Flips the targets defences when attacking
- Triforce: Boosts all stats by 1.1x
- Heavy bands: Deal .5x damage above 1/3rd hp but 2.0x below 1/3rd
- Item to boost trick room / tailwind timer by 1 turn
- A stronger leftovers item
- Plate mail: Boost defence by 1.5x but lower speed by .5x
NEW NATURES
- Demon: +20% speed for -10% in all other stats
- Pacifist: +10% def and sdef for -10% in att and sp att
- Rager: +10% in att and sp att for +10% def and sdef