Skill IronMON problems and solutions

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PROPOSED CHANGES
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1. Remove "every area is a dungeon" rule
2. Limit # of heals to 10 (any type of HP or PP heal counts and is allowed; this includes centers, heals inside dungeons, PP restoring items, PP Ups, HP restoring items, and healing moves. PP Maxes count as 3 heals to avoid being too broken)
3. Unban Flamethrower, Thunderbolt, Full Restore, PP Max, and many healing moves
4. Allow unlimited use of Viridian and Pewter Marts (they sell Potion/Antidote/Paralyz Heal/Awakening/Burn Heal)

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Skill IronMON problems and solutions
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PROBLEM: Difficult to understand/follow the dungeon rule
SOLUTION: Instead of "every area is a dungeon," just limit # of centers

PROBLEM: Every area is a full clear unless you get statused
SOLUTION: Allow 10 HP/PP heals for the whole run (any type of HP or PP heal counts and is allowed; this includes centers, heals inside dungeons, PP restoring items, PP Ups, HP restoring items, and healing moves. PP Maxes count as 3 heals to avoid being too broken)

PROBLEM: The Elite Four is too easy
SOLUTION: Allow 10 HP/PP heals for the whole run (forces skipping trainers because of low HP/PP)

PROBLEM: Random statuses (especially contact statuses) kill otherwise good Pokemon
SOLUTION: Allow Viridian and Pewter Marts

PROBLEM: Max Elixir is too broken
SOLUTION: Allow 10 HP/PP heals for the whole run (forces you to skip a center as a result, so you would likely only want this on E4 for specific mons)

PROBLEM: Too many arbitrary item/move bans
SOLUTION: Unban Flamethrower, Thunderbolt, Full Restore, PP Max, and many healing moves

PROBLEM: Some high-power are too broken/too obvious for Move Tutor selection
SOLUTION: Allow 10 HP/PP heals for the whole run, thus nerfing the 5-15 PP high-power moves

PROBLEM: Giga Drain is potentially broken
SOLUTION: Count it as one of the 10 heals

PROBLEM: Full Restores are too obvious to purchase
SOLUTION: Allow 10 HP/PP heals for the whole run (forces you to skip a center as a result, so you would likely only use for Brock/E4)

PROBLEM: Forest shop is arbitrary
SOLUTION: None, because it's more important to be able to candy/stone to avoid early luck-based deaths, plus there's skill in choosing your items

PROBLEM: Glass cannons were too dominant
SOLUTION: They're hurt by the lower E4 level than most mons

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NEW PROBLEM: Too much time spent routing heal timings
EVALUATION: TBD (needs testing)

NEW PROBLEM: Very few people will run this
EVALUATION: Likely true for any ruleset not created by Pie, and especially true for any skill-based run, so not much we can do

NEW PROBLEM: Extrasensory is by far the best move
EVALUATION: Awkward, but it's only broken for Psychic mons pre-E4, and 30 PP doesn't carry entire sections

NEW PROBLEM: Too hard to find a good mon
EVALUATION: Probably still reasonable because of stones, candies, and additional item flexibility

NEW PROBLEM: Too similar to Survival
EVALUATION: Move tutor and lack of arbitrary rules make it much better in theory (needs to be play tested first)