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The height and weight questions in the Split Decision path are completely unreasonable. A lot of them are impossible to answer without the use of external resources (the spreadsheet, pokedex, google), as Pokémon sizes can be a bit wacky. This also means that this path isn't completable for mobile players, as you have to switch tabs, and use the search function (ctrl+f).
Even the endless path doesn't have these questions (thankfully), so this means that Regidrago/eleki are harder to get than the shiny Hoenn regis, in a way.
To balance this, maybe some other questions, including a "which pokemon is ___ rarity" could be added. (Though, for the rarity question, legendaries would have to be excluded, as they vary a lot).

Current question pool: types, Pokémon category ("mouse" pokemon), egg groups, EHP, evolution level, dex entry, height/weight
New question pool: Pokémon name, dex entry, category, region ("which pokemon is from X region"), types, evolves into/from ("which pokemon evolves from X", rarity, egg groups, EHP, evo level

The question pool could increase with the longer paths, e.g.:
- beginner: name, dex entry, category
- advanced: name, dex entry, category, region, types
- pro: name, dex entry, category, region, types, evolves into/from, rarity
- split decision: name, dex entry, category, region, types, evolves into/from, rarity, egg groups
- endless: name, dex entry, category, region, types, evolves into/from, rarity, egg groups, EHP, evo level

I don't think that Endless Path needs to be made easier, as while it does require a good memory, it is still possible to do without external resources. In a way, by adding more questions, it would make it easier, while still maintaining a level of difficulty, as the probability of getting difficult questions is lower. This would also help throw off cheaters, as they would need new scripts.

The only question type that I'm uncertain about removing is the egg group questions, as those can also be a bit wacky sometimes. This could be removed from both the split decision and endless paths if necessary.

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Yeah, as a mainly mobile player, Royal Tunnel is unplayable if I don't memorize literally everything about every Pokemon ever and this seems like a good solution for that issue.

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I like the idea of the questions/type of questions scaling as you get further.

As of currently, the best way to know what is likely for EHP (hardest questions IMO) is to know that EHP is directly based off a Pokémon's rarity and growth rate (this helps to know, I do not use a spreadsheet (in fact I didn't know there was one). Growth rate is generally higher for weaker mons (like Caterpie) and lower for stronger mons (like Aron), with some exceptions, the starters, for instance have a "balanced" growth rate as they are your first 'mons, and some 'mons (I believe Drifloon is one) have a changing/variable growth rate (they have a specific word for it but I forgot what it was)
But of course there are still many curveballs

Don't think any question types should be removed, only reserved for the harder paths
Also new questions would be nice!
And maybe event mons could be considered for endless

Bumping this since I’ve suffered enough on the pro path.

My main issue with EHP questions is that if I don’t want to memorize it, I have to use a spreadsheet. For all others, I usually know, but if I don’t, I just google it. And I still haven’t learned how to use the spreadsheet correctly; RT is ridiculously hard and I wasn’t even going for the eggdex entry, I was just trying to get a method of crafting Azure Flutes cause I didn’t have PC access so I couldn’t do the genies.

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