For real though, the Fan-Region projects by Truegreen7, Birdkeeper Toby and HoopsandHipHop are great. Links in the description. And thank you all so so much for showing this Kaskade project so much love. :) I've been dropping little teasers to "Project 96" over on my Twitter if you're interested, @Lockstin.

Gnoggin: "Make weather stackable." Acid Rain: "Aw yeah, it's coming together."

Field: Has three weather conditions Trainer: Sends out Castform Castform: "WHAT AM I?!"

20% accuracy drop in fog is still unfun. Maybe "the first attack each turn has its accuracy reduced by 20%". It gives an incentive to Pokemon who are not the fastest thing on the field, the idea being that the first Pokemon to attack gives away it's position.

“Thunderstorm” could probably have its name changed to something like “Static Aura” or something, since a “Thunderstorm” already implies rain. The lighting strike effect could also paralyze the target

Gen 5: "We made the original weather wars!" Gnoggin: *HOLD MY STRONG WINDS!*

God damn dude. Didn't expect such a sweet shoutout. YOU'RE a great piece of work!

I think the coolest thing about these weather ideas is how Flying types would be important. Removing old stuff and buffing what comes next wound make weather plays real crazy. Also, Raihan uses weather Pokémon, so I see him having a flyer to buff the weather he already uses.

If I were to throw my personal spin on this, it would have to be a tiny change to the Sandstorm buffed with Strong Winds. While the special defensive buff IS nice, it was the phrasing Lockstin used in regards to it, "...they polish minerals well." which got me thinking. What if, instead of a Special Defense buff, the Pokemon affected get a +2 SPEED buff? I mean the move "Rock POLISH" is already a thing, so it could be like a free Rock Polish +2 Speed buff when in play. It may not turn the tide for a ton of Rock types, but some, such as Lycanroc, Archeops, and Kabutops could become even more terrifying with such a speed buff.

14:24 I would recommend adding dark to the “go screw yourself” category of fairy dust, because the fairy type is the substitute light type

I would actually kill to see a competitive scene for this game. I can only imagine the weather wars, seven turns of weather setup before any actual combat even happens...

I was hoping for the Dark weather to be "Eclipse", but "Blood moon" is pretty cool too

About the Normal Types in Strong Fog, I think they should just be lowered by like 5 or 10%, rather than completely disregarding the accuracy drop. A nice middle ground.

I really like how Strong Winds is the "buffer weather" as much as Flying type is the "buffer type", that is that there are barely any pure Flying Types because it always "attach" itself to another one

I think Magnetosphere should activate the Plus and Minus Abilities even if the opposite ability isn't present. It would make it so you can use the Ability even in single battles with some setup.

Magnetisphere sounds very interesting, curiously, wouldnt it make sense if it would increase the speed of steel types, based on how quickckly metals and magnets can move based on the strenght of magnetic attraction?

As a Ghost type specialist, I'm way into this ghost weather effect. It seems really cool and I love that Dark and Normal types are included in the buffs. That's sounds like it would be fun to play around with. Also It seems fine to me to let Fog have that extra effect. The total status immunity on a couple of the weathers is a bit spooky to me, but it's probably fine. The weather stacking is really exciting, finding fun combos should be a really good time. I wonder how the steel and ground weathers would interact... If the steel types are floating, but there's ground in the air, I suppose they just still get hit by those EQs anyway. oh well haha.

Not a mechanic change or anything but there NEEDS to be a “Weather” tab on the battle menu so people can check the weather and stuff. I would have it with the 1-3 current weathers at the top or in bold with their effects and if their boosted or not Then under that would be the other weathers so people can check them to see if they want to set any up or anything.

For the “Normal Type: Fog” weather: I do agree, with the sound attacks, but another possible buff for Normal Types is for making all normal physical attacks have a critical boost since if you are searching in the fog, you hit harder, but keep the accuracy cut.

The thunderstorm gimmic is honestly my favorite one with the randomness of it, but perhaps to keep people interested in Kaskade, do some fan art videos or share more on the back ground planning that went into production would be really awesome to see! Love the work you guys have done for this!

Lockstin: "Blood Moon + Strong Winds gives you priority for status moves, but Dark-types will have immunity to them now!" Me: Well, frick. Guess I'll just be afraid of Yveltal now...

I feel Strong Winds, when on its own, should boost Speed for Flying types, since they'd be used to them, and damage Grass and Bug types for 1/16, since even trees can be knocked over by strong wind and bugs and wind don't mix.

Diamond Dust doesn't affect the weather, yes, but it does have one major change to gameplay. Making the battle against Red in HG/SS easier by not having there be hail.

Steel also could’ve been something like “colloidal” where metals shavings or particles dispersed through the air. I’m not sure what it would do but it sounds cool.

I feel like a good move idea would be something like "backwind" or a name like that, it applies strong winds and then it retrieves your Pokemon like U-turn or volt switch would, it'd be good competitive move because then you can send out a Pokemon with a weather ability, and if you predict your opponent using it then you can use a weather move before they switch in (I don't remember if moves happen before or after the switch, but if they happen after, then weather moves should now happen before)

The move to summon the smog weather effect should be called "Smoghorn." I feel like "Smog Spread" would be too easy to confuse with the move "Smog."

Definitely do the “Normal Immune to Fog” thing. Gives an out to its sheer annoyance, but you still have to strategize around it.

Addition: I think when the Dragon Type Weather Effect is active (it’s your choice if strong winds is also active), all attacks should take 2 PP, or have a high chance of consuming +1 PP with that move. I believe this should exist because in Pokémon, a lot of strong moves have low PP, so to balance strong moves with high PP (strong due to Dragon Weather), PP should drain faster.

The magnetosphere would be interesting if it messed with how steel types interact with eachother, such as a scarmory carrying a steel type lighter than itself with it in flight or a klefki following an excadrill using dig.

Me whos allergic to pollen: *during Pollen Storm* K I L L M E

For the "Psychic Type: Psychic Field" Weather, maybe when in combination with strong winds it could make dark types no longer immune to Psychic type attacks? You could say that the psychic type Pokémon are more Intune with their abilities because of the more potent weather, and in doing so could allow them to hit dark types for normal damage.

But what type would castform turn into when there are many weather effects at once?

Some of these are definitely too powerful. The buffed smog is just insane, but i feel like there should be some way to be immune. Because as it is, i kinda just seems way too dangerous for anyone to use it

For the magnet one, make all Steel type pokémon officially weigh nothing by proxy of levitation, so that moves like Grass Knot or Low Kick aren't as effective

With the Dark-Type weather "Blood Moon" I know another thing to add to it. Since you're making the "Blood Moon + Strong Winds" being very *Evil* (In a Good Way), is it possible to make it so that when Dark Type Pokemon attack a Pokemon who are currently protecting themselves (With Protect/Detect) Dark Types will still damage them, but it will only do half of what the damage would of done in general. Think of it like this, when the Blood Moon is out, Dark Types are more dangerous than before. During that time, Dark Types become so dangerous & stealthy that, even if the opponent guards themselves, the Dark Type Pokemon will still find a way to damage them, even if the amount of damage is reduced. This doesn't have to replace the whole "Dark Types become immune to statuses" since what I've just talked about is somewhat situational.

Oh thank goodness there's a fangame in the works. Was worried I'd just have to imagine the game in my head and *yearn*

Very cool weather ideas! And since you asked, I actually feel like any amount of accuracy drop is really infuriating in Pokemon, so normal type moves always hitting would definitely be appreciated since they're so common, however it doesn't work as well thematically for me. I would almost rather have fog give normal types a level of evasion, since they're hard to notice due to how "plain" they are. Just my two cents 💛

I think steel got a really short end of the stick, I was hoping maybe increase their speed by being able to pull themselves around with magnetic polarity, also grass seems to really benefit a lot from these weather effects, but grass is weak to a lot so I guess it’s fair

"Dragon Force: The user pulls a powerful guitar solo that envigorates all pokemon on the field." Wait, wrong Dragon Force.

Wild idea for Kaskade region. What if raids take place in cyber space? You get to do raids by finding transmission towers over the region that digitise your character and project them into cyberspace. During raids you work with other players to solve puzzles before you get to take on a special Pokemon together.

When it comes to the types I came up with for the SFA-Verse; Light, Chemical, Cosmic, and Crystal, if they had weather involving them, they would be: Light: Bright Sky (Climate) Chemical: Chemical Cloud (Irritant) Cosmic: Starlight (Energy) Crystal: Diamond Dust (Irritant) Let me know if you would want me to list their effects.

Since you said that sandstorm “polishes” things, and there’s a move called Rock Polish, wouldn’t it make more sense for Sandstorm to boost rock types’ speed stat rather than defense?

I think maybe changing normal and steel weathers to doing what strong winds does for the irritants and energies respectively. That further defines the three subgroups, makes it so that not every team HAS to have a flier, like it spreads the love, and gives the two *cough* weakest weather concepts more purpose. Just a thought, otherwise great video and great ideas all around

I think the strong winds are a bit OP when you have a climate, irritant, and energy all at once

I love this concept because it deepens the strategy of the fights. Would it be possible to not always make new weathers overtake existing ones and have some counter each other. Ex. Sunlight beats rain but allow blizzard to block sunlight. Or try weather combos where blizzard and rain give the buffed hail effect without needing winds all the time.

The ghost type weather “cursed winds” is amazing. I think that there should be an added affect that if a Pokémon faints in “cursed winds” the winds power will get stronger or all dark types revive a small buff as if they had made a deal with a spiritual entity that promised them power.

Pollen Storm and Pheromones: *exist* Beedrill: *evil laugh*

I like to think part of the reason fog increased sound types is partly due to fog machines often being in musical settings maybe if paired with something that would trigger cool lights it increases both the sound and the visual effects?

This is AMAZING! I love the idea, and I feel like having weather changes be secondary effects of some moves, held items or as hidden abilities would revolutionize competitive play.

As Steel type is immune to the ice, ground and rock weathers I feel it should maybe be debuffed by others. Perhaps in sun steel types have lower physical defence (as high temperatures cause metals to warp and lose structural stability) or perhaps they have lower speed in the rain due to rust. Just something to balance out the immunities.

I always thought that the dragon weather would be an eclipse, since some people believed that eclipses were caused by a dragon eating the sun. Your idea for the dragon aura is pretty neat, although I'm not sure how I feel about the non-buffed version.

I really love how even though its an informational video about something i like, you still find a way to make me laugh during the video

I love the little Rascoon just like "Oh how the turns have tabled!"

I feel like ice types should get an evasion boost when there's hail. Ice types aren't exactly that tanky so the overtime damage doesn't seem like it would be too great for them. But with all the ice falling around it might make it harder to tell if the target is there or just pile of snow/hail

Groundon and Kyogre: switching in and out to get their weather bonuses Grass types: I see it his as an absolute win

Battle aura should make them get the effext pumeped

I have made dual typed weather conditions for pokemon that have types that are in the same category so I will list the ones that make the most sense. Climate Combos: Most of these do not work very well but there are a couple that make sense. Freezing Rain: is a combo of Rain and Hail which would have the same effects but it would make Water type moves except Brine and Scald super effective against Grass and have a 10% chance to freeze. Solar Eclipse: is a combo of Harsh Sunlight and Blood Moon which would give Dark type moves a 10% chance to burn and super effective on Bug.

Weather teams in this game are gonna be so OP. Imagine a pokemon with strong winds as an ability that knows u turn

I just feel like the electric type and dark type effects should swap categories. Like… a blood moon feels more like filling the air with spiritual energy whereas a thunderstorm is an actual literal weather effect.

Blood Moon’s Strong Wind buff could also weaken resistances to only 25% damage reduction instead of the usual 50%

Since there are items that extend the weather (like Heat Rock and Damp Rock), you need items for the other weathers too.

About the bug weather, the move investation exists, as well as vespequinn three 'order' moves, so there are precedents for swarm-effects.

I hope the bugs being "motivated" means they get "pumped" like with focus energy as well, that would make a lot of sense (cause, y'know, pheromones).

17:58 Natsu's theme (from Fairy Tail) starts

I just found your channel and I just marathoned this series and I love it!!!! Keep it upppp!!

I feel like the flying type weather effect should in some way benefit flying types specifically.

As a dev who's done -way too little- an awful lot, I can say I attended one of the meetings about weather, and I must admit it was really fun.

I love your videos for this region you’re making! :] it’s definitely inspired me to going back and making my own concepts. I like the idea of making a Pokémon region that isn’t really based on anywhere. I plan on making one that follows a sort of story about ghost hunting! And I want to make it a challenge to create the least amount of ghost types for it, since not all ghost Pokémon should have to be ghosts!

+3 stat buffs are very strong. combining damaging moves and buffs needs a malus to balance it.

For Hail, i feel it just screws over ice types even more, the premise of dealing damage over time would be good for a defensive type… which ice is NOT. Plus steel types are the bane of ice type’s existence, just hurting it more

I feel like the strong winds buff for smog having it become like toxic would be a little more appropriate. Otherwise pretty much no poison type would choose to use it because then there is no net positive for them since everyone on the field looses 1/8 hp per turn. Speaking in a meta way. Turning it to toxic instead of normal poison in strong winds makes more sense.

10:43 Rock-types already get a SpDef boost in sandstorm.

12:10 This made me think, what if there was a grass type status effect called sneeze or something? Similar to paralysis, but instead you flinch everyonce in awhile

I like the idea of Normal not being affected by the fog. Also I’m surprised we don’t have a poison weather effect in the official games Also what Kaskadian Pokemon would you want to see get a Mega Evolution?

Awesome video, though a couple of additional ideas: 1. Steel probably shouldn't have as many weather effect immunities, it's arguably one of if not the strongest type already. Or at least more negative effects on them like rain or sunlight wearing their defenses with rust or warping. 2. I'm not sure if this would be unbalanced but Dragon Force should probably allow Fairy types to be hit with Dragon type moves like the Fighting one does. Especially with the idea that fairies are immune because they can normally "flow the energy around them" or something. In that condition the energy becomes far more erratic and difficult to control allowing it to actually hit. Maybe not while paired with the 20% super effective move reduction the base weather has, or maybe dragons can loose hp as well in the stronger version, not sure how to fine tune that. Either that or removing dragons and ghosts from being exempt from fairy dust healing; seeing as the benefit that dragon force provides is a universal effect, fairy's should probably be too. 3. Strong Smog being able to ignore all type or ability immunities is probably too much. I get the idea, that it's basically become acid, but it still seems like that's dangerous to counterplay strategies, unless I'm missing something. Overall though this is still a very creative and cool idea and I can't wait to play an actual game with these mechanics.

I think the best way for Fog to benefit Normal types specifically while having it still make sense is to reduce Fighting move accuracy even more than everything else because it's hard to punch when you can't see

I personally think that it would be fine if you can have up 1 Climate, 2 Irritants, 2 Energies. Because 1 there are dual typed pokemon that would not be able to have both of there types weather conditions so if you allowed more irritants and energies or make so if 2 weathers of the same type are on the field neither player can put on a new one until Strong Winds or one of them goes away on its own. 2 For most teams setting up more than 1 weather would be difficult. So I hope you appreciate the suggestion I bet the game will be great.

I feel like Ice types should have, like, a 20% buff to both defenses when Hail is boosted by strong winds. It would just help them out in general.

Aw thnaks diude, what a legend! ALso, I love these!

15:20 I mean if you're in the Midwest US and the sky suddenly turns green or dusty red it gets pretty tense but it's got nothing to do with the people. (It's a sign of either a tornado or an extremely intense thunderstorm being imminent, "intense" as in the thunder itself being capable of minor property damage from vibrating enough to knock things like lamps over).

I love this idea, I've always said that a weather effect for each type would be cool, and the way you handled them is great. The only thing is that I don't see the utility of terrains or even hazards existing in such context, maybe you should incorporate them into a weather instead of having them be called upon the strong winds.

Idea, when strong winds is active, the Smog badly poisons (like toxic) all non poison or steel types, while those two are normally poisoned despite immunity.

First, the positives: I really like the idea of Strong Winds, and the fact that some weather types become potentially harmful to the user with them. I think it adds a nice layer of strategy. May I suggest an interaction between Strong Winds and the move Tailwind? I also like the fact that Grass benefits from Rain and Sun, it allows Grass-types to potentially survive most Fire-type attacks while also being an even more effective tank against Water-types. Dual-types such as Torterra and Ferrothorn look appealing. Rock getting a defense buff via Strong Sandstorm potentially makes it a little better as a defensive type that is usually regarded as one of the worst. Pheromones' speed + accuracy buff to Bug-types is quite interesting, Volcarona and Scolipede come to mind as benefactors. Next, the negatives: I'm kind of averse to the idea of debuffing accuracy using a weather; it kind of just adds an unnecessary layer of variance. Strong Pheromones confusing everyone can also be especially frustrating to play with and against. Similar thoughts to Strong Cursed Winds, and having them stacked together is even more chaotic. Smog is straightforward and makes sense, just a little boring imo. It's also not specified if it's poisoned or badly poisoned. Steel-types potentially gaining an immunity to Ground, especially in doubles where it's easier to set up, is really scary, and I fear that it will make Steel even more broken as a defensive type. Now onto more ambiguous opinions: Strong Blood Moon is absolutely bonkers and is a little difficult to wrap my head around, but it can make for some fun battles. Ground-types being able to hit Flying-types through Strong Dust Storm is really interesting, but I'm afraid that it might devalue Rock-type moves as a whole, as Ground-types have little reason to use them now. Hay Fever (Pollen Storm ability) is potentially the Special Attack equivalent of Intimidate everyone is asking for, how that affects battling is a little difficult to assess, though. That's it for the observations, I'm really loving this project and I can't wait to see it finished!

Man i want to play this sooo bad, and the vids just hype me that much further, I can't wait!!

I have some ideas from my own Fangame-Project which I´ve been working on for a while 1. The flying type weather could switch light Pokémon sometimes out, like the move whirlwind, if they are not rooted or burrowed, since very strong wind could even lift up trees 2. The Bloodmoon could change the type of moonblast and moonshine to dark typ Instead of healing HP, moonshine could increase the attack of the user 3 stages but cofuse him in return, letting the user do a werewolf like rampage Sleeping Pokémon could receive a nerfed version of nightmare, since some people have more nightmares during lunar events 3. Maybe the Poison weather it could deal damage and lower the defence of every non poisen and steel type Pokémon, since the gases corrode everything within it For the buffed up version, maybe it could remove the poison immunity of steel types 4. The magnetosphere could reduce the weight and increase the speed of steel typ pokémon, because of the strong magnetic lift steel types are getting It´s just some ideas I´ve come up, I´m not sure how it would be balanced, anyway great video keep up the awesome work

Me: * Was in a emotional rut due to missing my meds for 2 going on 3 days. * Lockstin: Posts Kaskade video. Me: "Thanks, you have no idea how much better I feel."

Can we all appreciate their hardwork? I mean, the man made a whole region. Respect.

A weather rock for every weather (except strong winds)(and the ones that exist): Moon rock (blood moon) Steam rock (fog) Light rock (dust storm) Overgrown rock (pollen storm) Nest rock (pheromones) Corroded rock (smog) Enchanted rock (fairy dust) Aura rock (battle aura) Cursed rock (cursed winds) Clear rock(like a future seeing orb) (psychic field) Carved rock(looks like a dragon head) (dragon force) Conductive rock (thunderstorm) Magnetic rock (magnetosphere). Also i think that the cursed winds flinch should be 5% instead of ten percent.

Maybe the smog effect could work on a timer, similar to Yawn.... out for one turn, it doesn't poison you yet, but two turns you're poisoned, and after 3 turns you're badly poisoned - just a thought

For normal type, I liked what PMD did with "Cloudy" weather, which didn't exactly buff normal types, instead nerfed every single move's power, except for normal types. And with Strong Winds, well... what's cloudier than cloudy? Fog! So I think that's where the accuracy debuff should happen (I guess Psychic and Ghost can dodge the debuff too, along with Normal)

I personally think it’s a good idea to make fogs effects null on normal types if we’re going with the idea that “All these weather conditions benefit the types they are related to” also I think it might be a good idea to just have the strong winds buffed smog badly poison Pokémon instead of just poisoning all Pokémon

I think that lightning rod should make a pokemon more likely to be hit by the thunderstorm weather and get a buff like they were hit with an electric type move (and immunity to the downsides of it if they aren't already).

The strong winds dragon one might be a little broken it basically gives dragons the ability to hold two choice bands (we all know how broken galarian darmanatan was) now I can do that with haxorus and garchomp. Not to mention you can also set up. I would recommend decreasing the damage increase for both dragons and non-dragons by 10 to 20%

The psychic weather effect should reduce fighting instead of dark moves, just like misty terrain reduces dragon moves. UNLESS the dark weather also reduces psychic moves in an inverse relationship (like how sunny day and rain reduce one another’s effects)

Lockstin this is a really awesome concept and the thought put into each weather is great! I have some concerns around flying ending up as just a set-up type. Putting in a flying type to buff the weather effect would take a turn and create weather that would make it easy to faint the flying type because you need a full turn before you can swap them out; so I'd want to see some sort of additional buff for flying type pokemon specifically. Imagine you're trying to stack thunderstorm, dust storm, or smog with strong winds - it'd be nice if on the first turn of boosted weather flying types have a higher chance to avoid weather effects because they're used to more extreme wind conditions? Additionally, I'd be curious to know how easily one weather effect can be replaced by another in its group - if I've built up harsh sunlight and managed to boost it with strong winds; what happens when the opponent brings in a pokemon with rain? the max time it takes to set up is 2 turns, and to lose the weather buff that easily would be frustrating. Adding a grace period where the new weather condition has to struggle for 1 turn to actually change the weather would be nice it could be something like "turn 1:'Poliwag's drizzle is trying to make it rain but the winds are too strong! turn 2: 'Poliwag's drizzle was able to break through the wind to make it rain!"

Wow this is all very interesting and seems well thought out. This is the first video i've watched involving the Kaskade Region, i will now be consecutively watching all the others. 😄👍

Unless poison gets reworked, I don’t see much of a use for Smog, especially in the strong winds weather effect. I mean, why would you want to poison your own Pokémon? Poison and steel types generally don’t get poison boosting abilities like Poison heal or Toxic Boost, so getting smog up is a detriment to all parties.

Normal type moves that aren’t sound should still have reduced accuracy, but less than what others have like 20% instead of 20

Dark types are actualy immune to prankster efected moves, so of course dark types are imune to status moves if dark moon is up because everyone gets prankster.

Im loving all the effort that's going into this idea and the weather effects are amazing, the only change I think could be done is the poison one. Specifically strong winds version, its unfortunate it hurts the type it's supposed to be benefiting so maybe have poison types still immune to being poisoned or maybe it could badly poisons everyone and then normal poison on those that can't be poisoned normally.