Pokemon Nerd Fitness Edition

[Mallorey]

So I was thinking of a way to make my character in the NerdFitness sense, and I was trying to take inspiration from my favourite franchises and what not and then I had an idea. And seeing as my biggest nerdy interest is Pokemon, I stuck with that. 

What if we made a leveling up system based on Pokemon:

• We make a team of 6 Pokemon each one representing each skill; STR, CON, INT, DEX, WIS, CHA, (or speed, endurance, etc)
• Come up with a system for leveling them up, based on our own real life progress in that skill.
• And then we evolve them when we have made a certain amount of progress.

 

So for example, I might choose Machop to represent my strength skill.

So whenever I make measurable progress in my strength, using my squat 5rm as a measure, I give exp to Machop, and then at 100kg he could evolve into Machoke. etc etc

Only a draft of an idea I had floating around, if anyone is interested we could work on developing it further. 

What do you guys think?

[Mallorey]

My team would be:

• Machop for Strength, with my progress at StrongLifts5x5 as his measure
• Aipom for Dexterity, I'm not too sure what I could use to measure progress there?
• Geodude for Constitution?
• Porygon for Intelligence, using good grades, or reading books to add to exp?
• Charisma would be Skitty
• Slowpoke for Wisdom?

It seems like I haven't thought this through as much as I thought I had 

[Anim07734]

An alternate idea would be to have a training method for each Pokemon stat, and you split the XP among your party as you wish.

 

Maybe:

Attack = strength training

Defense = flexibility/mobility

Speed = running/sprinting/HIIT

Special Attack = meditation/studying

Special Defense = endurance training

 

I'd also track based on training time, as that's far more controllable on your part.  Possibly with bonuses for goals/landmarks.

 

 

I may have to steal this idea for a minichallenge... 

[Mallorey]

23 hours ago, Anim07734 said:

An alternate idea would be to have a training method for each Pokemon stat, and you split the XP among your party as you wish.

 

Maybe:

Attack = strength training

Defense = flexibility/mobility

Speed = running/sprinting/HIIT

Special Attack = meditation/studying

Special Defense = endurance training

Oooh I like your version a lot more.

 

The other idea I had was to specifically design a fakemon to represent each stat. I had invented Spartoi->Achillio->Herculon for Strength and a Monkey doing tricks for Dexterity haha

But I much prefer your system although perhaps it fits raising a single pokemon better? and you need to raise exp in multiple stats for it to lvl up?

[CheshireCrab]

2 hours ago, Mallorey said:

Oooh I like your version a lot more.

 

The other idea I had was to specifically design a fakemon to represent each stat. I had invented Spartoi->Achillio->Herculon for Strength and a Monkey doing tricks for Dexterity haha

But I much prefer your system although perhaps it fits raising a single pokemon better? and you need to raise exp in multiple stats for it to lvl up?

 

 

What about leveling up each challenge and linking stats based on @Anim07734's suggestion? Like similar to the deprecated leveling up system NF used for challenges.

 

Just need a way to get Pokeballs so I can start trying to capture other Rebels, haha!

[Anim07734]

3 hours ago, Mallorey said:

But I much prefer your system although perhaps it fits raising a single pokemon better? and you need to raise exp in multiple stats for it to lvl up?

I never had a single pokemon that was balanced across every stat, but my entire party would cover everything.  So splitting the stat boosts among a group makes sense to me.

 

Since stats aren't dependent on level, something arbitrary like @CheshireCrab's suggest probably works best for leveling up.

 

I would come up with a diminishing returns formula for converting training time to stats though.  That way it's easier for people to jump in after a round has started without waiting for a reboot/new game.

[Mallorey]

Here are a few suggestions I came up with

 

Attack = strength training

• Machop- Machoke- Machamp
• Timburr- Gurdurr- Cunkeldurr
• Nidoran- Nidorino/a- Nidoking/queen
• Geodude- Graveller- Golem

Defense = flexibility/mobility

• Aipom- Ambipom

Speed = running/sprinting/HIIT

• Blitzle- Zebstrika
• Ponyta- Rapidash
• Gible- Garchomp
• Bagon- Sheldon- Salamence
• Doduo- Dotrio
• Eevee- Jolteon

Special Attack = meditation/studying

• Abra- Kadabra- Alakazam
• Solosis- Duosion- Reuniclus
• Porygon- Porygon2- PorygonZ
• Ralts- Kirlia- Gardevoir
   

Y'know to make the pokemon somewhat match the activities  

[Red1263]

You can also pull an Ash Ketchum and have only one Pokemon and raise its stats and/or evolve it