Z-Moves and the Z-Ring

I have small wrists, I can hope
I certainly think it's an interesting idea, although I do hope the bracelet will have some other function otger than just vibrate whenever you use a Z-move. I've seen the price for the Pokénav Plus, and if Nintendo plans to sell these things at an equally high price, I don't think I'll get one.
I have to admit, it looks very fancy though

 

Hidden Power. There has to be a catch...

 

Which completely breaks them, seeing as now every Pokémon (with the exception of Wobuffet, Wynaut, Kricketot, Tynamo, Spwepa, and those that can't learn TMs in the first place) have access to all Z-Moves that aren't Fairy or Normal. And most have a Normal move in Scratch or Growl or Hyper Beam or something.

Unrelated, but Magikarp can use the Normal Z-Move. Is he easier to train now, or is that not enough?

 

Its got to be HP (Hidden Power) allows Normal and Normal only, as that is the inherit type of said move, it be too broken otherwise IMO

 

So are these Z moves just going to have a extremely high power? Which I imagine would be greater than the strongest moves in the game like Hyper Beam, Blast Burn, ect. Or will these moves just have special effects that no other moves have had before?

 

I just hope the Z moves don't have priority like Mega Evolution does high base power and priority seems a bit too overpowered to me.

 

Z moves remind me of gems in a way, it's pretty much a powered up version of a move for one turn and a gem is only usable once and it makes your move that much stronger for one time. If the Z-Crystal vanishes after that one turn then i'll say it's a better gem depending on how good the moves are, but I don't see a problem with them. I do like the animations and the little dances your trainer does though.

 

What if Moonlit Assault (Greninja's Final Smash) became the Dark or Fighting Z-Move?

 

Well the fact that a Z move could only be used once per battle makes it pretty different to gems. On Hyper offensive teams you would often seen 3 or 4 gems on a team and for VGC the fact that they all count as different items helps get past Sleep Clause. They were kind of just a 'if there isn't any particular item I need, I'll just slap on a gem', where as I imagine Z moves being less of a teambuilding aspect and more of a mid-battle concept. The fact that you don't need to give your Pokémon an item or move to use it and you can change which Pokémon uses a Z move between battles could make best of 3 battles a bit more interesting. Especially in doubles, since targetting a Z move in to a Protect really could screw you potentially.

I'm curious about certain mechanics of Z moves. I'm pretty sure hidden power grass wouldn't allow a Pokémon to use the Grass Z Move, since that would just be dumb. But I am curious as to whether these attacks get STAB, and if so are affected by abilities like Huge Power, Adaptabilty and -ate abilities (such as aerialate and pixilate). Also, are these attacks special or physical and what determines that? Are some types of Z moves physical and others special like before the physical special split? Or are there two versions of each type.

There's also a lot of talk about there not being Mega evolutions, at least for this generation. I was a bit skeptical of this at first, but after hearing there's a new ring which could potentially replace the Mega Ring and Alolan forms it just seems like they could be trying to replace this concept with other concepts. This and the fact that they haven't released any new mega evolutions makes me think this is at least plausible. Which would make sense considering the fact that Pokémon like Mega Kangaskhan are so prevalent in their tournaments and every viable VGC team had a mega evolution, with many this year opting for multiple, they may think it's a poorly balanced mechanic. I don't know, just something interesting I was thinking about.