Ah, the good old days in 1998 where my biggest worry was whether there was enough charge left in my Gameboy when I faced down the Elite 4. I remember being ecstatic when I played Pokemon Yellow for the first time, getting Pikachu as my starter and realizing how horribly unprepared I was for Brock’s gym (hint: get a Caterpie and evolve it to a Butterfree. Psychic makes quick work of Geodude and Onyx)
I’ll admit it — I’m a bit of a geek. But how couldn’t I be? Pokemon kept an entire generation of kids spellbound, with the hit TV show, a trading card game and countless games that I spent more hours playing than I care to admit. So imagine my excitement when I discovered Kryptomon, a blockchain based game on the BSC that sounds like it’ll be a definite hit if they manage to deliver on everything they envision.
So what DO they plan on delivering? The game hasn’t been released yet so there isn’t too much information out there. The devs are slowly trickling out snippets of information via the website, telegram group and their discord. Lucky for you, I’ve already done all the research so you don’t have to.
Let’s get cracking.
Genetics
Kryptomons will be governed by a combination of 38 different genes. These genes are randomly attributed when a Kryptomon is born and will determine it’s initial stats. Unlike Pokemon however, these stats don’t just determine your Kryptomon’s battle strength, but also it’s social requirements. Everything from how often you’ll need to feed it to how likely it’ll heed your commands in the heat of battle is quantified in this table of genes.
The developers have also teased that every Kryptomon born will have a 1 in a 1000 chance to be a “wunderkind” Kryptomon. Details on this are sparse, but the whitepaper confirms that these wunderkinds will be special both visually and in it’s battle stats.
Will it have better growth rates? A bigger boost to stats when levelling up? Imagine the excitement on discovering that you have the only Kryptomon ever that’s capable of breaking past the max level cap of 99 to reach level 100!
Since the developers were inspired by Pokemon, is there also a possibility for legendary Kryptomons to appear? Since we already know genes make up a…
