Sharing YOUR Unpopular/Controversial Pokémon Opinions
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- čas přidán 2. 01. 2024
- Everyone has some hot takes out there, (including me) but also you! I asked what some of your most out-there Pokémon opinions might be, and while some of them were relatively inoffensive others were quite shocking! So let's look through and see some of your most unpopular beliefs when it comes to our favorite media juggernaut!
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I really need to question Pokemon fans media literacy if people *still* don't understand Team Plasma, and Black 2 & White 2 actively make Team Plasma better by showing the difference between Neo Team Plasma and the Ex Team Plasma, how there were people who joined Team Plasma truly believing in their (disingenuous) goals and now have to conflict with people who they once considered allies, IN WHAT WAY IS THAT MAKING TEAM PLASMA WORSE!?
Because of poor execution. BW1 Team Plasma are a bunch of dumbasses preaching Pokemon freedom while enslaving Pokemon. BW2 Team Plasma are dollar store terrorists at best and Ghetsis stops having any motivation beyond wanting to take over the world because its Tuesday.
Team plasma was a villain team done right. I do agree with you that black and white 2 extended that with the split within team plasma to demonstrate that. I would also respectfully disagree with people saying the sequels were bad.
Playing devil's advocate here, even though BW2 are my favourite main line games, I kinda understand the point that: after BW, Team Plasma pretty much just becomes like any other previous evil team. The difference here, which I think invalidates the devil's advocate argument, is that THANKS to BW, Team Plasma is way more compelling and interesting as you explained.
Most of Team Plasma were villains BSing everyone to begin with, and they were all wrong. I don't think the difference should be glamorized, when it was spearheaded by mostly Ghetsis's side but with a small portion of people who fell for his scheme.
I like both Team Plasma:
- N's Team Plasma is run by an idealistic leader (N), who truly believe that Pokémon and Humans should remain separated. Ghetsis wanted to capitalize the movement for his own interest and dominate the world. Yet, facing the protagonist lead him to reconsider the idea, as he saw the proof that Humans and Pokémon can coexist in peace. The idealistic ideas of N weren't evil: the movement collapse after he resign. Much to Ghetsis' anger, as he lost powers.
- Colress' Team Plasma is run by a realist leader (Colress), who seek data on Pokémon's strength at all cost. Ghetsis wanted to capitalize the movement for his own interestest and dominate the world. Yet, the data collected by Colress (mainly by dueling with the protagonist) let him understand the truth: that a strong Pokémon comes from the bond with its trainer.
Basically, it says that neither the ideals and the truth are bad, only people's motives. Here, N and Colress are extremely idealistic and realistic up to be complete opposite characters. Yet, they are not evil: they just wanted answers and found out that Humans and Pokémon bonding together is what make them strong, leading to the same conclusion. The only real evil was Ghetsis: he never wanted to follow either an ideal or the truth. He just wanted to take over the world. But he knows he would have no follower if it was his plan. He is basically a corrupt politician setting up a puppet for the people to enjoy so he could rip the benefits behind the scene.
As Pokémon B2W2 is the least sold of the franchise, I don't know how it can be overated: so few people played it. Maybe because it wasn't a success: only Pokémon fans bought it, therefore liked it. I think XY is the opposite: it sold so well that a disproportionate amount of players disliking the games are going to talk and be heard.
Convergent evolution and regional "variants" are two phenomena in biology and are completely different from each other. A convergent animal develops similar traits to another species, while a regional variant is that same animal adapting to a different environment.
That being said, I think regional forms did it right, while convergent forms could do a little more work to tell themselves apart from the former, at least design-wise.
Like diglet wiglet it could be water/ground or water/rock than only water glass canon atleast aloa diglet was better tgan original in battles
I'm glad they're not too different. Toedscool is one of the cutest and most entertaining Pokemon to watch in the wild. His little feet! Then it's evolution form looks just as interesting as the original water form, while not simply being a different color pallet. They change enough of the design that it's immediately recognizable as a mushroom. I agree the Wiglett line is lame. Although the sea worms they are designed after are effectively just that, without the cute cartoon face 🤷🏻
@@trash44gzgigasmashkaza50I absolutely hate the Alolan forms, while loving the typing lol. They just have wigs on 😂
I wholeheartedly agree on Greninja. It is just like Charizard, getting all the cool and unnecessary gadgets it never needed in the first place.
It's kind of worse than Charizard, because at least IT had the backing of decades of children already loving it before it got so much special treatment, Greninja got it the day it came out or even before!
@@emperorcubone I agree 100%
The sad part is with Charizard the other two starters were still good on their own but with Greninja the other two felt like they were neglected fully at least in my opinion.
Overall I think it's good but still was treated a bit too royally.
@@Simple2409 yep. Greninja already outclassed both starters in matchups and abilities. Giving it Battle Bond was overkill imo
@@Lasagnathesecond Battle bond felt to me was more marketing and never about gameplay considerations. It was a bit much for sure.
I like the idea of DLCs, assuming that the base game isn’t buggy and needs the DLCs to patch the bugs. Assuming the base game is already complete, I think adding a new adventure at the end for me to go on with the Pokémon I’ve already gotten attached to is really fun, and I don’t need to restart from the beginning like I would with a third game
I thought so to. We should also define what a complete game is? In sword and shield the DLC was only add ons and you didn't need them for a full experience. Scarlet and violet I'm less inclined to say because of tereapogos but even then...
@@rossjones8656 Hard disagree on SwSh DLC. The base game was a whole lotta nothing. The region was bland af, the characters had none, and the story was non-existent. Even though the DLCs were also pretty devoid of life, they were a major visual upgrade, especially the Crown Tundra, and the little stories & characters contained within were pretty much the only charm gen 8 had to offer. I would never recommend those games to anyone without the DLC. The games are absolutely not a full experience without them.
@@kami_in_the_skye I can see what you mean but a purely mean plot. You don't need the DLC for the plot despite how shallow it was. The DLC was stand alone and I didn't like them all that much being real here but I can see what you mean.
Every fandom I'm in does these "unpopular/controversial opinions" things, and while some actually get me upset or get me to share my unpopular opinions, Pokémon is just a funny point out of the curve in that regard.
The fandom is just so utterly massive that not one single take doesn't have copious amounts of support. Still funny to see a giant amount of new kids getting in every year being contrarians for the sake of being contrarians, and elitist people calling you poor because you demand a single ounce of quality from people at the top of the gaming industry food chain. Can't talk too much about character design preferences because they are utterly subjective. Maybe being on the older side of the fandom has made me cynical.
Ones I'll actually comment on is:
- Gimmicks shouldn't be left behind on games in which they were introduced. If the entire thing was programmed once, it isn't that much of a hassle to pass it forward. Your game shouldn't depend on a gimmick to be memorable and that specially backfires if the gimmick is bad. Future games would actually have benefited from previous gimmicks. Horde Battles, SOS Battles, Battle Royales were actually fun formats that could have been used in specific story points and nothing would be lost from it (Ooops the evil team ganged up on you. Time for 3v3 or 5v1; Ooops all the rivals are in a tizzy, time for a Battle Royale). It also is instantly peak post-game content for free. You can immediately add one battle facility per returning gimmick and it be an extra optional challenge for anyone that wants it. That's what Z-Moves, Tera Types and Style Change are, battle formats that could be formalized.
Which leads me to point 2:
- People only have bad takes on Megas and Gmax forms (virtually the same thing in different shapes) exactly because of how early they were dropped. If a bigger pool of Pokémon ended up getting their chance instead of just the popular ones, no one would complain. Gmax specially, with Eevee, Pikachu and Meowth, showed that it was a matter of will to make the form and not limited by being a final stage. As much as I don't like Gmax mechanically, adding more battle appropriate forms for Pokémon essentially working as a possible temporary "Stage 4" evolution is a dope concept and it will invariably be brought back as gimmicks again even if Mega and Gmax don't.
You took the words out of my mouth, on everything in this post.
I definitely agree with you and even more so about the extra battle styles. I personally enjoyed the 5v1, 3v3, rotation and sky battles because it was something different
Rotation and Triple battle deserved more support and I remain salty they never got it. Inversion battle was good enough to become a Gym Leader or or Elite 4 signature and should have carried forward in some fashion. Also the Ride Pager was a great idea that was adapted in the clumsiest fashion imo.
Megas might have done better if the popular, powerful Megas were handed out more piecemeal than they were... maybe. Z-Moves could have made a return though.
110% agreeing on everything
Dang. Now that you've made me think of the possibilities I'm getting slightly saltier xD Battle Facilities based around all these different things would be so cool. In the Triple Battle one you would actually get to use a full team of 6. It would be something to get to go against every single (non-legendary) mega evolution in a gauntlet of sorts {and you know, the anime kinda sorta had a portion like that, so why not?}. Story events/sections that involve hoard battle mechanics or the battle royale bit... Dang. I wish we got these.
Sword/Shield even gave you 3 rivals, it'd have been perfect to have everyone go at each other at some point. This generation was at least partially all about sports, so why not lean into that further? Have characters being sorted into groups, include a little round robin portion, perhaps players could face elimination through more than just 'not being able to defeat gym leader' or 'running out of motivation'. The end game tournaments (like Champion Cup) have extra gym challenger characters that specialize in different types (Normal, Bug, Flying, etc.) so you could do something with those as well. There's so much that could be improved, and realizing there's even More that couldda made things even cooler? Such a shame.
I agree with all of this wholeheartedly, would be really fun to have some of them back, maybe tweaked a little, the only issue I can think of for bringing back every gimmick is balance, but they could just have some restrictions for use outside of any corresponding battle facilities (Maybe 2 a battle or something?), and don't necessarily need to be tied into the main story, imagine a mid or late game side quest to get a Key Stone or a Tera Orb so you can use the mechanic, could be really cool
And they really wanted for Greninja to be a fan favorite no matter the cost.
Greninja was coded into Smash, BEFORE XY came out.
I remember already being really sick of fighting Greninjas online when X/Y dropped, and then that Smash trailer kinda sealed the deal for me at the time. My reaction was: "Seriously? Of course they picked Greninja...". I've grown to appreciate Greninja more over time, but back then, it left a sour taste in my mouth.
Similarly to a pampered little rich prince, Greninja is a gifted child born to be a major competitor to Charizard, Lucario & the like & somehow surpass them. Unlike Pikachu or Zard who had years worth of existence to solidify their traction, Gren's popularity shot all the way up in no time & it doesn't feel natural at all. & now in SV its precious toys (Battle Bond, Protean) have been made worse...to better focus on Zard I guess.
I still need battle form to drop for pkm go
I feel like it was the same for Incineroar, they wanted it to be popular I suspect. They buffed it by giving it Intimate, and they've been giving it buffs ever since Sun and Moon released. At least with Charizard that growth was organic, but for Greninga and Incineroar it felt entirely artificial.
Another thing about the DLC issues is that especially with the sword and shield DLC the base game wasn’t altered the sane way a third version allows
D+P are overshadowed by platinum not just because of the new Pokémon and extra content but because it was basically a delux edition that added quality of life improvements and allowed the Pokémon to be obtainable normally instead of being shunted to either a seperate map or random outbreaks plus allowed appropriate teams to take advantage of them (like flint since he’s the obvious example)
There’s also the fact that third versions didn’t typically need broken Pokémon created to incentivise a purchase like the urshifus or ogrepon
I know, that was one of the most insulting things; the DLC never "fixes" anything, at least the way they do it now, it just staples a second mini-game onto the first without quality of life improvements. Honestly it's just the Pokemon version of Bowser's Fury; it's cool but has almost nothing to do with the base game...
At least bowsers fury wasn’t extra @@emperorcubone
I don't think the idea of dlcs themselves are wrong, the big issue personally is just their implementation sucked, like i'm on the side that conceptually thinks dlcs for pokemon would be way better than 3rd games, but they just don't make the dlcs right. the dlcs adding more story is cool, adding new areas to explore is great, and giving you access to new pokemon is cool too, but the should first patch the base games to be perfect, then enhance them further with the dlcs, but they didn't make the base games perfect in the first place.
USUM demonstrated why the Platinum style re-release was always a bad thing that needed to end. It was paying full price for 90%+ the exact same game with barely relevant changes that don't come anywhere remotely close to justifying the purchase again and they completely invalidate the base Sun/Moon. What was even the point of Sun/Moon existing if Ultras just replace them altogether?
It'd much rather pay a much smaller price for an expansion to the existing game with more stuff to do than buy the same game again with 20 minutes of extra mostly optional stuff that don't make meaningful changes.
*"the base game wasn’t altered the sane way a third version allows"*
Counter to this is that I would usually need to play at least an hour or two of the same content I already went through just to experience the new content the Third Version offers, meanwhile with a DLC I can simply access it as soon as I buy it.
Okay, I have a few hot takes.
1) DLc marketing on having pokemon cut from the games is a nasty move post dexit. The home updates are fine though. But I know it’s a selling point and the Pokemon executives want to buy their eighth yacht.
2) Team Plasma in Black and white only seem to have any staying power because, for many children, it gave the illusion of a debate. Well, that and being part of the trend in fiction where the activists are villains by stating that they are lying through their teeth. In reality, it’s clear that the lack of Pokemon abuse in the region outside of team Plasma (when the anime isn’t afraid to show that anyone can do that) and the strawman language of N and Plasma’s more delusional grunts does feel like the writers didn’t want to engage either. The whole region getting weirdly proud of saying that everyone has their own opinions without really dissecting that also gets grating after a while. It just feels very empty.
2) Lusamine could be a good villain but two things hold her back. One being the idea that Lillie has to go back to her at the end and abandon the journey out of obligation to her. I know Japan has its own cultural values regarding parents and abuse but that never sat right with me. Frankly, I’m in the camp that we should’ve either played as Gladion or Lillie and trainer customisation could’ve been a way to show the children starting to find their own identities outside of her.
The second issue is more of a rough execution aspect. Tying your only female main villain to being a bad mother and vanity isn’t a great look as it is an overdone cliche. Heck, the neglectful mother thing appears again with Sada.
3) Silent protagonists are only great when the story is minimal. Honestly, the urge to have more complex stories and characters is hampered by the fact that, most of the time, the player can’t actually give their own opinions in the story. So, characters like Lillie, Gladion and the three friends from scarlet and Violet are stuck talking to a brick wall.
My little hot takes would be:
- I liked XY. It's a shame that this gen got scrapped and abandoned by Game Freak because they wanted the 7th gen to be released for Pokemon's 20th anniversary. I still feel bitter about it since I really wanted to discover other games in Kalos.
- Primarina is too much hated for no reason, I get that the two other stages look awkward but Primarina is beautiful and Fairy/Water is an awesome typing.
- PLA is a step in the right direction. It really made me rediscover Pokemon and having a full sense of freedom, to the point that I can barely return to former games that lock you arbitrarily because you don't have enough badges or the right key item to unlock other areas.
- I don't like legendary Pokemon offered as mystery gifts. They lose all what makes them feel special and I really would love seeing events for them returning in the future (just like Darkrai, Shaymin or Hoopa...)
- I wouldn't feel bad if The Pokemon Company released the games slower if they are less buggy, finished and optimized without needing additional updates. In fact, I think that one main game per year is a bit too much.
- I hope interesting spin-offs will return one day or under another form. I miss XD, Colosseum, Mystery Dungeon and Ranger especially.
- And finally (but it's just my personal taste here) I prefer Grovyle's design over Sceptile. I'm not much a fan of these strange "balls" on Sceptile's back, also it loses the beautiful long leaf on its head while evolving...
X and Y are quite fun indeed, and I always enjoy playing them! And Grovyle is absolutely great!
I love these takes. Thank you 🙏🏻
No, stages 1 and 2 are bearable. Primarena, however, is an abomination. An absolutely hideous, ridiculous freak no one needed. The world would in fact be a better place if this thing had never come into existence. Same goes for that disgusting cat wrestler monstrosity. Imagine how cool it would have been if a kitten evolved into a menacing panther walking on all fours. In earlier generations, Pokémon usually looked much more like animals. The trend of designing more and more hybrids of humans and animals is deeply disturbing. Especially when it comes to waifu Pokémon. 🤮 The designers of those should go see a psychiatrist or at least stop harassing other people (including children) with their weird fetishes.
Nothing but good takes
4 5 6 aren't hot takes
10:40 ah yes, i loved not being able to use sneasle and having punches not being considered phisical attacks.
Right? It's super weird to want that; there are some niche cases like Sceptile where special Thunder Punch was helpful, but then you have Crawdaunt where neither type is useful with its much higher Physical attack...
@@emperorcubone Don't forget Gengar, poison/ghost were both physical coming off his high special attack.
I liked that Black and White forced you to use new Pokémon. In fact, I've only used new Pokémon since Sun and Moon. And by only new Pokémon, I mean fully new Pokémon, so no regional forms or regional evolutions. The only exceptions were BDSP and Legends Arceus. I only used gen 4 Pokémon for BDSP, excluding new evolutions like Roserade or Gallade, and I only used Hisuian forms and Hisuian evolutions for Legends Arceus since those are technically the "newest" Pokémon in that game.
Agreed. I never got the whole fuss with NatDexers and not being able to do a playthrough with their old favorites. Sure, sure, everyone gets to play the way they like, but wouldn't you *want* your team to feel unique to the game you're playing? I can understand the critique more if it's in reference to wanting to use an old fave in the competitive scene, but a story playthrough is the perfect grounds to try new things.
I don't limit myself to only *new* Pokémon, but I do try to only use Pokémon that I've never used before, even if they were in previous games.
I can respect that kind of mindset. Since we starting getting Regional Variants and Evolutions, I used one on each team if there was one that I liked. It was the toughest in Scarlet, cause between Wooper and Girafarig, I loved what they became, but ultimately only used one in the main story, and then the other in the DLC.
@@thewhatness type soecialists got kinda shafted. A lot of the Pokémon that weren't available in Sw/Sh, for example, were major parts of certain monotype teams.
My personal hot take - I think XY are the most underrated pokemon games. not top 3 material, but definetly has their charms - a hugh roster, a colorful region to explore, not too dialogue heavy such as gen 7 and really nice vibe to it. its like the guilty pleasure of mainline pokemon game, and I occasionaly find myself going through them while having a blast. also, if you turn off the exp share right from the start its way more balanced than SWSH or SV
Yes! While it's undercooked in many regards, it has enough going for it that it's still fairly satisfying in the end. Probably towards the bottom overall, but the design of the region itself might be my personal favorite, even though objectively it's probably #3 after gens 5 & 7.
Here's my hot take: Pokéstar Studios is actually a really good feature and its tutorial taking like 5 minutes of your playtime is a WAY smaller issue than everyone makes it out to be
Clearly you haven't replayed the game a dozen times like me... It's fine to have the feature, just don't make it mandatory! The Musicals from the first Black and White weren't forced on you so that was the perfect balance.
I played BW2 like at least 20 times now and I would't feel the Pokestar Studios sidequest much of a bother if it wasn't for the fact that I always forget where Roxie's father is to go and convince him to drive me to Castelia.
Also I generally don't like GF tendency to just shove their tutorials in your mouth instead of taking 2 minutes to program a skip button
Agree with the 1st part. It's another in-depth side mode in a game with multiple side modes that will occupy your time way past more than any other Pkmn game has as long as you're engaged, which you should be. But its introduction lasts way longer than just 5 minutes, leaving a terrible 1st impression. The tutorial of making & watching a film shouldn't be forced on. We already don't like it when small catching tutorials r on our path.
I don’t care what anyone says. Legends Arceus is one of THE BEST Pokémon games ever made. The story, the characters, the pokemon, the mystery and the plot twist, everything was chef’s kiss. They could have easily delayed SV a year and added more Pokémon into Legends Arceus and released it later but i’m happy with we got and SV are awesome too. I love how it got us thinking about old and even forgettable characters through their ancestors. Alpha Pokémon were so fun to fight and catch. The catching method was so efficient and fun and the story just has my heart. We NEED Legends Kyurem now.
That last one was a really good idea. Just look at what happened with Gen 9's competitive run; there are currently 4 different versions of the competitive landscape that has been surprising each time. Murkrow was somehow topping, the new Pokemon with their weird new moves making names for themselves, Terastalizing making things surprisingly better than before, and then they finally gave Home and that era was familiar but different thanks in part to Legends, then came the dlcs with its own power.
Making certain mons not be in until later and having a whole season of just a set is a cool and fun idea.
Having pokemon return in waves does indeed make for unique and interesting competitive formats, I just want it to end up with all the mons returning eventually. It definitely makes it more interesting than the older format of everything outside of the region dex being available at launch. A time to be able to avoid things like Lando-T and enjoy what the base game has is valuable.
@@Hiushisan This! The games are getting way too huge for a three year development cycle anymore, so give them an extra year or two in the oven, and schedule a couple more Home updates to make the rest of the old mons available. The last year of a generation should just be a complete free-for-all, a culmination/celebration that adds just that little bit of extra hype for what is yet to come.
I reckon it would probably require a permanent team solely dedicated to making all the old mons look & feel & play right in a current game on whatever the console happens to be, but eShops don't last forever. Technology marches on and even the elemental monkeys will have to make the cut for a modern game eventually. So that should already be a priority for the most lucrative franchise in human history anyway.
I have a hot take:
I don’t think cutting the National Pokédex was that bad of an idea. Sure, it would’ve been nice to have every Pokémon be available in the games, but to me, the most exciting part of a new generation is encountering new Pokémon, and I don’t really care about running into old Pokémon unless I wanna complete the Pokédex
I agree that I always prioritize the new Pokemon, but less options is never a good thing, so having older ones for the people that want it never hurts...
Yes this one right here
Something I realized in the Horizon anime is how really awkward it actually is from an environmental stand point if you just force as many mons into a region as possible. You won't be able to know in which region which episode takes place by the pokemon you encounter.
It just causes regions to blend into each other
Personally, I think eliminating the national dex was needed. Pokemon is all about variety and balance. There are over 1000 pokemon now. Having all of them available in each game would be a monumental task and there would be no way to balance the game.
Personally, I'd rather see games put a greater focus on new pokemon and create more new pokemon with each gen and only include old pokemon if they are updating them in some way like adding an evolution or doing a regional form.
honestly you are pretty right
Here’s my hot takes:
- I enjoy playing XY, although I don’t follow the story
- Hugh is a great rival
- They should return minigames like pokéathlon and poké star studios
I don't think that last one is a hot take
Mmm, not ones like Studios, but other minigames would be welcome! And I agree, X and Y are underrated and if there had been a Z version people would love them!
Wait people don’t like Hugh!?! He’s a very compassionate dude that believes in doing the right things and really want to return his sister stolen Pokémon. Yeah he’s isn’t as memorable as Blue or N but he’s far from a bad rival.
@@gioanysgonzalez3396 I lve him as a character and is my second-favorite rival, but I've heard of many people who just see him as "the guy wanting his purrloin" and saying he's boring.
Agreeing on everything here
XY have been a good time. The story could use some work, but they're still fine games
Hugh is amazing. He's got a whole interesting story thing that ties him to the earlier game/s that he didn't even appear in & his story makes Team Plasma better as villains as well
Yes. Please. I want more things to do in the games. They could bring Contests back in the form they had in Gen 3 & 4. Actually challenging and interesting. Pokeathlon would also be fun to gain back for sure, your pokemon get to do more than just battle and it's not all about the actual stats a pokemon has either (like, I think Sunkern was hilariously super good in Pokeathlon lol)
My hot take: "No you are not allowed to like this pokemon" is an incredibly weird thing to say. Let people enjoy Greninja
wholeheartedly agree. Ive fallen out of love with charizard but that doesnt mean i dont get the appeal or tell people no its absolutely wrong. Hes my favourite mon 😭
I hope this becomes a series!
I hope people enjoy it enough for that too! It was fun to see what people think.
@@emperorcuboneI want to join if you do another one
Hey, I was very surprised to see my comment there 😊
Another great vídeo as always!
13:01 I hate to say it, but set mode actually no longer exists as of gen 9. It has joined the exp share in the abyss of "you're gonna play how we want to and you're gonna like it."
The meme is still accurate, but you'd be surprised how much time is saved and how much suspense is added by simply removing that text
It seems small but the removal of that set mode actually made the gameplay significantly more annoying for me :( RIP set mode, you will be missed.
I get what you're saying about megas, but the relative exclusiveness is what made it sting so much to lose. It felt like if they gave a pokemon you like an evolution so that it wouldn't suck anymore, but then took it away after acting like it was going to persist (given that it spanned at least two gens iirc?).
I like dynamax and tera just fine, but ultimately a dynamaxed bad pokemon is still a bad pokemon since it's not like they get a different tier of bonus from it or anything. Mega evolution didn't really feel like a gimmick in the same way imo.
This Very much this,
As one Pixar villain put it so succinctly: "If everyone's super, No one will be"
Give us a game with Mega Evolutions Gigantomax(Not Dynamax, Exclusive Z moves, I dont really care but at least make it special, or just don't bother
15:45 isn’t that exactly what they did in Legends Arceus? There’s only 7 new Pokémon, and, minus one, they’re all evolutions of already existing Pokémon. The rest of the Pokedex is Pokémon that were previously established with a few new regional variants.
Furthermore, Volo is a sole antagonist with no evil team.
True, and look how they were rewarded! Most everybody loved that game, or at least recognized it as a great step in the right direction!
@@emperorcubone agreed!
11:54 Thank you for the compliment and for including my take. I really appreciate the Kuwagamon visual as well. Yeah, people try to cope for Greninja by saying that it was "frail," but it was still just bulky enough to survive one more hit than all the other glass cannons in the meta at the time. Appreciate you, Emperor Cubone.
The physical/special split reminds me of a fun fact I noticed about a classic move.
Bite.
Gen 1: Normal-type, Physical
Gen 2/3: Dark-type, Special
Gen 4+: Dark-type, Physical
Such a strange sequence of changes.
Huh, I didn't even realize that Bite changed to a Special just to switch back to Physical. Crazy how some things change...
I feel like they kinda tried the "one evil person instead of an evil team" both with Lusamine and Rose. The evil teams weren't actually evil meanwhile you have characters pushing their own personal ambitions, they just had a few henchman to make it more "boss" like.
Rose and Lusamine had grunts; who didn't question being ordered to clobber literal children.
Typhlosion slander will not be tolerated
Feraligatr is best, there is no denying!!
I like your channel because you are one of those few poketubers that respect others opinions. I don’t always agree on your preferences, but I respect them. I do agree especially on the Mega part and to me being able to Tera your Pokémon to any type makes it more interesting and keeps you on your toes. To me this gimmick beats Mega’s
Well I know many people don't always agree with me, so I try to respect others as well! And yes, Terastallizing is much more strategic than hitting the Mega button for an immediate win...
@@emperorcubone The funny thing is I keep saying that to people and all they respond with is like 'no they bad cause dummy hats' and I'm like IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE HATS!
I just like Pokemon and watching videos about Pokemon. It makes me happy 😅
One thing about what you said for the 3rd versions, with the switch, do you not have more than one profile? I have three and i use them to use all of the starters and replay the game without needing a complete restart.
Dunno if this is a "hot" take or not, but... in my opinion, IV's/DV's (at least the way they were implemented) were a mistake. I like the idea of different Pokémon from the same species having variance in their stat potentials, but I think that the EV system (as implemented in Gen 3 and onward, where you can't max out everything) and Natures were both better ways to do it. My primary issues with IV's/DV's are twofold. One, they're hidden information; especially in earlier generations, you don't know which potentials your specific Pokémon has without using out-of-game means. Two, it's possible for a Pokémon to be a "master of all" (relative to other members of its species), and conversely, for a Pokémon to be strictly inferior to other members of its species; disregarding realism for a moment, that's annoying from a game design perspective, especially if your ability to "re-roll" (by catching/breeding another of that species) is limited (such as in the case of Legendaries or Mythicals).
Hasn't Hyper Training fixed that though? Now, if you're willing to work for, even the most inferior IVs can be made to match the best.
@@Ryodraco well for actual competitive pokemon it hasn't because there are some stats you want as low as possible for certain team comps, like special attackers having lower attack to weaken confusion damage, foul play damage and how much hp the enemy recovers from strength sap, or having lower speed for trick room teams, in addition some people specifically tune the ivs so that example they have a support pokemon move slightly faster than their dps, so they lower the dps's ivs by a tiny bit, even if the support pokemon's species is normally slower than the dps to the point where evs alone can't fix it.
I think abilities and natures (not to mention EV investment) could be more than enough variation in species to make two Pokemon different, so I agree; individuals shouldn't be punished by having unchangeable awful stats to make them unusable...
@@Ryodraco In addition to what kr555wizard pointed out, I would also say that if the "fix" for something is to give the player a way to undo it, that's usually a pretty strong indication that a mistake has been made. On top of that, Hyper Training at best only lessens the problem, because some Pokémon will need to Hyper Train more than others. If you got bad rolls for your IV's/DV's and have to Hyper Train to get those values up, you're still getting punished for something you had no control over, even if not as severely.
I definitely agree with the first opinion, whole heartedness. Crystal, Emerald, and Platinum are all of my favorites from previous generations. I miss getting third games with all the extras.
Cool to see someone actually liking popplio (like I do) represented in the video
While I hate the way exp have changed from after gen 6. Being able to disable the share and getting maybe a 10th of the exp was bearable, but now its way too much. Though I will say to make my team more balanced level wise I typically use 8 to 10 mons in my party rather tha the 6 which I do really quite like
I don't think "the EXP Share is bad" is a hot take at all. But when I first played thru ORAS I used like 10-12 Pokemon throughout the whole game and it was so much fun!
I loved mega evolutions but they were super broken and not all mons got access to it. It was just mega unbalance.
They were also such pur nostalgia-bait. ORAS exclusively got the only Gen 6 mega. So Kalos does not even have a mega of its own region
@@GameBreaker1055is nostalgia bait a negative now? I doubt any of the gsmes would sell without pinches of it, so what cut all the nostalgic aspects and fade into obscurity? no Charizard no Pikachu no one cares 😂
@@AL-nv4gk No, but the big mechanics of a game should go beyond being just nostalgia bait!
Z-Moves also added special Z-Moves to Pikachu, Eevee, Snorlax & Mew, BUT they also gave them to the Alolan Starters, Legednaries, an Alolan Form and some more.
Some nostalgie-flare added, but it went beyond that, especially with Z-Moves themself being available for everyone.
Dynamax worked also for all, but special pokemon were given gigantamax forms.
Again, nostalgia got in via, Charizard, Pikachu, Eevee, Meowth, Lapras, Snorlax and more, but Galar received its own Gigantamax Pokemon as well!
Megas stopped at nostalgia, no Kalos Pokemon got any outside of an ORAS exclusive event which makes it unavailable in Kalos.
Mega evolution are cool but regional variants do exactly the same by giving new life to old pokemon but without making them overpowered. They can really change the design instead of being super saiyan and you can do it in any region without having to change the lore
Maybe they could retconn megas into regionals? Idk. I hate scrapping Pokémon.
Thank you very much for allowing me to be in a video! It makes my year off to a great start. I also see your point on Decidueye. It is my second favorite out of the three. I appreciate your opinion on the matter as well, I will just stick to my guns with Primarina.
Edit: forgot to mention, I also agree that Greninja is overhyped. I actually have never used a Kalos starter through the whole game because of that.
Well thank you for participating and commenting on the post! I do think Primarina is pretty good though, I was happy to use one in UltraSun version!
As for the dlc take
Its cheaper and same ish amount of content
If youre talking about preservation the dlc can and already has been dumped and backed up by people, modding a switch after its life cycle will become significantly easier just as the 3ds did. Theres 0 issue there (if you dont wanna mod thats your choice) and preservation in the long term often involves this process as no backup of a digital file can degrade over time like carts/discs
Happy New Year, Hi!- also hope you have a good day; I wish the DLC, was a new game too* anyway let’s see the controversies
Happy New Year!
7:54 wow I have the complete opposite opinion. Convergent evolution is just gamefreak padding out pokedex numbers, they already make less pokemon in a gen then they used to, we don't need regional forms now being an excuse to make less new pokemon
I do agree that with so FEW new Pokemon they really need to focus on quality so endless repeats are not ideal. To me the regional Pokemon never counted as "New" so it never bothered me. What I find worse than either of them though is Paradox Pokemon; it's like the worst of both worlds and huge amounts of Dex padding...
@@emperorcubone yeah Paradox pokemon don't even have good names.
It's like they are going crazy with varients, old forms from hisui (are the technically regional forms?) Regional forms, concergent pokemon and also past/future pokemon...
That last one was basically describing legends Arceus 😂
Right? That's why it was so good and everybody loved it!
I would love an actual Pokémon RPG... with choices, characters... maybe even companions...
Arceus was a good step towards that... maybe half-step... but it was still something new and fresh
I would love travel companions in a Pokemon game! Like Brock, Dawn, or Goh from the anime, it'd be so fun!
Imagine if Larian Studios or CDProjekt Red made it.
@@Nor-tc8vz Well, that is obviously not going to happen but it would certainly be interesting!
Pokémon Baldur’s Gate 3
My Pokemon hot take:
Honestly, at some point of being a part of Pokemon community I realised that all these complaints, argues, etc. are so.... pointless? It's really a shame that you can't like or dislike something, because then you'll be attacked by angry fans/haters that will tell you 1000 times how wrong is your opinion and how right theirs.
You like this Pokemon? How dare liking a popular Pokemon, you're unoriginal and basic!
Or you like that Pokemon? Nobody likes that Pokemon, you're just trying to be different!
You enjoy this game? How dare you support the greed of Pokemon Company?
You enjoy that game? You must be blinded by nostalgia!
And I can go on.
And the worst part is that I used to be like that to. So, what do I want to say? We should share more love about our favourite franchise, rather than hate. Let people play how they like, let people enjoy what they want, let people just enjoy Pokemon in every way possible!
Exactly this. I get ripped apart every time I mention that I don't like PLA. Or that my favorite mon is Chesnaught.
I like and dislike different things. 🤷🏻♂️
Some really good “hot takes”.
I do wish all Pokémon games had a hard mode from the start kind of like Devil May Cry.
There’s plenty more to say but I’ll cut it short.
Here's some of my takes:
-I totally agree with making a mature game and a "core audience" game. And they should shift their timeline to not rush out games and actually have a smooth running game before it's released. They'll still make their money.
-They need to stop shiny locking Pokémon.
-Also agree that they don't need to make so many Pokémon - it's getting ridiculous. I think they could have not done the Paradox Pokémon at all.
-Gimmicks staying in their gen are fine with me.
-I don't want to grind levels/experience for hours on end, so making exp. share an option to turn off or on again would solve that for people.
-I want a Let's Go Johto and a remake of HG/SS on the Switch or next console.
-The story in Legends Arceus was so intolerable for me. They blame you for everything, make you solve all the problems and do all the work, threaten to kick you out of the village if you don't... then you're trapped there forever with no going back to your original life/timeline.
Correction: They should make the locked shinies objectively bad and the unlocked shinies something that someone in at least a rough approximation of their right mind could like. It would be easy to do even within the lack of time Game Freak is given by TPC to make polished games that don't require DLC that is _half the cost of the base game whilst being worth less than that_ to feel complete, considering how most of them are simple palette swaps.
I have to say, I really like that last point. I mean, I do like having new Pokemon in a game, but I think just a handful of them, like with Legends: Arceus or Kitakami or Blueberry Academy, is a good way to add them in. Like, a couple new forms, a couple new evolutions, and maybe a couple new lines at the most
110% Agreeing on the Greninja
It's gotten the 'favourite treatment' from day 1. Chesnaught & Delphox are really neat too but they've been given nothing whereas Greninja gets literally everything
The tongue scarf stuff is hideous. Frogadier had the cool bubble scarf, why did that have to be removed/replaced? If people think Lickitung & Lickylicky are disgusting, then you should be dryheaving just at the sight of Greninja.
Never liked this thing, and with the treatment & 'shove that right in your face, look look' it's been given, I doubt I ever will
It's a shame because X&Y starters had a cool theme. The whole D&D, RPG thing going on with the Paladin/Mage/Rogue could probably stand on its own, but they "had" to play favorites.
Delphox seems to get a lot of hate, but I love the line. Same with Chesnaught. But I'm not a fan of the Greninja line.
So it might be a hot take, but the X&Y starter line is in the top 3.
@@cir0plus Very much so yeah. It'd have been very neat if they all got standard Megas. You could have gone and fully embraced the RPG/D&D aspects by either enhancing those traits further, or twisting things and giving the starters a whole different class all together. Could have even given each starter 2 megas like Charizard & Mewtwo. You could have made Chesnaught into a Druid or a Barbarian instead of a Knight or Paladin. Perhaps even a Cleric? Delphox could have gotten a mega form that made it into a Rogue or an Artificer. Greninja could have had an Archer based Mega (Decidueye didn't exist yet. This might lessen its coolness which would be a shame, but I wouldn't mind two archers)
The Fennekin, Braixen & Delphox line is likely to be my favourite starter line, I won't lie xD Magical Fox Wizard + the Fire-Typing that already has many of my favourite pokemon in it? Yes.
Chesnaught is also really cool. At first you'd think that Chespin would turn into something sleeker and perhaps be another Rogue like fella, or a druid. But at the end of the line stands a cool buff knight instead~
I DO like dlc more than I like third versions. For a few reasons. The first, is that if I was into pokemon when third versions were a thing I would just never get them. Even when I was going through and retroactively playing the older games I was only able to find a copy of pearl, and to this day I feel no need to ever buy and play platinum. And sales show that a lot of people feel the same as I do since third versions never sold as well despite being "so beloved". Game+dlc is 90 bucks but game+game is 120. Also, at least for scarlet and violet, I'm pretty attached to my team and I wouldn't want to build a second one in paldea. I if you do want to try out a new team dlc doesn't stop you. I did that for the swsh dlc. The moment I saw zubat would be available I boxed everyone but roserade for the goal of making an all poison team.
For me, and many others, the point of building a team is to USE them throughout a journey; watch them grow, challenge strong trainers, and see actual progression. Simply grinding them up after you've already beaten everything tells you nothing about how they actually perform in battle, and there's no satisfaction other than having it for the Dex.
It was especially fun to trade over Pokemon that weren't available in the game yet to try them out early, now we just have the opposite where you can't really "try" anything, only check it off a list...
Heres some of mine alot of positive. I enjoyed xy i dont think theyre that easy i believe it depends on how someone plays and that gen 6 is my favorite gen followed by gen 8.
im really positive when it comes to Pokemon i even enjoyed bdsp i finally get to use the fairy type against Cynthia
I agree! X and Y are just a few years away from getting the "Unova" treatment, and by that I mean people who grew up with them saying they're great and some of their favorite games, and maybe then they'll get some recognition as actually pretty fun!
Fairy type didn't need to rub salt in bugs already searing wound.
My controversial opinion is I'm not a fan of the Johto games mostly because the level of wild and trainer Pokemon are so low. You could be around the 3rd gym and still fight Pokemon around 5 to 9 and the gym Pokemon are in there mid 20s so even if get a new pokemon it will take hours to get it caught up with your team
Taking my nostalgia glasses off for a minute, but yeah, GSC undeniably has the worst level progression in the series. And I think it does flat out the worst job at actually promoting its own new Pokémon. Half of the gym leaders' aces are from Kanto, and _so_ many mons are difficult to find, or are found way too late in the game to even be relevant. Also, there simply isn't enough EXP from the trainers available to be on par with the level spike you face in the Elite Four and onward. Especially when it comes to facing Red on Mt. Silver.
@@thewhatness yeah they don't represent the new pokemon great as well and the level thing wasn't just a GSC issue either that problem was also in the remakes as well
Also the starters were prob the worst in the series
Back when B/W came out, I had a friend who said he'd wait for Grey.
He's still waiting.
Greninja is not gross it’s cool because it’s the first ninja Pokémon that actually was heavily based on one and looks really cool I would’ve preferred if it had a bubble scarf and kept the same color scheme
It IS gross. It is wearing its freaking tongue as a scarf. WTF? What were they smoking when they made that decision? The overall design isn’t bad though. Just give that thing something else around its neck, like bubbles as you suggested.
@@mariusa.5863 I think they made a bold decision giving it a younger scarf cause it can easily look disgusting and you still think it does which is fine but I think it looks really cool but bubbles would still look better but I appreciate they took a heavy risk
I confess, when Scarlet and Violet was announced and told us about Terastilization, I went so far as to claim that it was just watered down Dynamaxing, and I went in expecting to hate it. But I found myself loving it. A lot more than I should. Compared to the other gimmicks, it is by far the best and most viable one yet (and before it, I thought I'd die on the Mega Evolution is KING hill). It adds so much variety in battles (now more than ever with the Stellar type being added), making for predictions, guessing games, team building, team countering, and all that other fun stuff about competitive battling that MAKES me want to get back into competitive battling. Mega Evolution made things stale and predictable, people just building around the same overpowered Megas, Z-Moves were a one time nuke button that added only momentary excitement, and Dynamaxing was just who could hit the Nuke button first. Terastilizing adds so much more to a battle that makes them feel fresh and fun again.
How about no third games and no DLC? Just release everything day 1.
Madness! What next? You'll say there shouldn't be two versions!?
My first hot takes is that Pokemon fans need to stop complaining about the different ways people want to play the games. Some people want to play with shift or set mode, some people want to do a nuzlockez, some want to have Exp Share off/on, some people want to grind, etc. For example, I to be able to turn Exp Share off, and I'm immediately hit with "Why do you like grinding for HOURS?!" Why do assume that I'm grinding, let alone for hours? I just don't want to be overleveled or be forced to switch my team up after every route. Plus, I like being able to replay games with different teams. I've used multiple party members while playing Let's Go, Shield, Legends, and Violet on my first playthrough, and so I've used or caught most of the Pokemon in the game already. There's no incentive for me to replay these games because I already used all the new Pokemon.
My final hot take is that Pokemon was never grindy to begin with. I've played Gens 1-9, starting with Gen 4, the most "grindy" gen by fans, and I've never needed to grind once just to be able to beat a Pokemon game. The reason it was seen as "grindy" was because we were dumb kids who didn't know how to play the game. Once you know about type advantage and stats and etc, you should never struggle while playing Pokemon. I played Platinum (overrated game, btw) for the first time as an adult with people hyping it up to be super difficult, and for me, it was easy.
I'll never understand the people who want more grinding in Pokémon. The games finally appreciate our time now and I have a hard time going back to pre Gen 6 entries
Oh also, I can understand why people might not like Legends Arceus. I love the game, but acknowledge its faults, but primarily the horrrrrrendous battle mechanics.
I definitely get the more grinding. It’s not necessarily about wasting time but investment. If you put specific time into raising your vulpix suddenly that vulpix has a story to you and it matters. If you just evolve something from charmander to charizard and you didn’t send it into battle once than what was the point. Who cares about it because you effectively just raised it up as a pawn. Additionally, the less exp allowed for greater difficulty even if it was a bit artificial. Nowadays you can sleep through most of the game and occasionally have to wake up for a quick second only to go back to sleep. The real insult was removing the exp share options and set mode. They only provided options to people who find the game being harder to be more satisfying, but ig Gamefreak want you to have fun their way (the way that I end up forgetting the entire game after 2 weeks of finishing or just put it down because it’s so boring).
For the record though, this does not apply to competitive Pokémon. As far as competitive goes they should make that with as low a barrier to entry as possible. I’m just strictly talking about the story/maingame content and postgame content that doesn’t include competitive fights.
I personally can somewhat understand because some people enjoy grinding as a way to pass time, having no pressure in completing the story, in older games you could grind a while longer and still not end up too over powered but in the newer ones its way easier to end up over powered so the people who enjoyed grinding to pass the time might not like how easy it became. I'm personally in the middle where if i have nothing better to do and i'm still not yet in the post game, then i'll grind older pokemon games so that i'm a few levels ahead of the next gym with every team member, even if i could have beaten it with my current levels, and if i'm busy i'll just go straight to gyms
This *kinda relates to another comment someone said to the effect of "using EXP candies make them feel like rental Pokemon," which I totally agree with so I think some investment is key. You can't just sleepwalk through the game and expect to get handed super powerful Pokemon...
It's just that there is no ballance. Sure, if you need to grind on things that are 40 levels lower than you it is a bore, but if it boils down to "I hate doing the basic gameplay loop of this game" then you're playing the wrong game. Doing Pokémon Battles is the core of Pokémon and no game should feel better the less of it you need to do.
Trainer rematches and a lower leveling curve are a better way to do it than just chucking away rare candies and making exp worth six times more.
SV is still buggy...
Oh I know, so you got to pay extra for it AND it wasn't fixed! Congrats! You got ripped off...
The set mode was removed. I've been sad since
Controversial Opinion: Pokémon designs get worse every gen
What does it have of controversial? Half the community says that, the other half says there have always been good and Bad design
Not every gen is good and not every gen is bad so when comparing two gens you always compare the previous best to the current worst
I don't think they ALL get worse, maybe just more polarizing? Like Gen 9 seemed to only have really awful or really great designs with no middle ground!
Exactly when are they going to realize it's too many pokemon 4000 total dex across all games? Too many too care, reboot so we can get focused games with around 300 mons per region not counting dlc. Cut the trash so we can truly get 10/10 games.
@@AL-nv4gk the cut pokédex helps to make every región feels different without having to create 100 new Pokémon every gen
13:00 No it is not. They removed set mode in Scarlet and Violet for some bizarre reason, so the only way to play "set mode" is to press no in the dialogue box every single time it asks if you want to switch. I don't agree that set mode should be the default, but I personally enjoyed playing with it on and think that it was a very odd decision to remove it entirely.
Ability Capsules should also give you the option of changing the ability to the hidden ability in addition to the regular abilities.
The problem with Regional Variants, along with convergent mons and paradox mons, is that they just simply aren't creative as making new pokemon that share aspects with other existing pokemon while still retaining their own identities.
For instance, Black and White made numerous pokemon that exist as obvious counterparts to other pokemon, Konkeldurr, Purrloin, Gigalith, Noibat, etc., and each of these pokemon may be compared to their original counterparts, but they manage to still have their own unique appearances and identities. They're able to resemble other pokemon while having far more unique Lore. Their stat spreads and move pools are also able to be far more different, allowing them to have possible completely unique playstyles from their counterparts or fill their own niche.
Alternate forms of existing Pokémon often result in the original pokemon being overshadowed because the alternate forms might have better state spreads or movepools, they may have better abilities, and some may even have evolutions unique to their regional variant. Linoone and Farfetch'd for instance don't get buffed by having alternate forms with unique evos because they can't evolve into those evos and they don't get the eviolite perk, meaning that there's no reason to want the originals over their new prettier variants when it comes to performance. The best regional forms to me are ones like Exeggutor and Raichu, where the original can branch out into each possible version akin to Bellosom and Politoed,meaning that the player picks their preferred version (in theory) from the same general branch instead of having to hard commit to a specific version from the moment they pick the first stage version.
L loved this video so much this was one of your best videos
Open Pokemon is fun only on a very superficial level. At the moment it is just "Wow, open world pokemon!" and that's it.
The enviroment is empty and they have not really given pokemon behavoir either yet, so I don't feel like the open world actually adds anything.
Especially with the lack of lvl scaling, it is really not an entirely open world anyway
I feel like that's most open world games, frankly, but I do think it's especially pronounced in Pokemon...
@@emperorcubone The biggest open world games have tricks to not make the world feel empty.
The Zelda games have locations, enemies and secrets hidden everywhere.
GTA focuses its traversal and also makes the tool for traversal just a lot of fun to use and play around with.
Bethesda games aer filled with secrets, interesting looking places and encounters.
Ironically, opening up the world by going away from routes, made the world smaller through just the sheer amount of emptiness.
Thumbnail has "Megas were a mistake" while I am making a Deathclaw inspired Mega for Krookodile for my Fakemon region
My Hot Take:Pokemon Fans treat the Monster Taming Genre like crap and use buzzwords like:"pOkEmOn cLoNe" When a lot of them r made by passionate fans of Pokemon. Plus did u know Shin Megami Tensei was the first Monster Taming Game before Pokemon exists.
Yeah, but like... just because someone is a fan of Star Wars and makes their own Science Fiction movie doesn't mena they can capture the same magic as the thing that inspired them. Believe me, I'd love to make something as popular as the stories that I love, but I don't expect everyone to immediately give it equal respect. But you're right, I have played some other decent ones besides Pokemon...
@Emperor Cubone Thank u for the response! I liked hearing your opinion as well.
Great video 🗣️🔥
2:06 Hey thanks for including me! Love your vids. #BringBack3rdVersions
First entry enough said 100%
I will always have a place in my heart for the Alola games because that was the last time 100% of Pokemon could be used, and 2 battle gimmicks could be used together. Basically, you could have EVERYTHING in that generation.
You know, that's something that gets overlooked a lot; even if the Pokemon didn't have a fancy Pokedex page, Gen 7 still let you USE them all if you imported them, so you gotta give them props for that!
From the thumbnail, I legit thought he was going to address the point I made about megas forever denying evolutions to certain Pokemon, just because they got a mega form in a past generation.
I wholeheartedly agree with the commenter saying regional variants suck. It was fun in Sun & Moon, when it was a fun new "gimmick" and there were a small selection of them playing off the unique climate of Hawaii, but now it's expected we get a regional form every game despite whatever environment it's supposed to be, and the new Pokemon rosters are just filled with old Pokemon. It's just nostalgia bait, and even though I do like some of them, I'd prefer if they never existed in the first place..
I see your point, but regional forms actually keep the roster from being filled up with old options, because they retain their original Dex number. Paradox and convergent forms DO pad out the Dex so really variants are better in this aspect...
It's possible I've simply miss this or I'm misremembering but I've seen many videos over the years asking about why pokemon can only use up to 4 moves in-game. I've even seen a few about moments from the anime when a pokemon used a 5th move or more.
I'm nostalgia watching from ep 1 and in ep 9, the one with the pokemon school, that after Pikachu is hit with bonemerang and Ash calls it a cheap shot, the snobby schoolgirl says the move is recognized by the pokemon league etc.
So that explains that of course. But also, it could explain why some pokemon don't have access to even TM moves they obviously should
My Hot Takes:
1. I'm so tired of Cynthia. Stop bringing her back in the games and anime just because she's popular for how difficult her battles were. Bring back someone often forgotten about like Diantha and give them a formidable team so that they would become more beloved by the fanbase and want to see more of them instead.
2. I don't want Toby Fox composing for the series. Leave him to do his own stuff. Pokémon's current composers are still cranking out bangers without him.
3. Heatran is stupid. Guy looks like a Victory Road Pokémon, not a Legendary. And why is *IT* of all Legendaries able to have both genders?! GAME FREAK has been awfully inconsistent with what Legendaries get genders or not, it's driving me nuts.
Pokemon Legends was about investigating the problem with the rise of frenzied Pokemon, and bring people and Pokemon together. Team Stars at first gives you an impression they're up to no good, but you find out later they're actually a group of nice and supportive people.
It's not that GF doesn't make evil teams anymore, it's that they're trying different things with the franchise.
I'm strongly agreed on the megas being overrated in just having the most populars get more stuff. It was a missed opportunity to just give an evolution to lines that could still evolve, or a stat buff or hidden ability to ones that couldn't.
I also agree with the commenter about the regional variants. For example, I like Unovan Liligant and Alolan Sandslash. I gain nothing from Hisuian Liligant, and regular Sandslash hasn't gained any buff or a new fan. I couldn't even evolve regular Sandshrew into Alolan Sandslash.
I dislike when people refer to things like pokestar studios as "side features no one cares about" I love pokestar studios myself and think it's really fun to put your own pokemon in strange tropey movie scenarios where you can modify the plot. Similarly I got lots of fun out of Pokathelon and to a lesser extent contests.
I love features that aren't battling they flesh out the world and give you something to do other than endless battles.
Same side stuff like that were my favorites in pokemon i would waste hours on them trying to complete everything as soon as i unlocked them, at times i said pokemon should have made entire games based on those side features as a minigame collection/ make a game called pokemon superstar where your objective was to become a celebrity in the pokemon world
I think the problem is forcing every player to do it; I enjoy contests and other fun things to do with Pokemon besides battling, but not everyone does so making them do it only fosters resentment instead of letting them discover it on their own...
Hot take: I like the direction that they’ve been heading with the evil teams. Since they are marketing these games to children, I think that changing the evil teams to be more child friendly is a direction that sticks with what they are trying to accomplish. Though older fans of the franchise may disagree, Nintendo is marketing these games to children and an even more extreme evil team could up the rating.
I think that even though older fans may disagree, the evil teams have never felt like anything more than a side quest that I have to do. So I don’t really care about the direction they are going
While I feel like Team Star was made far too massive for what it is supposed to be (Apperantly the academy had more students being bullied than not...), in concept it fit the enviroment and so did Team Skull and Team Yell.
For me, it is far more iimportant that the group getting in my way repeatedly fits the enviroment over somehow causing the end of the world.
i loved the DLC! my only qualm was not being able to shiny hunt the legendaries. that was a massive bummer
Didn't expect to find myself agreeing with the last point, but I do hope GF slows down in the production of new Pokemon. I do want new Pokemon at some point of course, but there are so many already that having some time to focus on them would be great. This is likely wishful thinking but maybe now that they're over 1000 they'll take it easy for a bit?
Some of my hot take:
1. The Galar pokedex has the highest quality of Pokemon ever added to the series.
2. BDSP needs a platinum update that overrides current save data to add new and old wanted features that were absent in BDSP.
3. Trials were fine, for some reason everyone seems to hate them now even though people were asking from a break from gyms.
4. Pikachu should not be in every game.
5. Rillaboom is the best Galar starter hands down.
6. I prefer the old way Pokemon breeding used to be done at least then you knew when there was an egg.
7. Pokemon should have abilities that suit them such as Magnezone with Levitate and Weavile with Tough Claws, it makes sense and would make them better.
My most controversial opinion is definitely that I prefer gen 6 over gen 5
If we're talking Gens as a whole it's no question! I love ORAS!!
@@emperorcubone the more I think about it, the more I think ORAS is actually my favourite game of the whole franchise. I have put the most hours into it, and it was the first game I got the gold trainer card in.
Yeah generation as a whole for me ORAS >B2W2 and XY > BW
They need to add more branched evolutions for existing Pokémon. Give the dragonite line an alternate 3rd stage, give Psyduck an evolution that actually has psychic type. The eggecutor alternate evolution was awesome and the alternate slowpokes are neat!
I don't disagree, but they don't even need to be branched either; if the last few years have taught us anything it's that old Pokemon can just evolve into new things anyway like Stantler to Wyrdeer, so Golduck could get its own evolution instead of a branch.
@@emperorcubone just giving 3rd stages to the classic 2-stages like psyduck, ratata, spearow, grimer etc would be neat but mainly I just want an alternate 3rd stage for dratini that actually looks anything like dratini and dragonair instead of what we have now which is cute serpent to graceful serpent to derp dragon
THIS! Even as a child I never wanted to evolve Dragonair to prevent it from becoming a fat and dopey freak.
Alright I got a few
The pokemon fan base is incredibly sweaty and likes to take the fun out of the games whenever possible.
Mega Evolutions weren’t a bad idea, they just needed more time to develop.
On the same thought on Mega Evolutions, all the recent gimmicks of the past 3 gens could’ve easily just become Megas if they’d been allowed to develop outside of their home generation.
I dislike megas because they kinda ruined the possibility of some Pokémon getting an evolution in the future (Mawile, Absol, Glalie, Steelix...). If they had continued with the same concept, Farigiraf would've been just a Mega Girafarig, Kingambit only a Mega Bisharp, and Wyrdeer a Mega Stantler. I celebrate megas are no longer a thing.
Mega Houndoom is one of the worst for me, because that easily could have been an evolution...
Here my my unpopular opinion. I think TerastalIng was the most boring mechanic ever to me I never even used it only versus ogrepon and the legendary turtle Pokémon whose name I forgot. But that the only time I used that mechanic
I LOVE regional forms but I do agree that it would have been kinda cool if some of them had different names, especially Sandshrew and Sandslash.
They should make it be where you can choose to battle in desired smogon tiers or even more categories to choose what type of trainer you want to verse ie team all legendary...
Off topics but i have a video suggestion:
What if Pokemon had a hidden type? And no, not like Tera types. I mean what if like with hidden abilities some Pokemon had a different secondary typing or where just pure one that was rare for them to be?
Like with Kanto Pokemon Geodude being Rock/Fighting? Muk getting the water type or Gengar getting the dark typing. With small but noticable changes to theor designs to reflect it.
That's quite an interesting idea, I'd have to think about how to implement that...
That sounds like the concept of 'Delta Pokemon' from the TCG. Basically pokemon with a different type than normal.
I loved megas, i would like it to come back and make more forms
Me too
Same, but i get the point because lots of megas were just given to already powerful pokemon, and were too powerful at times, they need to make more megas for weaker pokemons to balance it
You loved them, even though most of them are overdesigned monstrosities?
I find it frustrating that the second part of the dlc's have over leveled Pokemon, like I get it if you've beat the game but I wanna be able to play through a new game without an over leveled trapinch, I want a regular leveled trapinch
Thank you! This is a major reason I find third games so appealing, so that I can play thru with a new team! It also makes it far less gratifying to catch a level 50 starter in the Terrarium so that I just feed it two rare candies and now it's fully evolved. There's no satisfaction there...
I think we need a Pokemon stadium like game where you can play as all Pokemon from gen 1-9 and be able to upload Pokemon from any switch Pokemon game onto it
You know that's a good point; when Kalos gave us 3D models we said "well there's no point in a Stadium game anymore," but the sheer fact that they could have all the Pokemon at once would be more than enough for some fans to buy it...
I don't like that pokemon keeps cutting pokemon and moves and so many shiny locked pokemon and that pokemon home forces your pokemon to forget their moves in order to transfer them and I wouldn't be against having ever battle gimmick and feathers and maybe add every region in 1 game and in every game in the future as well as everything else I have said
I kind of maybe understand not letting some Pokemon into the games, but taking out the moves never made sense to me, especially ones that don't have ready equivalents like Signal Beam or others...
@@emperorcubone No mam comments like that and thinking like that is going to incourge game freak and the pokemon company and whoever els to keep making pokemon games with pokemon and move cuts all the while still paying the price of a full pokemon game plus DLC and home and still not have every pokemon don't encourage them you
I never got into the battle gimmicks. I do love the reginal forms and convergent evolutions; they are my favorite new thing from the newer games. I love exploring the pokemon world, it's history. I would love to learn more about the prehistoric past of the pokemon world. I want more fossil pokemon in a single generation. That is my opinion.
I can kind of see an argument for being against the special physical split. As time goes on, we get more and more physical and special options for every type. Being a mixed attacker is becoming more and more niche. I think it would be cool if they never exactly went back on this, but instead made it rare to have, say a physical fire type unless your a fire type, or a special fighting type unless you are a fighting type. Therefore, to have maximum coverage, lots of Pokémon will want to be mixed attackers.
Megas were a questionable idea since single or two-stage Pokémon that can mega evolve can't logical naturally evolve further. It would be strange if they could, especially considering their pre-evolutions still retain the ability to mega evolve. If they did, it would be eerily similar to Digimon, which can evolve into various stages and different outcomes under different circumstances. Mega Evolution has long been accused of being a Digimon rip-off. While introducing branch evolutions is an option, I'd prefer evolving Manectric rather than introducing a different form for Electrike. It also wouldn't make logical sense to give a single-stage like Aerodactyl a new evolution since it already has a mega evolution. The only way to circumvent this would be to provide it with a pre-evolution that could then branch out. Gigantamax evolution don't have the same issue since it's established in the lore that pre-evolutions can have different forms.
It doesn't have to be a different form, like how Kleavor is from regular Scyther, but I agree that it shouldn't have to be a problem and they made it a huge mess...
Hotter take; I love Greninja's obscene amount of tongue. Fite me.
I disagree firmly with the idea that a third-version is better than dlc, and here's why:
with a dlc, you get to keep your progress in the base game, but a third version requires you to start over.
That's a bonus; I WANT to try out a new team and use them for a whole game! Sure I still love my favorites from last time, but getting to experience the region with a new makeup totally changes how you appreciate the game!
@@emperorcubonerestart the game then?
While I always enjoyed third versions, I didn't like how they tended to make it so I never wanted to play the originals again. After all, why play what is basically the same game but with fewer features? DLCs avert this while expanding on the initial lore and story, so I quite like those aspects. As for the far future where you can no longer download the DLC, there's a chance by then that they'll release versions with the DLC included.
Well they have physical versions NOW with the DLC included, but it's still $90, (when they used to be the same price as regular games) but really only the Indigo Disk had ANY sort of impact on the main region story or lore-wise, none of the rest of waves of DLC touched the base games at all, so one out of Four is not a great track record...
@@emperorcubone I guess it depends on what you count as worthwhile impact. Isle of Armor revealed where Leon got his Charmander, who his teacher was, some info on what the Galar League was like before the Dynamax era, etc. Crown Tundra introduced Rose's brother and revealed a bit more about their family history. Teal mask introduced Briar, Carmine and Kieran so we could get to know them a bit before they played their roles in the Indigo Disk.