One thing I hate is how quickly they just kinda... sweep away concepts I'd love to see more of. Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon alone opened up both entire civilisations of alternate universal beings, as well as alternate timeline merge shenanigans with Team Rainbow Rocket. But then there's just... no mention of them again like??? I wanna know MORE!
I dunno, I'd rather not have to deal with, say, the multiverse when playing a new pokemon game. I'd rather see new stuff happen than "oops, we opened a portal to another dinension again."
I need a coordinator path like yesterday. It’s wild to me that they even stopped having contests when so many pokemon aren’t really fit for serious battle
I remember first playing Diamond as a kid (my first pokemon game btw) and wanting to try out contests like the anime Only to find out that there's only a single contest hall instead of multiple towns each having their own And yeah that's right, a lot of mons aren't good for battle (at least outside of competitive but some even then) but could at least shine in contests, giving them use that way Plus it gives people another fun challenge they can try since it's very different from battling
I agree with the 'opening up the world to more than just battling' point. In SV, they had these really fun new storylines aside from the typical gym badges and elite four, but Arven and Penny's stories still ended with a regular boss battle, like they always have done before. Why could we not have had a huge Team Star base as a final area, or some kind of other test or dungeon to complete the Titans' story? They pushed so hard in pre-release to showcase the different types of exploration we could do, only for it all to end up being just ordinary Pokémon battles like always
Yeah capping off each storyline with a standard battle kind of defeats the purpose of them being different. That's why I liked some of the quests in Legends Arceus, because some of them were just see a Pokemon eat or something totally different!
@@emperorcubone Eh, for being the first time they do something like this it was good. They are testing the waters to see how good a game with multiple paths is and who knows maybe next gen we'll get a game that truly has multiple paths.
Actual open world. In Gen 9 you can fight any gym in any order, but it’s really just the wrong order. You’ll be overpowered if you come to fight the grass gym 6th so it’s just a chore at that point. Each gym leader should be programmed with the same team at various levels and stages based off the number of badges the player has.
Yeah it was the dumbest thing to allow us to go to any gym but then not level scale the gyms for the order you choose to fight them. I feel like a 10 year old could have figired that out
I also thought with the map being divided into directions then zones, I thought “Oh, the different zones will be the level of the wild. Makes sense. Simple but effective.” Nothing like that at all.
To be fair, you COULD get some solid Ice-types like Swinub in Sword and Shield as soon as you enter the Wild Area for the first time, but that's only if the weather is right.
@@metanightmare4454 They are beyond the bridge, but they're not "locked" in any sense. There's nothing stopping you from walking over there, beyond needing to avoid the wild Pokémon.
Exactly. Though that being said I literally just finished a Leaf Green playthrough and didn't grind one single bit but still wiped out every gym with ease. Elite Four needed some more strategy and thought though thankfully, but no additional levelling to beat either, which is good.
I like that the exp share allows me to train more than one team of pokemon. Unfortunately the enemy teams are always small, and rarely have any challenge to them, so there just isn't much point in having a B team, or C team.
im all for fast lvl up since im lazy, but yeah they made the enemy barely any challenging that you can't overlevel or the whole thing just become too easy
@@cookiesontoast9981 The champion especially was an absolute joke. I never thought we'd see a worse champion than Diantha, but they somehow pulled it off.
I really want an ice flying regional bird, or at least one that gains the ice type upon evolving. after having talonflame and kilowatrell with their fire and electric typings, an ice one could complete this elemental triangle and will be cool to have. also, it will mean we will have three regional birds that are like more common versions of moltres, zapdos and articuno
@@joltx9909 it does when u face a lot of rock types throughout the game, whether it's through a gym or in caves where there's full of rock types, or if one of the E4 or champion happens to have one
@@eljordinio7647 but still, you can do with pokemon like camerupt or aurorus who deal with the same problem. I beat many pokemon games with 4x weakness mons and while having slight difficulties, its still manageable and well worth it for having a unique typing
0:49 #6: Evil Teams 2:46 #5: Breeding 4:29 #4: Other Careers than Battling 6:13 #3: Experience 7:42 #2: Character Customization 9:17 #1: Early Ice Types
I will ALWAYS dislike the fact that they _nailed_ it with the PSS (Player Search System) in XY... _and never again_ (I don't know WHY they refuse to look at that and be like "Ya know. People REALLY loved that. Maybe we should take note)
With breeding, I would have liked a nursery pc box. Just like picnic breeding, it would be portable, but unlike picnic breeding, you wouldn't need to stop exploring. You wouldn't need to be on flat ground. You wouldn't need to empty your party. It could have multiple slots with rotom phone alerting you when it's full and multiple boxes, allowing you to breed more than one pokemon.
Yeah the new breeding is annoying and I hate it... Same with reducing clothing options, especially after how open and cool the options had become in some earlier games.
Initially, I thought people were fine with the new method of breeding. Y'know just a nice alternative. But turns out this is the only way to breed & get eggs in this game, which annoys some players, whether they be competitive, shiny hunters or casuals.
Atlease with the reduced clothing they had a reason your enrolled in a academy all academy has a dress code all students have to follow or they'll get in huge trouble you can't just go to school wearing a t shirt and shorts. Next Gen should have more options unless it's a school setting again.
Team skull and team star were great imo. It was really just team yell that sucked and made the "evil team that's not really evil" thing feel tired after only a couple times.
And when Team Skull was introduced, even if it was pretty obvious to most people that Aether were the real villains, Team Skull was a sort of red herring that hadn't been done before. It was a sort of plot twist, and at that point was an original idea in the series. And they do definitely cause problems for people. Like their ambitions aren't anywhere near the likes of Team Aqua/Magma or even Team Rocket, but they do go around doing petty crime. Not to mention they do just have a lot of charisma, I mean Guzma is one of my favorite characters in the series, and I think I've laughed at Team Skull dialogue more than any other team or than most other dialogue in general.
Still don't understand the full story with Team Star or how it worked, but I think the general jist could've been done well, just not in the context of a school.
@@xaldrortenderofthevats8948 team star was a bunch of outcasts who decided to deal with their school's bullying problem. How would you go about removing the context of a school from the equation?
Adding Meltan and Melmetal to the main series games and changing its evolution method so Meltan can be evolved in the main series games. I will say I do like the new breeding method, it combines the curry mechanic and day care so you can breed multiple Pokémon at the same time whilst giving them food.
I'd argue that SwSh and Sarlet and Violet fixed the ice type problem you can catch ice types early in Sword and Sheild and you can catch any pokemon in Scarlet and Violet and breed them due to the fact that you can go anywhere with Miradon and Kiradon
I don't even know what you're talking about for Gen 8, do you just mean Raid Dens? Because those aren't a sure thing, basically being random. As for Gen 9, the Ice types are still across the map, meaning you'll have to travel quite far and face overlevled Pokemon, so yes, if you grind I guess Ice can come about half as early as usual...
I mean you could go to the icy mountain immediately in ScarVio but everything would be such a higher level that it'd be almost impossible to just catch though
@@emperorcubone I may be wrong but if I remember correctly in Sword and Sheild you could catch Snover, Vanilite, Swinub, and Delibird in the wild area early on. And in Scarlet and Violet you could go anywhere, catch an over leveled Ice type, and breed it with a pokemon in the same egg group to get a Level 1Ice Pokemon that will obey you that can be used in the early game
@@gustavoschiller6852 Toggles, I think are the key here. So people who want it can have it, no matter the quality, and the people who don't don't have to. I will say, though, it's jarring without it as it is now. Sword and Shield, for example, Rose literally flailing himself about, camera right up to his face as he yaps away...but not a single peep is heard out of him. Or Piers just having foot tapping sounds, but nothing else as he's supposed to be doing a concert. That breaks the immersion WORSE than having bad voice acting, I'd say, lol.
I think having Fairouz Ai be Iono's va could work, at least for Japanese VAs. For proof of concept, she voices Sei Shounagon from Fate/Grand Order, and nails the 'chaotic e-girl gremlin' type very well.
I literally had to rotate through over 20 Pokémon in Shield to try and not be super over leveled. On the one hand it was kinda fun doing that, but on the other it really didn’t feel like a had a “main” team. More like a main battalion😅
Why should you need to have a main or even secondary teams in the first place?! Just do what I do and take turns training all your Pokémon, including using entire teams of type advantage for the gyms. Then just decide on your final team for tackling Victory Road and the Pokémon League from among the strongest Pokémon you have at that point.
Are the newer evil teams presented as equal threats to past ones though? I think the games do a pretty good job establishing when the stakes are a lot lower (heck, in Sun and Moon a Skull grunt lampshades that they aren't out to conquer the world or anything like that), and it arguably makes more sense for our character to be involved in these lower-stakes conflicts as a new trainer. I also have the impression the Team Star storyline was pretty well received.
It's just the fact that they intentionally model these newer teams off of the old ones; if Team Star were not a team at all then it would feel different. Just call them the "Lost Boys" or something and then we wouldn't be invited to draw inevitable comparisons to old global domination plots...
@Emperor Cubone it's because of iconography, "Team" at this point has become more of a game terminology than an actual name; sure they could call them something more accurate to their description, but then let me ask you, how many people actually talk about, or even remember for that matter the names of the actual antagonistic teams of gen 7 & 8? nope, all they remember is Lusamine or chairman Rose, not the group run by them, on the other hand, they all easily remember Skull and Yell "Team" has become this unfortunate necessity for the sake of allowing the more dumber side of the player base to actually understand what is happening on the screen
@@emperorcuboneI think that was the intention though, present us with an “evil team” that we have to go to all of their hideouts to defeat only to be shown that they’re just a group of bullied kids, I wouldn’t be surprised if going forward Evil Teams aren’t a requirement
I haven't gotten to play the switch games yet, but I did personally like Team Skull. Even if the writing around them and the Aether Foundation was kinda predictable (this is a game for kids after all), the framing of them as the initial main villains, in part by calling them a Team, acted as a red herring, and helped with the (again admittedly predictable) twist reveal of Lusamine and Aether as the real main villains of the game. It is entirely possible that that's overused at this point or that the newer ones don't work like that (again I haven't gotten to play them yet), but at that point this was an original type of storyline and they were at least better than Team Flare imo. It would be fun to see a bit of a return to form for the Team in some upcoming game though.
As an Ice type Pokémon fan, I wholeheartedly agree with your final point! The Ice type is completely ignored or nerfed constantly, I really wish they would make it more viable. And early Ice type Pokémon would be greatly appreciated!
The fangame Pokémon Sage has early Ice types, early snowy routes and even the first Gym is Ice type, basically the opposite of what official games have been doing
Character customization is a must and I want to extend to the outfit. Like I might be known as Lillie but if you know me I am a bit of an Elesa. I love changed my character to make it look like Lillie, other characters, or do make something brand new. Early ice is a bummer, I hate and don’t like to ask my friends to give me an ice type or Snowy so late in the game. The daycare needs to comeback because I don’t really like nothing as I run around…
Team Star was a nice take and a good attempt at incorporating very simple and relatable story beats. We couldn't relate because we're grown. That doesn't make it bad, that makes it not for you, and that's okay.
I actually kinda like the EXP share. Mostly because it made grinding a lot easier. THough I do think it should be a setting that is on by default and a player can turn it off and on again if they want it.
true recently played through emerald and yeah its a bit annoying to grind for 80 years in a single area due to the cool pokemon you wanted to use is unfortunately in the slow exp group *cough* aron *cough*
yes but the alternative is plowing through with your lead pokemon and being unable to handle anything once they go down. using only one pokemon is always the optimal strategy. especially without the exp all. anything else is a waste that leaves the entire team under-leveled, not necessarily underpowered as using only one does leave you as a glass cannon without coverage, but glass canons are better than mid-tier nonsense where you have to burn several days all the time to keep up with the curve. grinding is an unfun waste of time.
@@Markcrazeer But having it so any Pokemon switched into battle gains full experience, like the change made in Gen VI, means that you don't have to grind, you just switch Pokemon out a lot. I basically did no grinding in Pokemon Y and Alpha Sapphire, but I still had Exp. Share off. Exp. All encourages putting Pokemon in boxes more and using more random Pokemon rather than keeping a core "team" to avoid over-leveling (which I guess is why boxes are more accessible than ever beginning in Gen VIII). I'm not saying that style of play is bad, using a wider variety of Pokemon can be cool, but give us the option to play differently.
@@ninja_boy ah yes switch training, a bunch of wasted turns and gradually chipping down your own team by unnecessarily giving the enemy free hits, or setup. luckly NPCs are obsessed with wasting time themselves. and otherwise it is still wasting limited sources of exp. a solution to this problem is an inverse exp share that collects excess exp and converts it to exp candy.
Seriously, they figured out how to add an option to skip cutscenes, so adding an option to toggle EXP share should be simple. It's not like they overly care about game balance even with it forced, so not really an issue of 'but what about game balance'. Then again, the 'skip cutscenes' button cost several other small options so maybe they really don't know how to just add a toggleable button.
I don't know about Gen 9, but I'm pretty sure the code for toggling EXP Share is in the Gen 8 games, it's just always set to TRUE. That's what I heard, anyway.
In Gen 8 they figured out to skip tutorials if you demonstrate what they would have taught before the event flag would be triggered. Finally, Gamefreak realised someone would have played a Pokémon game before thus one.
I believe that gamefreak should make an evil team and keep bringing them back in the future generations, and maybe give us some character development between the games on the occuring characters.
100% agree on the ice types in the early game, I was forced to hack ice types in the begining of the games just to make a ice type mono run in *insert game here* But I wouldn't say Team Star is evil, if anything Sara/Turo's willingness to destroy Paldea so the paradox pokémon can leave Area Zero was much worse them a bunch of bullied kids who that got uno reversed.
"Ice as an early gym would be a bad idea because 2 of the starters would resist it and the other would be super effective against it" .......................rock has been the first gym in 3 different generations
You can get ice type Pokémon in the early game of Sword & Shield. If you have the snow or snowstorm weather conditions present throughout the early locations of the Wild Area, you can get Pokémon such as Snorunt, Snover, Swinub and Vanillite before the first gym. Alternatively, you change the date of your Switch's internal time/date to the 25th of December where snow is the only available weather condition in the Wild Area etc. This also doesn't factor in raid dens which can house early game ice types.
Yeah... a slim chance in an area that you probably won't spend enough time in is not the same thing as putting Circhester Bay accessible before the second gym...
They should've kept the old exp share and named the new one exp all so that you can decide whether you just want to teain one weaker mon at the cost of split exp or train your entire team effortlessly
I like that the EXP Share is permanent and shares it between all of the Pokémon in the party. I hated the old lead and switch method from earlier games, and this way I'm incentivized to try out more than just 6 Pokémon (which is what I do to counter being too overleveled). I do wish that NPC teams were stronger and had more Pokémon, because I've been noticing that a lot of recent games the NPCs always have just 1 or 2 Pokémon. Barely any have 3 and scarcely do they have 4 or more. One thing is heavily dislike is the switch back to breakable TMs. I never used TMs before Gen 5 because I was always worried that I used this one-in-game item (at least the non-purchasable ones) on a Pokémon that didn't really took advantage of it. Making them infinite use was great so that multiple Pokémon in my party could have it, and then for Post-Game use such as for VGC matches. The TR system them made in Gen 8 where some were breakable was a feature I liked because a lot of the moves were very powerful ones, but farming them again wasn't a hassle. I also dislike how Gen 9 made them worst by having to farm several different Pokémon parts as materials to construct the TMs again. Feels like such a hassle
Literally haven’t done any breeding in Violet because I don’t want to stand around waiting. I don’t know what they were thinking with this as it’s the least engaging thing they could have done. Why not just make it a phone app/PC box so it can still be done everywhere and not getting in the way!
I think a simple on off switch is the best of both worlds in regards to the exp all issue. I find myself needing to rotate my team constantly with only 2 pokemon out at a time so I dont immedialtely over level and sweep the game. I dont know of another game where I have to micromanage my gameplay so much and add handicaps in order to make the game a challenge.
7:42 And what of the argument that Scarlet and Violet made it easy to not be over-leveled thanks to most trainer battles being optional? I certainly found it easy enough to match my level to a given gym leader.
@@Mqstodon I've seen people say that but it wasn't my experience. Course I wasn't trying to fill the pokedex during the main story so I didn't catch many Pokemon during it either.
I agree with making ice types early because a lot of people's favorite pokemon are ice types but they can't use them until the late and by the time you get there what's the point
I really want an Australia-inspired region, but that makes me question how that would affect ice-types if they go full-on faithful with how things are in Australia since it never snows there.
7:15 they immediately went the other way right after introducing the hard mode because overall gen 5 was borderline a financial failure and gen 6 gave Pokémon a new life Overall again and again in the history of the franchise the economical success always points to easy game friendly to new players and gen 1 pandering are keys to make money Every time they had success or failure it's often almost perfectly correlated with these factors
Gen 5's letdown would make more sense to explain Megas; offering cool new options for old favorites when last time only new Pokemon were allowed. Nobody hated Gen 5 because it had an optional Challenge Mode AFTER you beat the game...
I actually like the breeding system we got in Scarlet and Violet. It's way way faster in producing eggs we want and need, especially with food and sandwiches that we can buy and make. We can also breed a ton right out the bat with strawberry ice cream in Los Platos. Idk, if we're talking about the freedom to explore and time: I'd argue that taking a minute or two of a picnic anywhere (that's flat outdoor land, of course) is much better than travelling all the way to a daycare center, go on an adventure, then go all the way back to a day care center that's out of the way is just more time consuming. I do agree about the pokejobs though. That would be an excellent way of giving more fun for less.
I've put literally thousands of hours into breeding for various things since the mechanic was introduced in gen 2. I feel like the people saying "you could adventure while breeding" in past games are only breeding for the dex. If you're actually breeding for a purpose like IVs or shiny hunting, all you're going to be doing is driving back and forth in front of the daycare on your bicycle/ride pokemon. For example, when breeding for a shiny Kangaskhan in Omega Ruby, I spent the better part of a month doing nothing but holding the button down to drive around the Battle Resort, punctuated by occasionally pressing the A button to grab a new egg or drop a few hatchlings in the PC box. Not exactly compelling stuff. At least with the picnic breeding I can set up hatching power and make myself a cup of tea, and then come back to an nearly full box of eggs ready to take out and hatch. I don't think picnic breeding really stops the flow any more than past breeding did. The pokemon community just likes to constantly complain about anything changing while simultaneously whining that nothing changes.
@@lostfelinepiesh6917 I agree with you. I can't stress how long and tedious it is to get a Pokémon you want from breeding by going back and forth to a daycare, get eggs, cycle up and down cycling roads, routes, or even around cities just to hatch the wrong set of eggs, return, see if there are any new eggs, repeat, etc. Meanwhile, Scarlet and Violet offers us the easiest and fastest way to get eggs. Make an egg power sandwich, leave switch on for a while, come back and yeah, have a full box or two of eggs. The effect is timer based too so it's easy to switch out pokemon for breeding. No need for PCs or paying (while both are not really a problem, that's a lot of time save too).
A million times yes regarding ice types. Starting on a remote snowy mountain Village and finding plenty of ice types would be great. They're similar to bug types in general strength so wouldn't really be that big of an issue. Perhaps in the next gen...
@@emperorcubone well ya or just make them stone evolutions. Gengar will require the dusk stone, Alakazam and Machamp would require the Dawn stone since it’s Japanese name is the awakening stone and Golem would require a new stone (mineral stone maybe)
GF could include an early ice type in-game trade. A new ice mon w/ low speed and high Sp. Atk. With a move pool limited to low power ice attacks, the Pokémon’s overall power level would be kept in check. After evolving its moveset could expand, but its evolution could be delayed until a certain item or evo stone becomes available.
In the topic of early ice types, it was a huge missed opportunity for that in Platinum. The region was colder, there’s even some snow in the starting town and first route! Yet the encounters are all the same as DP
I actually prefer the Scarlet and Violet method of breeding. I can take care of some drawing while my Pokemon breed, and when I come back some time later, THERE’S OVER 30 EGGS IN MY BASKET
6.-) I actually like that the new "Evil Teams" aren't actually evil, makes things less predictable, instead of the old way were they were evil for no good reason. 5.-) I like the Picnic method because it means that I can breed whenever I want, instead of having to wait till I find the Daycare (usually at the mid-point of the game).
The player character is in a private school with mandated uniform policy. So what else would they wear? If you want other outfits, then wait for Gen 10.
Unpopular opinion probably but...: The Picnic-Way to get egg IS superior for so many reasons. Sure the only thing is that you need to stop with exploring but then again you can be in any location where you can set up a Picnic to make eggs. You also still have access to your box so it is easy enough to get in and out Pokémon for breeding and you can choose to make a sandwich with Egg-Power to make it even easier to get and hatch egg. So no I hope they let this be a thing so I do not need to travel to collect a Pokémon from a nursary...I can just have my specific Pokémon ready to make some egg and when I am done I just stop and get back my team again.
Being "in any location" is pointless if you're only allowed to do one thing in that location; they might as well all be the same spot if there are no other capabilities outside of eggs. And if I need to play a sandwich minigame beforehand to make it easier, that doesn't exactly make it "easy" does it? I'll give you that remote access to withdrawing eggs or Pokemon would be nice, but those limitations aren't any worse then an overall pause button...
@@emperorcubone But to be fair...When anyone is hatching eggs they do just that until they don't want to anymore. So in a way you do pause what else you do weather you are in a daycare or not. This is just another way to not need specific places to go to just to fix with eggs. Now you just open up Picnic and fix with it rather than locking yourself to a location with a nursary. And not needing to talk to a NPC to get your eggs feels, for me better. Do I say the Picnic-Way is flawless? No but it is in my opinion a step in the right direction of independence in when you want to choose to breed Pokémon and when you want to do something else. In Sword and Shield you could get only one egg at the time and then wait and then another etc to get eggs. Now with some patience (Which you need anyway with breeding for specific Pokémon like shinies) you can get 5+ egg at the same time. That to me is great. I only see one downside and that is that I can't access my box DURING Picnic but need to pack up and then go to box to do stuff if I forgot stuff with my Pokémon. Otherwise I do love not to be locked to a location to get my eggs.
1:55 Because evil teams don't have to always be "evil" or intimidating. The "evil teams", however you wanted to dub these, in recent gens were supposed to be relatable characters. I find Teams Skull and Star did the best job in representing certain situations from being outclassed, bullied, and abandoned by someone because in the end, they learned their lessons to become better characters. If you actually paid attention, you'd see said teams/characters actually grew and developed by the end of the story. Penny was right there and clearly showed how much she changed and... (spoilers ahead) Penny was the was that started the whole Team Star fiasco only to turn around to stop it after realizing the damages it was causing. She remained anonymous because she didn't want the captains to worry or get everyone expelled. Guzma's backstory was depressing for desperately wanting to be the best trainer and be a trail captain without showing his weaknesses. He thought no one understood him and it made Kukui and even Hala feel bad for him.
For me, I think level scaling in, Pokémon scarlet. I lost to grusha because I didn’t know it was so high-level if they really wanted us to make our own adventure why didn’t they introduced level scaling so it would be easier for us to beat the gyms in any order that we want
For me, anything that gets rid of grinding is a plus. Despite my age and time spent in the games, at the end of the day, I wanna just use my strongest supereffective move and win. And yes to character customization coming back! I get that Scarlet/Violet had a unifrom, and in theory that's cool, but somehow I wish they had come up with a way to make them more unique. At least let me take the tie off and look a little rebelious.
Let me choose my starter after I beat the story-mode once. Let me start with ANY non-legendary (or otherwise special) pokemon right from the getgo without turning to cheat-codes and stuff! Also: the original Red had no Meowth, so there was a real chance running out of money. I mean, what?! Also also: in gen 1, not sure about the later games, if you want to overlevel lategame, because you find yourself in a corner for the wrong picks or something - what are your chances? Running in circles, fighting lvl 25 pokemons? That's stoopid.
I think cubchoo and vanillite are the most early you could catch ice types in Pokemon, cuz in BW, you could catch both before skyla's gym and The ground type gym respectively, and they are pretty strong for that matter, I guess BW fixed it better than SV without overcomplicating it
@@TunaBear64 yea I always made it winter to catch that dude 😂 also cuz sawsbuck has a much better winter form, but yeah it might be difficult to use but I always love it and I wish it gets more recognition
Yes! I agree with the gen 9 breeding issues you have. I commented something similar on another video and got chewed out 😅 I have limited time to play video games, and the last thing I want is to set my controller down and wait for eggs to appear 🤦
I don't think it's unreasonable at to expect to be able to passively collect eggs like we have for over 20 years! This isn't Animal Crossing guys, I got better things to do; I shouldn't have to choose between getting eggs or gaining experience when I could do both in any other game!
the Pokémon company just can't make there mind up. I mean I am not really complaining about these. I hated the old XP system that's why I've only got 2 gym badges and 40h in my diamond and pearl save. The XP grind was way to stupid hard. To fix the ice type I would make it resist grass and flying water wouldn't resist it fighting and ice would be neutral towards each other and fire and ice would be super effective against each other. Also the old day care system should come back and be able to give you up to 5 eggs at once. Also grass needs to be fixed I mean water and fire (THE COUNTER PART TYPES!) have more of an advantage in terms of weakness'. Grass shouldn't be weak to flying and maybe neutral towards ice. I enjoy the videos!
For me one of the biggest issues with SV is the removal of set mode in battles. In the recent games that was the closest feature to a somewhat hard difficulty. Forcing me to play on switch mode just makes no sense.
Earliest available ice type I can think of is Vanillite in bw, catchable around the 5th gym, which isn't quite the late game imo but is definitely solidly in the mid game by which point I've usually already solidified a team.
The exp share is insane to me. In Shield I kept trying to use my weaker Pokemon to level them up, so I rarely used my starter, but kept it in the back of my party. So any time I did use it, it one shot everything and was boring.
And on the topic of early Ice Pokémon, there are two main reasons. The first is a relic of the past, being that dragon type only had two weaknesses, Ice had to be introduced late so you didn't have an instant solution to their only choice at a hard mode. Ever since then even dragon types are more common and even if they weren't, people wonder trade eggs now. The second is map design, which has cold regions of the map be late game areas, since you always start quite aways from it. Arguably this shouldn't work for Johto, you can go to the lake of rage quite early; Unova could have handled it with the winter season spawning ice types in extra places; and Galar is the northernmost place we've ever seen so it also could have done it; and Snom was the perfect thing for it, too.
Wow it’s been a while since I’ve been this early, can’t wait to see this latest upload 😊😊😊 Thanks for the new video Emperor Cubone and go hug your furbabies all 💙🐱💙
On the ice type conundrum, in Pokémon Black and White 1 you can find Vanillite at cold storage before you battle Clay. It may not be early game, but it’s certainly early enough so that you may not have a full team set up yet. And there is Amaura in X and Y. That can be obtained before or after the second gym, I can’t remember.
See the only problem with Amaura is that it's paired with literally the only fossil I would pick over it. As for Vanillite, the fifth gym is half over, and even if I did maybe have a Pokemon or two I'd be willing to replace, I don't know that Vanillite could beat any of them, so maybe I should've said GOOD early Ice types...
@@emperorcubone Yeah, I understand that Amaura isn’t as popular as Tyrunt. Nevertheless, the Ice type hill is probably the hill I will die defending because the Pokémon Company certainly won’t.
I'm not sure gamefreak even wants there to be replay value in pokemon. If they did they'd let you have multiple save slots. I know on the switch you can have multiple profiles but before that you'd either have to own multiple copies of the game or multiple systems if you wanted multiple saves.
The multiple save file thing has been a non-issue since Let's Go, because you can always create a second profile on the Switch and it starts the game from scratch.
@@emperorcubone I'm aware, but that's nintendo solving a problem that gamefreak doesn't care about. The pre-switch games are evidence enough that they don't want you to play through a pokemon game more than once, they want you to keep playing on one save until the next game comes out.
The character customization in Paldea is pitiful. None of the accessories match the outfit, so I just don’t wear any. Also the hair options are extremely limited. I have long hair and the only long hairstyle they have is as ugly as they could possibly make it. At least the face customization is fine. They actually give you quite a bit of options.
For XP I don't have an issue. Just implement lvl scaling with certain roaming encounters set at higher lvls, like a fully evolved Pokemon. Character customization in remakes being limited is understandable, we should be happy to have gotten it at all in BDSP. As for the uniforms, they could just have players wear them for class, not the entire game. The teams can go either way.
The mandatory Exp. Share completely destroyed the fun for me and the feeling of personal accomplishment every time I battled everywhere in the game so I can level up my Pokémon to 100! One feature I used to enjoy was the elite four and the champion and of course the battle towers with randomised trainers and Pokémon! However, Exp. Candies are the parting shot of bonding with your favourite mons on your journey of leveling up! Now you can just level them up within a few seconds and personally I get no pleasure with that and this is exactly the reason I constantly feel upset with the recent games and as a result I drop them aside! Don't get me wrong, I'm a working and grown up man and have very little time to play my games and level up my Pokémon with the traditional way, not to mention there are literally more than a thousand mons to choose from, but the truth is that the games have lost their magic for me because of the reasons I mentioned above!
On the subject of the first one. I've felt for a while that if they really want to keep things fresh (which they do), they should take a break from trying to do the whole evil team thing. Alola got rid of the traditional gym challenge, so why not skip the evil team for a game or two so they can actually maybe make a decent one while giving us a break? But it's so much the tradition, when I pitched an idea for a Pokemon game to one of my friends and said I figured maybe we just don't do an evil team for it he said "You gotta have an evil team"
I don't get no early ice types, either. I kinda see them wanting to make them seem special, rare, and powerful to the other late game type, dragon? But if so, they could just make an early cave with a few rare ice spawns or something.
Yeah, the "villain" team in the lastest game is honestly the saddest yet, bunch of bullied kids who instead of standing up to their bully just gather together and commit actual crimes, how logical.
The things that Pokémon can’t get right in my eyes are Pokémon animations Pokémon like Salamence Skarmory and etc. putting them floating in sky I thought they fix the animations in SV
To be fair on the last point, you COULD get an ice type early in Sword/Shield, you just have to be really lucky. On my first playthrough of Shield, it was snowing when I reached the Wild Area, and I found a Swinub and a Vanillite in the Rolling Fields. Granted, this is very situational, since the weather is completely random, but it was nice to have some options for the first gym.
Honestly I disagree on Exp share being a negative feature, honestly it’s one of the best features in recent games. What I do take issue however is that the games didn’t up their difficulty for the Exp share to make sense. A lot of RPGs have evenly distributed Exp and still manage to have a balanced difficulty, or say another monster catcher in Shin Megami Tensei where Exp share is always on, but still manages to be one of the hardest RPG series I’ve ever played. The only reason I think people hate on Pokémon Exp share is because “change bad”, which is a shame because I think instead of the critique being on the Exp share, it should be on the general difficulty as a whole and how extremely hard it is to actually lose a match. Hallmarks like gyms should have a higher recommended Pokémon level, and the Pokémon should have better moves and more versatile abilities, how route trainers don’t have more than three or four pokemon. It’s not the Exp share that’s the issue, since it just removes the tedium of grinding, but instead the issue is how the difficulty didn’t change to better fit the convenience of Exp share rather than make it a breeze
Come one, let's be fair; it's far more then "change bad," these players are legitimately upset that choices have been taken away from them, which is totally understandable! Why would having less options then previous games ever be a good thing?
Team Galactic does not have "clear overall goals." Cyrus wants to... create a world without spirit? And the Grunts/Admins follow him because.. he's a crazy cult leader and they're stupid I guess.
I can kinda see where you're coming from, but I have to disagree still. Having more options for clothing would have been nice to have (especially considering how few options you get in the game) and would be another good way to make your character more unique
You can catch many Ice types in the Wild Area right from the start in Sword and Shield: Vanillite, Swinub, Delibird, Snorunt, Snover, and can even evolve Snorunt into Froslass before reaching Motostoke.
It would be cool if the player can be offered the chance to become a gym leader after proving themselves by winning the league. Imagine being able to build your own custom gym, recruit other NPCs to work for you in your gym as obstacles to would be challengers, make your own puzzles to fit the theme of your gym, design your badge, take on challengers, etc.
The ice type early game issue may come down to the moves, maybe. Ice type moves are generally good typing. Even the lower power ice type moves, arguably pretty strong against other Pokémon types that can be commonly found in the early game
I personally think it has more to do with location than game balancing. They always tend to start you off in a warmer area, which leaves there with less opportunities to have an ice type appear early on. Even if balance somehow was the main issue, it could still be something of a struggle to use an ice type early on because of how bad off the type is defensively, and given that ice Pokemon often have a more defensive stat spread (despite it not working to their advantage), they'll often be forced to take a hit first; alternatively, if you wanted a more offensive, glass cannon style ice type, this would just create more problems with the risk of being knocked out becoming that much higher. Long story short, I don't think that balance is the main problem they are trying to avoid with having ice types being available early on
Honestly there’s so many things under this umbrella. To give a few examples: -follow Pokémon -regional gimmicks -gts/wonder trade -affection bonuses -exp share -general technical performance -evil teams -victory roads -many, many more
I think they should bring back the HMs and the grinding. Why wouldn't I use my pokemon to traverse the overworld? Make them deletable and have the unlimited TM/HMs, and you're golden. And the whole purpose of the game is to be a Pokémon trainer, not a Pokémon coach. If that means I have to train up my team on level 18 pokemon when the next gym is in the 40s, so be it.
I will praise the Wild Area in Shield when it comes to early ice type access. At the first wild area, it was snowing for me there within the first three gyms and I managed to catch a Snorunt, and as soon as I could access the next segment of the Wild Area to pick up a Dawn Stone, I had myself a Froslass - a sure help against Allister and vital team member. Essentially, if there’s a weather/season system, snow or hail should bring out a few ice types for us to catch.
One thing I hate is how quickly they just kinda... sweep away concepts I'd love to see more of. Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon alone opened up both entire civilisations of alternate universal beings, as well as alternate timeline merge shenanigans with Team Rainbow Rocket. But then there's just... no mention of them again like??? I wanna know MORE!
Agreed. Hopefully we'll get to see Ultra Space again someday...
Not to mention, that Team Rainbow Rocket would have been great for cameos and dlc
Eh alternative timeline, eh.
I hope not, getting sick of the multiverse.
But I do like ultra space. Make alien Pokemon before exploring multiverse
@@Watch-0w1 ultra beasts exist...
I dunno, I'd rather not have to deal with, say, the multiverse when playing a new pokemon game. I'd rather see new stuff happen than "oops, we opened a portal to another dinension again."
I need a coordinator path like yesterday. It’s wild to me that they even stopped having contests when so many pokemon aren’t really fit for serious battle
Not to mention that was the only way to evolve Feebas...
Contests was a beloved feature that I really miss in gen5+.
I am serious Competitive Player but love contests too
coordinator, breeder, ranger...we have tons of pre-established still pokemon-focused jobs we could be focused in! it's a really cool idea
I remember first playing Diamond as a kid (my first pokemon game btw) and wanting to try out contests like the anime
Only to find out that there's only a single contest hall instead of multiple towns each having their own
And yeah that's right, a lot of mons aren't good for battle (at least outside of competitive but some even then) but could at least shine in contests, giving them use that way
Plus it gives people another fun challenge they can try since it's very different from battling
3 words EGG POWER SANDWICH
I agree with the 'opening up the world to more than just battling' point. In SV, they had these really fun new storylines aside from the typical gym badges and elite four, but Arven and Penny's stories still ended with a regular boss battle, like they always have done before.
Why could we not have had a huge Team Star base as a final area, or some kind of other test or dungeon to complete the Titans' story? They pushed so hard in pre-release to showcase the different types of exploration we could do, only for it all to end up being just ordinary Pokémon battles like always
Yeah capping off each storyline with a standard battle kind of defeats the purpose of them being different. That's why I liked some of the quests in Legends Arceus, because some of them were just see a Pokemon eat or something totally different!
@@emperorcubone Eh, for being the first time they do something like this it was good.
They are testing the waters to see how good a game with multiple paths is and who knows maybe next gen we'll get a game that truly has multiple paths.
Actual open world. In Gen 9 you can fight any gym in any order, but it’s really just the wrong order. You’ll be overpowered if you come to fight the grass gym 6th so it’s just a chore at that point. Each gym leader should be programmed with the same team at various levels and stages based off the number of badges the player has.
Yeah it was the dumbest thing to allow us to go to any gym but then not level scale the gyms for the order you choose to fight them.
I feel like a 10 year old could have figired that out
I gotta agree, it's so baffling that they had a "set" way for you to take on the gyms, but pretended like they didn't...
I also thought with the map being divided into directions then zones, I thought “Oh, the different zones will be the level of the wild. Makes sense. Simple but effective.” Nothing like that at all.
also that would fit the idea that gym trainers adjust their team to not be too hard or too easy on the challengers
@@emperorcubone don't you mean " playing the game as Nintendo nintended"🤣🤣
To be fair, you COULD get some solid Ice-types like Swinub in Sword and Shield as soon as you enter the Wild Area for the first time, but that's only if the weather is right.
Even excluding weather and raids, you can get Glaceon before the first gym if you get an Ice Stone from the Digging Duo.
@@Zeturic Aren't those guys locked behind that bridge to the east of Motostoke until you're allowed to go to Hammerlocke?
@@metanightmare4454 They are beyond the bridge, but they're not "locked" in any sense. There's nothing stopping you from walking over there, beyond needing to avoid the wild Pokémon.
Gym level scaling would be the best! Let me start with the gym I want and not be punished with a super easy playthrough afterwards!
Exactly. Though that being said I literally just finished a Leaf Green playthrough and didn't grind one single bit but still wiped out every gym with ease.
Elite Four needed some more strategy and thought though thankfully, but no additional levelling to beat either, which is good.
I like that the exp share allows me to train more than one team of pokemon. Unfortunately the enemy teams are always small, and rarely have any challenge to them, so there just isn't much point in having a B team, or C team.
Yeah it's a good thing for those ultra hard hacks like Radical Red, but not official games.
im all for fast lvl up since im lazy, but yeah they made the enemy barely any challenging that you can't overlevel or the whole thing just become too easy
Yeah Scarlet and Violet were really easy.. I beat the Elite Four with a Spoink and a Shroomish that were just overlevelled.
@@cookiesontoast9981 The champion especially was an absolute joke. I never thought we'd see a worse champion than Diantha, but they somehow pulled it off.
At least there's no more grinding involved
I really want an ice flying regional bird, or at least one that gains the ice type upon evolving. after having talonflame and kilowatrell with their fire and electric typings, an ice one could complete this elemental triangle and will be cool to have. also, it will mean we will have three regional birds that are like more common versions of moltres, zapdos and articuno
Yeah but then it also means that stealth rocks, or any rock move, becomes its worst nightmare
@@eljordinio7647 Thats true, but from an in game playthrough perspective and not a competitive one it hardly matters
@@joltx9909 it does when u face a lot of rock types throughout the game, whether it's through a gym or in caves where there's full of rock types, or if one of the E4 or champion happens to have one
@@eljordinio7647 but still, you can do with pokemon like camerupt or aurorus who deal with the same problem. I beat many pokemon games with 4x weakness mons and while having slight difficulties, its still manageable and well worth it for having a unique typing
@@eljordinio7647 they did talonflame, charizard is a STARTER
My thought is that they got rid of challenge mode & made the forced exp share because black & white were not liked compared to other games.
Maybe, but I don't think the choice of difficulty was the reason anyone had a problem, it was more the soft reboot aspect...
@@emperorcubone I agree but I think they just got rid of anything that was part of gen 5 to make sure
I've always loved black and white and black 2 and white 2. Not as much as guns 1-3 but they're an easy fallback option for me.
0:49 #6: Evil Teams
2:46 #5: Breeding
4:29 #4: Other Careers than Battling
6:13 #3: Experience
7:42 #2: Character Customization
9:17 #1: Early Ice Types
I will ALWAYS dislike the fact that they _nailed_ it with the PSS (Player Search System) in XY... _and never again_ (I don't know WHY they refuse to look at that and be like "Ya know. People REALLY loved that. Maybe we should take note)
It is shocking how that has gotten worse every time they try it... Maybe we'll see it again in Kalos remakes...
With breeding, I would have liked a nursery pc box. Just like picnic breeding, it would be portable, but unlike picnic breeding, you wouldn't need to stop exploring. You wouldn't need to be on flat ground. You wouldn't need to empty your party. It could have multiple slots with rotom phone alerting you when it's full and multiple boxes, allowing you to breed more than one pokemon.
You need to be hired by Gamefreak and TPC ASAP 😂
The transition from the core games to VGC. Haven’t been able to get bridge the gap for common players
Yeah the new breeding is annoying and I hate it... Same with reducing clothing options, especially after how open and cool the options had become in some earlier games.
Initially, I thought people were fine with the new method of breeding. Y'know just a nice alternative. But turns out this is the only way to breed & get eggs in this game, which annoys some players, whether they be competitive, shiny hunters or casuals.
Atlease with the reduced clothing they had a reason your enrolled in a academy all academy has a dress code all students have to follow or they'll get in huge trouble you can't just go to school wearing a t shirt and shorts. Next Gen should have more options unless it's a school setting again.
Kinda makes sense in S&V that options are reduced. You are in school with a uniform.
Team skull and team star were great imo. It was really just team yell that sucked and made the "evil team that's not really evil" thing feel tired after only a couple times.
And when Team Skull was introduced, even if it was pretty obvious to most people that Aether were the real villains, Team Skull was a sort of red herring that hadn't been done before. It was a sort of plot twist, and at that point was an original idea in the series. And they do definitely cause problems for people. Like their ambitions aren't anywhere near the likes of Team Aqua/Magma or even Team Rocket, but they do go around doing petty crime. Not to mention they do just have a lot of charisma, I mean Guzma is one of my favorite characters in the series, and I think I've laughed at Team Skull dialogue more than any other team or than most other dialogue in general.
Still don't understand the full story with Team Star or how it worked, but I think the general jist could've been done well, just not in the context of a school.
@@xaldrortenderofthevats8948 team star was a bunch of outcasts who decided to deal with their school's bullying problem. How would you go about removing the context of a school from the equation?
Adding Meltan and Melmetal to the main series games and changing its evolution method so Meltan can be evolved in the main series games. I will say I do like the new breeding method, it combines the curry mechanic and day care so you can breed multiple Pokémon at the same time whilst giving them food.
Meltan and Melmetal probably are non-canon. They're canon only to the anime, as is armored Mewtwo or Ash Greninja or Crystal Onix or Golden Sudowoodo.
@@vittoriopugliese3352 but Melmetal has a G-Max form. So why bother giving that to a non canon pokemon?
100% agree! Free Meltan!
Canon? Non-canon? They have Pokedex numbers, their data's in the games. They exist.
Fun fact: Melmetal is set to learn Thunder Punch upon evolving, but because it can only evolve in GO, this data is unused.
I'd argue that SwSh and Sarlet and Violet fixed the ice type problem you can catch ice types early in Sword and Sheild and you can catch any pokemon in Scarlet and Violet and breed them due to the fact that you can go anywhere with Miradon and Kiradon
I don't even know what you're talking about for Gen 8, do you just mean Raid Dens? Because those aren't a sure thing, basically being random. As for Gen 9, the Ice types are still across the map, meaning you'll have to travel quite far and face overlevled Pokemon, so yes, if you grind I guess Ice can come about half as early as usual...
I mean you could go to the icy mountain immediately in ScarVio but everything would be such a higher level that it'd be almost impossible to just catch though
@@emperorcubone I may be wrong but if I remember correctly in Sword and Sheild you could catch Snover, Vanilite, Swinub, and Delibird in the wild area early on. And in Scarlet and Violet you could go anywhere, catch an over leveled Ice type, and breed it with a pokemon in the same egg group to get a Level 1Ice Pokemon that will obey you that can be used in the early game
@@ddtaylorificus You can save in front of the high level pokemon so that if you run out of balls you can reset to catch the female ice type
Ice type is basically hard mode.
For me it’s the lack of voice acting, and the story. The story has improved dramatically in Scarlet/Violet though!
Pokemon doesn't need voice acting
a miscast can really break your immersion from the game
@@gustavoschiller6852 Toggles, I think are the key here. So people who want it can have it, no matter the quality, and the people who don't don't have to.
I will say, though, it's jarring without it as it is now. Sword and Shield, for example, Rose literally flailing himself about, camera right up to his face as he yaps away...but not a single peep is heard out of him. Or Piers just having foot tapping sounds, but nothing else as he's supposed to be doing a concert. That breaks the immersion WORSE than having bad voice acting, I'd say, lol.
I think having Fairouz Ai be Iono's va could work, at least for Japanese VAs. For proof of concept, she voices Sei Shounagon from Fate/Grand Order, and nails the 'chaotic e-girl gremlin' type very well.
I literally had to rotate through over 20 Pokémon in Shield to try and not be super over leveled. On the one hand it was kinda fun doing that, but on the other it really didn’t feel like a had a “main” team. More like a main battalion😅
The only time I really did that tactic was in ORAS, but it was because I wanted to, since I could still turn the EXP share off.
That’s the fun part tho
I... don’t mean to be rude at all, but how? I fight every trainer, don’t grind on wild Pokémon, and my team is only like 2-5 levels overleveled at max
@@novaexplorer2397 it’s probably because I didn’t try to avoid fighting wild Pokémon while exploring, that and I kept wanting to use new Pokémon I saw
Why should you need to have a main or even secondary teams in the first place?! Just do what I do and take turns training all your Pokémon, including using entire teams of type advantage for the gyms. Then just decide on your final team for tackling Victory Road and the Pokémon League from among the strongest Pokémon you have at that point.
Are the newer evil teams presented as equal threats to past ones though? I think the games do a pretty good job establishing when the stakes are a lot lower (heck, in Sun and Moon a Skull grunt lampshades that they aren't out to conquer the world or anything like that), and it arguably makes more sense for our character to be involved in these lower-stakes conflicts as a new trainer. I also have the impression the Team Star storyline was pretty well received.
It's just the fact that they intentionally model these newer teams off of the old ones; if Team Star were not a team at all then it would feel different. Just call them the "Lost Boys" or something and then we wouldn't be invited to draw inevitable comparisons to old global domination plots...
@@emperorcubone Dude, that's a nitpick. Okay, they have the word "Team" in their name, so what?.
@Emperor Cubone it's because of iconography, "Team" at this point has become more of a game terminology than an actual name; sure they could call them something more accurate to their description, but then let me ask you, how many people actually talk about, or even remember for that matter the names of the actual antagonistic teams of gen 7 & 8? nope, all they remember is Lusamine or chairman Rose, not the group run by them, on the other hand, they all easily remember Skull and Yell
"Team" has become this unfortunate necessity for the sake of allowing the more dumber side of the player base to actually understand what is happening on the screen
@@emperorcuboneI think that was the intention though, present us with an “evil team” that we have to go to all of their hideouts to defeat only to be shown that they’re just a group of bullied kids, I wouldn’t be surprised if going forward Evil Teams aren’t a requirement
I haven't gotten to play the switch games yet, but I did personally like Team Skull. Even if the writing around them and the Aether Foundation was kinda predictable (this is a game for kids after all), the framing of them as the initial main villains, in part by calling them a Team, acted as a red herring, and helped with the (again admittedly predictable) twist reveal of Lusamine and Aether as the real main villains of the game. It is entirely possible that that's overused at this point or that the newer ones don't work like that (again I haven't gotten to play them yet), but at that point this was an original type of storyline and they were at least better than Team Flare imo.
It would be fun to see a bit of a return to form for the Team in some upcoming game though.
As an Ice type Pokémon fan, I wholeheartedly agree with your final point! The Ice type is completely ignored or nerfed constantly, I really wish they would make it more viable. And early Ice type Pokémon would be greatly appreciated!
How about an Icelandic/Norse setting
The fangame Pokémon Sage has early Ice types, early snowy routes and even the first Gym is Ice type, basically the opposite of what official games have been doing
The rom hack, Pokémon Unbound also has you start in a snowy area with Ice types early on too. No Ice Gym as the first one, though.
Character customization is a must and I want to extend to the outfit.
Like I might be known as Lillie but if you know me I am a bit of an Elesa.
I love changed my character to make it look like Lillie, other characters, or do make something brand new.
Early ice is a bummer, I hate and don’t like to ask my friends to give me an ice type or Snowy so late in the game.
The daycare needs to comeback because I don’t really like nothing as I run around…
Team Star was a nice take and a good attempt at incorporating very simple and relatable story beats. We couldn't relate because we're grown. That doesn't make it bad, that makes it not for you, and that's okay.
I actually kinda like the EXP share. Mostly because it made grinding a lot easier. THough I do think it should be a setting that is on by default and a player can turn it off and on again if they want it.
true
recently played through emerald and yeah its a bit annoying to grind for 80 years in a single area due to the cool pokemon you wanted to use is unfortunately in the slow exp group *cough* aron *cough*
I HATE that you can't toggle experience share on/off
It just makes it too easy to just plow through with your lead pokemon and never change.
yes but the alternative is plowing through with your lead pokemon and being unable to handle anything once they go down. using only one pokemon is always the optimal strategy. especially without the exp all. anything else is a waste that leaves the entire team under-leveled, not necessarily underpowered as using only one does leave you as a glass cannon without coverage, but glass canons are better than mid-tier nonsense where you have to burn several days all the time to keep up with the curve. grinding is an unfun waste of time.
@@Markcrazeer But having it so any Pokemon switched into battle gains full experience, like the change made in Gen VI, means that you don't have to grind, you just switch Pokemon out a lot. I basically did no grinding in Pokemon Y and Alpha Sapphire, but I still had Exp. Share off. Exp. All encourages putting Pokemon in boxes more and using more random Pokemon rather than keeping a core "team" to avoid over-leveling (which I guess is why boxes are more accessible than ever beginning in Gen VIII). I'm not saying that style of play is bad, using a wider variety of Pokemon can be cool, but give us the option to play differently.
@@ninja_boy ah yes switch training, a bunch of wasted turns and gradually chipping down your own team by unnecessarily giving the enemy free hits, or setup. luckly NPCs are obsessed with wasting time themselves. and otherwise it is still wasting limited sources of exp.
a solution to this problem is an inverse exp share that collects excess exp and converts it to exp candy.
Seriously, they figured out how to add an option to skip cutscenes, so adding an option to toggle EXP share should be simple. It's not like they overly care about game balance even with it forced, so not really an issue of 'but what about game balance'. Then again, the 'skip cutscenes' button cost several other small options so maybe they really don't know how to just add a toggleable button.
I don't know about Gen 9, but I'm pretty sure the code for toggling EXP Share is in the Gen 8 games, it's just always set to TRUE. That's what I heard, anyway.
In Gen 8 they figured out to skip tutorials if you demonstrate what they would have taught before the event flag would be triggered. Finally, Gamefreak realised someone would have played a Pokémon game before thus one.
I believe that gamefreak should make an evil team and keep bringing them back in the future generations, and maybe give us some character development between the games on the occuring characters.
100% agree on the ice types in the early game, I was forced to hack ice types in the begining of the games just to make a ice type mono run in *insert game here*
But I wouldn't say Team Star is evil, if anything Sara/Turo's willingness to destroy Paldea so the paradox pokémon can leave Area Zero was much worse them a bunch of bullied kids who that got uno reversed.
"Ice as an early gym would be a bad idea because 2 of the starters would resist it and the other would be super effective against it"
.......................rock has been the first gym in 3 different generations
You can get ice type Pokémon in the early game of Sword & Shield.
If you have the snow or snowstorm weather conditions present throughout the early locations of the Wild Area, you can get Pokémon such as Snorunt, Snover, Swinub and Vanillite before the first gym.
Alternatively, you change the date of your Switch's internal time/date to the 25th of December where snow is the only available weather condition in the Wild Area etc. This also doesn't factor in raid dens which can house early game ice types.
Always remember... 25th of December...
Yeah... a slim chance in an area that you probably won't spend enough time in is not the same thing as putting Circhester Bay accessible before the second gym...
@@emperorcuboneWhat are
you referring to when you say: 'slim chance', the raid dens or the Ice Pokémon available in the Wild Area?
@@mellowishism7302 Yes
Yeah it was weird that they removed the on/off switch for the experience share. They made more work for themselves just to upset people
They should've kept the old exp share and named the new one exp all so that you can decide whether you just want to teain one weaker mon at the cost of split exp or train your entire team effortlessly
They should bring the EXP ALL back as the toggle key item that EXP Share became, and return the EXP Share to it's status as a hold item.
I like that the EXP Share is permanent and shares it between all of the Pokémon in the party. I hated the old lead and switch method from earlier games, and this way I'm incentivized to try out more than just 6 Pokémon (which is what I do to counter being too overleveled). I do wish that NPC teams were stronger and had more Pokémon, because I've been noticing that a lot of recent games the NPCs always have just 1 or 2 Pokémon. Barely any have 3 and scarcely do they have 4 or more.
One thing is heavily dislike is the switch back to breakable TMs. I never used TMs before Gen 5 because I was always worried that I used this one-in-game item (at least the non-purchasable ones) on a Pokémon that didn't really took advantage of it. Making them infinite use was great so that multiple Pokémon in my party could have it, and then for Post-Game use such as for VGC matches. The TR system them made in Gen 8 where some were breakable was a feature I liked because a lot of the moves were very powerful ones, but farming them again wasn't a hassle. I also dislike how Gen 9 made them worst by having to farm several different Pokémon parts as materials to construct the TMs again. Feels like such a hassle
i've been playing pokemon since yellow came out and oh my god the new exp. share system is a lifesaver
#1: I am glad I am not the only one who gets very tired of this. Even in "cold" Sinnoh, they did this.
Even Legends Arceus made me wait hours and hours before I could go to the final Ice area...
Literally haven’t done any breeding in Violet because I don’t want to stand around waiting. I don’t know what they were thinking with this as it’s the least engaging thing they could have done. Why not just make it a phone app/PC box so it can still be done everywhere and not getting in the way!
I think a simple on off switch is the best of both worlds in regards to the exp all issue. I find myself needing to rotate my team constantly with only 2 pokemon out at a time so I dont immedialtely over level and sweep the game. I dont know of another game where I have to micromanage my gameplay so much and add handicaps in order to make the game a challenge.
7:42 And what of the argument that Scarlet and Violet made it easy to not be over-leveled thanks to most trainer battles being optional? I certainly found it easy enough to match my level to a given gym leader.
You overlevel just by catching and doing main story fights
@@Mqstodon I've seen people say that but it wasn't my experience. Course I wasn't trying to fill the pokedex during the main story so I didn't catch many Pokemon during it either.
I agree with making ice types early because a lot of people's favorite pokemon are ice types but they can't use them until the late and by the time you get there what's the point
It doesn't help that most water types end up being better ice types due to their move pools and not being weak to as many types
I really want an Australia-inspired region, but that makes me question how that would affect ice-types if they go full-on faithful with how things are in Australia since it never snows there.
7:15 they immediately went the other way right after introducing the hard mode because overall gen 5 was borderline a financial failure and gen 6 gave Pokémon a new life
Overall again and again in the history of the franchise the economical success always points to easy game friendly to new players and gen 1 pandering are keys to make money
Every time they had success or failure it's often almost perfectly correlated with these factors
Gen 5's letdown would make more sense to explain Megas; offering cool new options for old favorites when last time only new Pokemon were allowed. Nobody hated Gen 5 because it had an optional Challenge Mode AFTER you beat the game...
You can find early ice type in sword and shield if it's snowing in the wild area then you can get a ice type like snowrunt and vanillite
I actually like the breeding system we got in Scarlet and Violet. It's way way faster in producing eggs we want and need, especially with food and sandwiches that we can buy and make. We can also breed a ton right out the bat with strawberry ice cream in Los Platos. Idk, if we're talking about the freedom to explore and time: I'd argue that taking a minute or two of a picnic anywhere (that's flat outdoor land, of course) is much better than travelling all the way to a daycare center, go on an adventure, then go all the way back to a day care center that's out of the way is just more time consuming.
I do agree about the pokejobs though. That would be an excellent way of giving more fun for less.
I've put literally thousands of hours into breeding for various things since the mechanic was introduced in gen 2.
I feel like the people saying "you could adventure while breeding" in past games are only breeding for the dex. If you're actually breeding for a purpose like IVs or shiny hunting, all you're going to be doing is driving back and forth in front of the daycare on your bicycle/ride pokemon.
For example, when breeding for a shiny Kangaskhan in Omega Ruby, I spent the better part of a month doing nothing but holding the button down to drive around the Battle Resort, punctuated by occasionally pressing the A button to grab a new egg or drop a few hatchlings in the PC box. Not exactly compelling stuff.
At least with the picnic breeding I can set up hatching power and make myself a cup of tea, and then come back to an nearly full box of eggs ready to take out and hatch.
I don't think picnic breeding really stops the flow any more than past breeding did. The pokemon community just likes to constantly complain about anything changing while simultaneously whining that nothing changes.
@@lostfelinepiesh6917 I agree with you. I can't stress how long and tedious it is to get a Pokémon you want from breeding by going back and forth to a daycare, get eggs, cycle up and down cycling roads, routes, or even around cities just to hatch the wrong set of eggs, return, see if there are any new eggs, repeat, etc.
Meanwhile, Scarlet and Violet offers us the easiest and fastest way to get eggs. Make an egg power sandwich, leave switch on for a while, come back and yeah, have a full box or two of eggs. The effect is timer based too so it's easy to switch out pokemon for breeding. No need for PCs or paying (while both are not really a problem, that's a lot of time save too).
A million times yes regarding ice types. Starting on a remote snowy mountain Village and finding plenty of ice types would be great.
They're similar to bug types in general strength so wouldn't really be that big of an issue. Perhaps in the next gen...
Or put a cold (but not necesarily icy) cave near the start. Or, idk, put Swinub in a forest or something.
Or put a cold (but not necesarily icy) cave near the start. Or, idk, put Swinub in a forest or something.
You nailed it with this video Emperor I’ll add retconning trade evolutions and getting rid of the items that are used to evolve only 1 Pokémon
You mean the Link Cable item from Legends Arceus?
@@emperorcubone well ya or just make them stone evolutions. Gengar will require the dusk stone, Alakazam and Machamp would require the Dawn stone since it’s Japanese name is the awakening stone and Golem would require a new stone (mineral stone maybe)
GF could include an early ice type in-game trade. A new ice mon w/ low speed and high Sp. Atk. With a move pool limited to low power ice attacks, the Pokémon’s overall power level would be kept in check. After evolving its moveset could expand, but its evolution could be delayed until a certain item or evo stone becomes available.
Or have a weaker 1st stage for early game that becomes stronger when you evolve it so it remains useable
I think the best idea would be a snowflake
In the topic of early ice types, it was a huge missed opportunity for that in Platinum. The region was colder, there’s even some snow in the starting town and first route! Yet the encounters are all the same as DP
An NPC that helps a player in trade evolutions. You could add a side quest to or as a reward to do it.
disagree with egg point first time I tried to get eggs with egg boost and got like 10 eggs at once that's way faster
Yes, well the first time I tried to get an egg I washed my Pokemon for like 20 minutes and nothing happened, even with a Ditto in my party...
I actually prefer the Scarlet and Violet method of breeding. I can take care of some drawing while my Pokemon breed, and when I come back some time later, THERE’S OVER 30 EGGS IN MY BASKET
I think Team Stars rationale was good for a non villain group.
I agree with the ice types, it's my favorite type an I hate how shafted it gets
6.-) I actually like that the new "Evil Teams" aren't actually evil, makes things less predictable, instead of the old way were they were evil for no good reason.
5.-) I like the Picnic method because it means that I can breed whenever I want, instead of having to wait till I find the Daycare (usually at the mid-point of the game).
I want the contest to be like in the video games like you can do combos to make something flashy or pretty.
In X&Y you could argue that you have a second job as a farmer. I spent a LOT of time on the farm in that game.
4 outfits in Paldea is ridiculous. I swear gamefreak has brain damage
The player character is in a private school with mandated uniform policy. So what else would they wear? If you want other outfits, then wait for Gen 10.
You're not at school for 99.5% of the game; how are they gonna know if you're following the dress code or not? They don't get to control me 24/7!
Unpopular opinion probably but...:
The Picnic-Way to get egg IS superior for so many reasons. Sure the only thing is that you need to stop with exploring but then again you can be in any location where you can set up a Picnic to make eggs. You also still have access to your box so it is easy enough to get in and out Pokémon for breeding and you can choose to make a sandwich with Egg-Power to make it even easier to get and hatch egg. So no I hope they let this be a thing so I do not need to travel to collect a Pokémon from a nursary...I can just have my specific Pokémon ready to make some egg and when I am done I just stop and get back my team again.
Being "in any location" is pointless if you're only allowed to do one thing in that location; they might as well all be the same spot if there are no other capabilities outside of eggs. And if I need to play a sandwich minigame beforehand to make it easier, that doesn't exactly make it "easy" does it? I'll give you that remote access to withdrawing eggs or Pokemon would be nice, but those limitations aren't any worse then an overall pause button...
@@emperorcubone But to be fair...When anyone is hatching eggs they do just that until they don't want to anymore. So in a way you do pause what else you do weather you are in a daycare or not. This is just another way to not need specific places to go to just to fix with eggs. Now you just open up Picnic and fix with it rather than locking yourself to a location with a nursary. And not needing to talk to a NPC to get your eggs feels, for me better. Do I say the Picnic-Way is flawless? No but it is in my opinion a step in the right direction of independence in when you want to choose to breed Pokémon and when you want to do something else. In Sword and Shield you could get only one egg at the time and then wait and then another etc to get eggs. Now with some patience (Which you need anyway with breeding for specific Pokémon like shinies) you can get 5+ egg at the same time. That to me is great. I only see one downside and that is that I can't access my box DURING Picnic but need to pack up and then go to box to do stuff if I forgot stuff with my Pokémon. Otherwise I do love not to be locked to a location to get my eggs.
1:55 Because evil teams don't have to always be "evil" or intimidating. The "evil teams", however you wanted to dub these, in recent gens were supposed to be relatable characters. I find Teams Skull and Star did the best job in representing certain situations from being outclassed, bullied, and abandoned by someone because in the end, they learned their lessons to become better characters. If you actually paid attention, you'd see said teams/characters actually grew and developed by the end of the story. Penny was right there and clearly showed how much she changed and... (spoilers ahead)
Penny was the was that started the whole Team Star fiasco only to turn around to stop it after realizing the damages it was causing. She remained anonymous because she didn't want the captains to worry or get everyone expelled.
Guzma's backstory was depressing for desperately wanting to be the best trainer and be a trail captain without showing his weaknesses. He thought no one understood him and it made Kukui and even Hala feel bad for him.
For me, I think level scaling in, Pokémon scarlet. I lost to grusha because I didn’t know it was so high-level if they really wanted us to make our own adventure why didn’t they introduced level scaling so it would be easier for us to beat the gyms in any order that we want
For me, anything that gets rid of grinding is a plus. Despite my age and time spent in the games, at the end of the day, I wanna just use my strongest supereffective move and win. And yes to character customization coming back! I get that Scarlet/Violet had a unifrom, and in theory that's cool, but somehow I wish they had come up with a way to make them more unique. At least let me take the tie off and look a little rebelious.
Let me choose my starter after I beat the story-mode once. Let me start with ANY non-legendary (or otherwise special) pokemon right from the getgo without turning to cheat-codes and stuff!
Also: the original Red had no Meowth, so there was a real chance running out of money. I mean, what?!
Also also: in gen 1, not sure about the later games, if you want to overlevel lategame, because you find yourself in a corner for the wrong picks or something - what are your chances? Running in circles, fighting lvl 25 pokemons? That's stoopid.
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I love the universal EXP Share
I think cubchoo and vanillite are the most early you could catch ice types in Pokemon, cuz in BW, you could catch both before skyla's gym and The ground type gym respectively, and they are pretty strong for that matter, I guess BW fixed it better than SV without overcomplicating it
In BW2 that only applies to Cubchoo and only in Winter, not like it matters as in BW2, Beartic is hopeless against Skyla.
@@TunaBear64 yea I always made it winter to catch that dude 😂 also cuz sawsbuck has a much better winter form, but yeah it might be difficult to use but I always love it and I wish it gets more recognition
the breeding change feels like they're trying to force competitive players into the casual play mechanics
Yes! I agree with the gen 9 breeding issues you have. I commented something similar on another video and got chewed out 😅 I have limited time to play video games, and the last thing I want is to set my controller down and wait for eggs to appear 🤦
I don't think it's unreasonable at to expect to be able to passively collect eggs like we have for over 20 years! This isn't Animal Crossing guys, I got better things to do; I shouldn't have to choose between getting eggs or gaining experience when I could do both in any other game!
The ice type problem is downstream of the fundamnetal problem that the type matchups don’t make sense and are terribly unbalanced.
Ah yes, Pokemon. Pretty much the epitome of "One step forward, two steps back."
the Pokémon company just can't make there mind up. I mean I am not really complaining about these. I hated the old XP system that's why I've only got 2 gym badges and 40h in my diamond and pearl save. The XP grind was way to stupid hard. To fix the ice type I would make it resist grass and flying water wouldn't resist it fighting and ice would be neutral towards each other and fire and ice would be super effective against each other. Also the old day care system should come back and be able to give you up to 5 eggs at once. Also grass needs to be fixed I mean water and fire (THE COUNTER PART TYPES!) have more of an advantage in terms of weakness'. Grass shouldn't be weak to flying and maybe neutral towards ice. I enjoy the videos!
For me one of the biggest issues with SV is the removal of set mode in battles. In the recent games that was the closest feature to a somewhat hard difficulty. Forcing me to play on switch mode just makes no sense.
Earliest available ice type I can think of is Vanillite in bw, catchable around the 5th gym, which isn't quite the late game imo but is definitely solidly in the mid game by which point I've usually already solidified a team.
The exp share is insane to me. In Shield I kept trying to use my weaker Pokemon to level them up, so I rarely used my starter, but kept it in the back of my party. So any time I did use it, it one shot everything and was boring.
And on the topic of early Ice Pokémon, there are two main reasons. The first is a relic of the past, being that dragon type only had two weaknesses, Ice had to be introduced late so you didn't have an instant solution to their only choice at a hard mode. Ever since then even dragon types are more common and even if they weren't, people wonder trade eggs now.
The second is map design, which has cold regions of the map be late game areas, since you always start quite aways from it. Arguably this shouldn't work for Johto, you can go to the lake of rage quite early; Unova could have handled it with the winter season spawning ice types in extra places; and Galar is the northernmost place we've ever seen so it also could have done it; and Snom was the perfect thing for it, too.
Wow it’s been a while since I’ve been this early, can’t wait to see this latest upload 😊😊😊
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On the ice type conundrum, in Pokémon Black and White 1 you can find Vanillite at cold storage before you battle Clay. It may not be early game, but it’s certainly early enough so that you may not have a full team set up yet. And there is Amaura in X and Y. That can be obtained before or after the second gym, I can’t remember.
See the only problem with Amaura is that it's paired with literally the only fossil I would pick over it. As for Vanillite, the fifth gym is half over, and even if I did maybe have a Pokemon or two I'd be willing to replace, I don't know that Vanillite could beat any of them, so maybe I should've said GOOD early Ice types...
@@emperorcubone Yeah, I understand that Amaura isn’t as popular as Tyrunt. Nevertheless, the Ice type hill is probably the hill I will die defending because the Pokémon Company certainly won’t.
I'm not sure gamefreak even wants there to be replay value in pokemon. If they did they'd let you have multiple save slots. I know on the switch you can have multiple profiles but before that you'd either have to own multiple copies of the game or multiple systems if you wanted multiple saves.
The multiple save file thing has been a non-issue since Let's Go, because you can always create a second profile on the Switch and it starts the game from scratch.
@@emperorcubone I'm aware, but that's nintendo solving a problem that gamefreak doesn't care about. The pre-switch games are evidence enough that they don't want you to play through a pokemon game more than once, they want you to keep playing on one save until the next game comes out.
The character customization in Paldea is pitiful. None of the accessories match the outfit, so I just don’t wear any.
Also the hair options are extremely limited. I have long hair and the only long hairstyle they have is as ugly as they could possibly make it.
At least the face customization is fine. They actually give you quite a bit of options.
Ah, but that's what the DLC is for!
For XP I don't have an issue. Just implement lvl scaling with certain roaming encounters set at higher lvls, like a fully evolved Pokemon.
Character customization in remakes being limited is understandable, we should be happy to have gotten it at all in BDSP.
As for the uniforms, they could just have players wear them for class, not the entire game.
The teams can go either way.
Gen 5 you could find ice types more often in the middle of the game if it was winter. They should really bring back seasons.
The mandatory Exp. Share completely destroyed the fun for me and the feeling of personal accomplishment every time I battled everywhere in the game so I can level up my Pokémon to 100! One feature I used to enjoy was the elite four and the champion and of course the battle towers with randomised trainers and Pokémon! However, Exp. Candies are the parting shot of bonding with your favourite mons on your journey of leveling up! Now you can just level them up within a few seconds and personally I get no pleasure with that and this is exactly the reason I constantly feel upset with the recent games and as a result I drop them aside!
Don't get me wrong, I'm a working and grown up man and have very little time to play my games and level up my Pokémon with the traditional way, not to mention there are literally more than a thousand mons to choose from, but the truth is that the games have lost their magic for me because of the reasons I mentioned above!
On the subject of the first one. I've felt for a while that if they really want to keep things fresh (which they do), they should take a break from trying to do the whole evil team thing. Alola got rid of the traditional gym challenge, so why not skip the evil team for a game or two so they can actually maybe make a decent one while giving us a break?
But it's so much the tradition, when I pitched an idea for a Pokemon game to one of my friends and said I figured maybe we just don't do an evil team for it he said "You gotta have an evil team"
I don't get no early ice types, either. I kinda see them wanting to make them seem special, rare, and powerful to the other late game type, dragon? But if so, they could just make an early cave with a few rare ice spawns or something.
Yeah, the "villain" team in the lastest game is honestly the saddest yet, bunch of bullied kids who instead of standing up to their bully just gather together and commit actual crimes, how logical.
The things that Pokémon can’t get right in my eyes are Pokémon animations Pokémon like Salamence Skarmory and etc. putting them floating in sky I thought they fix the animations in SV
What are some of those Pokemon at 3:10 ? Is that from a fan game??
To be fair on the last point, you COULD get an ice type early in Sword/Shield, you just have to be really lucky. On my first playthrough of Shield, it was snowing when I reached the Wild Area, and I found a Swinub and a Vanillite in the Rolling Fields. Granted, this is very situational, since the weather is completely random, but it was nice to have some options for the first gym.
Especially a Grass gym! But I doubt most people will wait long enough for the off chance at finding a mere Vanillite...
Honestly I disagree on Exp share being a negative feature, honestly it’s one of the best features in recent games.
What I do take issue however is that the games didn’t up their difficulty for the Exp share to make sense. A lot of RPGs have evenly distributed Exp and still manage to have a balanced difficulty, or say another monster catcher in Shin Megami Tensei where Exp share is always on, but still manages to be one of the hardest RPG series I’ve ever played.
The only reason I think people hate on Pokémon Exp share is because “change bad”, which is a shame because I think instead of the critique being on the Exp share, it should be on the general difficulty as a whole and how extremely hard it is to actually lose a match. Hallmarks like gyms should have a higher recommended Pokémon level, and the Pokémon should have better moves and more versatile abilities, how route trainers don’t have more than three or four pokemon. It’s not the Exp share that’s the issue, since it just removes the tedium of grinding, but instead the issue is how the difficulty didn’t change to better fit the convenience of Exp share rather than make it a breeze
Come one, let's be fair; it's far more then "change bad," these players are legitimately upset that choices have been taken away from them, which is totally understandable! Why would having less options then previous games ever be a good thing?
Something i feel you left out is how long it takes to get home connectivity. I wouldn't mind if it was a month or 2, but 5 is taking the biscuit.
Team Galactic does not have "clear overall goals." Cyrus wants to... create a world without spirit? And the Grunts/Admins follow him because.. he's a crazy cult leader and they're stupid I guess.
I think the character customization is acceptable in Paldea. Sure, the clothing is very limited, but your actual character is almost like a Mii.
I can kinda see where you're coming from, but I have to disagree still. Having more options for clothing would have been nice to have (especially considering how few options you get in the game) and would be another good way to make your character more unique
@@matthewkuscienko4616 Yeah I do agree that more clothing would be good
You can catch many Ice types in the Wild Area right from the start in Sword and Shield: Vanillite, Swinub, Delibird, Snorunt, Snover, and can even evolve Snorunt into Froslass before reaching Motostoke.
It would be cool if the player can be offered the chance to become a gym leader after proving themselves by winning the league. Imagine being able to build your own custom gym, recruit other NPCs to work for you in your gym as obstacles to would be challengers, make your own puzzles to fit the theme of your gym, design your badge, take on challengers, etc.
The ice type early game issue may come down to the moves, maybe. Ice type moves are generally good typing. Even the lower power ice type moves, arguably pretty strong against other Pokémon types that can be commonly found in the early game
Well, then let's alter the balance of the early game; add some Fire or Steel that's not usually there (kind of like how Ice isn't.)
I personally think it has more to do with location than game balancing. They always tend to start you off in a warmer area, which leaves there with less opportunities to have an ice type appear early on. Even if balance somehow was the main issue, it could still be something of a struggle to use an ice type early on because of how bad off the type is defensively, and given that ice Pokemon often have a more defensive stat spread (despite it not working to their advantage), they'll often be forced to take a hit first; alternatively, if you wanted a more offensive, glass cannon style ice type, this would just create more problems with the risk of being knocked out becoming that much higher. Long story short, I don't think that balance is the main problem they are trying to avoid with having ice types being available early on
Honestly there’s so many things under this umbrella. To give a few examples:
-follow Pokémon
-regional gimmicks
-gts/wonder trade
-affection bonuses
-exp share
-general technical performance
-evil teams
-victory roads
-many, many more
Terastel is the best
Ooh, yeah GTS is a good one to fix as well!
I’ve never been overleveled in games with the new Exp Share,
I think they should bring back the HMs and the grinding. Why wouldn't I use my pokemon to traverse the overworld? Make them deletable and have the unlimited TM/HMs, and you're golden. And the whole purpose of the game is to be a Pokémon trainer, not a Pokémon coach. If that means I have to train up my team on level 18 pokemon when the next gym is in the 40s, so be it.
Thank you for the exp share rant.
Masuda’s excuse for removing the toggle is absolute bullcrap to excuse his laziness
If need be I'll make changes to my team when I can't turn off exp. Share...
# 1 could also include dragon types...
I will praise the Wild Area in Shield when it comes to early ice type access. At the first wild area, it was snowing for me there within the first three gyms and I managed to catch a Snorunt, and as soon as I could access the next segment of the Wild Area to pick up a Dawn Stone, I had myself a Froslass - a sure help against Allister and vital team member. Essentially, if there’s a weather/season system, snow or hail should bring out a few ice types for us to catch.
Temtem tried to bring these back but failed miserably