What was the last soulful generation? Gen4?
Will gen10 save Pokemon?
Dis the best of the gens
I always find it hard to rank these because I love some of their final forms but hate their first ones (Turtwig) and vice versa (Torchic)
for me it was
I went to the midnight release of Sun/Moon. It was kino. But I had school the next day.
Gen 3 was the last good one
Why did designs decline so hard after Gen 4?
Only gen 5 and 8 designs have zero soul. The games before, between and after vary in quality but I see cleverness in thier monster designs.
Honestly, my favorites for gen 1 and gen 4 vary day to day, while the rest are pretty set in stone. I think the only starter line I genuinely don't like is Sobble, and maaaybe Oshawott. Otters deserve a far better Pokemon rep.
Gen 5 has the worst starters.
Gen 5 and 7 starters suck so much.
Sun and Moon is where I stopped playing the series and even then by Gen 5 I was kinda done and mostly played them because Gen 1-3 were such a big part of my childhood.
Honestly? It started to go to shit in Gen 3. Don't get me wrong, many good decisions would get made like physical/special split and abilities but in terms of design I just fucking hate how they moved away from MOSTLY realistic animal designs to just cartoon characters. Look at fucking Sobble. Why is 90% of its mass in its heead? Compare that to fucking Squirtle where it looks like a fucking turtle.
Yes Gen 1 had Mr. Mime and Jinx but even then they still don't look like furries like Cinderace or Lucario or Mewoscarade or however it is spelled.
is this the worst starter design ever?
Skeledirge is worse
No, the ones on its sides are
idk how niggas can shit on gen 5 when 8 exists
Not really a fan of any of the gen 9 starters but still went with the crocodile just cause.
Gen 3 was the downfall of everything
Wanted to see how none-animal they could get away with by making a humanoid in blaziken
Was going to have no gen 1/2 pokemon but were too rushed and lazy to do it so ended up using old pokemon to fill gaps making people fear 'dex cuts' 15 years later
bloated the game with too many mandatory HMs which started making people hate them and find them intrusive instead of part of the puzzle leading to their removal.
became even more linear for gym progression
HM situation annoys me most, there was no reason for both strength and rock smash to exist at the same time but having one cripple of a pokemon with surf waterfall and dive just to travel the later part of the game was disgusting. A real programmer would have had "Surfing pokemon can now surf up waterfalls" "Surfing pokemon can now dive underwater" and that be it.
I like Fuecoco
you can see a clear difference in design style between gen 4 and gen 5. Snivy having arms and legs ruins the design and Tepig just steals design points from spoink. Oshawatt was the only decent design and even then it just looks like a balding middle-aged piplup at a distance.
Then after gen 6 designs flopped they went overly cartoony.
A shame on his final evo though, generic af
3>6>2=1>4>5>8>7>9
Tajiri tool a step back and Turner began designing more mons.
Discount Mudkip.
The only gen turner had full control over was gen 8.
id rather have new regional forms and evolutions, annihilape is cool, g. weezing is cool, kingambit is cool. the ecologically similar or whatever the fuck ones are cool too. give us more unique typings. poison/ice, fighting/ground
This only applies to the starter evos the later ones don't correlate.
Starters peaked here.
I feel literally the exact opposite make something new and stop fucking up old pokemon by making them look like they just left Hot Topic.
skipped swordshield
I will never understand why anyone likes that retarded looking chicken. Even as a kid I thought it looked like he had a bulge sticking out of his stupid looking JNCO jeans. Other two are great though.
This. Replace Blaziken with Infernape and it'd be the perfect starter trio
The downfall and decadency of fire types.
Autism
they judge and they hate me but they'll never break me
pokemon clover starters >>>>> everything else.
The owl is clearly more attractive than the cat and the seal.
Gen 9
last souful gen was 4 for sure
going international really made pokemon feel more and more like a carefully curated theme park ass brand than people making games based on their home experiences
i don't mind gen 5 but anything past that hasn't been very good to me
kung fu + sick rooster + flames
tastelet
Black is final forms and typically my first pick as I almost always picked based on final forms
White is judging based on first forms alone
Gen 3 for normal people
Gen 2 for purists
i say gen4 but i never played black/white. i thought x and y was ok but its very flawed.
Fire Cat
Grass Cat
We need a Water Cat
new regional variant/form
add facial hair
Lmao
Gen 5 was peak soul but had some of the worst starters Until Gen 8 and 9 happened