"It was cooler in the anime!"

[Palamon]

Some of the stuff in the anime is much better seeming than it was in the game (or more interesting, at least), is there anything in the Pokemon anime you thought was much more interesting than what is shown in the games? I think Mega Evolution looks far more interesting in the anime than presented in X/Y/OR/AS...but maybe that's just a me thing.

 

[pkmin3033]

Battles, regardless of setting - Gym, Contest, etc - are much more interesting in the anime, but then that's mostly because of the dynamic: short of giving Pokemon a real-time battle system where you control the Pokemon rather than the trainer and can move about etc, of course the show will have the edge, as it depicts a more realistic scenario.

 

[AliceBlaze]

Some attacks such as Fire Spin look more powerful in the anime than they are in the games.

Contests look a lot better in the anime. I watched some of the episodes of the Advanced series before I played R/S/E and when I actually got to the contests in those games, I was disappointed that they don't look as exciting as they do in the anime.

 

[Xertified]

Probably since Thunder can hit Ground Types and Water is totally weak against Fire Types.

 

[Horn]

Contests, definitely Contests. I know some people hated it, but I really loved how they took small unimportant feature from games and made it something big and important. Too bad it was the only time they dared to do that.

 

[Drake22ice]

Contests definitely got some excellent artwork and combination show effects in the anime. I would love to see that return.

The Serena competitions could have done better if it was more like contests... and less like a talent show..

 

[Jetfire]

Whenever I think about the anime I get frustrated. How long must this 10 year old boy continue his journey??

The only time the anime was better than the game was during the first season. Now it doesn't even compare.

 

[Lizardo]

The anime was never "better" than the games, because the two exist in entirely different mediums. The game can do some things the anime can't, the anime can do some things the games can't. For example, the anime's Gym Leaders are usually given more expanded characterizations and battle styles than the Gyms do.

Urup is a good case of that. He's a generic Gym Leader in the games, but the anime has actually set him up as Satoshi's toughest Gym challenge – giving him an actual battle strategy that takes advantage of his Pokémon's abilities, using him to force the first case of actual character development in Satoshi since DP, and giving him a Mega Yukinooh (why the games didn't do this, I'll never know). He's really the last, toughest challenge Satoshi must get past in order to qualify for the League; in the X/Y games, he's just another easily-dispatched Gym Leader.

 

[Hedo]

The gems always seem cooler looking in the anime then they do in the games, though from what I've seen in Pokemon X, that may be changing in the upcoming pokemon games.

sure, it still can't compare all that much, but the point is that it's getting there.

The same goes for the attacks, I say give it time and it'll be on the same level.

 

[Hikamaru]

To me, definitely Contests. They added so much more to them compared to what we had in the games, with DP making the anime Contests look especially beautiful.