Only 5th Gen Pokemon onwards?

[Mackened]

Is there any speculation that Sun and Moon will only include Pokemon from Generation 5 onwards until post game? That'd be awesome, Generation 6 had way too many Pokemon from other generations, so if Gen 7 includes just Gen 5, 6 and 7 Pokemon until post game that'd give so many Pokemon that got swept under the rug a chance.

 

[Desert Stream~]

Is there any speculation that Sun and Moon will only include Pokemon from Generation 5 onwards until post game? That'd be awesome, Generation 6 had way too many Pokemon from other generations, so if Gen 7 includes just Gen 5, 6 and 7 Pokemon until post game that'd give so many Pokemon that got swept under the rug a chance.

What... We have Ledyba, Caterpie, Pichu, Pikachu... I don't really see how gen 6 had too much diversity either. The more pokemon you have, the more diversity you need, so I don't see how it's a bad thing.

And this is just opinion, but my top 10 favorite pokemon have all been pre-gen 5, so that would suck.

 

[mew_nani]

They'll probably have Pokemon from all generations available, albeit most of them mainly selected to fit the biome. It doesn't make a lot of sense to just have Pokemon from one generation available, since there's several of them that would fit in well with Alola's tropical climate.

As for Kalos, its problem was less "too many Pokemon" and more "too many Pokemon squeezed together in the same routes." If Kalos was more developed as a region you could easily have that many types of Pokemon together, but they just crammed them in there randomly.

 

[Hikamaru]

No it was already confirmed that we'll likely have Pokemon from all generations, since Route 1's confirmed wild Pokemon are the new 7th Gen Pokemon Yungoos, Pikipek and Grubbin, but also Pichu, Caterpie and Ledyba for older gens.

 

[Karous]

Meowth appears as an overworld Pokemon so it will also likely be obtainable at some point.

 

[Dracowyn]

Yeah that probably won't happen. I also didn't mind the tons of previous gen pokemon being in Kalos.

However, when I start in a new region, I always make a team of new pokemon. So it really doesn't matters to me.

 

[WingsofBliss]

Ledyba, Pichu and Caterpie have appeared in the E3 playthrough, so I don't know why people would think we wouldn't be getting Pokemon from much older Generations.

 

[Flower]

As much as I would only love Gen 5+ Pokémon, as others have said we've already seen past gen Pokémon (from gens 1/2 so far iirc) so. Hopefully the majority of Pokémon will be from gens 5, 6, and 7 though!

 

[Zeturic]

What... We have Ledyba, Caterpie, Pichu, Pikachu... I don't really see how gen 6 had too much diversity either. The more pokemon you have, the more diversity you need, so I don't see how it's a bad thing.

And this is just opinion, but my top 10 favorite pokemon have all been pre-gen 5, so that would suck.

I disagree. Yes, you need to have enough Pokemon so that people have options, but you don't need Pokedexes anywhere near the size of XY to do that. ~200 is more than enough.

Kalos has 457 Pokemon available in its Pokedex. That is ridiculous; we didn't even have that many Pokemon until Diamond and Pearl!

In XY (and BW2 for that matter), I just felt like I was drowning in Pokemon. Every area had so many Pokemon available, and tons of Pokemon were unique to a particular route. It just comes off like the world isn't big enough for the Pokedex they're using.

But, besides all that - it doesn't even matter. Pokemon games dropped trade restrictions a long time ago. If they go for a smaller Pokedex, and don't happen to include a particular Pokemon you want to use, that doesn't stop you from using it. You just have to trade it in.

 

[takeKopter]

The trailer that shows the beach, there's a slowpoke there.

 

[PageEmp]

Only newer gen mons? ONLY newer gen mons!?

Pls no. No way that'll happen. If it does I will confirm quit this series. Plus we already revealed that there will be some old mons in route 1.

 

[Desert Stream~]

I disagree. Yes, you need to have enough Pokemon so that people have options, but you don't need Pokedexes anywhere near the size of XY to do that. ~200 is more than enough.

Kalos has 457 Pokemon available in its Pokedex. That is ridiculous; we didn't even have that many Pokemon until Diamond and Pearl!

In XY (and BW2 for that matter), I just felt like I was drowning in Pokemon. Every area had so many Pokemon available, and tons of Pokemon were unique to a particular route. It just comes off like the world isn't big enough for the Pokedex they're using.

But, besides all that - it doesn't even matter. Pokemon games dropped trade restrictions a long time ago. If they go for a smaller Pokedex, and don't happen to include a particular Pokemon you want to use, that doesn't stop you from using it. You just have to trade it in.

With over 800 pokemon (probably) 400 per game wouldn't be bad. To make it any less you would need a ton of version exclusives, or have "too many" in the remake/third version.

Also I like to have a wide array of pokemon avalible, that way if I want to do a monotype for example I'll know there are at least 6 pokemon of that type that are decent.

 

[TheLegendaryGuy]

Gen 6 consisted most of pokemons, belonging to Gen 1-4. So, that would compensate the need for them. As for Gen 5 mons, they were kinda unique and were availible in no other gens. So overall, i beleive, including 5th, 6th and 7th gen pokemons would cover most of the pokemon world introduced till date.