Your strongest, most trivial Pokemon opinion?

Charcadet121 said:

NEVER CHOOSE THE GRASS STARTER. LIKE, EVER.

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Always thought it was unbalanced how amongst the starter types, Grass has many weaknesses and the other two don't have as many weaknesses.

I mean I feel they could have just made it that Electric could be weak to Fire with the logic of 'electronics do not function well when overheated' and then make it resist Water for whatever reason, and then that could be a less unbalanced trio. That's just what I think though.

Charcadet121 said:

My most trivial opinion?

NEVER CHOOSE THE GRASS STARTER. LIKE, EVER.

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But

exists. How in the world would anyone want to run anything else in terms of starter?

Alex_Among_Foxes said:

But

exists. How in the world would anyone want to run anything else in terms of starter?

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Your image doesn't seem to be loading on my end. Is it Torterra? I've always thought it was the coolest fully-evolved starter.

Explorer of Time said:

Your image doesn't seem to be loading on my end. Is it Torterra? I've always thought it was the coolest fully-evolved starter.

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Sorry it didn't load for you... No, it was Meowscarada. It's my personal favorite starter.

I've been looking at this thread for a while and it's been hard to think of one, though I'm not sure how controversial of a take this is.

I don't think Pokemon following behind you matters at all.



Okay, I know lots of people love this addition and this is something I'd take some flack for saying something like this but I guess I've always thought pretty strongly about this since like I dunno, Gen V or VI?

HGSS are great games for a bunch of reasons but I always hear people say they're great because your Pokemon follow you, and I hear that most of the games afterwards are awful because they removed that feature. I never understood that? It's sort of just there for immersion and helping you bond with your Pokemon but in terms of actual gameplay mechanics I don't think the games are any different if they do or don't include them.
When we found out all these Pokemon had unused running/flying/etc. animations in Sun and Moon I remember a lot of people talking about it like it was the end of the world but whenever I play those games I never find myself thinking "Wow it's really a dealbreaker that I can't have my Primarina walk around with me" because the games are good enough for me to where I'm not wishing for things they don't include. Like, I'm satisfied enough with it, y'know? We had an option for Pokemon to run around in the overworld with us in BDSP but I don't think I ever heard a single soul talk about that feature in those games because people were busy talking about how those games were bad and rushed and everything. And I never found myself using the feature in SV where you can send your Pokemon out to run around and auto-battle unless it was required. Regardless of how good or bad the games are or if they allow you to send out your Pokemon on the overworld, I don't think it matters. But I think people just cry out about how good of a feature was, ignoring all of that. It's just another empty, meaningless bullet to load into the "This is why the new Pokemon game sucks" argument.

Okay, here's a really specific one I just thought of: I don't care if the quadrupedal Pokemon evolves into a bipedal Pokemon. I remember so many people got mad when Sprigatito's evolutions were bipedal and I was like "??? okay??" I don't see why people make such a big deal about it. (Though I will admit, Incineroar is a bit... jarring. I will make an exception in this case for Incineroar)

Bring back L = A. I hate that it's gone again.

The Villa in Platinum (where you spend copious amounts of money to luxuriously furnish it) is awesome. It's my favorite in-game area in the entire franchise.

The Vs. Seeker is the best trainer rematch mechanism in the franchise, far superior to the Pokegear or Match Call.

Not a fan of the "super form" or "regional variants" introduced in later gens. I tend to ignore them when I play.

BD/SP are better than people give them credit for. Certainly better than HG/SS in my opinion.

However. Secret Bases in BD/SP are worse than in the originals since the ability to decorate them was replaced with boring Pokemon statues.

Cipher Admin Ein from Colosseum is my favorite Pokemon professor.

You already know my favorite protagonists in the franchise (Leaf and Serena). But my favorite random NPC trainer designs? 5th gen Lady and 8th gen Lass.

My favorite games are still the ones that focus more on exploration than linear story telling. There's a reason why I like gens 1-3 and 9 in particular. I don't need to feel like a hero in those games. I just think being allowed to mess around with the world is way more fun.

Unless we're counting Megas, I will always take Fearow over Pidgeot. Yeah, Pidgeotto is iconic as one of Ash's Pokémon, but Spearow starts out with a Flying move, evolves faster, and ends up being stronger than Pidgeot even in the long run. Last time I replayed Red, Fearow actually ended up being one of my team's heavy hitters alongside Clefable and Jolteon, and it also put in surprising amounts of work in Stadium.