Game mechanics you cannot live without

[Sweet Serenity]

If they ever bring back the exp share as a held item ill cry

I strongly agree with this. lol

 

[edyedy]

Early game fast travel / Fly. Useful for regions that are massive / have large wild areas that you have to walk through.

 

[Sweet Serenity]

Early game fast travel / Fly. Useful for regions that are massive / have large wild areas that you have to walk through.

It sounds like you might strongly enjoy Pokémon Scarlet and Violet then.

 

[colours]

- rematching gym leaders/e4 (or whatever end/post-game equivalent) as a feature spoiled me and is one of those things that, while not an absolute must, will affect my enjoyment in a pokemon game if it doesn't have it.
- HMs can stay gone, i have zero interest in teaching my pokemon any mandatory moves.
- infinite TM usage was great, but i can live with, at the very least, a way to have multiple of a TM at bare minimum. at any case, "you use this one and you lose it forever"-esque thing that was present in past pokemon games is one thing i feel i can't go back to
- character customization because id like my character to look less boring

those are what come to mind for me atm

 

[ReKoil]

-Gen 8's box access from everywhere.

-Gen 8's Exp Candy's. The Exp Candy XL is so busted lol
I literally had multiple hundreds for all the other types and like 80 XL Candy's thanks to all the raids I did. Rare Candy's are still good, but imo only for the last levels, like level 90-100. Before that the Exp Candy XL is just unrivaled.

-Generation 8's breeding mechanics. Being able to breed together HA's and special Poke Balls =3
Especially love the empty move slot breeding.
The other day I learned you can apparently stick two mons of the same gender in there and even though they won't lay an egg and you don't have any indicator whatsoever, they will eventually pass on their egg moves to each other if they have an empty move slot. Good for them =3
I really needed this for Volbeat in BDSP as otherwise you can only get 3 egg moves onto it maximum, despite it having 5 egg move options.

After SwSh I did some minor breeding in ORAS. I really wished I had the gen 8 mechanics while I was doing that xD

 

[Adam Levine]

-The permanent, party-wide XP share, simply because it incentivizes me to use different Pokémon throughout my journey
-QoL changes that make competitive Pokémon more accessible, like nature mints, Hyper Training, and parents learning egg moves
-The lack of HMs
-The physical-special split
-Breeding as a whole because it's fun; by extension, the Masuda method
-The option to change the battle music for link battles and battle facilities

 

[forg]

It had been mentioned already, but I would be unable to make it too far into the game if, in a baffling move, they removed running.

Can't really explain why getting rid of the running mechanic yet keeping bikes and such isn't enough for me. I want to see my pixelated self run and pretend they're feeling the wind in their hair and clothes billow up.

 

[Lysander]

Quick Balls are far too convenient to pass up, and while their lack of presence in Gen 3 doesn't make those games unplayable, my Boxes would definitely be much more populated if I had access to Quick Balls

EV Training without having any access to Hyper Training would also be largely undesirable, as would not having an easy way to track how many EVs Pokémon have in each stat

 

[Sweet Serenity]

I can live without the EV training mechanic and the Exp. Share working for all the party. It makes the grind so much easier for me.