So that's confirmed then, sending your pokemon through pokebank doesn't restart the ribbons? Any ribbons on your pokemon will remain on your pokemon and they will not be removed from your pokemon? If so then to some degree it makes since to try and shove as many pokemon as you can into pokemon emerald and try and get them as many ribbons as you can then trade it over through pokemon bank, instead of catching them in x or y.
Also, what's the logic of not being able to send over hold items? Like I know you can't but I don't understand why Nintendo would want to prevent us from doing that.
And your right I did not realize that. Move tutors are kind of a difficult decision. Later games open up more egg moves and other moves that it would otherwise couldn't learn. I didn't think of this. This makes me question if it's a good idea or not to catch them in old games when you can just catch them in x or y. You can get them ribbons though that you otherwise couldn't get. However if they remake the old games then you just wasted your time. I however think remaking the old games would be silly, because Generation III is backwards compatible with X and Y if you go through the work needed to do so.
Well there's the work needed to do so, but you would also need the hardware (an original DS for example) so there could always be a need (or at least a want) for a remake as right now you could still buy any of the Sinnoh or Unova games and use it on current hardware, whereas you can't do so on the Hoenn games.
Now I can't vouche for ALL the ribbons (for example, later games may not recognize the Hoenn contest ribbons for example, I don't know, I do know that I have gotten a couple of pokemon from previous Sinnoh and Unova games and they possess the champion ribbon from beating the Elite 4 in their respective regions, as well as I traded with someone with a pokemon with the Classic ribbon, but that is all I personally have seen.
The "logic" of not being able to send over hold items (which I don't agree with, but whatever) is that it prevents people from stockpiling rare items and likely probably encourages trade with more people in order to get the items you want rather than just getting a whole bunch in older games and sending them over. Also some items could cause problems in later games, such as (I THINK) you used to be able to let a pokemon hold TMs (because they were one time use items) and could send them to other games which was fine in their respective generation, but sending them to future generations could cause issues. As well as some special hold items that were extremely common in older games (such as I think the Deep Sea Tooth and Deep Sea Scale) needed to be worked for in new games so people having access to older games gave them an unfair advantage to newer players who didn't.
Although one thing I had heard (which I don't know is true, hopefully someone can confirm) is that if you bread for IVs in the Hoenn games, when you transferred those pokemon to Sinnoh, all their IVs got randomized so all your work was for nothing other than the moves they learn. (This is why I stopped playing pokemon when gen 4 came out, although if that was NOT true, I certainly regret NOT keeping my old games and transferring them through to the current generation) However a pretty major issue in the old games (which I was EXTREMELY resistant to when they made the change because I had spent SO much time finding the perfect move sets for everything that that was also another reason I quit) was that the attacks didn't have a physical/special classification it was based entirely on type, so EVERY electric move was special, EVERY bug move was physical, and so on. (so back then, it actually made sense to have the elemental punches on Alakazam because they were all special, whereas it made no sense to any of them on Hitmonchan, but now that has been reversed however, Abra still has them as egg moves for some reason) so a fair amount of movesets that worked well on pokemon back then resulted in not getting STAB moves, however as soon as they went to the next game, those moves were useless on that pokemon (Tyranitar couldn't use Crunch for example because dark moves were all special, and Butterfree couldn't get ANY STAB moves because both bug and flying were physical attacks) so there really may be no reason whatsoever to get any of the hoenn games at this point, just start in Sinnoh if you must.
