"Take it away."

[Sheep]

What's one feature (as small or big as you want) you wouldn't mind being taken away from mainline Pokémon games?

 

[Zeostar]

I would like to see the end of trade evolutions. The norm should more akin to Legends: Arceus.

It doesn't accomplish much other than lock out a portion of the player base from being able to obtain specific pokemon.

 

[Lavender]

Shiny locks! just let me get anything shiny!

 

[CoolKid575]

All the evolution items. It's very annoying when I think about adding a Pokemon to my team, but I can't because it needs some item that doesn't appear until like the 7th gym.

 

[Squirtkipfan01]

Stupid evolution requirements(trading, trade with item, know this specific move, be in a specific location, something REAL stupid like turning your 3ds upside down.) Just keep it simple or go the legends arceus route of having work around you have to pay alot for

 

[Devalue]

Agrees on removing trade evolutions. Avoids using pretty much all of them without the means to evolve them. Looks up spoilers to make sure new Pokemon do not trade-evolve (or via some other non-solo means).

 

[Palamon]

Fuck Shiny locks. Get rid of that. The fact they shiny lock the starters since like gen 7? 8? Shitty. Remove that!

 

[Corveone]

Trade evos
Breeding
IVs
Version exclusives
Gender-based mechanics (Attract, Rivalry, Captivate, etc.)
Shinies
Gym "puzzles"
The Rival
Convergent species
Item usage during battle
Affection bonusses

Note that I'm not necessarily against all those things, some are features I merely wouldn't miss at all if they were gone, because I just never cared about them. If I have to choose One: I guess the one that I find the most annoying are IVs (EVs could use some rework -a.k.a. take the hint from Legends Arceus-, but I wouldn't want those to be entirely removed)

 

[Explorer of Time]

I agree with most of the stuff here so far, like trade evolutions and shiny locks, but I'd also like to see single-use TMs go away for good like they were in Gen 5/6/7 and SwSh. They're my single most hated mechanic in the entire series, even beyond that of HMs, which are hopefully gone forever.

I'd also like to see egg moves and IVs go away. They incentivize ditching Pokemon you've trained with all game in favor of new ones of the same species that have better moves and stats. I don't want to see breeding go away entirely, since it helps get new copies of hard-to-catch Pokemon, but at the very least, Pokemon that you catch in the wild should be competitively equal to hatched Pokemon.

 

[Curt_09]

Unskippable cutscenes/grueling sequences of dialogue
Exp Share
Weather exclusive encounters
Gimmick battle mechanics (mega, z-moves, dyna, tera, etc.)

 

[Reginald Cosmic]

Trade evos
Breeding
IVs
Version exclusives
Gender-based mechanics (Attract, Rivalry, Captivate, etc.)
Shinies
Gym "puzzles"
The Rival
Convergent species
Item usage during battle
Affection bonusses

Note that I'm not necessarily against all those things, some are features I merely wouldn't miss at all if they were gone, because I just never cared about them. If I have to choose One: I guess the one that I find the most annoying are IVs (EVs could use some rework -a.k.a. take the hint from Legends Arceus-, but I wouldn't want those to be entirely removed)

Woah, let's not get crazy here! I respect your opinion, but I'm shocked to see rival battles here. I also don't agree with "Item Usage during battles" because I feel you always have the option to make it more difficult on yourself by refusing to use an item in battle. I suppose this is the equivalent of someone saying "Just turn off EXP Share in Gen 6," but you know... there's nothing stopping you from playing the game this way. but there is something stopping you from trading for Alakazam or Gengar. I actually agree with Convergent Evolution, but it could get a lot better in the following games. I hated Alolan forms (except Alolan Marowak of course), but I liked them better in SwSh because it was just a new way for the team to make new Pokemon (albeit with subjectively "hit or miss" results). Tangentially, I'm still not over the fact we finally got an Electric/Psychic type (since I used to assume Porygon was electric/psychic), and it's a cutesy version of Raichu as if the original Raichu wasn't perfect already! (Just mah opponion!)

 

[Corveone]

Woah, let's not get crazy here! I respect your opinion, but I'm shocked to see rival battles here. I also don't agree with "Item Usage during battles" because I feel you always have the option to make it more difficult on yourself by refusing to use an item in battle.

That's why I said not all of those were things I was against. The thread isn't asking about what features you hate, just what features you wouldn't mind if they were being taken away. Precisely because I don't use items during battle is that I wouldn't mind if that option was gone. Same for shiny Pokémon, because I don't care about them, or the self-proclaimed rival cliché, because the majority of them are poorly implemented characters that add nothing of value anyway.

 

[FeraligatrMaster]

EV's, IV's, and natures. Take those away, and the experience would improve for me.

 

[ReKoil]

The new 'Picnic' style of breeding. I don't like tweedling my thumbs and sitting around doing nothing as I wait for eggs to show up. Gimme something to do!
Even worse; you pretty much need an egg power active from a sandwich or they won't even show up at all! I tried it without a sandwich and gave up after a full hour went by and not a single dang egg appeared. I was just curious to see if it was possible without. Maybe one would've shown up if I waited even longer or maybe I was just extremely unlucky. But a full 60 minutes with no eggs to show for it is abysmal.

'Competitive Pokemon'. Never should've been a thing in the first place imo. I do not like the increasing focus on battles against other trainers.

New gimmick every game... it's just gotten annoying tbh. Pick something that works in every game or just don't do a gimmick at all.

 

[Devalue]

The new 'Picnic' style of breeding. I don't like tweedling my thumbs and sitting around doing nothing as I wait for eggs to show up. Gimme something to do!
Even worse; you pretty much need an egg power active from a sandwich or they won't even show up at all! I tried it without a sandwich and gave up after a full hour went by and not a single dang egg appeared. I was just curious to see if it was possible without. Maybe one would've shown up if I waited even longer or maybe I was just extremely unlucky. But a full 60 minutes with no eggs to show for it is abysmal.

Based on this Serebii page:

Different species, same trainer, no egg power: ~2% per minute.

Doing some math: (.98^60) = 29.76% chance of no eggs in one hour at the lowest possible rate. A little unlucky, but about the chance of a Focus Blast miss.

To do the others:

Same species + trainer OR different species + different trainer, no egg power: ~4% per minute.
(.96^60) = 8.64% chance of no eggs in one hour

Same species, different trainer, no egg power: 5.31% per minute.
(1 - .0531)^60 = 3.79% chance of no eggs in one hour.

And, to show off the power of even a basic level 1 egg power: different species, same trainer, level 1 egg power: 14.16% per minute.
((1 - .1416)^60) = 0.01% chance of no eggs in one hour.

Really speeds up with just a small sandwich buff.

 

[Setsuna]

Online (and even local) multiplayer being tied to stuff like the Festival Plaza and Y-Comm. I still believe the PSS was one of the easiest and least intrusive ways to incorporate multiplayer into Pokemon and is probably my favourite part of Gen 6 (besides Mega Mawile) and I'm more upset about them getting rid of that and trying to replace it with all these more complicated or awkward systems. I'm a little embarrassed by the amount of times I've had to ask other people for help understanding the new multiplayer system or menu I have to use just to trade with a friend or join their raid or something. They don't have to constantly keep adding a new confusing system for a core part of the series like trading with every new game. I'll take the Union room over any of this.

 

[miragespot]

Generational battle gimmicks. My first play through of OR/AS I remember not using Mega Evolution until late game.

 

[_confused_piplup_]

I haven't seen that before, so I say critical hits.

 

[PageEmp]

Delete gyms for the rest of the franchise please. I'd be more than welcome to keep gyms if they did interesting spins on the formula like gyms based on a certain strategy like weather or certain battle mechanics, but if it's still the basic type based gyms then I hope to never see those again. I'll always stand by the fact that trails replacing gyms was the best descision ever made.

And remove trade evos. Already went through a massive in depth explanation on that over my recent thread.