Best Removed Features in Every Pokemon Generation 

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i hope pokestar studios gets an expansion in gen 5 remakes when they happen

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The Player Search System from X/Y

Rotation battles. Just that. Rotation battles were honestly really cool and honestly shouldn't have been removed in my personal opinion.

That was awesome, but over time I was really worried about all that friction with the stylus damaging the screen of the DS. Other than that it was fantastic.

Wait what

@@chickage5717 If you opened your badge case you could use the stylus to play music on them, or dust them off to change the pitch.

Yeah a minor feature in gen 4

@@chickage5717Gonna like this comment cause it seems like nobody except us are confused

When I played it I sucked lmao

@@needabettername1559 that's a system thing 💀💀💀not a general thing

Yeah, as much as I enjoy giving gen 6 a hard time, that bottom screen was magic man. The PSS is still the best way to experince online in Pokemon, I never used the soccer minigame cause I don't EV train but the positivity towards it is nothing to scoff at and Pokemon Amie had som pretty sweet minigames along with petting and feeding your Pokemon.

Lmao your mr boring hahahahah

Easily the best way to experience Pokémon online. Communicating with other trainers had never been easier. Everything flowed perfectly and felt nice to navigate. And if I remember correctly in ORAS the bottom screen also told you when you found all of the Pokémon in a route. Imo the best part of Gen 6.

well at least the run button was removed all together in gen 8

@@raidev_ gen 6*

@@Lambs4lyf im pretty sure there was a run button in gen 6 and 7

@@raidev_ there was

@@ball.3841 Was a run stick I thought? Walking is Dpad?

This shouldn't even be a feature that was dropped. I have no idea why Game Freak hasn't brought it back. It is so easy to implement.

@@TheAwesomeDarkNinja Is not that simple, actually. They would have needed to make at least twice the teams they were already making and the game was already too big as it was, they wouldn't have had time and there wouldn't have been enough space.

Audino genocide was a poor replacement, and after that it was literally just "lol, Exp Share just doubles exp points!"

@@DayneGodwin I mean, it speeds up the process of level grinding. Taking longer to gain a level is not good difficulty balance, all it is is an annoyance. Difficulty should be achieved by other mediums, like making the AI more competent or giving it better teams.

Or at least an area you could go to and rematch Trainers like you could in Pokémon X & Y with the Battle Chateau

I love planting berries so shoving it online where I didn't have ready access at that time was frustrating.

tfw have to use dream radar to get berries if I want to replay w/b2

That's the single bad thing I hate about Gen 5

so THAT'S why there's no berries... it was annoying to not just be able to slap on a sitrus berry for a gym battle

join avenue exists in white/black 2

same. hopefully they’ll realise that adding a new gimmick every generation isn’t gonna work

The fact that he didn’t talk about Z-Moves proves how useless this list is

Personally I find most added gimmicks to suck. Mega's and Dynamax make the games they are in, a cake walk. And Z-Moves are basically a juiced up attack and nothing more. 2 of them pretty much break the game while the 3rd is basically only useful as a 1 hit K.O you can only use once.

@@tobymacdonald5893 the “no superior region” excuse was so forced. Yes, I do expect the next GAME to have everything the last one did, plus new features, we normal people call it progression, and then, when you eventually make a remake, we hope to see the REGION reimagined with all the bells and whistles that had been added up until that point, Sinnoh with different seasonal looks for example. All they are doing is making people fall in love with regions not for their design, but because of the gimmick they had. GameFreak is such a lazy company smh…

Mega Evolutions, Z-Moves, Dynamax, they are more than just special game features, they have connections on the world of Pokemon's lore. There is a reason why some regions have them, and others do not.

U mean an audino or drillbur?

It did came back in ORAS, It was implemented much better in that game since you can catch rare pokemons with it other than audino

I feel like Audino was the only thing ever in these grass

Well it was audinos and emolga

@@grmp1992 You could catch something else more than audino, by my memory metang? i forgot which now but you could catch rares too in bw

True but I think Audino or Black Tower/White Tree Hollow are the best grinding methods for those

@@montecristosmith2343 Once you beat the story for sure, but not when you are still doing the gym challenge, you get farmable money and exp with this method

I hate those fuckers with a passion,especially considering where they are located (the number of breeder that were located at a section where you had to pass through and battle them every single time (sorry I forgot the english names of the locations, but there's one just at the exit of the bridge hamlet and one at the desert entrance and I hate these two with a burning passion

At least you can battle these guys. One problem however, they don't level up their Pokemon!

That also a positive removal I don't like the fact that the roller skate took up the cicrle pad in x and y

@@joshhallam6342 True, but that could be an easy fix if roller skates were brought back - just make it equipable like the bike was and not tied to a certain control pad or stick

It’s best features removed from each game soz

I forgot about that. The one good thing besides mega evolution in XY

Annoying as balls that you had no choice but to use them if you want to use the circle pad (which.. of course you would in a 3d game)

Battle Frontier? Clearly nobody remembers it existing! Hahaha...kill me :D

He said best not useless

I think we’ll probably get the Battle Frontier in BDSP, because it’s not just something fans have been asking for since Gen VI at the earliest, but because one of the Unova Elite Four doesn’t work as well without the Battle Castle being a thing.

I preferred the location based evo's instead of the now evolution stone evo's. It gave some locations that the game kinda glossed over some more importance.

@@flo4255 I prefer location-based evolution myself, but it never made much sense to me that the mossy rock could evolve pokémon a leaf stone couldn’t, and Sun and Moon _horribly_ botched the placement of the evolution locations, so I’m okay with evolutionary stones being an alternate catalyst for them. Having both allows for the areas to still have the added significance while neatly avoiding a repeat of the Vikavolt Incident.

Or by making them wild encounters like in HGSS with Steelix

@@goldenhydreigon4727 They did do that in Gen 8 - but it'd still be nice to streamline further

I agree with you 100%

There was also Galarian yamask

@@jackmisha2598 unique methods for new mons within the gen are fine if you ask me, so long as they get streamlined afterwards (hoping Galarian Yamask becomes a Dusk Stone evolution later). I feel like that’s definitely gonna be the case with Legends Arceus; give the new evolutions their own methods and then make them Ancient Power evolutions in the games that take place in modern day.

U mean gmax instead of ultra beasts right? But yea agreed with u

@@davonleesilvastorm3500 Yeah, basically that. Either way, very annoying!

By my memory the one who made the other backstory hated mega evolutions

@@porraambulante i personally never liked megas, and after using them in Alpha Saphire that didn't improve. (They made the game way too easy) But I definitely wouldn't change the lore to be something so, disrespectful of them. Just drop the feature and state game balance or say nothing like the million other dropped or changed features that don't have stated reasons. (The lore could be as simple as no megastones exist in this region or pull an alternative timeline the way ORAS states that their timelime with megas is a different timeline from the original RSE timeline) Tldr; even if you hate a feature you shouldn't change its lore from "litterally the power of friendship™" to "it's suicide with extra steps". (Especially in a child friendly franchise like pokemon)

And not only that, they replaced it by using what is essentally an eldtritch power (max energy is lovecrafts color out of space) from an entity that wants to destroy the planet, with a gimmick so bad in universe that the box legendaries dedicated there own lives to killing max Pokemon. Say what you will about yvaltal but he didn’t strictly go after killing only mega Pokemon, he was indiscriminate. But galar’s gimmick was such an obviously evil thing that the lands guardians wanted it dead.

Reintroduced safari zone please since it’s good for exploration and home to rare pokemons. And no, friend safari isn’t a safari zone, because it’s just a smaller version of safari zone and safari zone is way bigger than friend safari and more open for exploration.

Victory Road isn’t even in Generation 8. So that’s disappointing too because Victory Road is one of the best areas in Pokémon because it’s a maze to traverse the Cave of Victory Road before facing the Pokémon League.

Don’t forget that gyms were also removed in Pokémon Sun and Moon and Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon and were replaced by island challenge/trials.

I liked the idea of inverse battles but it was not balanced well and made certain type way worse then the Ice type in standard battles. I’d love for it to come back if it strictly flipped weaknesses and type advantages but kept the resistances the same.

@@mectainea5575 resistance wouldn't make sense

Unova games (through a technicality) still have growing berries in the Dream World, although it's now inaccessible. You are correct about Yamask though, totally forgot that one lol

@@JPRPokeTrainer98 Also, the GB Sounds was actually removed in Gen 5, not Gen 6.

@@301nav If am not wrong, the DSi couldn't deal with DLC at all, that "feature" was added to the 3DS.

@@toumabyakuya he was talking about how the gb sounds was removed in ORAS because that was the next remake game that had a previous soundfont

@@toumabyakuya Yeah that’s correct, I was saying that they should’ve added something before they released the game itself

That has been debunked. Kanto was already in GS, Iwata just made a better process.

Yup that was why there was no safari zone, there literally was no more room in the catridge

@@thenerdbeast7375 Except the unused safari zone is in the game's internal files and can be accessed by hacking. It wasn't cut because there was "no more room", it was cut because they couldn't finish it.

@@GIR177 well only part of it is in so it could still be that they ran out of storage

@@GIR177 Plus there were a bunch of early town maps (without event data) and other stuff unused on the cartridge that they could have deleted to make more space.

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I know trash when I see it ey

Not really simply if you wear it no more dynamaxing on your team

Some Megas have stats that are only comparable to pseudo-legendaries so it shouldn't be a problem for many of them - having only a Mega Stone which is useless after transforming also nerfs their power.

@@zjzr08 Unless it's the AG Mega Rayquaz

I don't think it was removed in gen 6

Victory Road isn’t even in Generation 8. So that’s disappointing too because Victory Road is one of the best areas in Pokémon because it’s a maze to traverse the Cave of Victory Road before facing the Pokémon League.

Reintroduced safari zone please since it’s good for exploration and home to rare pokemons. And no, friend safari isn’t a safari zone, because it’s just a smaller version of safari zone and safari zone is way bigger than friend safari and more open for exploration.

Don't forget about Lopunny, Glalie, Sableye, any hope for Beedrill if/when it comes back, Metagross and Salamence in upper tiers...

Well at least Alakazam, Gengar, Lucario and Garchomp are fine.....which begs the question on why THEY needed Megas.

@@castform7 Lucario honestly needed the mega but other than that your right

@@segunthepikachufan1470 Plus we got rid of Mega Ray and the Primals

@@castform7 Lucario is currently NU Borderline so it definitely needs the mega. Gengar and Alakazam are UUBL. Really, their megas were to keep them solidly upper tier as power creep is a female Stoutland (and Gengar lost its immunity to Earthquake in Gen 7, so it really needs the extra power and speed now). The real question is why Mewtwo of all Pokemon needed TWO of them.

Gen 8 was only somewhat fun because of competitive. Pretty fun despite my initial thoughts on dynamax. The story and map were awful

@@polygondeath2361 Yeah I agree. Them making Compy way more accessible was great, but the rest feels really bare bones. Some of the characters are fun, but they don't really do much with them.

You end up getting all of the starters in yellow though.

You get Bulbasuar from a lady in a house when Pikachu has max friendship value, Charamander from a trainer outside a certain route and Squirtle from the Police officer outside Lt. Surges gym in the game, after you beat him up and get a gym badge, I believe.

Yeah, the only other games who also have fixed starters would be the GameCube ones, Colosseum/XD, though at least XD you can evolve your started lol

Game boy color didn’t have that either but gen 2 managed just fine

@@grydon6422 ru-vid.comUgzWm_rSNstCHhy6x6F4AaABCQ

The gameboy, gameboy color and pockey didn't have backlight either. You couldn't play at night without a lightsource nearby

@@kristol569 I remember having a stupid light clipped onto my GBA lol. And then battery acid destroyed it one summer when I was ten. The SP was a good upgrade so my sadness didn't last long.

2 words: GBA SP

the cut-scenes are like 15 seconds long

Alola is extremely handholdey and rather tedious at the beginning because of that, but the core gameplay in Alola is miles ahead of Kalos and Galar.

For me, Kalos marks the point where GF tried to relegate most of their world building to story and dialogue rather than features and exploration. It’s less of a fleshed out world which is a shame because the region itself is gorgeous. It could have been one of the best ever.

I'd argue before Galar, Hoenn was the worst offender. The original Dexit, no Day/Night and the subtle changes that came with them, no Ditto making breeding far more restricted, you only get one box legendary, practically no postgame in Ruby and Sapphire, and your rival is a joke of a challenge who doesn't even fully evolve their starter. There are actually fewer Pokemon available to catch in Ruby or Sapphire than Gold or Silver. The time system in Johto and its events made it feel like a world that's going about its business in spite of what you're up to, while Hoenn just feels stagnant and unchanging. This is the point where they started focusing far more on story, which this series is seldom good at, instead of gameplay which is normally its strength.

Kalos is the best generation ever! Just Mega evolution crashes to ash anything that Gen 5 tried to make good. Gen 6 made me enjoy Pokémon again after I drop the franchise because of Unova.

I will say it did give things like active backgrounds that give items when you use a particular attack, PSS, Amie, and I guess 3D models, although I agree those weren't utilized well.

seasons were a garbage mechanic. seriously whoever had the idea to lock content behind potentially needing to wait for nine months, woke up that morning and chose violence.

That’s because we’re the only ones who appreciated it sadly.

@Cerinol gen 2 actually had safari zone but incomplete

so technically isn't it removed?

@@porraambulante hgss had on with a banging theme but not gsc

Nintendo has their own reasons as to why they make the games the way that they do. It could also be related to the technical problems that they are having behind the scenes of the games development like it was trying to program pokemon gold and silver. They wanted to remake Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire as faithful as possible to the original game. By the way, you are probably missing TM Sludge Bomb in the game. They already gave their warning inside of Ruby and Sapphire about exactly what the player base would be doing surrounding the issue. I think that they actually wanted to the idea about the other flying pokemon in the game, but they probably jotted down to the idea to be used at a later time for another game. Deoyss would not even be inside of the game to be captured, if someone did not make a particular comment way back when Nintendo was doing the tours around the US in certain cities handing out the Aurora Ticket for Fire Red and Leaf Green. They did infact handout the Aurora Ticket for Emerald, but only for 1 day. Thankfully I found someone on Ebay selling the custom cartridge for Aurora Ticket for Emerald. He is not doing it anymore since it likely took out a lot of the credit to even be able to have it to sell in the first place. I found offered by the seller shortly after I found the footage on RU-vid explaining exactly when and where Nintendo was handing out the Aurora Ticket for Emerald for a day only.

While the concept idea for Megas was "what if pokémon could evolve another time" (which is something literally any player had fantasized) z moves and dynamax only give out the feeling of "What if we made a new gimmick for this gen?".

Both should come back.

Me too...it's so nostalgic.

Strongly disagree

@@GoriazeTV I strongly disagree with your disagreement. I’m playing Black 2 for the first time right now, and I’m battling the elite 4 with an Eevee because Glaceon isn’t available until the postgame due to it being a location based evolution.

@@JoshusBarber The problem is the eeveelution being post game mon's. Stone evolution are the most uninteresting evolution methode along with level up imo

I do agree. These location based evolutions are cool for the games they‘ve been introduced with, but should be changed in the next generation. These locations are meant to be memorable and give a bit of flavor to the region itself as well. If you think of Leafeon and Glaceon you should think of the moss and ice stones in Sinnoh; It gives these Pokemon this identity of belonging to Sinnoh. It loses it‘s identity when every region following Sinnoh has a place, where you can evolve these Pokemon. It doesn‘t make the landscape of Sinnoh as cool or unique anymore. The only reason to make location based evolutions is, to make these Pokemon more intertwined with the landscape of the region itself. I don‘t see a point to to implement a location in every following game, which intertwines with this Pokemon as well as a location in the region it originates from. Why do you even do location based evolutions, if you can find these locations in like every region?

Location based evolutions are annoying and restrictive.

You don’t even have to buy the games to get the new Pokémon now.

@@UltraBall23 Yeah, you could theoretically get them all for free in GO.

Counterpoint, listing a GTS trade now takes significantly longer as you have to transfer between 2 devices and have to install an external app. Sure, in Home, it is free to do so without giving Nintendo money, but that doesn't mean the GTS (A core feature at this point) should have been cut from the main game. The decision is pretty much indefensible.

@@Taenarius no not really it doesn’t take that long, you dont install the app every time you make a process and a transfer doesn’t actually take that long, it literally makes no sense to have to worry about a GTS function in every game when it would be better for the consumer to have it in an app you have more freedom with.

@@CabbageYippee You can't just say you have more freedom, especially when that statement isn't true. Fundamentally the GTS feature is the same as the one introduced in gen 4, pick a pokemon, ask for a pokemon and a level range and you're done. It would have been the same in the game, save the premium slots, that I must stress cost extra money. It is better for the consumer for it to be in both the game and the app, to say anything otherwise is apologism. Home isn't terrible, the ability to trade away from the switch is nice, but it should not be required.

Removing that feature is definitely considered as a life-quality update from here on out 😆

@@BuizelCream Well, Sword and Shield removed it, but because it wasn’t the same type of Gameplay as LGPE

@@BuizelCream That's for sure. It's a feature that only exists to aggravate people, the way I see it

I recently replayed Red on the 3DS virtual console and I’d completely forgotten this was a thing. Absolutely slapped me in the face.

@@maximumbeans9310 When Pokémon Go (which brought back the mechanic as a whole) launched and only had Kanto Pokémon it was an odd throwback

They cut corners wherever they can now. Its obvious they don't care about the games anymore and its all about corporate greed.

@@neotono5536 crazy considering Pokemon is the highest grossing IP on the planet right now. You'd think spending a little more money to hire more staff or extend the games development would be no problem for them. But like you said, a lot of these companies no longer care about a quality product they care about pre orders, DLC and making as much money off this cash cow as they possibly can.

Gen 4 was actually everything that Nintendo could put in at the time of release, they included making the Membership Pass accessible to used by action replay. They made sure for a fact that the player could get both orbs before even starting the game without fighting any trainers with the wall through walls cheat code. They explained that was intended to be used by single children or people who cannot afford both games. They then mentioned to male sure that you turn off the cheat code and then play the game normally until you encounter your game legendary. They did not mention anything about how using other cheat codes will affect affect the legitimacy of the items. Although they did immediately remedy the situation with encountering Munchlax on trees as soon as possible, since they were fully aware if his existence. They just did not put into the game with the reason being something related waiting for the game to get remade or something like that. Nintendo fully gave an explanation as why exactly they did what they did.

Thanks, I'll do my best!

And don’t forget that Victory Road isn’t even in Generation 8. So that’s disappointing too because Victory Road is one of the best areas in Pokémon because it’s a maze to traverse the Cave of Victory Road before facing the Pokémon League.

Reintroduced safari zone please since it’s good for exploration and home to rare pokemons. And no, friend safari isn’t a safari zone, because it’s just a smaller version of safari zone and safari zone is way bigger than friend safari and more open for exploration.

I'm pretty sure they kept that feature through out the generations once it was introduced

@@Missingno0479 Nope, that one only exists in B2/W2. Gen 6 oesn't have one and Gen 7 only lets you register 4 Key items at a time.

Yes, imagine

That’s why tiers and bans exists. You could make tournaments for only megas, z moves, or D-maxing

Technically it would be 5! If Megas and Z-moves were in, you'd also have Primal Reversion and Ultra Burst. Soooo yeah, have fun with that. (:

Megas are missed by Competitive and non-competitive players. In every corner of Pokémon community is asked by the megas returns. What are you talking about.

@@pedromonteiro2248 Nostalgia. People only started missing it once they got rid of it.

@@pedromonteiro2248 during gen 6 (2013-2015) more people disliked megas than you think.

@@miikapm2 There are always some hater in Pokémon community crying about something. Pokefans love to be contrarians... But Megas always has been worldwide praised as the best feature of all Pokémon games.

@@pedromonteiro2248 ehh😟

First person I've seen with a genuinely interesting take

If a Pokémon isn’t perfect, people don’t care about it.

The attacks still exist, the problem was the fact that you had to give bad movesets to good mons or bring a MO slave to advance through some parts of the game

@@kristophesiem5336 I never bring slaves. Ruins the experience

I miss field moves. I loved how you don't need HMs to complete the story of gen 5, but you could still use them to open up side paths to explore or shortcuts through dungeons.

Maybe I should explain further... I miss the entirety of HMs. The HM focused Pokémon, too. It was simply part of the game.

I wish the weather in the wild area was weighed by season. More likely to see snow in the winter and more likely to have bright sun in the summer.

Such a missed opportunity for that as well

challenge mode and easy mode?

I would argue being able to just walk up and buy evolution stones.

They removed a lot of bugs. Also they removed the Special stat.

Depending on impactful the buffs max moves provide or just the ability to wreak havoc for three whole turns, dynamax is far stronger than permanent megas. Megas took away your item slot (except mega rayquaza) which is huge in competitive battling and the limited amount of megas meant that it was much easier to predict which mon was the mega or predict when the opponent might dynamax could determine the flow of the entire battle if you predict right. Not to mention megas that changed abilities often had completely different play styles pre and post mega. Like how manectric users would delay mega evolution just to utilise its lightning rod ability before finally evolving. Or how sableye would not mega evolve just to utilise its prankster ability and would only evolve when magic bounce was needed. Then there were mons like garchomp who just never used their megas because of the loss of speed. Point is as restrictive megas were distribution wise, they were a great addition to the game and competitive as a whole. Now I am not saying dynamax is bad or unskilled. Vgc and doubles in general have shown just how skillful it is and how much creativity it allows. However as far as singles go, dynamax is HORRIBLY designed (which is kinda bad since almost all of your in game campaign is single battles and the game itself doesn't really do anything to push players towards doubles even though thats the official format). There is a reason why dynamax got banned from basically all tiers. Point is while dynamax is universally available, its just too unbalanced and only designed with one format in mind while completely disregarding the other. Which is just bad game design.

2 years too late but nope! Would’ve liked them as 5th or sixth slots only to be used in the overworld if we didn’t want it in combat though. Simple fix and you still get to ride around with your favorites not be forced to fly around with Charizard A La Gen VII

Pretty much a classic case of people not knowing what they have until they've lost it

Truer words haven't been said.

Screw the national Dex I just want to have all/most of the pokemon from previous gens be available in the game at no extra cost. Especially since pokemon games now cost $60.

HMs were awful in gen 4, thank god they removed it

I wouldn't mind HMs, they were the best way to add, as you said, a Zelda-like progression to the world. The bad part, especially in Gen 3 and 4, is that they cannot be forgotten, forcing you to get stuck with many suboptimal moves that you cannot get rid of unless you talk with one specific NPC (and it doesn't help that in most cases he's right near the end of the game, by which point HM slaves have already become dead weight in battle). If they could be forgotten like normal moves or have a way to work around at least the important ones (Surf, Fly, Strength - like ORAS' Eon Flute, which is basically a better version of the Fly HM in all but name), I definitely wouldn't mind them.

If you’re looking for Pokémon videos, you’re not looking for the positive aspects. The positive aspects of Pokémon exist far far away from other people.

@@pn2294 I just want to hear it from other people, maybe theres something listed that I didnt do or recall doing.

the pokemon fandom on reddit and youtube mostly focuses on leaks and criticisms of the games. if you want positivity you should go on sites like tumblr :)

@@miikapm2 Ugh, thanks but I am not getting into yet another social media form xD, I've heard baaad things about tumblr haha. But if there are no positive videos then thats something to be exploited here then. :D

@@MiloMondo i guess candyevie is a good poketuber with positive videos. her videos are really cute too so i’d recommend that

No need to pretend, that is their timeline. Unless they update it

@@GumCow so like the zelda timeline