"Sword and Shield LOOK BETTER than Scarlet and Violet" | Pokemon Unpopular Opinions 

Unpopular opinion: Sword and shield are very underrated

i do like sword & shield’s style more & outside of the flippin tree the areas look like they put more time into them. a lot of the plains i’ve seen in SV look really polygon-y & when u look out in the distance it looks like it’s still in beta

Sword and Shield absolutely destroys Violet in graphics 🤨

That tree might be ugly, but not as ugly as the mountains in paldea

Sword and Shields are style and designs are soooooo much better than Scarlet and Violet

Ah the fucking trees. Yeah let's just forget the other 99.98765% of the game

I personally love Iono and Penny but i feel like i'd be cancelled online for saying that out loud...

It would be cool to see Lillie make an appearance after USUM, I don't remember the exact story, but I think she left Alola after the main story.

Honestly an X and Y remake would be nice. It was one of the my fav pokemon games.

Hot take: Sword and Shield do look better than Scarlet and Violet. Let me explain. While everyone is quick to point to the trees, i'm not going by this kind of judging. Switch Pokemon graphics peaked in Lets Go and hasnt been as great ever since, lets be real. However, SwSh looks way more alive and colorful than SV. I recently revisited the game and was shocked by how vibrant the world was. By how cut and clean routes looked. By how beautiful the mines were. Stuff like that. SV might have 'better trees' but it looks so dry and dead next to SwSh. I also feel like it looks less clear/clean next to SwSh. It's nothing against either of the games, but i'd advise yall to boot up your old save file of SwSh and check out some of the stuff like routes for yourselves. And then play Lets Go because again, Switch pokemon peaked with this game.

Hot take: I hate it when people say we need new types and then say something like the digital type, the space type, the nuclear type, even when those are pretty much existing types (Electric, Psychiv, and Poison), like if you're going to think of a new type be more creative, also you need to think of a type that won't lead to a pokemon have a specific design. Let's take the ground type for example, this type, as far as I know, is pretty diverse with the designs it uses, like dugtrio and mudsdale, dugtrio is based off of a mole, and mudsdale is based off a horse, they have different designs with the only common denominator being that they are brown to show that they are ground types. This is the case with all Pokémon types, except maybe water and steel, they are diverse and mostly have one minor common denominator. If we were to get if we were to get a space type or a digital type the vast majority of the Pokémon that have those typings would be aliens or machines, it would get boring, also for digital types it wouldn't make that much sense, using a man made machine in a pokemon battle battle seems unfair, "But what about the paradox Pokemon?" I hear you asking, those pokemon are man made but it's a handful of them and it's not an entire typing. TLDR: So basically what I'm trying to say is that all of these new types are really specific and you can almost predict what a Pokémon's design or concept will be, like seriously we don't need anymore typing. And this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to my argument there's so many more layers of this I can explore and talk about. But that would take way too long. In conclusion... fan made types suck.

Scarlet and Violet is everything Game Freak promised Sword and Shield would be, a generation later

The tree was the only bad thing, everything else was good in sw/sh

One of my most unpopulair opinions is that I didn't mind the long cutscenes in pokemon Sun And Moon. I have seen so many people hating on it or wishing there was a "skip cutscene" button, but honestly I love games with lots of (hidden) lore and I wouldn't want to miss out on any of it.

Hot take: we don’t need to care about the graphics of a tree. It is a literal tree. It doesn’t affect the gameplay at all, so we all need to grow up a tiny bit! Honestly let’s bring back the pixel’s because a lot of people prefer the looks and that anyway

They really need to make a chihuahua Pokémon

Scarlet and Violet ost < Sword and shield ost

Sword and Shield has the best UI, customization, and extremely good town. It’s really fun to just go into a town and be able to enter nearly every single building. Edit: also, the gyms were so hype. They went hard as f for the themes and design.

We need more rock ghost types

Unpopular opinion: Hop is the best rival we've had in a really long time, besides maybe Arven

The gen 9 gym leaders are my favorite gym leaders yet, despite the weird difference between them and old gym leaders.

Hot take. Iron jugulis's shiny is not bad. It's actually kinda cool. I'm about to get hating aren't I

I swear to armors if we get gen 6 remakes before gen 5, I will mix all of the people at nintendos play dough colors

Imagine this A game that lags EVERYWHERE no matter what you do and you be honest could aesthetically look better And a game that MAY lag in the wild area though isn't the best design wise but the rest of the game looks fantastic with two well done DLC's

We dont need a f*cking "Plot Armor Protagonist" Anime in Pokemon Game

Unpopular opinion: I give zero Ratatta butts about the so-called "low graphics" of S/V, I never noticed these _tiny_ details everyone obsesses over and found the game very enjoyable.

Actually Gamecube's Pokemon Coliseum was the first 3-D Pokemon game, not X and Y. It was the first main series game, but not the first game. I wish they bring back Mega Evolutions though as unlikely as it is.

I do think the Pokémon x and y games would benefit the most from remakes though, if they took elements of the story from the anime, added showcases and made the gyms harder it would be a really good game

we need more fairy types that don't look like fairy's like zacian and grimmsnarl

Piers. Awesome guy, awesome brother, probably would be even more a force to be reckoned with if he did Dynamax. Has challenged dynamaxed pokemon with normal pokemon and *won*…. And yet they forgot basic vocals

I really like the models of the humans in sw/sh/PLA I think they perfected did the humans

Yes because we prefer a game with an extreme amount of glitches and a frame rate that maxes out at 10 fps over a bad looking tree.🤦🏽‍♂️

SWSH are the more polished games, but I think that SV are better

I agree with the XY rerelease and bringing back Mega-Evolutions.

We need more Ground/Psychic types theirs only two still too this day being baltoy and claydol.

Hot Take: Quaquaval is the worst designed starter I've ever seen.

Pokémon community just is over critical and under appreciative of the content they consume. I got a switch for my fiancé and started them on Pokémon BDSP as their first Pokémon game so they could become accustom to the linear gameplay before switching to open world and I watched them give the same looks of enjoyment/frustration/and accomplishment I had as a kid playing the games it was surreal and really fun to watch they finished the game and couldn’t stop talking about how fun it was about how they named their rival something ridiculous and funny, kept nicknaming their Pokémon stuff like punchyrock and turdtwig and then asked me for another Pokémon game to play out of my collection I’m glad I got to share those moments with them with the plus of having them be able to play it on the tv and the go. *And to clarify I started my journey playing a old copy of yellow my cousin lent me with the first ones I bought being leaf green and emerald as a kid. I loved diamond and pearl and I love BDSP it was a faithful remake of my childhood memories with updated graphics that felt like a natural evolution to the chibi style in the originals. People just didn’t like it because they wanted a reimagining not a remake.

Popular opinion= WE NEED AND I MEAN NEED A DRAGON EEVEELOUTION

That second one was actually really true, scarlet and violet graphics make sw/sh look like they have 4k resolution how bad they are.

They should make old pokémon characters battleble in the dlc. Like kabu, brock or candice.

Actually the first 3d Pokémon game was Pokémon Colosseum and axe gale shadow of darkness both were on the gamecube

Sun and moon should come to switch, but with updated graphics and everything, not like the mess they made of the sinnoh remakes

Listen, I loved SWSH for it’s character and graphic design but SCVI is just way better in terms of world design. The term SWSH walked to SCVI could run comes to mind.

My unpopular opinion (according to my friends) is that Corviknight made a better taxi driver then Squawkabilly and the dlc ones

Agreed agreed. Regidrago’s dragon blast thing power is better than scar and violet

bro I hate when people cherry pick the TREES out of swsh's cons I mean like you could choose anything and you chose a tree that a casual player would never even look at. swsh is a good game

Hot Take We need A switch remake of gen 2 gen 3 gen 5 gen 6 and gen 8.

We need a bug/dragon type Pokémon

Hot take: Skeledirge sucks. Meowscarada and Quaquaval give off some vibe that makes me enjoy looking at. Skeledirge is just mr popular shiny

i really think they should make a black and white switch version

Idk if anyone will see this, but paradox forms should have been for every Pokemon like a mega evolution it would have been insane over terastilizing

Larry isn’t the best, but he’s the most relatable to those of us who grew up playing the franchise and now work normal jobs

Skeledirge best starter in while

unpopular opinion: SWORD AND SHIELD ARE THE BEST POKÉMON GAMES OF ALL TIME!!

Pokemon has had a rough transition to 3D Probably the best 3D Pokemon game is ORAS, because it was already a good game, with good upgrades, like HeartGold and SoulSilver. I can't get myself to go through XY, Ultra Sun or Moon, or Sword and Shield again. And if Scarlet and Violet didn't have a 1 hour tutorial section, then I would say it's the most replayable Pokemon game. Also with level scaling, Pokemon ROM hacks (Crystal Clear) have already done that. For all trainers.

never mind what I posted previously

Pokémon colosseum was actually the frist 3d pokemon game and it came out on the 3DS

I honestly just want more Bede content

I know that last person didn't just say "Larry's not the best"!

Honestly I think they should save the completely open world style for the Legends Games, and kind of do what sword and shield did with having the original top down style in some areas, have the fixed view in some areas, and have things like the Wild area (safari zone possibility)

They should make pokemon x and y 2d

Yeah wow SwSh looks great, I just love how Magnemite looks like plastic instead of actual metal

We need a applin variant

I think what they meant by x/y being 3D was that it has the scarlet and violet camera

Larry is the best E4 of SV because the rest were mid, except the tiny one I don’t know her deal I just liked her

I do love the outlines on the Pokémon and general aesthetic of the characters of Sword & Shield. I just think a lot of the world was devoid of character and there were a lot of jarring moments of obvious laziness.

Now that I’ve played SV, I can’t replay any of the older games, because (unpopular opinion alert) SV IS THE BEST

Bro's a Certified S/V Glazer

We need all of the games that aren’t on the switch to come back I need to relive Black and White

1. Iono 2. Brassius 3. Tulip 4. Larry 5. Kofu 6. Ryme 7. Grusha 8. Katy

Grusha is the best gym leader.

"Larry isn't the best gym leader" *You have alerted the horde*

Larry is overrated. Grusha's better. Bea is best gym leader over all. Rika is best elite 4 member and Cynthia is best champion.

sword shield > scarlet violet

I like both just the same. And I even enjoy the bejesus out of of bd/sp. This is coming from a Pokémon yellow player back when I was 16 years old. 1999.

I really liked the texture in Pokémon sword 😅 made my silly little brain happy❤ the overly anime style in violet gives me anxiety

Larry and Grusha are overrated gym leaders, Katy is the best

Sword/Shield is just a better game overall. Probably the best pokemon game of all. The only complaint some people had were the trees, which is stupid.

Larry is absolutely the best gym later. He’s definitely the most relatable.

Whole heartedly agree with x and y. Jhoto too-

Larry is too overrated with meh team lol, even Poppy are better than him 👁👄👁

The Ultra Necrozma battle is the best Legendary boss battle (not counting volo because it's technically a trainer battle)

I think Hatenna is a really silly fella

Raichu is better then pikachu in every way

I never saw a glitch in Pokémon scarlet and violet

Chespin is the best Pokémon out there. Also, I like Quilladon… am I the only one??

I think he means the type of 3d we have now with a 360 camera, unlike how it would just lock in a position

Sorry, sword and shield graphics are much better than Violet and Scarlet. Keep the open world concept, but improve the graphics.

Hot take: Give the Pikachu clones that can't evolve an evolution!

A glass type would be weak to fire, fighting, steel, rock and ground making it tied for the most vulnerable type with grass.

don't get me wrong but Iono is the best gym leader

Need more bikini gym leaders

We don't need megas to come back, unless it's for pokemon who deserve to get it, instead of the favourites getting it and a few stragglers who are used to be like "Oh, but these less liked pokemon got Megas"

New pokemon snap: *_amateurs_* ... Pokemon sw and sv:what did you say? Nps: *_AMATEURS_* !!!!

I also agree the sw/sh art style was better it had more of a “pokemon” feel to it as well. The cities also looked 100x better with way more detail

Unpopular opinion, Pokemon Colosseum was actually the first 3D Pokemon game

I picked Larry as my favourite gym leader in the quiz before the elite four without knowing he was in the Elite four so I just assumed that whichever gym leader you picked was the one that was in the elite four. Which I think wouldve been a better concept

Grusha is also my favourite Gym Leader in Scarlet and Violet

I agree with the X and Y coming to switch and Megas coming back. I miss playing x and y

I think an X and Y remake would be good and (i know it probably wont happen but) lets go johto would be a good idea