The BEST and WORST Parts of Every Pokémon Generation 

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Worst feature of gen 3 is that you can't transfer Pokemon up from gens 1-2 to it, keeping you from getting shinies/legendaries/starters you've had for years into newer games

Gen 3 too much water obviously

Gonna be honest, the loss of being able to enter buildings is only surpassed by the horrible raids in my opinion. In swsh I initially didn't like that they introduced raids, but at least they were turn based and they eventually grew on me. Scarvio's raids killed my enjoyment far more than anything else in gen 9 thus far, because they changed it from turn based to time based. Add onto that the enemy pokemon seems to get multiple turns before you do, the fact that occasionally glitches seem to make your inputs freeze for no reason, that offline NPCs will not attack until you do, and that later raids seem to require specific pokemon with certain stats and moves.

The worst part of gen 4 is Mindy there's nothing worse than her

Don't forget, along with buildings not being enterable in Scarlet & Violet, most of the towns and cities have non interactable mannequins instead of people.

bro chose not breaking in houses over the performace of sv and the absence of level scaling in an open world pokemon game

Ngl i didnt really like the open world part of scarlet and violet, bc it felt like everything blended together and there isnt a whole lot that feels unique, like for example hoenn which has very distinct routes like the lava tunnel, desert and rainy area

Worst thing of gen 3 was no sandstorm form for Castform

There is a building you can enter in scarlet and violet that you missed. You can actually enter nemona's house. I only noticed this recently. Sadly not much to it but does give her some more context for her home life.

The worst part of gen 7 is the fact that the cutscenes took forever

Totally agree with final Galar starters. A gorilla carrying around a drum when gorillas literally beat their chests like drums… it’d be like if Pidgeot use a hang-glider

I really like that Gen 5 was only new Pokémon until the post game. My only real issue is that some of the new Pokémon are just rip-offs of Gen 1 Pokémon, like Timbur>Machop and Raggenrolla>Geodude.

I agree with all of your points about Gen 7 with caveats. While I agree that the best part of Gen 7 is introducing Regional Variants as a new pillar of a mechanic for the series going forward, I’d also argue for its story, lore, and characters being up there. Sure, people that don’t enjoy story in their games will dislike the abundance of cutscenes, which is fair, but as someone that does, I thoroughly enjoyed how much personality it added to the games. Alola also has some of the most dense, fleshed out lore and characters out of any of the other generations in my opinion. It’s one of the only regions whose story was so good that it’s gotten a tear out of me (Gen 9 now too). Some of the only negatives with the games is the long tutorial process on subsequent play throughs and how incomplete some of the trials felt towards the end, especially on Poni Island. Then there’s one of the single most common criticisms of the game being the best parts from both games should’ve been merged into a singular game. Leave all of the story, the same from the originals, but at in tidbits of the ultra recon squad like in USUM, keep Lusamine’s character from the originals, redeem her in the post game after her illness/coma after bejng separated from Nihilego, keep Kukui as the first champion and save serious Hau for a post game rematch/story beat, Retain all of the post game content from USUM like ultra wormholes and team rainbow rocket as well as flesh out the Ultra Megalopolis area and storyline to make it more substantial. Gen 7 is genuinely my favorite generation and it’s far from perfect without these changes, but it does get close in my opinion. It’s a great melting of both tribal and sci-fi themes.

The only problems I have with Gen 7 are the amount of cutscenes. Though what I don’t like the most about Gen 7 was Sun & Moon’s post game.

Gen 9s worst feature has got to be the undercooked graphics. It's been out for a while now and it still looks terrible. The textures look bland and take far to long to load in, and there is still a riddle of bugs

genuinely felt the same about us/um changing lusamine's story for the worst. its honestly done best in masters ex, because every event with lusamine and her kids show her trying to work to be better for them. the forgiveness feels earned edit: also agree on the not being able to go indoors in sv

dont let bro cook for gen8

The gym challenges were the worst thing in Gen 9. Especially the ESP training from the psychic gym

I was bracing myself to hear you rant about the bugs/performance of SV… but then you started mentioning the lack of being able to enter certain buildings. And honestly, it really makes me think. Despite what the internet wants you to think, bugs/performance should not be used to judge a game’s quality-the way a game was intended to be. Bugs aren’t the fault of the developers. Sure, they can be an issue and it’s important to stamp them out. But ultimately, judging games purely based on stuff the devs didn’t intend, and then tossing aside all the greatness, is a terrible way to judge. And unfortunately, so many people have treated SV like this, and it pains me. But you talking about a quality of life feature of all things (which is still valid btw, I do also enjoy barging into stranger’s houses in these games, lmao) made me realize… these games are next to perfect. There are only a few little things that some might prefer be added or changed, like the houses thing, but ultimately the big scope of SV is so good… to the point where no one’s really complaining about any of it. And that makes me feel a little better.

I would say that Gen III's worst quality was the lack of Shiny hunting methods. The Gen II breeding system was discontinued, the Masuda method didn't exist yet, and there was no means of connectivity to Gen II thanks to the Pokémon data structure overhaul, so there were no ways to increase Shiny odds (save for an extremely fickle and pointless quirk with Unown and some sort of RNG exploit in Emerald).

I don't necessarily agree on Scarlet/Violet's plot. Ignoring the DLC, I found the only interesting part was the Area Zero stuff. And while Area Zero was phenomenally good, all the stuff before it, during the main bulk of the game, I just did not care for. Gameplay-wise it was fine, with the open world and all, but plot-wise I just could not get invested.

Gen 4 is the game that always puts me to sleep, without fail. If I want to fall asleep, I play gen 4. 😴😪😴😪😴😪

Worst feature for gen three is hands down when the internal clock battery dies. As a kid you felt helpless and as an adult its a massive annoyance if you don't have the tools and don't trust the nearby game stores

22:45 Missed Opportunity to Insert THAT One House with THAT One Trainor

Another worst from Gen 9 is the lack of small side quests. Because you can’t go into peoples houses, there was A LOT less interactions with the npcs, making you feel a little disconnected from the region

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Great video! And omg I made it on the patron end screen!

I think the designs of the final evolutions of the Galar starters are awesome. Rillaboom, Cinderace and Inteleon are really cool.

Gen 9 has the best characters. Nemona is such a unique character with such a cool idea, being a champion who's too strong to enjoy battles, her favorite thing ever until you come along

They really missed out on the chance to bring back the 2 region system from gen 2 in scarlet and violet. The DLC should've been a trip to what would realistically be neighboring Kalos.

You really cant say that USUM is the worst iterative version when Yellow and Crystal exist.

Trevor and Tierno are the first companions who have a goal besides beating the league. They're the best rivals. And going inside every house is weird. it's like in gen 5 when they took items out of garbages because the didn't want kids digging through trashcans.

I'll never understand love for Diamond and Pearl beyond the physical/special split. There are SO many more things I hated about Pearl than the speed. 1. The dex has major issues, even beyond the lack of fire types, to the point that it literally became a joke that you could guess at least 4 out of 6 mons on any sinnoh team. 2. HM overload like craaaazy, you could have TWO pokemon on your team with absolutely NOTHING but HMs. Needing to have ONE with all HM moves is bad enough! (and remember, at this point they had THREE generations of negative feedback from players about HMs, and they STILL chose to add MORE) 3. The route gimmicks, rather than being immersive, were just annoying slowdowns in an already slow game. 4. Barry is one of the worst rivals ever, his 'gotta go fast' personality has less depth than Sonic the Hedgehog, he's like one big adhd joke that wasn't even funny to begin with. 5. The lake trio is one of the worst, most forgettable, legendary trios of any gen ever. You could probably mix up their names and most pokemon fans wouldn't even notice it was wrong. And then even if they did notice it was wrong, they probably still wouldn't remember the right names for each one. IMO they are worse in design than the simi trio. Simisear at least has personality to its design, even if that personality is 'hot diarrhea'. The lake trio has no personality *at all*, nothing that makes them stand out as anything more than copy/paste blobs. 6. MINDY. 7. I don't even agree that it handled mythical events well because I hate mythicals being tied to events. Speaking from personal experience at the time, getting Pearl and finding out it had *multiple* cool and powerful pokemon that I could *never* get because of events that had already happened that I could literally *never have accessed in the first place* was the EXACT OPPOSITE of fun. Trade evos are only okay because if you have no one to trade with you weren't *locked out* of buying the other version. The fact the mythicals were all SO much better than the lake trio just made me hate the lake trio even more.

It's kind of downer that you really can't use half of the Unova Dex until the end game or even the post game.

Personally I don’t mind the lack of buildings you could enter in SV. I kind of like that shops are very quick and easy to interact with. I get it gets rid of a lot of personality but I like that I don’t have to enter/exit every building and instead I can just run up to a door press A, but what I want, then move two feet to the right to quickly enter a different shop without having to run out again and enter a new store and yadda yadda yadda.

And people still don't know about gen 1. The missingo glitch, actually helped by giving you multiple items. You had to have the item you would want, in a certain spot in your bag, talk to the old man. Have him not show how to catch Pokemon, fly to cinnabar, surf on the side, once missingo showed, you defeat it, and you should have 99 of whatever item. Doing that trick with master balls, would give you access to catching any pokemon.

100% agree about the 2 regions being the best part about Gold & Silver. It blew my mind when I was a kid, and when I realized you could even go after 8 additional gum badges, it instantly made it my favorite Pokemon game for years! From that point on, I started becoming slowly disenchanted with Pokemon as I got older. I still bought all the games, but they never 'wowed' me again.

While we wait for ZA, what is everyone’s favorite Pokémon game currently??🤔

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I think it was gen 5 or 6 they changed Faint attack to Feint attack or something but I think it was also removed later

And of course, the first Johto Gym Leader to use a Gen II Pokémon left players scarred for life.

Translation of Gen 9 con: I was no longer allowed to break into people’s houses and hope I can steal hidden treasures as if I was Link.

Gen6 had so much potential in terms of story and characters, but they screwed it so hard by never really developing on it in a Z version. The region was very beautiful tho, and I love it for introducing character customization. (I think it has some of the best set of clothes, even tho it's kind of limited compared to what we have on the Switch.)

I think Scarlet & Violet should not have gotten rid of the ability to go into buildings. I feel like the Cities would have felt so much more massive and full if you could go into the shoe stores and clothing stores and see the different items on display with some generic npcs shopping about. And I miss original Pokémon centers, at least in cities. Like i enjoyed talking to the npcs and seeing what random things they had to say and then be surprised when one offered me an item or a trade. Like the mid route ones perfecr leave as the quick stop design. Edit: I posted this before we got to Scarlet & Violet and I am so glad that you agreed lol

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Unova had the worst starters. Cinderace and Rillaboom are cool. Inteleon is okay. Paldean has the best storylines in the franchise. I love how the DLC introduces new characters and plot. Also, they conclude EVERY storyline (main storylines and DLC) with the Epilogue that introduces Pecharunt, who you saw every time you went to Peachy's in Kitakami (Pecharunt is dormant until you have the Mythical Pecha Berry).

BOOOOO you just bashed sword and shield and didn't even give any good points and you only praised Legends Arceus and didn't give it any bad points. D-

I feel like one of Gen 8s faults is that they didn’t have national Pokédex and then I believe tried to balance by making Pokémon that would otherwise have some challenge towards getting, so accessible. Like all the eeveelutions could just be caught in the wild. Last stage evolutions that are usually trade/stone/held item. ALSO the dlc had great opportunity for 2 new eeveelutions given the settings and traditional setting of how eeveelutions are introduced. Crown tundra could have been a dragon type and isle of armor could have been steel type like big ball dropped there.

Worst feature of Gen 3 is it didn't do the physical special split. If it had, I wouldn't have to give Gen 4 any points.

I feel like I’m the only one who doesn’t really like the gen 4 starters. (Other than torterra) don’t really like their designs

The fact that Pokemon didn’t continue allowing you to go back a region in the post game was a huge mistake in my opinion.

Most of the time playing galar I don't use the starter

I find it hard to believe that Gen 5 has the worst batch of Pokemon, especially since Gen 6 has some of the most infamous Pokemon designs with Barbaracle, Aromatisse, and Slurpuff. Sure every gen has it's misses, but over all Gen 5's designs are solid to passible, I find it difficult to count any of them as flat out bad.

lets be real the best thing from SV were the leaks

The B&W pokedex is underrated. It only gets hate cause "I can't use older Pokemon before the post game 😭😭". That's pretty much everyone who doesn't like B&W main argument.

Glad to not see any rowlet or mudkip slander

As a LOVER of gen 1, I think a big issue is the ability to describe things more overtly. We really had to guess lots of things in the 1st gen especially without a guide. It was difficult thing. Now with the internet everything is much easier however I do think this is still a big issue with pokemon as a whole. I wish there was more in game explanations or hints for things. Like how could anyone ever guess to read brail for the reggies or go under a specific bridge to evolve a mon. These things fully require hints at least to solve.

In my opinion: Gen 1: Best: It introduced the franchise and I like the nostalgic feel it gives off Worst: A lot of Pokemon had bad movesets imo, and it could be too difficult at times Gen 2: Best: I really enjoyed Pokemon Crystal. Also the introduction of shiny Pokemon Worst: To me it has the worst roster of new Pokemon. There are some great ones like the legendaries, Steelix, Scizor and the new Eeveelutions, but there were a lot of weak ones (to me it’s very telling that they would give a lot of them new evolutions or forms in future gens) Gen 3: Best: I really like Hoenn as a region with its different environments and most of the Pokemon are great. Also Emerald Worst: I’m glad I never got to experience filling the Dex in the games cuz I’ve heard it’s a long process that requires to have multiple games Gen 4 (My first Gen!): Best: I really enjoyed playing Platinum and Heartgold and Soulsilver. Also, I like pretty much all of the new evolutions for old mons that were introduced Worst: Sinnoh might be my least favorite region because outside of Mt Coronet and Spear Pillar it doesn’t have a lot of memorable locations that stand out to me. Also, DP were not very good games looking back on them (but I’m glad they’re the games that got me into the franchise) Gen 5: Best: BW have one of the best stories in the series. I also like Unova as a region. And while I don’t love their story, BW2 were fun to play Worst: I think they gave too many of the new Pokemon unfair evolution levels. Some examples I can think of are Larvesta, Rufflet, Vullaby, and especially Zweilous. Gen 6 (Probably my favorite Gen): Best: It gave us a lot of fun features like Megas, Fairy types, Amie and trainer customization. I also think it has the best roster of Pokemon (there aren’t any I really dislike and even a lot of their shinies are great). I also really enjoyed playing ORAS Worst: I think the story and characters in the games are boring and forgettable (I really hope Legends ZA can do these things justice) Gen 7: Best: I really like Alola as a region, along with the story, lore, characters and a lot of the new Pokemon. I also enjoyed USUM despite its story not being as great Worst: I think SM hold your hand too much in the story, especially at the beginning. Also, USUM’s story is a downgrade compared to SM’s Gen 8: Best: I like the story about the Gym Challenge. I like that it makes you feel like a rising athlete. I also enjoyed using Pokemon Camp a lot. And I really enjoyed Legends Arceus! It made the Sinnoh region and its lore more interesting to me Worst: I didn’t care that much about the Darkest Day plot in SWSH and Rose might be one of my least favorite villains in the series. I also think Legends Arceus could’ve used more trainer battles Gen 9: Best: I like the main story and how you can decide which steps to take as you go. I also really like Penny and Arven as characters. This is also another Gen in which I don’t dislike any of the new Pokemon Worst: I was kinda disappointed that the story in the DLC went back to being linear to an extent. Also Ogerpon’s story was way more interesting and better built up than Terapagos’s. And of course, the glitches

ur feeling of gen 8 is everyone elses feeling of gen 4.

Always wild to me that people complain about gen 5. That Gen actually got me back into pokemon after I stepped out for gen 4. Love the plot and pokemon. It felt the most like gen 1 to me in the pokedex being only for its pokemon.

22:42 I mean I guess Gamefreak finally realized "Wait it's kind of creepy this random ass kid can come into a stranger's house."

I couldn't disagree more with his best & worst of gen 8 because I love the gen 8 starter designs as an evolution line and with gen 2 are the only gens with all 3 starter evolution lines in S or A tier for me. whereas gen 9 starter designs as an evolution line are D,E and F tier for me. I love gen 9's first forms but I hate what they turn in to.

i might be the only one who loves gen 5 hard. i love the pokemon, the places, the characters (especially cheren). my 2nd favorite gen.

Great video! I don’t agree with everything but there are some solid arguments here. Just some constructive criticism, the entire video is obviously your opinion - so you don’t have to say it so much. After the fifth or sixth time you said it, it started becoming distracting because I was subconsciously counting them. (I won’t post the final number here because this comment in good faith.) Much love! I’ll be waiting for the next video! Edit: For clarity, I’m referencing each time you said “In my opinion” at the start or end of a sentence.

Tbh, the lack of explorable buildings in S/V is justifiable due to how massive and poorly optimized the game was (and still is). Having more area data to load and render in a tankish game like this would've ran it into the ground if it wasn't already, as well a put a strain on the system, leading to more battery usage, slower game response/loading times and even bugs or crashes. It may be a staple in the other games, but for S/V, it's entirely fair to not allow it. You already have 5 massive maps (school interiors and actual maps + dlc areas) with chunk-based world loading, so adding tons of smaller maps would be too much.

I wish pokemon would do that we as players can go to 2 regions in 1 game

Best thing about gen 1: the original 150 Pokémon Worst thing about gen 1: glitches, and difficulty from said glitches. Not that I would know since I never played gen 1. Best thing about gen 2: two regions for the price of one game. Worst thing about gen 2: massive difficulty spike, especially in hgss with red Best thing about gen 3: the new Pokémon easy Worst thing about gen 3: either the contests, or the ridiculous requirements to get certain Pokémon. Looking at you Milotic Best thing about gen 4: the starters, team galactic, and Cynthia Worst thing about gen 4: limits on what Pokémon you can use before post game. Also difficulty spike when facing Cynthia. Best thing about gen 5: story, and new Pokémon Worst thing about gen 5: Ghetsis and his illegal Hydregion Best thing about gen 6: character customization, and Heliolisk Worst thing about gen 6: the friendship squad Best thing about gen 7: regional variants, and team rainbow rocket in usum Worst thing about gen 7: the botched up story in the sister games, even though quality of life improvements are better in there. Best thing about gen 8: the character designs, and legends Arceus Worst thing about gen 8: starter final evolutions, and legends Arceus mechanics And finally, best thing about gen 9: story, characters, and new Pokémon Worst thing about gen 9: rushed glitches

Sun and Moon worst feature: THE TUTORIALS!!!

My only thought is Gen 1's Worst Opinion is the default, too many battles, unfair moves and No story content. Another worst thing in my opinion is N's Room in Gen 5's sequels and postgame due to his tragic Backstory and his terrifying messed up room in his castle and every Generations' Horror and Creepiest Places due to how dark it is, listening to Unown Radio themes and Gen 9's tragic backstory of Arven's Parent(s), it's hurtful and I either got frightened or braved the horrors. My best opinions in every Generation are the evil teams like Team Rocket and the Bandit Sisters in Legends Arceus. They each have their own goals to destroy everything or do other evil or nevil stuff without cooperation except for Team Rainbow Rocket. It's my interest to disband, destroy and disrupt every Generation's Evil Teams' Goals. Another best thing in my opinion from Gen 2 to Gen 9 are the Affection gimmicks, battle encounters and types and In-game gimmicks.

Yeah i remember being in HS and my friends and I going to Volk our friend who was visually impaired and knew how to read braille and asking him to help us obtain the Regis!

The worst thing about gen 3 - literally the entire game. Except for contests and that there were two evil teams but one of them was in your side. Those were the only positive memories I have of playing Ruby back in the days. Else the game was unenjoyable enough that it made me quit Pokemon for years. The only other Pokemon game that came close with how unenjoyable it was, was Legends Arceus.

oooooooh here's my own, written after only seeing your gen 1 choices. I'll finish the video after writing this. Though I'll do by region rather than generation Kanto Best: It's the best first region for a newbie fr. Like it kind of encapsulates well what pokemon as a series /is/ without ever being /too much/, whether that be in the 90s with gen 1 or later on with gen 3 or even Let's Go or Infinite Fusion (the best pokemon game) Worst: I agree that it's just kind of a dull region. While it does the things that it should as your first region, it's really only memorable /because/ it was most people's first region. But at the same time that makes replays less arduous than some of the more varied regions, which I'll talk about later. Johto Best: I've always kind of liked the writing in the Johto games for whatever reason? The characters in Johto feel much more like actual characters than they did in Kanto, and you could even say moreso than some later regions too. Worst: Honestly take your pick. There's a lot of wildly bad choices that gamefreak made with Johto, but probably the worst is the gym battles. Not only do so many gym leaders (Falkner, Bugsy, Chuck just to name three) only use KANTO pokemon rather than ones from Johto, but the levelling makes no sense. Pryce having pokemon weaker than Jasmine is wack as hell, and did Jasmine really need two Magnemite? Maybe one to show off that it had a new type, sure, but why not throw in a Skarmory, a pokemon that is so absent from its own games that a ton of people think it comes from Hoenn? Hoenn Best: My favorite region, full-stop. I could pick a bunch of things to be the best thing about Hoenn but I think I'll go with the starters. This is the best starter trio in the series, no contest. Not a single bad choice among them, even the unfortunately monotyped Sceptile is still really well designed and cool. Thank odin it got a second type with its mega later on. Worst: Idk, the classic meme is too much water but it never really bothered me much? I guess I'd say that the acquisition of the Regis is SO baroque and wild that it's a bad thing? I'd be surprised if anybody figured it out without just looking it up online. Sinnoh Best: Love love love the amount of new evolutions given to old Pokemon in this. Misdreavus needed Mismagius so bad, as did a ton of other pokemon. Togekiss makes the classic baby line actually good and worth raising. Additional shoutout to gen 4 introducing physical/special split but that's generation rather than region Worst: I don't particularly like the vibes of these games and Sinnoh itself all that much? I rarely want to revisit DPPt or BDSP, idk if it's that I don't like Barry, or the aesthetic, or the evil team, or whatever, but it all kind of culminates in me not really loving Sinnoh that much. That doesn't expand to Hisui though, speaking of which: Hisui Best: A wildly good shakeup to the formula, which is great in its own ways even if I don't want it to become the default style for Pokemon games. It's a great way to experience this universe for sure Worst: As there's only one Hisui game I can say this without needing to specify generation: THE BATTLES ARE TERRIBLE. Catching outside of combat is fantastic, but the actual turn based battles have been overhauled in a purely negative way. I KO a pokemon, the opponent sends in a new one and gets to attack before I even have a chance to switch? No abilities, no held items? This is just all-out BAD design. And I guess that's not Hisui's fault, it's PLA's fault, but it's very VERY easily the worst part of hanging out in Hisui Unova Best: What these games did for the Bug type will be something I am forever thankful for. It single-handedly took the worst type of the series and rejuvinated it with a bunch of fantastic bug type pokemon & moves, so much so that it became my favorite type. Worst: I debated between saying the region itself (much like Sinnoh, I rarely revisit Unova because I just don't like existing and exploring within that world) as well as its extremely overhyped evil team and story. I think I'll go with the former, just because the sequels don't share the same negative as the latter as the first games did, but do share the same negative region design. I still really don't think Team Plasma was handled all that well, especially at the end of the game. It could have been an interesting philosophical debate but it turned out to be just a front for another take-over-the-world scheme? fuck off ghetsis Kalos Best: At a time where I feared I'd lost my love for the series after having a (then) negative reaction to gen 5, Kalos came around and really brought me back into it by being explorable in 3D. But I think I have to say that Kalos giving us fairy type is probably the best thing about it. People love megas, and I like them too, but overall they aren't my favorite gimmick either. Fairy though was absolutely needed. Absolutely did NOT need it to resist bug type but whatever Worst: Much like Kanto, it's just a little drab. There's some sections of interesting lore and setpieces for sure (which I fear we won't see realized in ZA since it's all in Lumiose) but for the most part the region itself isn't bad, just a little boring. Alola Best: Team Skull is GOAT. I love ya boy Guzma, I love the team skull grunts, I love their songs, their vibes, I love Po Town, pretty much everything about Team Skull really does it for me. Worst: These games take ten thousand years to get through. Not because the region necessitates it, but because you're stopped every three seconds for a ten hour cutscene. Bring me back to Alola with a Legends game and let me do stuff without being stopped, PLEASE. Galar Best: Honestly, a bunch of stuff. I really find SwSh underrated as hell. But if I had to single out one thing, it'd probably be the soundtrack. Gens 5 and 8 have the best OSTs in the series bar none, and I think 8 is my favorite. That Illusory Zacian/Zamazenta theme? Who the fuck thought of combining wolf howls with slap bass, and WHY does it work SO WELL? I always jam to the gym leader music, the town music, pretty much all the music except for the wild area's bagpipes theme lol Worst: I mean, DEXIT sucks but it was inevitable too, it was just a matter of when would it happen. So maybe not counting that, my least favorite part of Galar is Chairman Rose's nonsense plan? Like it'd at least make sense if the crisis was even just 100 years away rather than 1000. Then it'd be like "okay, dude's crazy, but at least I GET it." And then Regieleki specifically has a dex entry that invalidates Rose's concern entirely? It's like they specifically wanted a shitty villain which is a shame Paldea Best: Probably the best stories of any pokemon game? Team Star's story is really sweet and fun, Arven's both in the path of legends and the way home is sad but heartwarming, and having yandere Nemona constantly around in the victory road story was always fun too. Similarly, the DLC stories were pretty fantastic too, even if I do still wish that Kieran had been influenced by Pecharunt to explain his dark turn. I also really like Tera, it's my favorite of the gimmicks ez Worst: Not gonna count the glitchiness, though that is literally the worst part of these games, as a near universal opinion. But that's an easy answer, for a less easy answer I'll say probably how fucking annoying it is to surf with Veluza around. I just don't want to go to the lake at all, not just because the framerate drops but because I have to be constantly wary of this ridiculously fast fish despite his very slow speed stat. just straight up annoying

Hoops: The ultra games didn't introduce enough new content Also Hoops: I don't like the new content the ultra games introduced This is like saying Origin Palkia should have its arms back and its hind legs cut off

16:50 Necrozma is one of my favourite pokemon but imo he is wasted potential. I hope sun and moon will receive thier own legends games (it can be very original game btw)

I guess I'll put mine for each gen? gen 1 best: I honestly can't think of one. gen 1 worst: They really needed to weaken psychic more, it had way too many advantages. gen 2 best: Not so much going to Kanto but more fighting Red. gen 2 worst: The leveling was way too grindy. gen 3 best: Yeah the legendaries, I also liked in Emerald at least that there were two evil teams to fight. gen 3 worst: Way too much water, if you're going to put in that much water at least make it so that there are way more Pokemon I'm running into when surfing instead of just Tentacool and Wingull. gen 4 best: The Mythical events. gen 4 worst: All the new TRADE evolutions. gen 5 best: There are two, the story by far is one of the best if not the best in my opinion, and the second one is that you had to use the new Pokemon until the post game...hell most people now only play with the new Pokemon on their first playthrough anyway. gen 5 worst: There are way too many legendaries...and some were poorly built upon like Genesect. gen 6 best: the clothing options, I changed up my clothes in those games more than any other Pokemon title. gen 6 worst: Story, Mega Evolution, really small Pokedex that really wasn't that filled with quality. gen 7 best: Regional variants. gen 7 worst: evolving legendaries. gen 8 best: Legends Arceus, but if we're talking Sword and Shield the raids was a good addition. gen 8 worst: Chairman Rose's plan was stupid as hell. gen 9 best: Story, open world, and I feel like Terestalization is the best battle gimmick gen 9 worst: Some towns felt way too small, and were made even smaller due to the fact you couldn't enter the buildings.

The worst part about Gen V was the level up mechanics.

Hey, if the worst part of my favourite Gen is the enhanced version I never played, that’s not to shabby!

Great video from a great content creator. Thank you Hoops 😊

The worst part of gen 9 was it was released to the public in BETA TEST level quality

Probably very unpopular, but gen 8 sucks overall. Arceus is highly praised, but it felt super boring to me and never felt the need to finish it... hence why I'm likely skipping Z-A 😅

Minus dynamax sword and shield was amazing

HOW DARE YOU say the final evos of the Galar starters are bad! I LOVED them!

im glad you didn't make glitches gen 1s worst thing as MOST people would play that game and be hard pressed to find distinct glitches without a knowledge on how to hack a game. SV on the other had, I played a vanilla version and it broke my game 3 times with normal use. that's terrible.

Imo the worst part of the gen 5 games, or at least Black and White, it literally locking a NON LEGENDARY, regular pokemon line that you NEED FOR THE REGIONAL DEX, behind MULTIPLE limited time events in a previous game. Not even events IN Black and White, but the games before it. It's one thing to lock mythicals behind limited time events (shitty but understandable) since they're not required for filling out the main dex, but not a REGULAR POKEMON THAT'S PART OF THE DEX. If I have both copies of a game I should be able to get all the pokemon in the dex. I literally cannot do that with Black and White b/c Zorua and Zoroark are ONLY able to be obtained if you did a limited time event(s) in a PREVIOUS GAME (the Celebi event and the shiny Beasts events). Which means if you pick up a copy of them now, or restart your copy, you literally cannot fill out the dex through normal game play b/c you just, can't get it??? B2/W2 fixed that by giving you a Zorua. But like. Only one. I legit thought they were legendaries for the longest time because of this.

Gen 5 Best: Soundtracks, location aesthetics, and being able to battle characters from previous games Worst: The missed opportunity to battle Hilda/Hilbert Gen 6 Best: History and Lore Worst: Lack of content Gen 7 Best: Z-Moves Worst: Useless Evil Team Gen 8 Best: SwSh's God-tier graphics and the greatest ever Champion Worst: It's lack-luster story Gen 9 Best: DLC story Worst: The incomplete graphics

19:08 “and I took that personally.” In all seriousness I’m a galar baby, it was the first game I actually played and inteleon was my first EVER Pokémon, and I have a soft spot for the galar Pokémon I personally got attached to, which where, Inteleon line Theivul line Eternatus Zacian Zamazenta Spectrier Hatterene line Grapploct line And morpeko

Hoenn sticks out to me as the region with the largest concentration of ugly pokémon designs

best parts from gens i've tried gen1: from pve persepctive, crit rate based on speed is fun, hyper beam mechanics too gen 2: kanto section gen 3: abilities gen 4: physical special split (and following pokemon in hgss) gen5: reusable tms, much more new defining moves added and distributed gen6: UI and graphics in 3D gen7: much better opponent AI

The best gen for starters are 100% the third gen with torchick and mudkip (though the grass starter got crapped on)

I would argue Rillaboom is the ONLY decent Galar starter. Cinderace and inteleon make my skin crawl. Alongside emboar, samurott, chesnaught, delphox, incineroar, primarina, meowscarada, and quaquaval.

Regional variants is probably my favorite feature

Speaking of slow speed in Diamond & Pearl, I feel like Scarlet & Violet's battles are the slowest they've ever been since that gen. GF needs to take a page from Atlus & Persona/SMT when it comes to battle flow & UI. Everything is so slow & boring to look at, with every single status condition, stat change, weather effect, terrain, or even "your Pokemon is feeling ___" emotion slowly being displayed 1 at a time for EACH POKEMON!

can we talk about gen 3 being one of the worst for introducing box legend exclusives!? No longer can you get every legend but instead you only get 1 and its on your game cartridge. THis becoming a main stay is a deep cut in the pokemon series as a whole. It also makes the games not make sense as they have to now take place in different universes. It is so dumb and a money grab. This is why people left by gen 4. They tried to paywall in an era that wasn't so willing to have game companies run us over the coals. We now work for them instead of them working for us...

For me the worst thing about gen 9 is the lack of references of Spanish culture. As a Spaniard myself I was so excited to finally have a region based on my own country to then find out that there are like 3 references in the whole game and that's it

When you realize that all gen 8 starters are humanoid shape 😅

The worst part of gen 8 & 9 is the DLC. £30 per game is too much for such few new pokemon and little content. Don't get me wrong, DLC was fun to play in both generations. Just far too expensive.

i completely disagree with gen 5, the gen with the worse pokemon is gen 3. it had some good pokemon, just like all gens, but it had the most useless and bland pokemon. i think most of those were intended to be used for contests but, aside from how it extends the world's lore, contests were too forgettable, and by extension so were the pokemon made for it.

Idk why i never liked gen 5, i love alot of the pokemon and think the story is interesting but then when i actually play it i never have fun or get past gym 4 on any of the games

I think the best and worst thing in Gen 9 is how busted shiny hunting is. It has never been this easy. While I enjoy having shiny pokemon, the grind to get one made it so special. Now it feels much much less so. However, a shiny is a shiny so I can’t complain too much!