The Most Unpopular Pokemon Opinions 

Sorry for the subpar audio this week. It’ll be back to normal next week when I release my “Creating New Fossil Pokemon” video :)

"Only children say that things are for children" is my new favorite quote.

People: The ultra beasts don't look like pokemon. Me: that's the point.

I remember when Unova was always considered the worst back in the day. I mentioned this in a discussion and a bunch of people said this was never the case so I'm glad to hear you remember it being that way too

Unpopular opinion : people hated let's go , but now they pretend to love it so they can compare it to swsh or bdsp

"Misty is a good role model" Misty hitting Brock with a log for no reason. Yes indeed.

Here's mine: the best NPC in any Pokémon game is Biker Ernest (HGSS) he's a biker with a tough exterior but he has a Teddiursa and Marill and just wants to be your friend. Love that guy, he's cute.

Could not agree more on Gen 7 being underrated. Original Sun/Moon has one of my favorite stories in the franchise

Unpopular Opinion: Permanent Exp share would be a good thing if the game was balanced around it. I like not having to worry about one of my Pokémon getting too overlevelled and trivializing the game, or one of my Pokémon getting underlevelled, and being basically useless. This only works if they actually make the games harder to compensate, though.

Unpopular opinion: team yell are actually not a bad concept and would’ve worked so well with the story, if they weren’t labelled as the main antagonistic team of the region. Team Yell being based on hardcore British football fans works well with the gym challenge in Galar. But, using them as the main evil team and not indulging more into the dark side of Marco Cosmos send the wrong signals.

Ron: "misty is a role model" Also misty: "tries to throws a literal bike on psyduck's head"

Unpopular opinion: Sword and Shield's graphics aren't bad. They aren't great either, but it's a good baseline for future pokemon games. My main problem with them isn't the low resolution tree, it's the fact that the map models and the human/pokemon character clash. They aren't the same art style and it feels like the lighting used for the overworld/map environments is different compared to the character models

Ron:"Misty's a good role model." Me:SHE HIT BROCK OVER THE HEAD WITH A LOG!

You are probably the most mature person in the Pokémon community, ngl

Hotake: Iris is the strongest champion pre fairy, like her strongest team has straight up COMPETITIVE ready pokemon.

My unpopular opinion is that Kalos is a good region. The transition from 2D to 3D was handled better than most other things. The towns are really good looking. This may be *slightly* biased because it was the generation that introduced me to Pokémon. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk

I don;t understand that somepeople dislike the ultra beats because "they look weird". Their supposed to be aliens, so they need to be wierd.

This isn't really an unpopular opinion, but the Galar league is VERY underappreciated. Every gym feels exciting, and the atmosphere in the stadiums are perfect. Every gym leader has personality, and they're actually relevant to the plot. The typings are also great, with the first 3 gyms making a type triangle with your starter, and the 4th gym being neutral. The gyms also follow the correct order for the first time ever, with the first gym being the easiest and the 8th being the hardest. Plus, Piers and Raihan are probably some of the best gym leaders in the franchise.

I don’t know if this is unpopular, but I loved all of Ash’s companions in Sun and Moon. They weren’t perfect by any means(cause nobody is), but they all had their own unique charm and moments that made me love all of them for who they are. While I wish they were developed a bit more, they’re part of the reason why Sun and Moon is my favorite series.

5:48 Alola has a great story and great characters like Lillie, it has a lot of content and side content like the mantime surf and has great culture.

people will sue you on twitter for having different opinions than them.

The Alola/Gen 7 love in this video makes me so happy.

OK, I have an unpopular opinion within another unpopular opinion: My favorite generation was gen 7 (brougth me back to the franchise) I like Sun and Moon more than USUM (because USUM kinda replaced the best part of the story with Necrozma-Hype out of nowhere)

Unpopular Opinion: XY are one of the most repeatable Pokémon games in the series. They are so easy to pickup and jumps right into the action without much need for long cutscenes or tutorials.

Team magma be like: Catch the god you’ve been looking for for months with the master ball, or, drop the master ball because the 10 year old that got his pet frog 3 hours ago is here

The pokemon fandom: Please can we have an assassin pokemon The pokemon company: *water gun lizard*

My unpopular opinion personally is that XY Overall gets trashed on too much, despite the badly executed lore and the easiness of it all I think it added a lot of new feature that were neat. It also had the best connexion and wifi system. The region in itself is good, mega evolution is probably one of the best gimmick ever added, the zones were diverse with a large pokemon roster despite the region having very few pokemon added, and even then I think gen 6 had some of the most impressive design, lore and mythology inspiration. And this is a message from someone that started with gen 4 before anyone says that it's a bias because you started with it or something. They are kind of underrated, although they aren't near my top pokemon games I still think they get way too much hate and are actually a pretty cool game.

I agree, Gen 7 is very underrated. This gen was great. Not one of the best (definitely not) but still very solid. EDIT: I think when people call gen 7 and 8 "realistic", they're mostly referring to the dimensions of the region, the buildings and the characters have a realistic size compared to the models that existed before (small characters, small buildings, but big roads which was better). Also, despite it not being my first region (that would be Kanto, in gen 1), Hoenn is still my favourite and always will be at this rate.

I feel like the only villain in Pokemon who had a somewhat well-executed plan was Ghetsis in BW. In BW2 not so much, but it makes sense because at that point he went completely and totally axe-crazy!

The pikachu clones are not pointless. They have an important role in the games as the pokemon used to present some of the main new features in each game: Gen 2 Pichu - Pokemon breeding/baby pokemon. Gen 3 Plusle and Minun - Double battles and abilities. Gen 4 Pachirisu - Gender diferences and physical/special split with pachirisu being the first pikachu clone with higher attack rather than special attack and being one of the mascots for the gen 4 online battles. Gen 5 Emolga - Hidden abilities. It is even the only pokemon in the gen 5 games that had motor drive as hidden ability specifically. Gen 6 Dedenne - Fairy type. Gen 7 Togedemaru - Z-crystals and Totem pokemon. Vikavolt also got to be a totem pokemon but that´s because it´s low key another of Sophocles signature pokemon. Gen 8 Morpeko - Temporary form change during battle, which is the main trait with the pokemon in galar region (specially with the dynamax/gigantamax phenomenon, with a huge amount of galar native pokemon having more than one form and the galar dex and isle of armor dex being filled with many more pokemon with more than one form).

I have one for you: After Gen 1 and up until generations 7 and 8 where they started messing with the evil team idea a bit, I felt like a lot of evil teams were falling into a samey trend. There's a big, motivated villain at the top with a bunch of followers with motivations that are significantly less clear. They're just 'part of a group' and their jerkish attitudes seem to be because they're kind of assholes I guess. Then there's the order of events. -You run into a couple here and there trying to steal things for 'insert reason here'. -You beat them because they're so bad at raising Pokemon that their mons don't even evolve well after their evolution level (???). -They have a couple of officers that don't seem any more interesting than the grunts, they just have different colored hair, more annoying personality traits and a name. -You eventually fight the leader. -They go and piss off some legendary Pokemon thinking it'll do whatever they want. (Ask Eggman how well that plan works.) -It doesn't work because nobody can control these things. -You catch it. -You rock. -You go kick in some heads at the Pokemon league. Taking a step back from the games they were in, it felt like they kept going over the same basic order of events, even when the main villain had totally different motivations. For some reason, they always had to have a TEAM. Having organized villains in RPGs is not uncommon, but a lot of RPGs tend to focus on the main officers a lot more, where in Pokemon, the officer rank characters are just 'the only people other than the leader who use evolved Pokemon'. It's still hard to put the while idea into words because there ARE different things about each game, but it felt to me like a mix of new ideas and old obligations that kept them from developing more distinct identities. I honestly liked Skull because of how they felt like a group of people with good reason to gang up and take on the rest of the world, and a lot of their similarities with past groups were kind of treated as jokes, like the grunts making fun of the fact that they're all named "Grunt".

Unpopular opinion: Objectively speaking, the exp share doesn't change the difficulty of the game. All it does is reduce the time it takes to grind

I played SoulSilver for the first time recently and I honestly have never struggled as much to actually finish the game. I'm not really sure why everyone likes HG/SS so much. I mean, it was fun and being able to travel to another region is awesome, but the lack of good Pokémon and that level curve didn't make me enjoy it as much as the other games.

Maybe a few years from now when Gen 7 is more nostalgic to people they'll get the respect they deserve.

The one person put in by alola that the Pokémon aren’t very good And then said by Unova “it has some bad Pokémon but all regions have some”

"It's not always black and white" Oh, a gen 5 theme song reference

Ron I really agree in gen 7 being underrated. People don't like it that much due to the cutscenes and the anime art style but the anime is probabaly my favouite and gen 7 had great games

19:45 totem lurantis calls castform to set up sun for solar blade and synthesis totem kommo-o calls sizor to hit fairys super effectively marowak calls salazzle to uses poisoning moves and torment to annoy you and many more

My unpopular opinion is that I actually like both Hau and Hop. They were friendly rivals that had fun with their battles, and Hop's character progression was very deep and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

“Gen 1 has the best designs” okay mr spearow and pidgey. They’re literally just birds

Fun fact: ace trainers in ultra s/m have perfect IVs

gen 3 is definitely an interesting case with popularity. like i feel it's always been liked but not everyone gushes over it (outside of occasionally emerald) compared to other gens before gen 6, or maybe the die hard fans aren't as vocal as other die hard generation X fans.

Oh anime take. Iris wasn't a bad character. Sure she had her flaws and her annoying catchphrase but she had a decent character and story, as well as likable Pokemon. People call her "worse Misty" but in some ways, I consider her better.

Idk if this is an unpopular opinion or not but sun and moon has some of the best characterisation in the franchise. lusamine is one of the best pokemon antagonists, manipulative, amazing design, unique motivation and especially her dynamic with her children. In both the games and the anime she's extremely fleshed out, seems like a friendly and eccentric women but has been driven insane by grief after her husband went missing. Also gladion is one of the best rivals in the franchise he's really likable and kind hearted also his design is amazing and especially in the anime he's damn amazing such a good guy and Lillie is one of the best characters by far she's one of my all time favourite pokemon characters so fleshed out and cute and her Anime counter part is probably the best poke girl no competition her backstory is friggen amazing. Sorry for ranting TvT

Ragging on Hoenn games for having three Water HMs is generally rather hypocritical, because the resident sacred Miltank games GSC/HGSS _also_ have three Water HMs that you need to use in the story. And while it's excessive in both games, at least in Gen III all of them are decent moves: Surf is great, Waterfall is not quite as strong but does have a handy side-effect if you're using something fast, and also becomes _the_ move for physical Water types come ORAS, and Dive isn't as good as either but opens up some interesting strats. Gen II/IV, however, has Whirlpool. A move that is almost objectively useless. In addition, HGSS makes this problem _bigger_ by adding Rock Climb to Mt. Silver. The final dungeon, the leadup to the final boss of the whole game, and you have to either bring an HM mule or burden one of your team with an HM.

I find it strange when someone harps on about the Aqua/Magma plans. I could rant, but to put it simply. It's a game made for little kids. Everything is simplified and exaggerated so we know that the bad guy's plans are horrible and stupid. At the same time you don't have to look far to see real world examples of what is going on in these games. A quick example is natural ponds/lakes being drained to build million dollar developments, only for flooding to happen because no one thought/cared where the water might go. My unpopular opinion is that I actually like inanimate object Pokemon. They add a lot to the world of Pokemon, and make it feel like a true RPG similar to Dungeons and Dragons rather than some weird 'animals learned to breath fire/electricity/etc' world. Personally I like imagining how the ones that don't even have mouths or eyebrows convey emotion.

Speaking of ultra beasts i finally got a shiny Nihilego and im so happy!

10:18 Thank you! More people need to talk about how sm story is better, I prefer the gameplay of usum but they just completely wrecked one of the best character arcs in Pokemon for Lillie and Lusamine (Although ultra necrozma being moved for post game would be pretty neat 👀)

Could you maybe do something like this for specific regions some time? What about calling it the "Hot Take Holiday" series?

Watching Truegreen7 videos is always great because they're always so wholesome even if it's about something dark like creating Pokemon from fears

I only realised recently that some people complained that Pokémon was too easy while playing on switch mode... I mean, It still is too easy on set, but come ooooon.

Unpopular opinion: The Exp. Share doesn't make the game easy it removes the most tedious and annoying part of all pokemon games previous to gen 6.

Unpopular opinion : 1- I was a bit disappointed of the return of gyms after Gen 7 2- I think that the debate of the BeSt PoKeMon GaMe is stupid and highly subjective 3- gen 7 ( USUM didn't play the original since it's was my first pokemon game) is a great Gen 4- let's go games are overhated, I find very cute and cool, and my only problem with them is the capture system of the pokemon 5- X and Y are nice but honestly forgettable 6- I don't mind linearity

To me Gen 7 is one of my favorite Pokémon game mostly USUM. I know some people would say otherwise because of the hand holding and Festival Plaza and such but it really doesn't matter to me mostly because the pros out way the cons. I love the regional variants like Sandslash, I love the island challenge, Mantine surfing is fun and team Skull and Guzma is my overall favorite evil team. To me Gen 7 Is the better 3D generation game that I have the most fun with than any other game I have played but that's my opinion and I sticking by it to this day. Also my favorite Gen 7 Pokémon is Incineroar, I love the dual type of dark/fire and its look as a wrestler is badass.

my unpopular opinion is that i really like the bdsp style, i see people hating on it because it’s lazy but i think it’s a nice idea and i think it’s cute and charming and making it look more accessible to younger people

Unpopular opinion: SwSh is decent (better than the original versions of D/P) and the DLC was a good way to deal with the 3rd version problem. The only problem that SwSh has that no other game in the series has is the NatDex fiasco, and even that was done on a smaller scale in Gen 3. People even were really excited for the game when it was announced until the NatDex was revealed.

As gen 7 was my first game it is also my favorite gen

Remember when a new gen gets hated on for the first 5 years of its existence? Like literally with every gen. Then after people grow up and stopping acting like spoiled brats, the once hated gen gets placed on a pedestal as the “pinnacle” of Pokémon. If you don’t believe me just look into it, you will see that every gen got trashed at first and then exalted. We are currently in the exalting phase of gen 4, 5. Where as five years ago, they were despised. In 5 years, sun and moon will get the respect they deserve:)

I love how you sound really calm n wise n kind lol

I don't think Lance is that cool, he has a lame design and was mostly a flying master. I felt Steven pulled off his look better as the confident and mature master.

Unpopular opinion: gen 2 and 4 are extremely overrated games, while every other gen just gets ignored to death. Another unpopular opinion: Kukui is the best champion in Pokemon

USUM are in the top tier of Pokémon games

One thing I always see people bashing Gen 5's Pokemon design. I can't seem to hate any Gen 5 Pokemon. I like them all.

Unpopular opinion: gen 4 is WAY to overrated and gen 6 is underrated. Dp are incomplete games and Platinum is just good at the end of the game. While gen 6 is ok in every aspect that is not characters (becouse them SUCK) and the lore (becouse it's awesome)

8:10 I agree so much with this! While I absolutely hate the story because it’s written like 5 year olds are meant to be the target audience, it’s a BEAUTIFUL game and BEAUTIFUL region :] The reason why the English translation is so god awful is because it was the ONLY Pokémon game to be released internationally on the same date, meaning the other translations were rushed, and thus simplified.

Unpopular Opinion: In Sw/Sh, that one Police Officer in a hotel that unlocks after you beat Leon was really fun and hard, and I don’t know why no-one ever talks about him. A game like XD with all the battles being double battles would be harder, and shake up the formula, so I think that is what they should do in the game after Legends:Arceus.

*Sees thumbnail* Sleep with one eye open.

Unpopular opinion: Theres no such thing as too many legendaries. Especially in generation 5 - It makes sense especially at a different location in the world

I didn’t like sapphire first time around but it’s grown on me over the years

I’m loving the morning uploads! It just the best start to for the day

The only reason I can't stand Gen 5 is because those animated pixels give me a headache

Hoenn water is the stupidest discourse in all of pokemon. You don't have to use Surf basically at all until RIGHT before the 7th gym and the majority of water routes are optional. Anyone who just points at a map of hoenn and goes look at all the water is being incredibly disingenuous

Unpopular opinion: inteleon doesn’t deserve the hate for looking to humanoid while we have gardevoir and lopunny

Unpopular opinion: Emboar is awesome. A lot of people seem to dislike Emboar because: it’s the third Fire/Fighting type starter, it’s outclassed by Blaziken and Infernape (mostly because of its lower speed stat), and it has a bad design. Though the speed stat thing is true, Emboar shouldn’t be just written off as it has really good offensive stats (123 Attack and 100 Special Attack) as well as HP (110), and it has an amazing move pool. That and it has an awesome design. What other Pokémon has a literal fire beard?

My Unpopular Opinions : Chikorita is my favorite Johto Starter Unfezant is my favorite Regional Bird Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl are not bad games Pokémon X & Y are not the worst games to ever exist Pokémon Sword and Shield are not worse than X & Y Everyone can have their own opinion that they can share in the Pokémon Community without getting unnecessarily bullied

Dugtrio sucks : seems to be coming from someone who got their electric types arena trapped countless times. Milotic sucks : seems to be coming from someone who got stalled out a lot.

I think Sceptile became popular after Explorers of Time and Darkness. Grovyle was a pivotal character in the games and I remember a lot of my friends gaining a new appreciation for Sceptile family. The DS Lite was still the main console at the time so I would assume a lot of people went back to R/S/E and ended up picking Treeko.

My unpopular opinion is the new exp share isn't that bad because it removes the ANNOYING ASPECT OF SERIOUS GRINDING! Grinding sucks okay? Grinding is just not that fun AT ALL

Noctowl is a hyper-underrated regional bird

That thumbnail gives me life

Hot take, making the exp share always on in swsh is waaay better then having it as something you can toggle on or off. This meant gamefreak could actually balance the game knowing exactly how much exp an average player would be having at each point. Instead of having to design every fight keeping in mind that a player that has played through the entire game without ever using the exp share should also be able to beat it.

Unpopular Opinion: Each generation has good points and bad points and none of them are entirely perfect or terrible.

S/M/US/UM: Great games par the handholding Me: Enjoy's the handholding because that's more interaction than I get on a daily basis

I'm not sure if this is one, but Inteleon is one of my favorite Pokemon. I love how cool and confident it is, and a lot of the physical traits it has that people say are too humanoid are actually found in its origins, the chameleon and the basilisk lizard. For example, its hands are like basilisk hands without claws.

I think that sword and shield would have been liked is the devs got more time and if gamefreak didn’t make paywalls and if the game was not made to test the switch

i like how you dont crap on everything and you give everything a fair chance

Unpopular opinion: Everybody hates on Hop, but I actually liked him. Yes he can be annoying at times but he had a solid character arc.

The intro never gets old :) That *NOSTALGIC* Do To DoDoDo Dododo Tot

Team skull is one of the best evil teams

Ruby and Sapphire had a dex cut before Sword and Shield, just FYI :)

My unpopular opinion: Sword and Shield are my favorite games so far with X and Y following close behind. Also, Delfox is not a horrible Pokémon for being fluffy. I don’t understand that train of thought. I am prepared for the flood of hate this comment shall no doubt receive.

The best thing about this channel is its always positive.

About the dex cut. Ruby/Sapphire also did the exact same. Until FRLG and Emerald came out you couldn't get every pokemon in gen 3

I was super hyped for gen 7. It's honestly so much better than Gen 8 for me. I was kinda sad it was gonna end when gen 8 came along lol it was cool that it was on the 3ds when the switch was dominating at the time haha

Aloha has one major bad banana, and that bad banana ruins the bunch.

All the Gen 5 obsession is starting to bother me, they’re fine games, but I’m tired of all these people screaming UnOVa wAs THe HeIGHT oF PoKEmoN! PoKeMOn Is RUinEd FOREVER!

Hot take: I'm not to big a fan of Shiny umbereon or any of the eeveeloutions

Unpopular Opinion: A good number within the Pokemon community is incapable of sharing their opinions without being rude to others who might hold an opposing view or think differently. That's what I learned from the opinions you read out (not Truegreen's own expressed views).

Have you considered taking part in the Wants To Journey Tag series that some poketubers are taking part in? It's pretty fun and would be cool to see what type of backstory/team you'd create!

Unpopular opinion: I like the more linear routes bc I’m bad at directions and get really frustrated with myself in really dynamic routes bc I get lost and run around in circles