What Does Every Pokemon Region Do BEST? 

What’s your favorite region??

Another thing I feel Hoenn does best is town theming. Other regions have interesting things IN the towns, but Hoenn is the only region where there is something interesting ABOUT the towns. Towns in treetops, towns floating on the water, towns in inactive volcanos, and in the remakes, a town that's a giant mall.

So funny thing about Gen 1. Regarding the "interconnectedness" of the region, it's surprisingly loose with gow you can do the gyms. You just need to do Brock first, Misty second, Giovonni last, and Koga before Blaine (so you can use surf to reach Cinnabar). You can just do Sabrina third and Surge seventh if you really want to

I'm surprised you didn't mention that Alola FINALLY killed off the HM slave and HMs as a whole. It's still my favorite region for a number of reasons, and that's near the top of the list.

Personally, I like many things about Alola. But what I like most is the design and feel of the region. It's all just so calm and relaxing.

Wulfric is actually one of my favorite gym leader designs. He's so used to the cold, he doesn't need to wear his jacket, but uses it as a cape because it's cool.

My favorite part of Unova is the seasons. Something that will never get old is reopening my DS after a few months and seeing what route I was on look completely different

I honestly think gen 5 has some of the best route designs. They’re incredibly compact and complex and have a lot of hidden areas that you need to backtrack to later. On top of finding hidden grottos. There’s just so much to find as you progress through the game. And yes the music is amazing too haha

Paldea’s best accomplishment is the creation of Slither Wing

5:32 Go Ichinose’s absence was definitely felt in Gen 6. He worked on some of the best battle themes in Unova

Imagine the Treasures of Ruin sidequest in a world with no internet. Where you're completely BLIND as to what these stakes are until you take History class and/or wake up one of the legendaries by accident.

My biggest issues with Johto is how bad the level scaling is and how weak the new Pokemon are on average

Best thing about Paldea is Area Zero. I was beyond excited to find out what was in it and it really felt awesome to finally go in.

I think the region design for Diamond, Pearl & Platinum is one of the best. It also gave me those Kanto vibes, since there where these many paths en passes through mount Coronet. Also many different random optional things to explore. Routes felt like ACTUAL routes. And different each time. Not just another patch of grass, or 5 steps and you’re at the next town. But the routes themselves where actually explorable and felt like wilderness where trainers would go out and train. It didn’t feel like “roads” like in more recent gens, where it would be weird for people to just stand around and wait for a trainer to pass all day. It felt like they where training there. But yeah the region. Like how you need to back track sometimes to explore a different part where you couldn’t go to before and stuf. As a kid I had to figure that stuf out all on my own. Since I didn’t speak English back than yet (cause it’s not my mother language), it was quite a challenge figuring out where to go or what to do sometimes. Which is why it reminds me of Kanto and Johto. That combined with the sometimes actual difficult battles that proved to be a real challenge, was engaging to play, train and try again. Cause I wanted to progress and explore the rest of the region. Don’t even get me started on Cynthia and the post game with a WHOLE NEW island. Or the actual world ending threat of Team Galactic and how sinister and serious they felt. Or the awesome Pokémon designs. Only flaw I personally had with it where the so many Hm’s. Which either held your team back in terms of moves, or you needed to leave one Pokémon out of the team most of the time to progress with an Hm slave. So yeah, might also be the nostalgia, but that’s why I think Gen 4 is still the best till this day. (Than I mean the improved Pokémon Platinum version.)

Music in Gen 5 definitely slaps. And the story is like nothing we've ever seen

I’m glad you mentioned music, it’s such an underrated part of Pokémon games. I need a JPR Pokémon music series now!

Beat part of gen 1 is probably its level design. It feels very interconnected and simple to pick up and play. best part of gen 2 is that postgame and just expanding the pokemon world. It is the only big sequel that is not the same gen and Gamefreak made sure to add as much as they can for gen 2 and more for HGSS. Best part about gen 3 is that even though it is probably one of my least favorite gens on the account of not playing everything but firered and emerald, it is the only gen to be 60 fps all the way through. So, the gameplay feels super smooth. gen 5 is 60 fps in battle but not anywhere else. Best part of gen 4 is just expanding the moveset and the special/physical split. DP were very rough but Platinum smooths out lot of the rougher edges. I think expanding the world lore to include god tier pokemon is also up there. Best part of gen 5 is the story. it is probably the only gen to actually have a proper RPG styled story with twists and turns you expect out of it. For BW2, postgame easily. It is right there with HGSS for giving you bang for your buck with what you can do past the main story. Best part of gen 6 would be the expanded shiny hunting methods. You got pokeradar back, friend safari, masuda method, chain fishing, dexnav etc. It is what led me to be a shiny hunter and a big reason as to what kept me a pokemon fan to this day. Honorable mention goes to the customization, especially outfits for Serena. She gets 5x as much outfit choices with way more variety. I so fully regret playing as Calem for my main Y file that I chose the female avatar for every other game and even non-pokemon games since. Although, it seems Gamefreak has decided to pretty much homogenize the outfits in later gens. Best part of gen 7 is just atmosphere of the Alola region and the Pokemon designs. It feels like a tropical paradise and probably one of the top region I would like to either visit or live in if I could go to the pokemon world. UBs and regional variants breath so much creativity in the region than megas ever could. I love mega but they are definitely artistically limiting. You can only make these fully evolved mons so much more extreme before they become overdesigned or break the game balance. Best part of gen 8 might be all of the small quality of stuff they added to make raising mons and just general navigation way easier. You can now just change moves on the fly. You got PC boxes on the go. You can use vitamins for all of the Evs instead of just 100 per type. Exp candies and exp share for really fast level ups postgame etc. Best part of gen 9 are probably the rivals honestly. By splitting the game story into three parts, you get decent amount of screentime to all of them and they don't feel cookie cutter. it also makes the finale one of the best in the series next to BW1. Of course, the giant seamless open world would be the best part if not for the technical issues.

I’m surprised when talking about Unova was the sprite designs because that was like the pinnacle of Pokémon sprites ! Obviously the other things are still very true but the battle sprites add so much

You technically missed Hisui, but since it's Sinnoh in the past, that's no big deal. It's hard to say which region is my favorite, but I think I'll say Kanto, since it was my first one with LeafGreen.

What i loved about scarlet and violet is that if you catch pokemon under level 10 at the beginning of your adventure and raised them to higher levels without a badge they would still obey you its like they grew with you as you wondered the land tho it took some of the pressures of raising them to high between gyms it gave freedom at the start and control too because if you catch over your level cap they wouldn't obey you😂

Another factor that adds to Kanto's replay value is the ability to take on most gyms and other challenges in any order. This makes each play-through feel unique, especially since this means you can fit almost any Pokemon onto your team, depending on which order you take gyms and other challenges on. In Generation 1, it seems like every Pokemon is viable for a casual play-through, compared to other generations where you have Pokemon like Shuckle that are unusable in play-throughs. I don't think we've seen these qualities in any other region.

I 100% agree that Unova are peak music and story for Pokemon. Those are my exact highlights for Gen 5 as well.

I loved the Mantine surfing in Alola.

Awesome video Agree with all of the points Did you consider adding Hisui here as well? Maybe do one for spinoff game regions like Orre, too

I love Scarlet and Violet's open-ness because it felt like you could truly carve your own adventure out of it. Like, unintentionally, I fought the first gym last because I completely missed it by mistake, you couldn't do that in any other pokemon game

We really do focus on the negative to much and forget to appreciate what’s great about the games loved this video

If, and very likely in the next few years, the gyms in any order thing continues then it needs to use level scaling based on the number of badges you can already.

Another thing Sinnoh does best is the aesthetic of the region. I think it was the first generation where all the cities looks beatiful, especially on Platinum with all the snowing and cold climate. I don't think there's a single area on the game that looks boring to explore (except maybe the Safari), places like Mt. Coronet, Lake Verity, Hearthrome and Canalave looks amazing because of all the lore and mythology involving them

You forgot the Hoenn trumpets and horns! 🎺📯🔊🔊🔊

I actually like the ledge outside of Mt. Moon. It represents a "no turning back" point. It forces you to grow. The next time you come home, you're a far cry from the last time you could have gone home before the ledge. Your Pokemon will have evolved, you'll have faced dozens of battles, fought off Team Rocket more than once, earned a number of badges. You'll have gone from a little kid playing with Pokemon to a full-fledged Pokemon trainer. And, after seeing so many sights on your journey, Pallet Town will seem... small. It also divides the world, in a way. Viridian City and Pewter City seem so big compared to Pallet Town, but Lavender Town is about the same size and is considered small by the standards of those past Mt. Moon. The world before Mt. Moon has much different standards for what constitutes a "city" than the world after.

I love all your videos man. This one was great. Thank you for letting me learn more and more about my favorite game franchise. Can't wait till next Friday for the next video. See ya then bro

I freaking love how gen 3 looks and how smooth/fast the gameplay is

Gen 2 is still my favorite gen, not only does it have fun puzzles with the Ruins of Alph, cool legendaries, and great lore but its still the only Gen where you can explore two regions. Which IMO should be done way more! Lastly Heart Gold and Soul Silver, while technically gen 4, has the Pokeathlon, you can walk with all of the pokemon in the game and fight in the battle frontier.

The topics you use for your videos are some of the most refreshing to listen through, top notch quality channel right here.

Every pokemon region is an adventure, but johto is home.

Scarlet was actually my first ever Pokémon game and I accidentally ended up going to one of the hardest gyms third. Like, I went straight from Katy and Brassius to Grusha. I hadn’t even done any titan battles yet and had only done one team star raid. Somehow still managed to beat him after, like, 4 tries

Kanto: Team Rocket Johto: Gym leader/Elite 4/Champion theme and returning to Kanto Hoenn: the map and box legendaries Sinnioh: the lore and culture Unova: the story Kalos: fairy types Alola: makes me want to live there Galar: ... Paldaea: the pokedex, the totem and team star story as well as the events in area zero.

I liked that intro with the sound effect!

100% agree with every point you made about Unova’s soundtrack

one of my favourite things about unova is that in b&w2 each gym has it’s own music like you mentioned but also that all the pokemon in gen 5 had animated 2D sprites

yea i loved unova's music especially N's battle music

Actually paldea is designed in such a way that it is still linear. Higher leveled Pokémon are kept behind obstacles that you need upgrades to get first. The only way around this was reverse long jumping up hills and even then there was few places you could get into early

4:25 "i guarantee you the first thing that came to your mind with sinmoh was the underground" me who is just a pokemon contest freak: sweating

The Academy Ace Tournament is the randomised battles you wanted from Galar

Another awesome video idea could be where are all the regions?

I also give credit to Unova for being the first region where every town and city has its own, unique, theme.

Gen 1 map definitely feels small yet big. Johto lore is awesome... Legends game would be perfect and its such a shame Pokémon company didn't continue with the stadium theme!

The open world of Paldea also comes with the drawback of trainer battles no longer being an obstacle you need to navigate taking supplies into account for. At any point you can just fly to the nearest pokemon center and heal up. It would have been nice if there were some dungeons to delve into like the old cave, forest, or ocean route. You just never get the desperate "If I path around the grass like this and avoid this trainer I can make it to the next town" feeling which was a shame.

Unovas soundtrack is insane it feels like it tells the story of growing up in the world once you leave home and are by yourself for the first time. Best region 😤

Kanto is my least favourite region because in my experience, you need to talk to everyone fifty times to progress anywhere. Imo, Johto does the interconnection better

Johto feels incredibly cozy, the visuals and the music from the cities perfectly blend together, and it's just so soothing and comfy :)

No Hisui? I know it's Sinnoh but the feel was completely different. Also I'd love to see side games because honestly, you think Kalos has good fashion you should see Ransei.

TBH no matter my issue with any of the games - pretty much all of the Pokemon OST is really good

1:33 damn, not gen 1? why not? they are great games. I replay them once every few years and always have a blast

Max lair from SnS dlc was awesome wish they would bring a similar feature back

Alola would be my favorite region due to having my favorite Pokémon In the Litten evolutionary line, but Paldea has the best game for me

I've played enough Zelda I can watch this one on normal speed now, thanks Mr. JPR

I'll be honest, Paldea's open region is one of the things I like least about it. Not that I don't appreciate the freedom it gives the player, but they didn't implement it well; there is no level scaling, so you're either over or under leveled depending on where you go, large areas of the map feel empty and uninteresting, The Team Star bases aren't worth exploring once the boss is taken down, and so on.

One thing i wanted to see in Pokémon FR & LG is being able to to travel to jhoto & get a gen 2 starter & challenge the jhoto gyms & explore the jhoto region

I want a Pokémon game with Paldea's openness, Kalos's love of the drip, Alola's adherence to a rich culture, and Unova's excellent music

Johto has always been my favorite though at first I wasn't sure why. I think Gen 2 was when I really got serious about the games (it was the first game I bought a strategy guide for) plus I like a lot of the Pokémon. Also more recently when I started playing Gold and then Crystal on 3DS for the first time (I had only played Silver before) it just felt incredibly nostalgic. Also I think it was around Gen 2 that I got seriously into gaming in general, since I really only became a proper gamer with the N64, largely by playing Pokémon games like Snap and Stadium. Second place would probably be Sinnoh. The Gen 4 games got me back into the series after a brief period between Gens 2 and 4 where I fell out of love with both Pokémon and just anime in general (meaning I never played Gen 3, though I'd like to remedy that now after playing Alpha Sapphire and also hearing how cool Gen 3 is from all the Hoenn baby Pokétubers). Gen 4 was the first time I really participated in Mystery Gift events too, so it's memorable for that. Also the spin-off games like Ranger and Conquest. It's funny you mention the roller skates in Kalos cause I kinda hated those things TBH. Like, they were cool, but unlike the bike you couldn't TAKE THEM OFF. Having the option to take them off would have been nice. Also I don't feel like they implemented customization ENOUGH honestly - sure you could buy clothes, but aside from Lumiose City's shops, there weren't that many boutiques, unlike later gens where basically every city has places to customize your character (heck, Paldea lets you change your outfit even out in the field). Of course being on 3DS they may have had some limitations. I will also say they did better with the 3D models than some other 3DS games I've seen (granted, some of the Pokémon models are odd, but the ones of human characters are well done). The Kalos games also have good lore I think, and the best designed Pokémon League IMO (I mean come on, it's a freaking CASTLE). I'm also a Francophile, so I think I enjoyed Kalos a lot for that reason.

Gen 4 is the physical-special split. Not unique to the region but single-handedly what makes gen 4 games the most replayable

For me i would go for the ones i know best Kanto: I love how open ended it is. On my last FR play through i just skipped surge and did the gyms in a completely different order Johto: i know people dont like it but back tracking in Johto is fun. Dark cave, union cave, and surfing all get better the more you progress in the game. Hoenn: Ah the best reigon, everything you do is incredible. Hoenn design for the first 5 gym part of the story is great. So many routes making movement increadbly easy to go through Thats all i got im not really interested in the later stuff, not right now

Kalos is best at all things but most importantly kalos is best at Trainer customization

Oh I love this idea!! I like positivity in a landscape that is usually so negative xD

nobody on planet earth is gonna contest unova's superiority in the soundtrack department

i would also say gen 6, despite having the smallest pokedex, does have some of the BEST designs and intricate inspirations out there.

One thing that should be said about Unova/Gen5 is pacing. You're constantly moving forward and the challenge constantly moves along with you. I never felt like I had to back track for no reason or that there was a lul in the story. The only over region that does this is Kanto but Unova does it better. Although I love Kanto's almost Metroidvania style layout.

The thing with kalos is, they didn't give you the option to use the clothing assets from GTA, which would be cooler since I can give my sableye gang clothing.

I feel that Galar has the most options for teambuilding right at the beginning. Say what you will about Dexit, the amount of choices you had just when you entered the wild area after like 15 minutes of gameplay was amazing. You could easily build any type of team and use all types before even the first gym. Like, no region has had this many choices and this early.

The best music is from the orre region in Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness

Honestly galar has a few other really good points, the overall writing of the main story might not be good but the individual character writing really brings a lot of characters to life and makes the gym leaders and rivals memorable, it's also interesting how in the end, none of the rivals actually got what they set out to do but in the way the found something there passionate about, hop quiting the trainer life to become Sonia's assistant, bede becoming successor to the fairy gym and Marnie pulling an uraraka and not wining the literal legue but making a big enough splash she whon what she wanted. also the side drama with the gyms was great, Nessa being on a tight rope between modeling and losing gym battles, Leon and ryhan having a rivalry, also its the game that i feel visually captures the essence pokemon the best being stialised and magical instead of trying to be realistic. The character animation was great, people talk a lot of sht about hop and how using the same animation for cutscenes but no one talks about the subtle animation tweaks for hops pokeball and battle animation trough his character ark, every gym all the important trainers had lively animations to react to things in battle and sometimes they changed to reflect the character.

Best thing about Sinnoh... Game Freak eventually pulled a 180 and turned the worst region into one of the best with Hisui.

the only thing that could have made gen 6 character customization better was actually introduced in gen 7, and that's the ability to have just about any article of clothing in just about any color.

Holy crap that great tusk was Level 45?!

The use of music in Unova is very varied and ambitious and Celestial Tower and Elite Four battle themes are imo masterpieces! That being said I don't think Unova (as entirety) has a better soundtrack than for example Hoenn and Johto games where I feel like every single boss battle theme is incredible! I feel that Sinnoh music is often very overlooked while it contains such brilliant tracks like Global terminal, Team Galactic Battle themes for grunts, commanders and Cyrus, Mt. Coronet (upper), Giratina theme, Lakefront and Lake cave themes, Dialga/Palkia theme, Frontier Brain battle theme, Lake guardians battle theme etc. But there is no Pokémon soundtrack I've heard that I dislike. If we were to include spin-offs the best soundtrack would have to go probably to Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers Of Time/Darkness/Sky. Just phenomenal musical work in that game!

9:36 Standing split ♡

I honestly believe that every region has something that it does better than every other region, plus has something it does worse than every other region. I appreciate this video.

Video idea JPR what about What if professors had teams

Kinda shocked you didn't include Hisui. I know it isn't technically a mainline game, but it's as much a mainline series in gameplay as the Let's Go series was. Legends Arceus somehow ended up outdoing the mainline series in terms of performance and freedom

Gen 7 and it's characters are just perfection at it's finest. If any of you try to tell me, that you dont like Team Skull: Then Y'all stupid

What happened to the Hisuian region from Arceus Legends ?

Galar would be more complete with the Minor League appearing outside the lore.

Something fun I found out about Pokémon Shield is that during the Elite 4 matches, Melony could actually be your final opponent beating Rihan.

Just cause Legends Arceus wasn’t a mainline game doesn’t mean it’s not the first official open world Pokémon game. And it’s way more fun, too 👍

The best thing in Unova is undeniably the Pokemon World Tournament

kalos i started in gen 6

Unova is just perfect for me, great games, i love every single pokemon of this generation, it has my 2 favourites pokemon - reshiram and serperior, and also i love anime black and white, but that might be just nostalgia :)

Paldea is the best at bugs/glitches 😅

Mentioning Sky Battles but not Inverse Battles is a crime on your end.

Great video, but you forgot the Hisui region!

Gens 5 and 9 have the best storylines I feel. I also think Gen 5 added the most brand new pokemon.

Even though it's technically Sinnoh, I'm surprised Hisui wasn't here

It's a shame people diss Gen 1 so much. I won't call it my favorite, but I think it has about as much replayability as FRLG.

So chronologic replay factor, aesthetics, sidequests, minigames, music, drip, culture, gyms and freedom. When you put all together it makes Galar feels so bad when it best thing is not a general game development thing but a pokemon only thing that barely chances so it won bc it changed once

Really wish they do another game like HeartGold and Soul Silver

Everything you said about Unova is 100% correct

I am a huge Fan of Kalos and mostly the big regional Dex. I love playing throw Kalos with only one specific Type and every Type is somehow obtainable early in the game, even Dragon (Bagon Route 8, Axew in Connecting Cave) and Ice (Amaura) are obtainable before the second Gym

I swear I’m the only one who WANT to battle every trainer every run through

The other good reason is that talking about what's wrong will hopefully get people to listen and fix the problems.