D/P or ADV: Which one is better in terms of....

[Amazing Ampharos]

I can sum it all up in one simple idea. Pokemon in ADV were usually problems you had to account for. Pokemon in DP are opportunities. In ADV, there was a big sense of having to account for all the threats and you felt really stretched when building teams. In DP, for now at least, thinking like that doesn't really work out. It's easier to make an independent threat so you stop thinking "how do I get past Blissey" and more thinking "how can I exploit Blissey?". Even powerhouses like Garchomp work this way. Thinking of walling Garchomp only goes so far; you mostly have to think of what positive things you can accomplish because your opponent sent out a Garchop. I find this shift makes the game WAY more fun and allows for far greater creativity. I can tell a lot of people don't "get it" and whine constantly about Pokemon like Blissey and Cresselia when, in fact, these Pokemon are just golden opportunities they are failing to exploit.

I don't think it's all in the mindset etiher. In ADV, you can't look at a Tyranitar with a sub up and think "opportunity". No, there's no way around the fact that it's nothing but a problem. It's not like you can set up on ttar in DP either, but you can much more plausibly just predict resist switches to get in something fast that can kill him fast. He runs Ice Beam to kill things like Hippo that stop him dead otherwise, but that's a perfect switch-in for both Infernape and Weavile! You can really do this sort of thing so much more in DP; it's really the better game.

 

[Black Leather Jacket]

DP has too many gay items and some pokes are just too overpowered to deal with. I dont really like it.

 

[Zenigame]

playability? DP

room for creativity? DP

amount of deeper-level prediction? DP

more enjoyable? DP

requiring a higher overall skill level? ADV

 

[Maxwell]

playability? (in terms of being easier/harder to learn?)

D/P is still fairly difficult to learn, and the addition of the new pokemon only makes the expansion slightly more difficult over the 3rd gen games. Many of the 4th gen pokes are similar to the 2nd gen in terms of stalling, where GSC had blissey and skarmory and umbreon and such to look out for, DP has dusknoir and cresellia and other things of that nature, so relearning to avoid stall teams has to be learned all over again.

room for creativity? (are teams stale? do people have to use the same pokemon and teams over and over again to stand a chance?)

creativity is very much a part of the game, and I see standards used much less often.

amount of deeper-level prediction? (is a lot of prediction and second-level thought required to win consistently, or can one lean simply on team strength and strategy to win?)

it is easier to lean on team strength than it was in adv, even if only slightly.

more enjoyable? (this is obvious)

give or take, about the same.

requiring a higher overall skill level? (considering all aspects of the game: prediction, team building, luck)

skill level, along with overall difficulty, has improved.

In many ways, D/P is an extension of ADV generation, which is a pretty good thing.