Seeing as how i'm now firmly involved in the dream world, I think i've seen everything there is to see in black and white and i'm now able to make some final worthless commentary that I wouldn't fault you for not reading.
Biggest disappointments in black/white:
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Worthless starters
I kind of liked finishing the game with the pokemon I started with. That's kind of hard to achieve when all three starters are completely outclassed by easily caught pokemon before you even get your third badge.
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The music
Compared to past series, it sucks. Sometimes it's downright annoying.
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Hidden Power and the IV system still unchanged
Hidden power is only useful to hackers or other sorts of abusers, and thus encourages hacking; you either hack for hidden power or you're at a serious competitive disadvantage. Any system that punishes clean users while rewarding cheaters is a bad system; spending days or even weeks hatching 20000 eggs until you get a decent pokemon is the definition of punishment.
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Lack of competitive battling
6v6 lvl100 flat battles don't exist. I haven't had a single serious battle with my pokemon yet and I never will because i'm not leveling them all to 100. I'm not buying another 5th gen game until someone confirms this to be fixed.
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Random Battles
While gamefreak did a great job of fixing some of the lingering problems that have plagued the series since the beginning (reusable TMs and the lack of necessary HM slaves being the two biggest improvements), god damn random battles are still around. Yes, it's so much fun to stop every three steps in a cave just to run away. So. Much. Fun.
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Senseless ability and move issues
I just love how my winged pokemon that is clearly flying in the air still gets hit by ground attacks. Would multiple abilities really be that hard to program and balance? Breloom is healed by poison and takes super effective damage from poison at the same time. And why can't marowak hit a flying pokemon by throwing a bone at it? I could write a book about this issue.
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Obvious weather bias is obvious
The already broken sand gets even more broken bonuses, rain and sun get non-uber permasetters and seriously deadly sweepers, and hail gets...absolutely nothing. Literally nothing at all.
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Frillish evolves into Jellicent
One of the coolest designs ever changes into one of the corniest, and not even the eviolite can salvage it. Thanks alot, trollfreak.
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Elgyem/Beheeyem
Could they look any cooler? Could they suck any harder? Thanks again, trollfreak.
After playing through the games and months of competitive play, my favorite 5th gen pokemon are:
Mmm...bulky offense. I love bulky offense so much. Magic guard...dear god. It might surprise some people to see this on my favorites list because i always argue with those who claim it is broken, but I love everything about this thing (except its lame and seemingly arbitrary typing).
One of the cutest and coolest designs ever (love that weird smile) and it's so much fun to play with. On top of all the subjective stuff, it is really good competitively if you know how to use it properly. Just awesome all around (except its English name).
Badass typing. Great movepool and stats. Awesome wallbreaker with taunt while retaining amazing coverage. Is bulky offense (my favorite playstyle). Awesome design (except for those worthless legs).
This guy came out of nowhere. I was always waiting for an awesome deer/stag pokemon to come around, but I didn't look twice at sawsbuck until I started testing sun. Holy friggin hell is this thing incredible. So much better than venusaur.
