Daily reminder that every creature collectible game needs bad entities and you can't just have only good monsters.
Well....I dont disagree in concept, but feel like there's tiers of trashmon. I would say gen 4 was the last era of "this pokemon is just plain, almost unusable bad" and by this point we've transitioned to trashmon either being really gimmicky or just mediocre (or both!). You can pick a pokemon line from anywhere in gen 5-8 and they are almost certainly going to be more innately usable that any given earlier gen trashmon, even if the RNG gives you something without any stellar points.
It was? I disagree, because I had great success with Farfetch'd in R/B. It always got boosted Exp. since it could only be obtained from a trade, which made it easy to train. Having access to Slash gave it a move with a base power of 210 which was very solid. Fly was good enough for secondary STAB, and then it could carry Cut as well since it didn't really have a lot of other great movepool options. From what I remember, it only really struggled against Rock-types. While Farfetch'd is not the greatest Pokémon ever, I don't agree about it being downright bad either. At least not in R/B, and I recall it being decent in FR/LG as well. In other games though... it wasn't as great, sadly. The last time I used one on an in-game team before Sword was in SoulSilver and it was pretty disappointing there, unfortunately.
Behold, Pokémon that's great because of Slash is mostly great in Gen 1 and loses its greatness over time.
From what I understand, Farfetch'd is designed to be worse than Fearow specifically. Because its inspiration refers to both a stroke of good luck and a gullible fool, it shows up as an in-game trade for a very common mon... but is worse than what you would get had you just stuck with Spearow. Fearow has all of its stats higher than Farfetch'd (even if that's only by 3 for its special), and gets Drill Peck and Hyper Beam that Farfetch'd doesn't.
the annoying part is, they make regional variants that get a new evolution. Yes, I get it. If something adapts to a new environment, then it's possible to evolve differently which can include further evolution. But the opposite can't be true because that would annoy more people and is not good advertising when you have, this is just an example, Galarian Magmar but that can't become a Magmortar.
(Translated with Google translate. I remember one of the early interviews also saying the names were chosen late into production, but couldn't find it.)
Sinnoh is the worst offender here. Whenever I see a Level 100 Blissey in the Battle Factory, my heart sinks.
Oh yeah sinnoh is slow. Too slow for me a lot of the time.
heavily disagree there, most Megas are too overdesigned to fit the old design trends of gen 1-3. Gen 4 is when they started to experiment more with some detailed designs but it was kept mostly for the legendaries and the ugly cross evos (except you tangrowth love u mwah), so some Megas would still not really fit in. They fit way better with the gen 6 design trends
Blame that on the english localizers, its Japanese name is simply "Barrierd", and while it had obvious mime influences it was not so overt to the point of legit having mime in its name. In fact with Screen Cleaner it's a more logical extension of the original concept than you give it credit for: OG Mr. Mime was all about setting up screens, its Galarian form is about removing them and other hazards with Rapid Spin, with this being reflected in a less literal sense by now being a "noisier" performing artist
Definitely some edge/violence concerns there, but that would work well with the dogs being based of King Arthur stuff. The idea a dog getting a legendary sword stuck into them and then becoming a legendary is pretty pog. Or is the dog already a legendary and it just happens to have a sword? We'll never know because GF is lazy and can't give us a cool Wolf Excalibur Sword design
