(Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

I also think it makes sense to stick with the team he actually built up. He went through all the training with them (granted, some more than others), bringing them to all the rank climbing, so the idea of dumping them because now this is the real deal time for bringing out Charizard, Infernape, Greninja, Sceptile and I dunno Incineroar does kind of feel off.

I think Journeys would need to be structured more like Battle Fronter where Ash is just constantly using random Pokemon from his reserves all season and not necessarily doing a lot of captures and have the more traditional League structure for the finale where there's a ton of different matches where everyone is using different Pokemon in order to make the "just bring the fanservice mons to the finale" finale work.
 
While I really liked SV overall I found the towns to be super unmemorable. A couple have neat aesthetics or landmarks (Cascarrafa being an oasis immediately comes to mind), but the vast majority of them just blend together for me. It doesn't help that I never got acclimated to the layout of any of the towns and consistently cannot recall their names outside of Levincia. And I can only remember Levincia's name because it was the one town with a conveniently located Chansey Supply (or at least a Chansey Supply I could consistently locate without constantly checking the map), so I kept flying to it for shopping.
 
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Alright lemme cook for a second.

People talk about memorable quotes, such as Karen's Strong Pokemon speech, or Blue's "Smell Ya Later". But I do think one underrated and unpopular quote is from Zinzolin of Team Plasma:

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I think this is underrated because sadly this is a situation where each of us would have to face head-on, and that it may even deter us from moving forward. But since he's the villain of the story, it shouldn't deter you and Hugh from stopping, and rather press on to stop Team Plasma.

It could be hilarious because at that point it's the third time he's been defeated and since he's quite old, that lesson could probably apply to himself.

Edit: Lol I realised I posted it on the wrong thread.
 
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Ingame playthroughts in gens 3 onwards really became a hard pill for me to swallow due to Natures because catching a Pokemon and seeing it has a certain nature can really affect my desire if I want to use it or not. It is often an inconvenients.
But what is worse for me is using Nidoran line in Gen 4 because of the ability rivalty.
Generally Nidoran is a fine Pokemon if you fully evolve. At worst you can just use them as HM slaves which I do when they served their use.

I don't know why but I just happen to always get to use Rivalty Nidoran. In my latest run of Pokemon SoulSilver, I caught a female Nidoran with Timid Nature. I evolved it to Nidoqueen and it took care of problematic Geodude trainers with Surf. However, due to Rivalty and I just happening having a 'good match up' I still fail to beat the opposing Pokemon because of them being male. Like Lance's Dragonites all survived a NeverMeltIce boosted Blizzard or Steelix surviving Fire Blast. It became such a problem that I stopped grinding it and used it only to use Whirlpool.
 
mertyville said:
Ingame playthroughts in gens 3 onwards really became a hard pill for me to swallow due to Natures because catching a Pokemon and seeing it has a certain nature can really affect my desire if I want to use it or not. It is often an inconvenients.
But what is worse for me is using Nidoran line in Gen 4 because of the ability rivalty.
Generally Nidoran is a fine Pokemon if you fully evolve. At worst you can just use them as HM slaves which I do when they served their use.

I don't know why but I just happen to always get to use Rivalty Nidoran. In my latest run of Pokemon SoulSilver, I caught a female Nidoran with Timid Nature. I evolved it to Nidoqueen and it took care of problematic Geodude trainers with Surf. However, due to Rivalty and I just happening having a 'good match up' I still fail to beat the opposing Pokemon because of them being male. Like Lance's Dragonites all survived a NeverMeltIce boosted Blizzard or Steelix surviving Fire Blast. It became such a problem that I stopped grinding it and used it only to use Whirlpool.
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Rivalry in-game is very much a "guide dang it" moment. In each gen, there's specific fights that are known to be harder. And NPCs tend to have mons that match their gender. So Rivalry CAN be really good if all the tough fights are male and you're using a male mon or vice-versa(LBH GF almost always makes the tough fights male). But you have to know the games pretty well before you can make that part of your strategy.
 
rivalry is much better in male pokémon than female pokémon overall: the power boost/decrease becomes most obvious in the elite 4/champion, which are often almost all male. Gens 4 and gen 9 are the only times you'll be at a disadvantage, with the former having cynthia all female team which is the only thing you really need to prepare for gen 4s end game run (those e4s are so bad dude) and the latter having 3 female trainers vs 2 male trainers.
 
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rivalry is much better in male pokémon than female pokémon overall: the power boost/decrease becomes most obvious in the elite 4/champion, which are often almost all male. Gens 4 and gen 9 are the only times you'll be at a disadvantage, with the former having cynthia all female team which is the only thing you really need to prepare for gen 4s end game run (those e4s are so bad dude) and the latter having 3 female trainers vs 2 male trainers.
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Shinx's ability is an all or nothing proposition. Either it's Intimidate, one of the best abilities in the game. Or Rivalry, which as a female nerfs a litany of matchups. And as a male, screws up one of its biggest potential matchups versus Cynthia's Milotic.
 
Float stone is silly. Now obviously weight stuff is rare, but it is actually a negative item cause g knot and low kick are now less bad than h slam/heat crash lol. Bad idea, they could implemented something good, not jank items XP.
 
Finally got to collect my Shiny Wo-Chien yesterday after being out of town a while, and I realized the biggest drawback of how they chose to distribute the Shiny Treasures: them being gifts means you don't get to name them. For a franchise about bonding with your pets, losing that bit of expression will never not be lame.

Speaking of the Shiny Treasures, would it be dumb to say I'm disappointed these raids don't actually use the Treasures' theme instead of the generic raid theme? I know it's a bit of extra work, but surely it can't be that hard to make a different music track play during a particular raid, right? In general, I think that would add something to the special limited time raids (also I kinda just got sick of the regular raid theme after a while).
 
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