I really don't like merchandise bait pokémon. They feel less like living creatures and more like someone trying to hit every single point to make a high-selling plushie or action figure. It's why I don't like most mega forms, and why I really don't like yamper and wooloo. They just feel like someone looked at the galar dex and said "we don't have enough cute pokémon for merch, either make something cuter or create a cute pokémon".
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I can do nothing but agree, but do think it is a smart business decision so you can't really fault them to much for it :/
I have been thinking for a while what Pokemon needs to do to keep a large portion of fans happy.
And I'm wondering, if it wouldn't be better that Game Freak were to stop making traditional Pokemon Generations, but try to deliver on stuff like the upcoming Legends Arceus and build on it.
Like, do we need a new region, 50+ new Pokemon and regional forms, a random new mechanic that breaks the game and go through the same repetitve steps over and over again? Get Pokedex, pick 1 of 3 starters, beat (friendly) "rival", beat gyms, beat "evil" team, encounter box legendary in a boring cutscene, maybe catch box legendary and beat Pokemon league.
I mean having a fix fomular isn't bad. I mean Super Mario games are fun, right? (Unless you talk about the "New" Super Mario Bros games IMO)
For me new Pokemon alone aren't enough and not necessary needed. At least not in that large amount. Especially with the insane amount of legendaries we have these days, instead of giving more focus on the old ones like they do with Arceus.
Since they cut Pokemon anyways, that makes it more so important.
As for traditional games, instead of polishing them, maybe they should just let the price reflect what people are getting and make up with quantity. Adding all the Pokemon alone will make people tolerate playing the same stuff over and over again.
And I'm wondering, if it wouldn't be better that Game Freak were to stop making traditional Pokemon Generations, but try to deliver on stuff like the upcoming Legends Arceus and build on it.
Like, do we need a new region, 50+ new Pokemon and regional forms, a random new mechanic that breaks the game and go through the same repetitve steps over and over again? Get Pokedex, pick 1 of 3 starters, beat (friendly) "rival", beat gyms, beat "evil" team, encounter box legendary in a boring cutscene, maybe catch box legendary and beat Pokemon league.
I mean having a fix fomular isn't bad. I mean Super Mario games are fun, right? (Unless you talk about the "New" Super Mario Bros games IMO)
For me new Pokemon alone aren't enough and not necessary needed. At least not in that large amount. Especially with the insane amount of legendaries we have these days, instead of giving more focus on the old ones like they do with Arceus.
Since they cut Pokemon anyways, that makes it more so important.
As for traditional games, instead of polishing them, maybe they should just let the price reflect what people are getting and make up with quantity. Adding all the Pokemon alone will make people tolerate playing the same stuff over and over again.
This image is unironically the best thing to come out of XY. I'm serious.
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Cyrus is an overhyped villain whose goals don't make any sense. He's little different from Lysandre apart from having a sad childhood...which explains his desire to destroy the world and everyone else in it, including his own team how? I mean, not saying people's bad childhoods don't influence their outlook on life, but we don't actually get to see how Cyrus connects the dots and HOW his childhood informs his goals. It's not like with Guzma whose failure to accomplish the trials and parental abuse caused him to try and lash out at society (all the while giving other underdogs a home), or N whose hatred for Poke Balls and Pokemon battling comes from his childhood exposure to abused Pokemon engineered by Ghetsis. We don't see the actual connection between his goals and his upbringing and neither is it even known to you until you talk to some random NPC.
Silver and Blue are also overrated as rivals though not necessarily bad at all. Silver being abusive to his Pokemon and to other people IMO doesn't get resolved properly enough or even really explained in the proper plot, you needed remakes and FR/LG to tell you that Silver had issues with Giovanni - we aren't even told of their relationship until FR/LG and even then it's more implied than stated outright. You might even miss his redemption arc entirely if you don't rematch him at the E4 (even the Kanto fight happens with a Golbat IIRC). I also think Pokemon threw away a really fun chance at having you team up with your enemy against Team Rocket, your mutual enemy - you both fight them but only separately, never together.
Blue is somehow even less believable and MORE of a jerk IMO - he mocks your Pokemon being dead in the Pokemon Tower and says ''I can at least make them faint!''. Utter douchebag. He also prefers to challenge you RIGHT BEFORE YOU FIGHT GIOVANNI instead of either trying to back you up against the Rockets or even stop you from endangering yourself by beating you, and then leaves for the Pokemon League outright instead of at least trying to get other people to help liberate Silph Co. Even his GSC/HGSS conduct is off - he refers to Red as ''that meddling Red'', implying that he still has a grudge against the guy for beating him. It's one thing to be sore YOU lost, but being sore at your former friend for defeating you? Not cool.
Hau is underrated as a rival. Seeing this kid who only wants to have fun finally start taking things seriously (but still be happy and friendly) after failing to protect Lillie (IIRC) is great development and seeing him support Hala against the UBs as well as fight you in the final battle of USUM is actually pretty great IMO and he has a dope theme song. I think Pokemon has overplayed the idea that losing is okay and having a rival affirm that winning is still better is a good idea - in the real world, if you don't persevere to improve yourself and try to actually win in things - be it education or health or a career or a relationship - you're gonna struggle a lot. Winning all the time isn't necessary but you gotta win some times. People should know that life isn't gonna be easy or fun 100% of the time and they'll need to be serious at times if they wanna progress or not regress in life.
Every generation is good in a sense, there's no such thing as a bad generation. I just realized this the other night while enjoying DPP's beautiful soundtrack the other night, it made me a little emotional lol (reminded me of being a kid again) in spite of openly disliking Sinnoh (okay, more its characters - the region's pretty dope) and finding the games overrated as mentioned before. Even Gen 8 and Gen 1 have their charm for sure.
Silver and Blue are also overrated as rivals though not necessarily bad at all. Silver being abusive to his Pokemon and to other people IMO doesn't get resolved properly enough or even really explained in the proper plot, you needed remakes and FR/LG to tell you that Silver had issues with Giovanni - we aren't even told of their relationship until FR/LG and even then it's more implied than stated outright. You might even miss his redemption arc entirely if you don't rematch him at the E4 (even the Kanto fight happens with a Golbat IIRC). I also think Pokemon threw away a really fun chance at having you team up with your enemy against Team Rocket, your mutual enemy - you both fight them but only separately, never together.
Blue is somehow even less believable and MORE of a jerk IMO - he mocks your Pokemon being dead in the Pokemon Tower and says ''I can at least make them faint!''. Utter douchebag. He also prefers to challenge you RIGHT BEFORE YOU FIGHT GIOVANNI instead of either trying to back you up against the Rockets or even stop you from endangering yourself by beating you, and then leaves for the Pokemon League outright instead of at least trying to get other people to help liberate Silph Co. Even his GSC/HGSS conduct is off - he refers to Red as ''that meddling Red'', implying that he still has a grudge against the guy for beating him. It's one thing to be sore YOU lost, but being sore at your former friend for defeating you? Not cool.
Hau is underrated as a rival. Seeing this kid who only wants to have fun finally start taking things seriously (but still be happy and friendly) after failing to protect Lillie (IIRC) is great development and seeing him support Hala against the UBs as well as fight you in the final battle of USUM is actually pretty great IMO and he has a dope theme song. I think Pokemon has overplayed the idea that losing is okay and having a rival affirm that winning is still better is a good idea - in the real world, if you don't persevere to improve yourself and try to actually win in things - be it education or health or a career or a relationship - you're gonna struggle a lot. Winning all the time isn't necessary but you gotta win some times. People should know that life isn't gonna be easy or fun 100% of the time and they'll need to be serious at times if they wanna progress or not regress in life.
Every generation is good in a sense, there's no such thing as a bad generation. I just realized this the other night while enjoying DPP's beautiful soundtrack the other night, it made me a little emotional lol (reminded me of being a kid again) in spite of openly disliking Sinnoh (okay, more its characters - the region's pretty dope) and finding the games overrated as mentioned before. Even Gen 8 and Gen 1 have their charm for sure.
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Everyone agrees that Cyrus's goal doesn't make much sense, but the reason he is super hyped as a villain is because of the fact that he's very cold and emotionless to his own grunts, and the fact that in Platinum and the anime he states that he wishes to create a universe solely for himself, not for Team Galactic. He and Ghetsis are probably the most irredeemable people series, though Cyrus does reform in Adventures. And Platinum did explain that despite being a good student, he did not live up to his parent's expectations and found robots more enjoyable as companions. You are supposed to put it together that he believes that robots are more effective than humans due to lacking emotions that would otherwise interfere with duty.
While USM ruined Lillie, Gladion, Lusamine, Anabel, Looker, Nebby and the Ultra Beasts, you are right they did give Hau a much needed an arc and he's definitely better compared to vanilla SM. I just don't think it was worth butchering other characters.
I like Silver and the fact he does change does fit along with HGSS's theme of trusting Pokemon, I agree that a lot of it does happen off screen, and I understand why some people don't like it though. My only real complaint with Silver's backstory is that while HGSS does confirm that he is Giovanni's son, you need an event Celebi to see it, which is currently discontinued.
I suppose while were talking on unpopular opinions on characters, I never understood why people called the Gen 4 evolutions ugly or how they "ruined" the Pokemon. I really like most of them, with Mismagius, Togekiss, Leafeon, Magmortar, Honchkrow, Froslass and Lickylicky being some of my favorites. I don't see how adding cross-evolutions ruined the Pokemon, if anything it made the likes of Yanma, Piloswine, Togetic, and Roselia actually good in battles. The only one I'd really call ugly is Probopass; and while I have heard people call Lickylicky ugly, I disagree. I think its very cute, especially its Platinum sprite, it looks so happy! It reminds me of a puppy who just wants to lick you, though I'm not a dog person in real life, I'm a cat person.
I'm guessing those negative reviews is probably why we didn't get any cross gens with the exception of Sylveon until Gen 8, which is sad, because I've always thought Pokemon like Swoobat, Chatot, Noivern, Lumineon, Skrelp, and Clauncher could use a new evolution. I'm also not a fan of how they handled it in Gen 8. I don't like how they are tied to the regional variant instead of the base form, because the base form of Farfetch'd and Corsola still suck despite their Regional forms getting an evolution.
Unpopular opinion: I liked both the SM and USUM stories and Gen 7 is probs my 3rd favourite generation.
This. Severely underrated point.
A mon you like got a cross-gen evo you don't like?
Good news then, that changes absolutely nothing about the pre-evo and now you can use an Eviolite to make it bulkier!
Ehhh I think the main problem is honestly how not evolving a Pokémon works. You have to press B on the evolution screen every damn time which gets really tiring really quickly, plus it's easy to get distracted as a battle ends and forget to do it and it's irreversible.
If there were a "don't evolve" toggle on individual Pokémon, people wouldn't mind so much.
Edit: No point replying to below with a new post but no, Everstone is a terrible solution. Items are an integral part of gameplay, and not being allowed to use one on your Pokémon because you want it to stay NFE is awful game design.
It's called holding an Everstone.
... oh, wait, that depends on you having an Everstone to begin with...
(e.g. In DPP, the only guaranteed Everstone is from the infamous Mindy in Snowpoint City)
Well, hardly any of the later added cross-evolutions evolves by level-up, so in most cases this is not a factor (unless you really like Ancient Power Piloswine ...)
Well, what better way is there to implement a new way to stop Pokemon from evolving other than introducing something that doesn't make much sense? They could introduce something that you select on the summary screen, but how would that make sense in game? I think that they made a smart way of keeping them from evolving with the everstone, because you don't want it to evolve. I agree that you should have to do something to get that ease of access item, and then sacrificing an item slot to do that. You want a Level 100 Dreepy? Then you have to sacrifice something for that, and it makes sense.
Partly agree with what you are saying, but I just wanted to reply to the bolded parts here. For me personally, new Pokémon are always the most exciting part of a new generation and one of the main things that keeps my interest in the series alive. I love seeing new Pokémon I haven't seen before in the games, seeing a new one always makes me go: "What the heck is that? I want one!". If they didn't introduce new Pokémon every generation, I feel that the series would get very dull and stale extremely quickly. But this is just how I feel, I guess we have different preferences. And I think one reason I'm not super excited for either L:A or BD/SP is due to the fact that they will (likely) not have any new Pokémon (and if they do, it will probably just be a small amount like in US/UM or the S/S DLC). A new generation would have been more exciting for me, but at the moment I think it is too early for that so I am fine with waiting for a while longer (especially if more development time means we will get a better game in the end).
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I think I've finally realized why I don't like Dynamax or Gigantamax very much. They are relatively underwhelming.
Say you've got your Magnezone out, and battling a Blastoise. It's normally a comfortable situation to be in. The opponent may be a bipedal turtle the size of a grown man, with heavy water cannons on its back, but you've got the power of lightning at your command.
Then the Blastoise Gigantamaxes.
Suddenly you're facing a monster the size of an apartment building, armed like a battleship with cannons large enough to fit your Magnezone inside pointing in every direction. G-Max Blastoise is almost 20 times taller than Blastoise, so tall the stadium lights can't light more than half of it. Applying the square-cube law a little liberally, it's nearly 8000 times more massive than regular Blastoise. It looks like it could blast your Magnezone across the Galarian Channel and raze the whole city in the process. Surely this titan must be absolutely unstoppable, to the point that Magnezone can't even tickle it before being stomped flatter than tin foil, or blasted into a pebble at the bottom of a new lake filling its entire half of the stadium?
Then you look at the battle effects of Gigantamaxing. Blastoise now has its HP multiplied by 2 (not 8000, as its size would suggest), and its strongest attack has got a +20 boost to its base power (1/6 more) plus a secondary effect. The offensive stats remain the same, as do the defenses. The mighty-looking G-Max Cannonade won't obliterate Magnezone, it's still a 2HKO. In return, Magnezone can 2HKO with Thunderbolt as well, without any boosts (Specs Thunder is even a 1HKO). Effectively, the only thing that happens is that the Super-effective damage multiplier is negated.
Despite Dynamax Formes being thousands of times bigger than the base Pokémon, and looking like they play by completely different rules, they barely hit any harder. Defensively, they hold up twice as well as ordinary Pokémon, but not more than that either. There is a power boost there, but it's laughably disproportionate to the visual changes. When your Pokémon grows to the size of a battleship, we expect it to hit and take hits like a battleship too, but the functional upgrade in terms of gameplay is minimal.
Don't get me wrong, I understand that a Blastoise with all stats multiplied by 1000 would be a very un-fun thing to face in battle. For practical reasons, it's completely reasonable that the stat upgrade during Dynamax is limited. Gameplay has to go before other concerns, after all.
But it still creates a dissonance between the visual impression and the gameplay impact of Dynamax. Dynamax and Gigantamax appear to imply a thousandfold increase in power levels, but when the offensive/defensive boosts turns out only to amount to x1.17/x2, it kinda feels underwhelming. It's as if the feature promises a lot more than it delivers. I mean, it's fine to deliver x1.17/x2 boosts, for gameplay reasons this is more than sufficient, but the promise of x1000 then feels really misplaced. It really gives the impression that what you're facing isn't a giant raging kaiju, but a parade balloon. It's not "all style, no substance", but there's so much style that the substance barely registers.
Or in other words, "don't create giga Pokémon if you can't let them play like giga Pokémon".
Say you've got your Magnezone out, and battling a Blastoise. It's normally a comfortable situation to be in. The opponent may be a bipedal turtle the size of a grown man, with heavy water cannons on its back, but you've got the power of lightning at your command.
Then the Blastoise Gigantamaxes.
Suddenly you're facing a monster the size of an apartment building, armed like a battleship with cannons large enough to fit your Magnezone inside pointing in every direction. G-Max Blastoise is almost 20 times taller than Blastoise, so tall the stadium lights can't light more than half of it. Applying the square-cube law a little liberally, it's nearly 8000 times more massive than regular Blastoise. It looks like it could blast your Magnezone across the Galarian Channel and raze the whole city in the process. Surely this titan must be absolutely unstoppable, to the point that Magnezone can't even tickle it before being stomped flatter than tin foil, or blasted into a pebble at the bottom of a new lake filling its entire half of the stadium?
Then you look at the battle effects of Gigantamaxing. Blastoise now has its HP multiplied by 2 (not 8000, as its size would suggest), and its strongest attack has got a +20 boost to its base power (1/6 more) plus a secondary effect. The offensive stats remain the same, as do the defenses. The mighty-looking G-Max Cannonade won't obliterate Magnezone, it's still a 2HKO. In return, Magnezone can 2HKO with Thunderbolt as well, without any boosts (Specs Thunder is even a 1HKO). Effectively, the only thing that happens is that the Super-effective damage multiplier is negated.
Despite Dynamax Formes being thousands of times bigger than the base Pokémon, and looking like they play by completely different rules, they barely hit any harder. Defensively, they hold up twice as well as ordinary Pokémon, but not more than that either. There is a power boost there, but it's laughably disproportionate to the visual changes. When your Pokémon grows to the size of a battleship, we expect it to hit and take hits like a battleship too, but the functional upgrade in terms of gameplay is minimal.
Don't get me wrong, I understand that a Blastoise with all stats multiplied by 1000 would be a very un-fun thing to face in battle. For practical reasons, it's completely reasonable that the stat upgrade during Dynamax is limited. Gameplay has to go before other concerns, after all.
But it still creates a dissonance between the visual impression and the gameplay impact of Dynamax. Dynamax and Gigantamax appear to imply a thousandfold increase in power levels, but when the offensive/defensive boosts turns out only to amount to x1.17/x2, it kinda feels underwhelming. It's as if the feature promises a lot more than it delivers. I mean, it's fine to deliver x1.17/x2 boosts, for gameplay reasons this is more than sufficient, but the promise of x1000 then feels really misplaced. It really gives the impression that what you're facing isn't a giant raging kaiju, but a parade balloon. It's not "all style, no substance", but there's so much style that the substance barely registers.
Or in other words, "don't create giga Pokémon if you can't let them play like giga Pokémon".
Well, technically they kind of work like illusions, supposedly warping space to look bigger... but that raises even more questions.
The entire story of Dynamax is kinda weird, but I don't think it's a terrible feature. While not the one I wanted, it's still an interesting one nonetheless. I prefer it over z-moves honestly, with my own reasons behind that. I do think Mega's returning would have been a better thing for everyone, but I still find Dynamax/Gigantamax useful and interesting.
My issue with Dmax's mechanics isn't that they don't line up with the aesthetics (if I thought it really did, it would probably amuse me like the fact that Nidoking is mostly a special attacker nowadays). It's that it's too boring for how strong it is. It's a stat boost, and replaces specific move effects with generic ones. It's designed to get around ways of stalling out turns and reduces (proportional) flat damage, further pushing the interaction to just being a comparison of stats. At least status Z-moves are diverse and give reasons to run otherwise completely useless options.
Honestly? You are not the only one who have a generally good feeling surrounding about the Gen 4 cross-generational evolutions. The only one I'd really call ugly is Probopass like you call it such, and I do prefer Magmortar over Magmar, believe it or not.
Cross-evolutions does not ruin Pokémon, and instead allows for better balance without getting compromised like what happened to Mega Evolution in the mainline games, while also making sense. Having Luvdisc, Volbeat or Illumise about 500 BST or a bit higher wouldn't make a mint of sense since their design suggests they are supposed to be somewhat weak, if not very weak in Luvdisc's case. Their potential evolution, however, can make a BST as high as I mentioned making sense, and even make a sense of progression and accomplishment. That's coming from a guy who made an extremely rare fan evolution for both Volbeat and Illumise, each having a whopping 555 BST, same as Arcanine's!
The worst about the complaints regarding the cross-evolutions is simply out of blatant nostalgia reasons instead of judging them in their own merits. Like, I get it, not all cross-evolutions are winners viable-wise, but would you rather have Tangela still be a weak single-stage Pokémon?
Good news is, likely because of the overall positive reception towards Regional Evolutions, fans are starting to wanting standard cross-evolutions again, particularly for the likes of Dunsparce. The severe lack thereof traditional cross-evolutions since Gen 5 and 7 did none and Gen 6 only gave us Sylveon, also contributed to make fans to miss this feature. The introduction of regional variants helped soften the blow though.
And while it does sucks for the regular variants to still not evolve further while their regional counterpart can, this is not a major dealbreaker for me, since not only they were supposed to be their own species despite sharing basic design and name... would you rather have Galarian Farfetch'd or Galarian Linoone to not evolve further and have limited viability to the point fans calls them a waste of Galarian Form slots, or G-Corsola to not have access of Eviolite shall Cursola not being made?
Overall, new cross-evolutions should be made soon or later, especially since things like Mega Evolution and especially G-Max prove that those mechanics are not permanent solution.
... Now wanna hear something that annoys me? The opposite in that some people wanted a Pokémon removed from an evolutionary line. That don't apply to just some of the more "infamous" cross-evos, but also the likes of Zoroark, Silvally (though that can stay as a form in a severe fan reboot), Purugly and Toucannon without replacing them would cripple their pre-evo that would make them come off as not only incomplete, but also risk of being useless and expandable. Not necessarily true for Rhydon, Magneton, Electabuzz and Magmar as they can on their own, but for everything else, this will be a severe problem if the final evo is removed.
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And the thing about that is yes, I do have to agree that it is ugly. But it does fit pretty well as an evolution, and not all pokemon need to look amazing.
You make many valid points, and I have to add something. People need to know the actual reason they have an evolution. In Type: Null's case, the story explains why and how it evolves. And I notice that in every gen past gen 2, it seems like they try to make every Pokemon have a reason to be caught. Zorua would be next to useless if it did not have an evolution and Glameow would just be useless no matter what because there are just so many Pokemon that out class it. They give all pokemon a use, a reason to catch it in game. And removing any of the cross evolutions would absolutely destroy it's usefulness, with Chansey and Scyther being a prime example. They are actually threats with Eviolite, but remove their access to Eviolite, they just become next to useless in game and competitively.
TL;DR Every cross evolution/controversial evolution was very good for the Pokemon in question for many reasons.
Then sadly Dusknoir and Blissey are outclassed by their preevos
I feel like Little Cup needs a Middle Cup
Also >giving a baby mon to one that doesn't need it
Looking at you Wobuffet. At least Chimecho needed it due to rarity, but many others don't. And the art clash is large after Gen 4
Oh, that's something I doubt is an unpopular opinion, but it fits well in (Little) Things that Annoys You in Pokémon.
Baby Pokémon overall is pure poor execution and purely a marketing stunt that played a part to harm Gen 2 as a whole. Too many Pokémon doesn't even benefit getting a new pre-evolution aside of those that were already decently strong like Magmar, Electabuzz and Snorlax, or those that are rare like Roselia and Chimecho.
It's easy to say that Igglybuff is the most unpopular Baby Pokémon alongside Smoochum. Baby Pokémon and new pre-evos in general would work better if they aren't given for Pokémon that would need an evolution a lot more to work and that had yet getting one, or those that are already weak in comparison to those of same type.
Riolu and Toxel are forgivable since they are already part of their own respective generation.
And imagine we were supposed to get a LOT more than we did.
It's hard to say what "Baby" Pokemon was needed and what wasn't as Baby Pokemon generally have low stats, sometimes lower than most Basic Stage, that makes them all feel have a bit unneeded. If anything a Baby Pokemon should have been an excuse to increase the BST of its evos and it taking the place of the Basic Stage.
Togepi too?
Or they could have just made Chimecho more common. However I think they wanted to make Chingling because they just had a "clever" idea for a prevo for a Pokemon that's a windchime: a shrine bell used for good luck.
The lore behind Dynamax & Gigantamax (at least as far as I understand it) is that they're energy projections (think Green Lantern's energy constructs). They're essentially like a Power Ranger zord, with the actual Pokemon somewhere in the "core" of the projection. The Pokemon senses whatever the projection senses, meanwhile the projection's movements exactly mirror the Pokemon's movements. It's not an illusion because the projection is there.
Though a big question is whether Gigantamax Pokemon actually undergo a transformation while inside the projection or the projection itself just changed its appearance and the Pokemon inside is still normal (and if so, does the Pokemon inside have the potential of transforming into the form the Gigantamax has taken (albeit smaller in scale and maybe less glow-y) somehow or is it exclusively an effect of Gigantamaxing)?
Yup, that's my main issues with the aesthetic of Dynamax & Gigantamax. Pokemon grows REALLY big... only for it to just double HP, all it's moves become super, and it's done in 3 turns. Now, I'm not complaining about the core mechanic, the 3 turn power-up I think works quite well (and I think worth maybe thinking about how to implement Megas back into the mix with it), but the Pokemon becoming Kaiju is just a stupid gimmick it's attached to. Ever since going 3D I swear GF has been mesmerized they can now make models really tall, taller they could ever do with sprites. Now they put it to good effect in XY where it was the environments they made bigger, notably the Gym like Grant's and Ramos's. But then in SM they had Alolan Exeggutor which, haha, very funny guys... but only really once. Then they went full in with SwSh with the Dynamax, G-Weezing's hat/chimney's, Sirfetch'd lance, etc.. Like, enough! GF, how about you put this amount of effort in giving Pokemon more dynamic idle & attacking animations that you do in figuring out ways to make Pokemon tall that only you're impressed by.
Well here's an idea: how about making it so Eviolite also prevents the Pokemon holding it from evolving and that Everstone has an additional effect upon preventing a Pokemon from evolving (like making it so the Pokemon can't be afflicted by stat changes & status ailments from another Pokemon)?
Not to mention that there's also different types of Djinn or at least beings related to them. In all honesty, from what I quickly skimmed from the Wikipedia page, Djinn itself is a more vague/umbrella term for supernatural creatures that weren't humans (like the term Yokai in Japan). It's just that in popular culture one VERY specific tale of a wish-granting Djinn (or rather two if you go by the original tale) got super popular and colored perception of "the genie" (and while plenty of modern media have tried going outside Aladdin's Genie of the Lamp into other tales of Djinn, still it's less they're going back to some collected mythology of Djinn and more taking the pieces of works which just so happen to call their beings Djinn and forming a mythology around that).
Djinn, Jinn, Genie, how about we use the same rule we do when pronouncing a Pokemon's name: If you understand the mythical being they were talking about than, unless its offensive, let them spell/say it the way they want to.
That is awesome. It's actually weird that it's not a thing already.
Honestly yeah, that is a great way to do that.
And to give the everstone some use, this would be a good idea, and it could actually be used competitively as well.