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Only Pokémon in Galar Pokédex can be transferred to Sword & Shield from Pokémon Home; similar restrictions intended for subsequent titles
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why would you be champ with a charizard that can't mega evolve
just use a rock type agianst it
just use a rock type agianst it
Galar Trainers aren't too smart if the champion's ace is a Charizard. Stealth rocks already puts him at half health, just throw a stone at him and he's down.
Man this is a real bummer and maybe I'm being petty but it's completely sunk my hype for the game. I may still end up getting it but I've never been more unsure of a new generation of Pokemon than now as to me it feels like yet another step back as every Pokemon game has taken since Black and White 2.
I think it's less hatred and more just exasperation. For people who have grown up with Pokemon and have kept up with the new games and generations as they've come out, it's tiring to see the interesting designs of the other 700+ Pokemon get shafted for Charizard and Mewtwo for the umpteenth time.
I think it's less hatred and more just exasperation. For people who have grown up with Pokemon and have kept up with the new games and generations as they've come out, it's tiring to see the interesting designs of the other 700+ Pokemon get shafted for Charizard and Mewtwo for the umpteenth time.
What people don't realize about this is Pokemon Home will be the only place to store all your Pokemon going forward. We'll never again be able to keep our Pokemon all on one cartridge because compatibility will change with each game. Meaning they all have to be stored in Home. Which will have a price.
Just wait until they end support for Pokemon Bank and force transfers to Home. Pokemon will either be eternally stuck on the 3DS or stuck in Home (and you'll be paying to keep them there unless you want to lose everything) while you wait to transfer them to a game they're compatible with.
It's all just disgusting and is a slap in the face to fans.
Just give me Minior, Gamefreak, you insufferable shits.
Yeah, it actually does have a pretty healthy amount of stuff from 5, 6 and 7 thus far.
I think its likely that Sinnoh will get screwed the hardest because I can see them waiting to make most of the Gen 4 Pokemon for the inevitable D/P remakes.
Yeah, it actually does have a pretty healthy amount of stuff from 5, 6 and 7 thus far.
I think its likely that Sinnoh will get screwed the hardest because I can see them waiting to make most of the Gen 4 Pokemon for the inevitable D/P remakes.
I don't think I have ever been this disappointed in a upcoming game. And that comes from someone who played every pokemon go and has played pokemon go for 9070 km in less then one year.
I fully expect all of the Gen 1 pokemon to make the cut, as well as their cross-gen evolutions. Given that the main argument for this change is the work involved with the 3D models and animations, any pokemon that was in Let's Go would supposedly have less work involved with it, plus they wouldn't want to antagonize Switch owners that got into Pokemon with Let's Go.
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This also makes sense given the rumored Farfetch'd evo.
I honestly never thought my hype for a new generation of Pokemon would be so deflated. I have over 1500 Pokemon in my bank that I have had since my original copy of Sapphire. Transferred them over with each game as time went on. And I either keep them on my 3DS for who knows how long, or transfer them all over to Home where they will be stuck for god knows when.
If Gamefreak doesn't have the resources or manpower to make all Pokemon work in their new games they need to hire more people, and use more of the extreme amounts of money they make. They make one of the biggest gaming IPs in the world. They can afford to invest more than what they do in their mainline Pokemon titles. What is the point of transferring Pokemon if you can't use them? God its so fucking dumb. I need to go talk about Banjo in Smash or something.
If Gamefreak doesn't have the resources or manpower to make all Pokemon work in their new games they need to hire more people, and use more of the extreme amounts of money they make. They make one of the biggest gaming IPs in the world. They can afford to invest more than what they do in their mainline Pokemon titles. What is the point of transferring Pokemon if you can't use them? God its so fucking dumb. I need to go talk about Banjo in Smash or something.
Nice, more Gen 1 pandering and fuck the other gens by removing pokemons.
The current 'Dex standings are as followed if anyone is interested:
Kanto - 35 (23.18% of Gen 1)
Johto - 19 (19% of Gen 2)
Hoenn - 23 (17.04% of Gen 3)
Sinnoh - 24 (22.02% of Gen 4)
Unova - 28 (17.95% of Gen 5)
Kalos - 17 (23.61% of Gen 6)
Alola - 14 (15.91% of Gen 7)
Galar - 12 shown, 18 confirmed
Sun and Moon had around 400 you can get in the game. and XY had like 450? So somewhere around there. Considering the reasoning why Pokemon outside of the Galar dex aren't compatible I would bet the number of available Pokemon will be smaller than those numbers even.
They're just waiting before dumping all the 151 in this game.
Sun/Moon had about 300 pokemon only. Ultrasun/moon brought it up to a little over 400. I'm actually expecting around 400, so half. Fucking stupid.
Pokemon count is pretty inflated becuase of evos
most people only care about final evo Pokemon
now there are some split evos namely eevee
and some involved Pokemon are used still namely porygon 2
but they aren't actually balancing 800 Pokemon
it's really only the final evos that matter for balancing for the most part
most people only care about final evo Pokemon
now there are some split evos namely eevee
and some involved Pokemon are used still namely porygon 2
but they aren't actually balancing 800 Pokemon
it's really only the final evos that matter for balancing for the most part
I can't wait for the shit storm that deservedly happens when a vast majority of gen 1 are included. What TPC have decided to do is just ridiculous.
Around 450 best case scenario, given that their previous highest was about 450 for XY.
Meaning that about half of all Pokemon will simply be unusable.
The gifs I took them from the Exhale forum, and that's the size they use, 55px :p
And I wish she released B10 this year to not break the tradition of 20 years, but if the messy situation with her father and the conservatorship continues after the hearings in August and September, I don't think she'll be in the mood to hit the studio or release anything :(
X/Y had 457
S/M had 300
US/UM had 400
so depends on if they feel like doing an XY or a SM and expanding it later. (or an entirely new number of course)
I know this may be radical but I do think some intervention is need here. The Pokemon Company needs these to be mandated:
1. All Pokemon can be transferable Day 1.
2. Mega Evolutions, Alola forms, Z-Moves all must be transferable as well and return.
Gamefreak likes to argue "balance" issues when in reality the metagames they design only support a handful of Pokemon.
1. All Pokemon can be transferable Day 1.
2. Mega Evolutions, Alola forms, Z-Moves all must be transferable as well and return.
Gamefreak likes to argue "balance" issues when in reality the metagames they design only support a handful of Pokemon.
It's iconic yes, nostalgic too. The designs are definitely great. BUT it's had too much representation lately. It's games have been remade quite a few times compared to like gen 4 and 5. The worse thing is that it will probably be a large proportion of this reduced dex.
It doesn't help that LGPE were such an oversimplified mess.
I can't at the amount of hate Jynx in particular gets.
I love her and I hope she makes the cut along with Magmar, Electabuzz, Mr. Mime, Hypno, Wigglytuff, Lickitung, Starmie, Omastar, Rapidash, Victreebel, Vileplume, Tangela, Venomoth, Muk and Weezing.
I'd be surprised if Sword and Shield didn't have more than X and Y. I think it'll probably be similar percentage wise and have around 65% so a Dex count somewhere around 575.
If there's any gen 1 Pokémon that wouldn't make a cut it would be Jynx. Game Freak does everything in their power so people can forget it exists haha
Plus the balance issues come from their stupid, misguided gimmicks.
It's only been 3 years and they're trying to wash their hands of Z Moves while promoting Dynamaxing. It's sad.
Usually I'm not a fan of them having such inflated regional dexes but with this new compatibility news now I hope they stuff as many as they can in the game lol
Should have just kept going with mega evolutions. Dynamaxing and Z moves are both so boring.
At least 9 of Johto and Sinnoh are evos/pre-evos of Kanto Pokémon and 1 from Kalos (Sylveon).
Yeah, same here. I much preferred Sun and Moon's smaller Dex to X/Ys bloated one but a bigger Dex would be much better now that it's necessary.
I think that's mostly because singles are slow stall battles or just sweeps, with almost always the same teams. They also depend more on evasion and stuff.
I almost made a thread before all this about how I disliked how XY felt too bloated with its Regional Dex and Sun and Moon felt much more purposeful with it, and how the Pokemon Direct made me feel like they were just gonna toss every Pokemon in the Wild Area.
That wouldn't have aged well.
You know what's funny? Masuda said that "even more than that, it's the Battle System", and then he talked about balance as the main reason for all of this. And we know that this is complete and utter bullshit.
We had all of the Pokemon in Gen 7. All. of. them. No issues. But now, we're adding another ~90 Pokemon, and suddelny there's a "balance" issue? 800 Pokemon, no problem. But once you arbitrarily get to 890 Pokemon, all these balance issues start emerging apparently.
It's all bullshit.
Does it really? The Wild Area is looks like it's mostly sporting textures from the Nintendo 64.
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Besides Kanto and Johto, and obviously Let's Go, it has just appeared in the latest Alolan Pokédex, as well as in Kalos. It appears in two Pokémon Ranger dexes, and not so relevant but it was relatively recently featured in Pokémon Go for the winter/Holidays event. And even if it wasn't on the Sinnoh Pokédex, it was one of the catchable Pokémon post-game.
I think they've moved on from those old controversies years ago. Kadabra despite not appearing in the TCG again, has appeared in lots of regional dexes, and Porygon + evolutions as well.
The balance has gotten worse since Gen 5 but it has nothing to do with the number of Pokemon, rather the introduction of too many legendaries and some overpowered mechanics like permanent weather and mega evolutions. There is no guarantee that reducing the number of available Pokemon will help with this. Gen 1 has the least Pokemon and was the most fundamentally broken and unbalanced.
Secondly, legendaries are some of the most popular Pokémon in the franchise and I just can't see them getting cut...
Not even a little bit.The Wild Area is looks like it's mostly sporting textures from the Nintendo 64.
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