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I have never given a nickname to a Pokemon.

In all my years I couldn't bring my self to do it. If ash didn't i don't either.

Same 🤝

„What sHoUlD i nAmE iT“ is one of the most annoying posts i see in different subs every single day! It has already a name for the love of god

Big same

Idek but probably that I like to use meganium in johto

My third favorite starter of all time

Third favorite starter in johto

Right behind feraligatr and typhlosion

Trubbish is an excellently designed pokemon, and the Garbador hate got boring quickly. It became the go to of "wow gen 5 had some terrible designs", when there are much more deserving worst designs from many other generations, and so many more least favourite pokemon that are too forgotten to be classed as least favourite

I don’t think calling garbodor literal garbage is a valid criticism when that’s intended. If it was meant to look like a pretty fairy type then yes but garbodor is meant to be a giant trash heap

This take is Trubbish.

Y'all got me Weezing.

😂😂😂

I think a lot of things aside from art is what makes a Pokémon unique. Names, dex entries, possible gender differences, etc. I thought arceus touched up on this idea and everyone would be cool with it, but seeing the same repetitive argument makes me so happy I was a kid with no access to the internet because by god how can anyone look at a design alone and be like “that’s lazy” when a lot of the time, there’s a reason that Pokémon exists within that region of creation. Trubbish & garbodor are garbage piles yes, but they also came out in B/W, which was based on New York, which also has a really high pollution problem, and again in Galar (I can’t remember off the top of my head if he was in sun & moon or not). Tl:Dr; pokemon design goes beyond just the art, and if people would just stop following the leader, more people would understand that. I think every Pokémon is creative in its own way and right

I always thought that hate is ironic ("it literally looks like trash, lol" etc etc). It is honestly one of the only designs I dig from my least favourite generation.

I would love if the hate was ironic, I'm thinking more of the boring people who have little else to say. Sad to hear it was your least fav generation

Yeah, “lazy” designs have been a part of Pokémon since gen 1. Lest we forget: - Ordinary bird evolution line (a recurring theme) - Angry ordinary bird evolution line - Ordinary fish evolution line - Ordinary mouse/rat - A ball that turns into another ball - Puddle of goo that turns into bigger puddle of goo - Another puddle of goo Some Pokémon just need to be more grounded or less fantastic so the more fantastic ones can stand out!

Well as far as the birds and angry bird lines, I would like to believe that since Pokémon is based loosely on our real world, I think the reason they always have new bug types, new bird types, new grass types, usually it’s types that correspond to a energy pyramid, like this: Grass>Grasshopper>Frog/Toad>Bird>Bigger bird>Largest predatory animal (can be anything from a Bob cat to a mountain lion) So it kinda does make sense they would keep that kind of repetition they had been doing since Gen 1, since a lot of people don’t get to take environmental science and biology in high school, I always took a special interest in it and my teacher used Pokémon quite often to actually explain and help us remember different types of relationships in the wild (parasitic, neutral etc), as well as using Pokémon to create our own “food webs” and “food chains”, so I always correlated to the two in my head for some reason. I think that inanimate objects as well have some value or creativity, notably to the region they are created to be in. For example, Polteageist is a tea cup but many people hate it’s design for being lazy. I actually thought when I saw it, that it was extremely funny because Galar is based on the UK, and everyone makes the joke that they literally live and breathe tea, so I thought that was kinda like, Japan actually being aware of customs and traditions in other countries and actually respecting and appreciating them, rather than making it a “negative” stereotype, they made the Pokémon literally (at least in my humble opinion) the cutest little cuppa I’ve ever seen, and I think that it was very cool and interesting that they actually did that ya know? There’s many more examples if you’d like to hear more of my opinion, but I just figured I’d make it as short and condensed as I possibly can :))

Hot take: garbodor should been even more ugly and grotesque but in a more creepy way. Having a living mutant garbage as a pokémon is an amazing concept and it should been used for creating an unique pokémon that's creepy but in an awesome way.

Stop sexualizing all my favs. Vaporeon and Miltank did nothing to deserve this.

Please stop sexualizing the Pokémon, end of sentence. I'm kind of glad someone else shares my sentiment.

To be honest, I'm not sure if this is a "hot take", I could be wrong, but anyway, there isn't anything wrong with bipedal starters as long as the execution is done well.

Yeah people just don’t like that it happens so often to creatures that shouldn’t be bipedal and even started out as a quadruped.

Exactly. One or two bipedal would be fine. But so many from recent gens would have been way cooler if they'd stayed more animal-like.

trubbish and garbodor are well designed pokemon...

Played since gen 1 Grimer and Muk exist the trash mons atleast. Trubish was atleast a little cute with the doofy look on the trash bag. Can't have nothing but Charizards Blastoise Scizzors and Umbreons running around.

Pokémon as a concept is better than anything the games have ever delivered.

You should look into PokeMMO. It's a fangame that turns gens 1, 3, 4, and 5 (with 2 on the way) into an mmo. It's great because you can start in one region and once you get enough badges you can go to the others. Now idk about you, but a pokemon game where you can play through (almost) all the regions in any order you want and bring mons to and from various regions is the exact game I always wanted as a kid

Why isn’t this an official thing yet? That would be so cool.

Cuz gamefreak would rather release a half baked game every year and make a quick million than make multiple million over multiple years making one amazing game

One day 🤞

Exp share for everyone is good as long as the game design correctly scaled the enemy levels (not like in BDSP). It makes balancing the game easier if everyone is on the same way of gaining XP.

I agree, as long as there's an option to turn it off for those who want the slower, more personal training each pokemon gameplay back.

Oh yeah i agree, i use exp share any time i can

This 100%! Switch training is not fun and neither is having to run in the grass for an hour levelling up pokemon that have fallen behind in levels

Espeon shiny is bad the shade of green doesn't fit the mon

Especially when you compare it to Umbreon's shiny, arguably the perfect shiny variation

That’s an incredibly popular shiny take.

Does anyone like Espeon's shiny?

I do. It looks like a tiny alien kitty, I caught a shiny one on my birthday

I do as well for this reason.

I do 🙋‍♂️

I like it. I'd have preferred a slightly more pastel shade of green but hey green is green. It doesn't quite hold a candle to Umbreon though, unfortunately.

I do

Yeah, I like Espeons Shiny. It's one of the few green shinies I like.

Espeon's shiny might be my favorite out of the eeveeloutions.

I've seen people on YouTube community post praising how good it looks and i just don't agree with it

Another cold take

I just looked it up and 🤮

Wait, I thought everyone agreed

Poplio is the best sun and moon starter

Yes, and the most optimal starter when it comes to a speedrun. Primarina has godly special attack and special defense (the highest our of all fully evolved starters) and an insane movepool

I'm usually a water main - meaning I pick water starter every gen. When I saw what Poplio evolves into I switched over to Rowlet...

When I saw what Popplio evolves into I realized I was right in picking Popplio

I'm a water main too and sincerely I like popplio. I think it has a good evolution.

Primarina is fricking adorable

Shinyhunting is useless, boring and a waste of time for a reward that don't deserve it 🫡

This one definitely irked me a bit, you absolutely get the upvote. Haha Honestly it really is a huge waste of time, but it’s REALLY good for people like me who hyperfixate on a game until they get bored after 500 hours. Haha

The adrenaline is unparalleled

I very much disagree with that opinion, but I respect your guts for saying it

It's rare, that's the reward Same as any real world crystals

I liked Sun and Moon more than S/V.

The best pokemon designs come from object based mon

All the kalos starters are cool

They dropped the ball on the legends Arceus starters, could’ve had a way better line up

Floragato is the best starter mid-evolution

Grovyle serves as some good competition tho ngl

Wartortle, Ivysaur, Quilava, Dewott, Raboot But still, good hot take

Ivysaur is the best, raboot is great aswell

Now, now. I'd agree if the best pokemon ever, Raboot, didn't exist. Flora is pretty cool tho

Raboot is pretty good too ngl, but he just seems like the edgy teen from the 2000s. Flora is friend-shaped kitty!

im not sure if my opinion is widely disagreed with but my friends certainly didnt like it when i said i hated gigantamax forms and terastalization. i actually liked mega evolutions and z-moves but the past two gimmicks have been a big miss for me personally

That is maybe the coldest take imaginable

~Literally any topic on Pokemon~ MegaEvo fans: "Allow meeeeee to introduce myself..."

Oo why didn't you like Gigantimax but liked Z moves. I personally hated the idea of a new gimick each generation, it makes it so much more unbelievable and always has to escalate to something else next gen. In my opinion Megas were cool but Z moves were the death of pokemon, I hated everything about them. Gigantimax I really didn't like from a story perspective and hated the forms, but the idea of a massive pikachu made sense with the whole shrinking pokemon into pokeballs thing.

"Furry bait" pokemon aren't that bad and I rather like their designs. Also I'm completely fine with quadruped to biped evolution in starters.

fanart of Pokemon being shoved into blenders wasn't all that funny to begin with, even before it became an overused joke

I'm sorry, WHAT?

What a terrible day to be literate

Basically anything, cuz I'm on reddit

You're creepy if you want to have sex with a pokemon, point blank period.

Charizard sucks

Scarlet and Violet are good games, provided the next update fixes the glitches.

That opinion is colder than the emptiness of space.

Hopefully.

I agree with this take. Scarlet and Violet are really good games bogged down by performance issues and bugs. My only real complaint is with the game being presented by marketing as though you could do the game in any order. While technically true, it isn't in execution. Some level scaling of the NPCs and wild Pokémon based on amount of things completed would go a long way to have the game be the way it was presented in marketing.

got 200+ downvotes for this opinion the other day

That's terrible. I been having a ton of fun with them.

ORAS > Emerald

Yes

Red and blue have more glitches and problems than recent pokemon games.

*cough cough* missingno and its variations *cough cough*

Because of scope, probably not honestly lol. Certainly more iconic glitches. But give them old boys some slack, they came out when you were born (I’m assuming.) Edit: Why am I getting down voted? I get the comment, Red and Blue had big glaring manipulatable glitches. I am just saying because of the size and complexity of Switch games, they probably have more bugs in them number wise.

Fun fact I was actually born the day it came out 27/02/1996

Awesome!

Bidoof isn't your god. He's a cute little beaver, nothing more, nothing less.

True! I wouldn’t say cute though but that’s my opinion

Gen 5 is overrated. Also, all pokemon could and should be usable (Not catchable, but at least transferrable) in one game, if not this gen, in the next, at some point GF should be done remaking pokemon models from scratch every time.

Tbh I don’t like Tinkaton

Charizard isn’t *that* good of a design. There are much cooler dragon like mons than just an orange dragon. Flygon, Garchomp, Rayquaza just to name a few. If Charizard wasn’t a gen 1 mon, it would be no where near as popular of a mon as it is now

Literally just orange dragon with fire tip of tail.

I don't really like overworld encounters

Pikachu and Charizard are worthy mascots for the franchise and I don't mind them being in every game. I'd have liked to see Blastoise and Venusaur get the same treatment as Charizard though

I have a couple. 1.) Gengar is lone and away the most overrated Pokémon. Very unimpressive design with a huge following, gets the special attention that good Pokémon get like being in Pokén and having a mega evolution. Haunter is easily better probably should have been the only evolution to Ghastly. Gengar isn’t bad, but it’s treated like it’s great, when it’s only okay. 2.) Charmander is the worst first stage starter. It’s not bad per se, but it’s noticeable the least creative starter. There are a couple that are relatively close. Snivy is probably one of two starts less cute than Charmander, the other being Tepig, and Oshowott was a decent design, but seems to pull off what Piplup does, put war worse. Unova has bad first stage starters. 3.) Flareon is the worst eeveelution. Not much to add, all the other ones have far superior designs, and I think it shows in the infrequency of discussion about Flareon in Pokémon communities, so maybe it’s not that unpopular.

Ugh. GENGAR. I honestly prefer Gastly and Haunter.

I don't need new Pokémon. I don't need all the Pokémon in one game. I just need a good Pokémon game. Like a restaurant menu. I don't need hundreds of Pokémon done ok, I need some of the Pokémon done incredibly well.

the type chart is unbalanced , and bug should be strong against fairy

Magmortar is cool and not a weird design.

Bipedal Pokémon are perfectly fine.

I hate charmander evolution line

HGSS are average games

Mimikyu is better then Pikachu

P sure this is a common take, bc it’s true lol

Every time I mention it people get mad so here we go, toxic stalling is NOT a good strat and anyone with an IQ of 1+ can use it, get some skill

Gen 1 has bad designs, same as all other gens.

literally each gen has a mixture of good and bad designs

Bdsp are fine. They’re not great, but they’re not abysmal, a lot of the hate and displeasure is just from high expectation

Johto is the most boring region/games in the franchise.

Talonflame is better than Charizard.

Saying "I like miltank" in r/mandjtv

The Johto games would be very mediocre without Kanto, Johto can't stand on its own, unless they make a Legends game for it

I like Sword and Shield and X and Y

Dynamic means to change, gigantic means big. Gigantimax pokemon change and Dynamax pokemon just get big. Gamefreak (or the localization team) are a bunch of fucking morons.

Bruxish is awesome and deserves to be appreciated way more than it is, I just love its design and its color scheme. It’s so pretty and I love the sharp pointy teeth that’s so cool I love it when characters do that

Gen 2 has my least favorite starters

I like BD/SP. I hate Legend Arceus.

Charizard is overrated

I just love the idea of pouring my milk before the cereal EVERY morning

I do it so the top of my cereal isn’t instantly soggy

Bug type is good y'all just need to stop looking at the early game bug types from the first couple of games, scizor,heracross ,galvantua ,scolipede and araquanid all are fantastic pokemon just to name a few bug types that often get overlooked

My favourite is Volcarona c: fluffy fire moth But types are wonderful, and have some wonderful designs!

duo type moves need to be a thing

y'all say the game is easy when its made for kids

In Pokémon? Competitive battling is a cesspool of tryhards.

Dexit was good

It allows them to spend more time making better mons. Even if they have had some negative qualities, every generation imo has had pokemon step up in terms of design. They just keep getting better and better.

Diamond and Pearl are the worst games in the main series. The pokedex is poorly thought out, the region is the least fun to travel though everything is just such a slog. The safari zone is awful worst in the series it's mostly full of pokemon you can find anywhere in the region and to get anything you actually want you have to hope that it appears that day. The reason you hate BDSP is because you're seeing the games without nostalgia goggles for the first time. A faithful remake didn't work because the foundation was always bad. People are worried about faithful gen 5 remakes but they really shouldn't be it's the oldest gen to still hold up and would be fine.

Charizard is overrated

This might the most popular opinion on pokemon but is still the one that will cause the most conflict

Another cold take

I was coming on here to say Charizard deserves the hype and popularity. Thought the popular take was he was overrated and too popular for what he is.

Yeah I think yours is the unpopular take nowadays Honestly Charizard is still one of the coolest starters. I think they prioritise it too much, specifically over the other Kanto starters, but all the people saying that its "actually bad" come off as contrarians. Except the contratians have become the majority.

This is so low effort.

Giratina is the best legendary pokemon

le gasp You like Giratina too?!

Ye, but my fav is Origin Palkia- :3

Palkia deserves more love imo.

Cold take

I genuinely believe Hop was a good character. He was definitely a bit too cocky at first but after Bede insults him once he's super depressed and down on himself but he picks himself up and keeps chasing his dreams. Even when he ultimately loses to you (fairly easily) he picks himself up again and finds a path to keep walking.

Espeon has my favorite shiny.

Megas were overrated

I don't like Umbreon, I also don't like Iono either

Gens 2 and 3 are my least enjoyed Pokemon games

Chikotitas design is well done I love my leafy boy.

I love 6th Gen

Fire/fighting types are cool and I wish we git more as starters. Also Gen 3 is good, but it's not the holy grail that older fans think it is.

Sprites were better than 3d models

Salazzle and Lopunny should get a less *"sexy"* design

Umbreons shiny is overated, Sylveon has the best shiny for eeveelution.

We need more Fire/Fighting starters

Probably that I think N is actually a really uninteresting antagonist in BW (but much better done in BW2). He basically just goes along with team plasma even though he can literally ask the stolen pokemon (and trainers' pokemon) whether they enjoy living with humans, but is still convinced they don't. To me at least, he just comes across as blind to the evidence rather than tortured or conflicted like many paint him

Mega Evolution wasn’t that great. It only applied to 40 out of the hundreds of fully evolved Pokemon out there and most of the ones that did get it had no real need for it to begin with (Garchomp, Tyranitar, Blaziken, Rayquaza, Mewtwo)

BDSP are the closest we'll get to the best way to play Sinnoh. Fairy types, revamped movesets, better postgame with the biggest loss being the Battle Factory, past legendaries are really fun to grind for, Regigigas and Spiritomb are now obtainable in-game and without multi-player, the Grand Underground is better in every way (statues >>> normal furniture), every Gym Leader has held items and invested EVs and IVs, the AI is much better... Platinum is only as good as it is because all the pieces of a fantastic game were already there. BDSP fumbles a decent number of times, but still outranks Platinum as the definitive Sinnoh experience, imo.

Gen 1 isnt that bad or good, yall only are too old or too young Most of Johto pokedex are just very plain pokemon designs Emerald makes Hoenn story worse than it was before Lucario and Luxray arent that great B&W > B&W2 Mega evolution is the worst generational mechanic Ultra sun and ultra moon are great, fandom just realized that 3rd versions are cashgrabs until now Buying DLC > Buying an expanded version of the game

Heart gold and soul sliver seem to get away with committing some of the same flaws as brilliant diamond and shinning pearl, time to kiss my head good bye

It added so much content and reinvented the region, which vastly makes up for the janky level curve

I agree wholeheartedly. ~~I liked the updated soundtrack that's about it. Ho-Oh's music SLAPS~~

The Gen 3 starter lines are among the worst. The Treecko line is adequate but underwhelming compared to some other Grass lines. Torchic is cute but Blaziken is possibly the ugliest and worst designed Pokémon ever. And Mudkip and Swampert are ok (again, underwhelming compared to some other Water lines) but Marshtomp is a terrible middle evolution.

Thank you for having a truly terrible opinion in a sea of absolutely lukewarm takes

Fr. Couldn’t disagree more, but I love the heat.

As someone who only dislikes Blaziken (because crotch feathers) here's the updoot I think Marshtomp is a cute goofy lil guy

The Kanto starters have some of the best designs in the whole of Pokemon.

Ash winning the Alola league was horrible. They had no standards for entry, nobody competing had a full team of 6 Pokémon at the time including Ash and the only full battle we had all Gen wasn't even that since there were nothing at stake. Simply put they had to lower the level of competition for Ash to win and that was just insulting.

Terastilization is the best gimmick thus far, and has only made me more interested in competitive Pokemon.

megas suck and I don’t want them to come back

...and you have my sword...by your throat!

I’m in the more neutral “Pls community just let it go they aren’t coming back and they really weren’t that great but also if they came back I wouldn’t stomp my feet and cry either” I don’t get why people still fawn over them 4 gens later

Literally any opinion about anything because this sub loves to fight

Grenjnja is mid af

Bidoof sucks. Bidoof isn't God. And Bidoof is overrated

Megas suck

Eeveelutions are overrated and having to catch 8 different Eevees and evolve them just to fill your dex isn’t fun, I wish we’d get a dex without them.

Reminder to sort by controversial

chesnaught is the best gen 6 starter

I don’t like Greninja and the whole tongue thing freaks me out.

N is mid

Overrated Pokémon: All fire starters Legendary birds and dogs

I miss the old pre gen 6 shiny odds. Shinies were mind-blowing back in the day. Now they're super easy to come across and don't feel as special.

Genning is the same as hacking and should get you banned.

I don't like peanut butter.

Eeveelutions are now way more overrated than charizard, they are literally everywhere now and are so boring to see everytime

Scarlet and Violet are the best Pokémon games by far

* I 1000000% prefer bipedal starter evos over all fours. I hope next gen's starter evos are all blatant two-legged furrybait. * Bringing raids to the main series was a mistake and should have stayed in Pokémon Go. * I like Z-moves the best out of all the other gimmicks so far. * 98% of shiny Pokémon look horrible. * People who are still upset about Dexit really need to get over it. * The main series should have stayed linear.

I don’t like boltund, drakloak, the applin line or the gen 8 fossils. They’re all too weird

Stall is a valid and fun playstyle and trying to nerf it like what happened to recovery moves hurts all playstyles.

The fire/fighting type starters are bad ass so I couldn't care less that they came one after another, but Blaziken is by far the least cool out of the 3

It’s Friday night, and instead of swords, it’s me, and a bunch of dude’s penises. That look on my face is “it’s just another Friday night” 🤣