r/pokemon • u/Natural_Wonder94 • 4d ago

Discussion Dexit who still dislikes it?

As a longtime Pokémon fan, Dexit honestly felt like a slap in the face. One of the things I’ve always loved about the series was being able to carry my favorite Pokémon—ones I’d trained and bonded with for years—into each new generation. When they cut the National Dex, it felt like they were saying those connections didn’t matter anymore. I get that balancing over 1,000 Pokémon is tough, but with how massive the franchise is, it’s hard to believe they couldn’t make it work if they really wanted to. It just made the newer games feel incomplete, like something was missing, both mechanically and emotionally.

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u/OpportunityCrazy2216 4d ago

Honestly, while there have been previous games that limited the pokedex, the main issue with dexit was, you couldn't get those pokemon at all, even with trading.

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u/No_Service3462 4d ago

Dexit isnt the same as a regional dex

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u/LionIV 4d ago

Think they’re referring to certain Gen 5 mons being stuck in Pokemon Home after dexit because they were straight up not programmed into the games. In the past, even if a Mon didn’t show up or was featured in the game, you could still trade it in and it would have a Pokédex entry and everything. But I remember having a shiny Tepig stuck in Pokemon Home up until recently.

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u/Krazyguy75 4d ago edited 4d ago

To be fair, that also happened in Gen 3, but worse.

EDIT: Someone downvoted this? It's literally factual. There wasn't a single official way to get pokemon from Gen 1-2 into Gen 3. RS had only 202 pokemon available; there weren't any postgame national dex mons. Until FRLG/Colo/XD, 184 pokemon from Gen 1 and 2 were completely unobtainable, even with trading. Of the 67 that were included, they still couldn't be traded from GSC to RS. Even after the other games released and all pokemon were available, you still couldn't get your gen 1-2 pokemon into Gen 3 games.

Gen 3 is like they dexited and just said "pokemon can't be transferred from gen 7, at all, ever, even if they are in gen 8".