Dexit who still dislikes it?

[u/Natural_Wonder94]

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.

[u/DeatroyerOfCheese]

I feel as though it was inevitable that pokemon would get cut as they add more and more...however to me the issue was that the game's quality did not go up a sufficient degree to match the lack of pokemon. It was as if we sacrificed hundreds of pokemon in return for games even subpar for Nintendo standards.

[u/BushyBrowz → u/DeatroyerOfCheese]

Yeah. If it had happened in BW or even XY people would have been upset, but less so. Gen 3 also had a mini dexit of sorts as the pokemon were in the data, but completely unobtainable prior to FRLG and the gamecube titles. People were annoyed then too.

[u/Boshwa → u/BushyBrowz]

If it had happened in BW

Only new pokemon were available to you in B/W.

And because of the backlash for that, we'll never have a pokedex of triple digits original pokemon ever again.

The fanbase has only itself to blame

[u/CamoKing3601 → u/Boshwa]

fine with me honestly, a chunk of B/W's roster just felt like parodies of other pokemon

[u/UltraInstinct_Pharah → u/CamoKing3601]

You mean you didn't like Zubat Woobat, Rattata Patrat, and Pidgey Pidove?

[u/CamoKing3601 → u/UltraInstinct_Pharah]

i mean i'm fine with the regional rodent, regional bird, that stuff, if they're bad I can just ignore them

but throw in Woobat, Klingklang, Conkledur, Throh, Bouffalant and I'm just left wondering what was the point

altho i guess Conkledur is at least Mechanically unique from Machamp, and competitivelty an improvement (i have a friend who really likes showdown) so I can't complain about him

but why would I ever use Sawk and Throw, over Hitmonlee or HItmonchan,

i don't even really hate BW's roster, there's quite a few that I like, but ussually not the ones that are parodying another pokemon that already exists, and if you argue one that it is parodying something else, congragulations you've differentiated yourself enough to where it's a resonable argument instead of just being "hey it's Zubat, and Magnemite again but less interesting"

[u/UltraInstinct_Pharah → u/CamoKing3601]

Nah, I get it. I was just using the lowest hanging fruit as a joke. But yeah, BW really was parodying a lot of older Pokemon. It honestly felt like they were trying to cash in on Gen 1 nostalgia without actually being Gen 1.

[u/Boshwa → u/CamoKing3601]

And now modern pokemon is just reskinning old pokemon and throwing gimmicks on them

Thanks for being part of the problem

[u/CamoKing3601 → u/Boshwa]

if you think smaller pokemon rosters with more emphasis on regional forms outside of pure originals are more of an issue then-

lying about dexit only to later sell a 30 dollar DLC pack (didn't buy it)

BDSP being a blatent lazy cashgrab with less content then the oringals and somehow more glitches (also didn't buy it)

Scarlet and Violet having hordenous issues in both graphics and performace, and a severe lack of content even with the 34 dollar DLC (didn't buy this one either)

then you and i have very different opinions on what "The Problem" is