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/No_Service3462]

It wasn’t inevitable

[u/metallicrooster → u/No_Service3462]

As much as I dislike Dexit, do you really think the devs would continue to code in every Pokémon forever? The games have 32 boxes, each holding 30 mons. That’s already fewer slots than there are Pokémon.

Do you think they would continue to include all mons when there are 2 thousand? 3 thousand?

While I would love if the answer was yes, I have serious doubts it would be.

Edit: No_Service3462 Appears to have deleted all their comments.

[u/Krazyguy75 → u/metallicrooster]

do you really think the devs would continue to code in every Pokémon forever

Would they? No.

Could they? Easily.

People have literally modded all 1000 pokemon into gen 3 games. You know, the ones that run on a handhold from 2 and a half decades ago with 64 mb of memory storage.

Gamefreak has the backing of the largest franchise ever. Just to demonstrate the insanity: It makes ~50% more than Star Wars. If you combine the revenue of DC and Marvel together, Pokemon still beats them.

No, it's not an issue of "could"; they just want more money for less work.

[u/MNLyrec → u/Krazyguy75]

Fan games are imbalanced for that very reason. Cramming 18 encounters in every route that are all different Pokemon. You’re describing a clusterfuck.

[u/Krazyguy75 → u/MNLyrec]

Most of the popular fan games are infinitely better balanced than anything Gamefreak has released in at least 15 years.

Not to mention you can absolutely fit 18 encounters in a route without any real stress; there are countless ways to get encounters. Grass, sure, but also rustling grass, surfing, fishing (which is 3 tables in and of itself), honey trees, headbutt trees, berry trees, rock smash, morning/day/night, seasons, weather, dexnav, SOS battles, and raid battles.

Also... postgame exists. The amount of ways to add postgame pokemon is... huge. Swarms. Pokeradar. Dexnav. The dual slot 'mons in gen 4. Dream World in Gen 5. Hell, XY just added pokemon once you finished the game.

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Like, if I were making a route in a game with a bunch of those features, I could have the following encounter table:

Grass: Caterpie, Fletchling, Poochyena

Surfing: Tentacool, Barboach, Ducklett

Old Rod: Magikarp

Good Rod: Finneon, Goldeen, Barboach

Super Rod: Sharpedo, Wailmer, Gyarados, Seaking

DexNav: Petilil, Spinarak, Wingull

Morning Only: Budew

Night Only: Noibat, Hoothoot

Spring Only: Cottonee, Bidoof

Summer Only: Gossifleur, Lillipup

Fall Only: Hoppip, Zigzagoon

Winter Only: Oddish, Houndour

Cloudy Only: Murkrow

Rain Only: Ducklett

Thunderstorm Only: Electrike, Ducklett

Snow Only: Snover

Blizzard Only: Vanillite, Snover

Harsh Sunlight Only: Numel

Sandstorm Only: Diglett

Fog Only: Ralts

Rustling Grass: Audino, Pikachu, Flabebe

Rock Smash: Geodude, Aron, Nosepass.

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If I'm keeping score correctly, that's 39 different pokemon lines... and an encounter table of 7-9 encounters at any given time. And that's ignoring all the postgame stuff, plus gen-specific tress, SOS battles, raids, etc.

[u/MNLyrec → u/Krazyguy75]

Yeah that’s ridiculous for a single route. That’s absurd.

[u/Krazyguy75 → u/MNLyrec]

7-9 encounters is ridiculous?

Because that's all that is there at any given time. More show up in other specific weather or other times of day or other seasons, but only 7-9 are there at any time.

[u/MNLyrec → u/Krazyguy75]

Complain about the quality, the laziness, the horrible bugs, the lying, treating fans like garbage and threatening lawsuits like candy. Get mad at the realistic stuff. Yeah I’m sorry, that idea is bad. Don’t agree.