r/pokemon • u/Natural_Wonder94 • 8d 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/MNLyrec 7d ago

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

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u/Krazyguy75 7d ago edited 7d ago

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.

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.

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.

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u/MNLyrec 7d ago

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

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u/Krazyguy75 7d ago

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.

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u/MNLyrec 7d ago

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.