I'd say not *all* Legendaries are gods. Clearly stuff like Articuno, Mew, the Regis, Heatran, Cosmog are rare animals, even rarer than Pseudo Legendaries and other hard to get mons since they can't be bread in captivity, nor any of their evo line can. But for stuff that clearly is a unique individual, eternal and with power beyond what regular Pokemon can do like, forming water from nothing, creating or giving life and bringing back the dead, then that thing is functionally a god.
I guess it all depends on how you define what a "god" is! In my mind they'd have to be literal creators of the universe, time, space, essentially be immortal etc to be "gods", but to be fair in a lot of cultures (Japan included) gods can be small and just rule a small part of nature. Nevertheless my opinion is still that the humans in the pokemon world that worship pokemon as if they were all-powerful gods are "mistaken", like how the two clans in legends arceus argue about what the "correct" one to worship is! If we believe the dex, then plenty of ghost types are brought back to life from the dead, so even something as amazing as that is never really exclusive to the legendaries.
@@EliteTrainerLin I mean too be fair, Dialga and Palkia literally control time and space, and arceus created everything else, and the lake trio created wisdom, emotion, and will power, I say that is very much what gods would do
@@Quickpatch12 I very much question your use of "literally", how do you know the trio created wisdom, emotion and will power? How do you know it's not just the regional folklore? You'd then also have to accept that in the pokemon world humans were some kind of empty husks without thoughts or feelings until those 3 came along!
@EliteTrainerLin for that I go with the fact of what the trio can do, it has been stated in many pokedex entries that Mesprit can take away emotions, Azelf takes away will power, and Uxie takes away wisdom. No other pokemon can do that. Plus your case is assuming that humans existed before the lake trio did, when it could more likely be the case that they were created before humans existed. I go by that because that would mean humans are older then Mew, the ancestor to all Pokemon (accepted since Mew is the only one that can learn every pokemon move that are not signature moves)
@@Quickpatch12 For the trio to have "given" their gifts to humans they would have have to existed without them before. Sobble can force anyone to get sad and cry, grass typs can often calm you down, psychic types can control your movements - it's not at all unusual for pokemon to have powers that "forcefully" affects emotions, thoughts or actions of others!
My unpopular opinion: Recently there's been people wanting GF to return to making 2D games for Pokemon, and, while I'd like to play that too, this is not the surefire way of making "Pokemon great again" people has been hyping it up to be. There's good 3D games (duh) but also bad 2D ones. A more effective way of making good games is having good development periods, with good length, vision and direction!
Definitely! It's never the fault of the art style (although some games do be looking quite... oof) and most games could be fixed with more resources + time.
Honestly I have always doubted the whole "legendaries are literal gods" thing and I'm glad someone brought it up haha. I always interpret it as people *believing* certain Pokemon are deities because of their power but it's not necessarily literal cuz--like, I can put it in a ball and make it obey my commands lolll. And the Pokedex is notorious for overexaggerating anyway. My trainer has definitely looked at Shedinja's back more than once and they still have their soul as far as I can tell. Side note: your edits made me laugh.
What they don't realize is that it was straight up confirmed that not all legendaries are actually Gods, some may be bordering on demigod territory but legendaries like the birds, beasts, lati's are just superhuman tier or super rare beefed up mortals especially since some of them canonically breed. The only ones that are straight up God's are certain boxart legendaries like Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, and propably Eternatus(more like alien) And to answer the "catching god and letting it tell it what to do" is the fact that YES they do let you capture it if you managed to prove that you can catch them. Or in the case of Legends Arceus, the form you battle with or "catch" is confirmed to be an avatar of them and that was way after some were begining to question the legitimacy of God tier pokemon being in a pokeball(or masterball) and listening to a 10 year old. And thats not including the fact that Cyrus gives you a masterball because he straight up tells you that unlike the red chain, the masterball would limit its full power which also would imply why some pokemon dont get wounded that bad in pokemon battles trainers have despite yknow certain signature moves being used that would likely kill someone.
Shout out to all the nice commenters! Especially ones who disagree with me and turn it into a fun but respectful discussion, you guys are so much fun to talk to!!! Low-key shade to certain other commenters. No names mentioned tho :)))
I feel Ash was stagnating too much, which is a shame because early seasons smack-talking Ash was funny. Woulda liked to see more of that instead of the generic kid character he devolved into. Liko and Roy really haven't been it as replacements, least in my opinion
I think Ash had a lot of cool arcs within the seasons/generations. XY had the best story out of all of them I think! And seeing him become the Alolan champion and then world champion was really cool and a great finish to his story. But I'd still love to see more adventures from him, and I have to agree - the new protagonists (and later version Ash) are too generic and too "nice". I think it's a development of the 2000s slowly turning every cartoon character into a "flawless rolemodel", they can't show "rude" kids in cartoons or parents get mad that their kids might copy them! Meanwhile the old cartoons those parents watched had Tom and Jerry trying to violently take each other out, and they turned into normal adults...
I think it can be very easy to get sick of remakes due to the constant overabundance of fans asking for them to be made. I remember hearing that ppl were expecting Hoenn remakes in Gen5, which with hindsight sounds even stupider. As we know, they create just 1 set of remakes per every system. FRLG on GBA, DP on DS, ORAS on 3DS & BDSPiss on Switch (Kanto remakes have already been made back in Gen3, so LGPE doesn't count). There was a minor demand for Hoenn remakes on the DS when Jotho remakes were already on the DS. & secondly, there wouldn't be much of a graphical improvement from RSE to the then-current Gen5 games. There're talks about the possibility of outsourced Gen5 remakes later this year, but I don't believe that. I've a suspicious feeling that they wouldn't come out until the Gen10, at very least, which would most likely be on the next console, fitting perfectly with the "1 pair of remakes on each console" rule.
I agree with number 1, 3, 7 and largely 12. It was mostly that he had to start from scratch over and over again and never allowed to win a league that was getting tiring (looking at you, Tobias). Not sure if it is unpopular to say, but I think that Eevee should have gotten new eeveelutions instead of a G-Max form. I want a Poison one, dang it!
Same about eevee! I might be totally wrong here, but I *think* the reason people like eevee is *because* it can evolve into so many cool(er) pokemon, so to focus on eevee itself kind of misses the point of why it's popular in the first place.
I feel like if we got a new eeveelution, it would be dragon type because it's the only remaining special attacking type from before the physical/special split. Faiiry fits neatly into the Special Attacker Club, too, especially because there were 8 SpA types and 9 Atk types. It would be pretty cool to see a counterpart to Eevee that gets all the physical types.
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@@coltonstewart8698 why would it have to be a special type?
@@coltonstewart8698 People say that, but I don't see a reason why they wouldn't just make a physical attacker instead to surprise fans, they like to break patterns to be unpredictable!
I feel you on the remakes for sure. I get it from the standpoint of being able to play certain games on current consoles but to straight remake classics isn't great as many times you lose what makes them great. I feel you on the Zubats as it's a great way to level my guys up because Pokemon at times is supposed to be a grind. Mr. Mime for me isn't so much that people don't like clowns so much as the old Gen games Mimie as Ash's mom calls him was more defensive than offensive so many times he wasn't a great fit for teams unlike your Abra or Drowzee lines that fit most balanced teams well. Yes Drowzee is back to ruin your day.
Mine are: -super training should have never left, aside from Legends Arceus since their was no pokemon amie equivalent in that game (as well as getting an eeveeloution out of it). -the moss rock and icy rock (and the highly magnetic areas) are totally fine evolution methods, those who complain about using them are just being lazy (about using them, not when they're placed in the post game despite having Pokemon that evolve with them that you can obtain before the league, that's never fine) -Friendship evolutions are worse than trade evolutions, at least with trade evolutions, if you're able to pull them off, they're both a breeze, as well as one and done; friendship evolutions not only take an excruciatingly long time but also often lock several features behind them, ORAS being the biggest offender of it. -(this one is a reponse to one of your points) chansey was done better in let's go then it was in the other kanto games for the sole reason that's it NOT in the safari zone, what's the point of creating a high exp.yeilding enemy if you're gonna place it an area where you can't battle it? For at least FireRd and Leafgreen, couldn't it have traded areas with like tangela or someone?
I think the only thing I really disagreed with was the remakes. I loved Fire Red, Leaf Green, Heart Gold, Soul Silver, and Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire so much. They rekindled that nostalgia but it wasnt a carbon copy. The latest remake with gen 4 really let me down. I have no words to describe my salt levels for how one of my favorite regions got wronged. I also like them because some of the older versions just are not released on newer gen consoles and playing the original copies gets expensive or is just done alternative ways. I loved Lumiose for hatching eggs. Zubat only annoyed me in Crystal when I didnt have fly or repels. Otherwise I really love it. Hoenn is one of the best regions, definitely.
Just to be clear, I still had a ton of fun playing those games! I honestly think HGSS is hands down the best version of Johto we've ever gotten (so far!). But ORAS is not better than emerald, BDSP is not better than platinum, and LGPE is not better than FRLG. If you make a remake it has to at the very least be better than the latest installment of that game, or we might as well just keep playing the old game! Part of the fun for me personally for remakes is seeing new pokemon in the older regions (using an all Galarian team in Johto would be so cool!) but with LGPE and BDSP they just ditched that feature and strictly kept to old pokemon. I think liking ORAS is fair, but I missed battle frontier and contests too much to say it's better than emerald.
I completely agree with the Battle Frontier. I thought it was a slap in the face when they had that little model thing and had a "coming soon" instead of actually having it. It would have added so much extra to the games because the Battle Frontier is so unique and challenging. That being in ORAS would have made it perfect for me. I liked the Lati twins flying feature a lot in those as well. I forget about the Let's Go games being remakes. I consider them more trying to get people to play Pokémon Go, but I can definitely see the remakes argument. I wouldn'tbe able to handle a shiny running away though lol. They looked cute but I wouldn't play them myself. BDSP just broke my heart when I saw them. I'd been so excited for a remake for gen 4 until that junk. I remember countless hours digging for underground treasure in the underground. Such a cool feature for rare items. @EliteTrainerLin
@@Agentsquirtle As LGPE are considered "main series games" by game freak we have to begrudgingly accept them as remakes lol. Since you didn't play it let me tell you another thing about them that bothers me! The latest installment (remake) on some level becomes "the new canon" of the region. And sure in ORAS it's fine to imagine megas actually existed all along, and Zinnia was always hiding in the region somewhere... but in LGPE the main character isn't Red (or the female Leaf/Green) and the rival isn't Blue - which means the new "canon" of Kanto is that Red did NOT beat team rocket, save cubone, or become champion. It never happened, because now the latest canon is that Chase/Elaine was the one who did it all (with the rival Trace). That just feels SO wrong to me!
@@EliteTrainerLin LGPE are not remakes and were not marketed as remakes! They are a reimagining of Pokémon Yellow for a new audience. And they were very good at that!
Zubat gives 1 Speed EV, If I knew that or would've never stop murdering them. Haha. Having never played Emerald, ORAS is my jam. Just got back into it today actually. Pre-Hoen Ash was peak Ash. He lost alot of his entertainment value when Misty left. Around the time I stopped caring about the anime actually. I ain't paying for a taxi in a god damn pokemon game. Especially one based on Paris not New York.
It's not real money and making bank in Kalos is easy 🤣 although I never really use the taxi since I don't find finding things in Lumiose city to be hard!
@@ShineyGlaceon I'll be honest I always walked past the taxis cuz I never bothered to see if they did anything. I assumed they were boring useless background assets like the noninteractive npcs in Castelia City. Why? 2 decades of playing Jrpgs. Walking or Flying. No middle-ground.🤣
@@ShineyGlaceon I'll be honest I always walked past them because I assumed they were useless noninteractive background assets like the npcs in Castelia City. Why? Because 2 decades of playing Jrpgs. It's either walking or flying. No middle-ground. 🤣
My warm take is that this fanbase will never be happy with anything you could have the greatest Pokémon game happening next year and people are mad that it’s taking long but when it’s only a couple months the fan base is gets all mad that the game is not good like damn. This to the point of where people are calling gen 1 bad games like of fucking course their bad they are literally the first games released back in 1997.
It depends on how you define "a happy fanbase". Pokemon is one of THE biggest franchaises in the world and each and every fan has their own opinions, so of course there will NEVER be any one single thing every pokemon fan agrees on! But overall most fans have always been happy with the games, there's just a small vocal angry minority online, but this is also true for every single franchaise ever made and is in no way exclusive to pokemon so I find it's unfair to act as if it's somehow a pokemon fandom issue! (In my opinion the pokemon fandom is one of the LEAST toxic fandoms I've seen, and it's so big that if you block and ignore every toxic person you have literally millions of nice people left! You sadly can't do that as easily with smaller fandoms)
Ash is a fantastic character, but really it was his time to go. He had a wonderful development throughline throughout the gens (except 1 of them lol) and, but he had reached the end of it, maturing greatly and there was nowhere else to really go. He had become an even better character, but at the end, he remains a completed character and to continue making following his journey interesting over a long period of time, it would require either to regress his character or come up with a new character arc that would certainly feel contrived and out of place. I'm a fan of when stories truly end completely tbh, especially since many will often decline if going on too long because of the length, so I'm glad we have our complete and finalized story now.
They did that almost every new generation though, it's not like it was an unheard concept for him! And the could just age him up and/or give him a new goal outside of gyms, like the current anime doesn't even focus on gyms at all so Ash could easily have replaced Roy and Liko. All of Paldea is based on the fact that plenty of champions are running around all over the region, Ash would have fitted right in there! I also highly doubt Ash is gone forever after this long, I'm sure he'll be back in some form!
@@EliteTrainerLin Ash has had a continually developed specific arc from the start though. They don't and can't just invent new things for him to learn every region. Gotta keep the show consistent. And he has had a goal outside of gyms for a while before his retirement. I'm not opposed to him coming back though. That would be pretty cool as a short season or a movie, but I don't really see how they could make another pokemon length series with him after everything.
True Like I don't want to go to same old Kanto I want to see Kanto in the future with the new evolution's and pre evolution's that wasn't their in the original. I want to see new characters like new gym leader's that have more then one pokemon evolution line like how cool it would be except for a rock gym you have to beat a steel gym or a fairy gym.
I so agree with the Hoenn water take, it's why it's my favourite region. They should give us more water please. Zubats never annoyed me, i was so confused people hated them when i discovered the internet but I also love and miss random encounters
@@EliteTrainerLin Yeah my unpopular opinion is that SWSH is some of the best pokémon games and unlike ScarVi, blended traditional pokémon with open world elements much better. People should respect SWSH more, i just think they neat
@@EliteTrainerLin Yeah! Honestly it's the pokémon game that had my favourite cast of characters because they all so well designed and integrated. Plus everything tied so well into theme of pokémon sports with the trading cards with extra art and info being so cool!
I totally agree with your hate for remakes and usernames being used for trainer names as it is pretty cringe. I also agree on Legendaries not being dities and the Pokédex not being 100% reliable while also not being meant to be taken literally. I like Hoenn region just fine and I don’t feel like there is too much water though this take for me might be subjective since Pokemon Emerald is my favourite Pokemon game 😅
first of all, seeing a drowzee and not thinking to catch it, smh. I love that little guy :) I've kinda wanted to try a nuzlocke but it feels like it would be asking me to play pokemon in a way I'm personally not comfortable with, something I'm far from used to. hard agree on mr mime. That thing is FAR too goofy to be scary to me Zubat isn't a bad pokemon, but personally the problem isn't zubat itself for me, it's the fact that the encounter rates in caves is ridiculous so you'll be fighting a LOT of pokemon, and zubat has the highest encounter rate so it's the one that gets the most sh*t. I always used the wild pokemon as training fodder anyway, you comin at me Imma come at you harder. (unironically I do sometimes get spiteful towards the wild pokemon in this game LOL) If you want my own controversial opinion, I don't hate jynx, I think it's alright, at least after the redesign. It's not really all that creepy to me, it's just whatever.
That thing about the Pokédex, I always thought that since the info need to be collected by you. Nobody has completed the dex yet, that it was the ten year old child who wrote it. I.e it’s stuff made up by a 10 year old
My unpopular opinion I think is that is good the Legends games jump around with the generations Kalos need a bit more love , they started with gen 4 what makes people think they're going to go to five? Funny thing about Lumious City is that I always thought that because it was supposed to be a big city you're supposed to get a little lost. Now when it comes to remakes they'll always be people who think they aren't needed, but it was good when the games they did were the ones you could no longer get a hold of or in the case of the gen one remakes get the pokemon you could no longer access to due to the software limitation required for transfer from the GB to the GBA. Heck after FR and LG they seemed to stick to a pattern or remake with a new system and with the gen that they remade is the half of example gen 2 with gen 4 on the ds and gen 3 with gen 6 2/3ds gen 4 with gen 8 switch...and with people now wanting gen 5 remakes with gen 9, makes sense why people are getting annoyed by it some fans are demanding it too fast.
Ok, the only opinion here that I disagree with is the Ash one. I wanted Ash gone as far back as 2002, his continued presence made me stop watching the anime in Gen3. ...granted, I never looked back or gave the rest of the anime a chance until Horizons, so I didn't really care either way for 2 decades.
Oh, honestly, share a lot of these! Only one is the legendary thing, imho it did kinda feel like PLA went the "literal gods" route a bit, but otherwise yeah every other game/legendary they're just rare and powerful creatures lol. And hell yeah Lumiose is one of, if not THE best cities! It felt so alive and real and explorable. Eagerly awaiting PLZA
Oh I feel the opposite about legends, having people worship dialga and palkia as if they are gods while these "gods" have literally never done anything for them (back then or in the future) it just solidifies my thoughts that it's all in the minds of the humans! They clearly have powers relating to space and time, but they didn't create it in my opinion. Arceus is the only almost-exclusion, but even then all it really did was to use time travel to bring in a human from the future, which even just a celebi could do. But I do like that the "legends" game kind of shows us those myths/legends in action - like they kind of want us to be a bit unsure! Also I'm so glad to hear I'm not alone about the usernames!!!
@@EliteTrainerLin I'd say it depends on what you mean when you say "Arceus." The Pokemon is definitely not a God, since its stated to be a fraction of its power. But the true entity might not even be a Pokemon itself, since at beginning of the game it says the line "I am that which humans call Arcues," which to me implies the Pokemon Arceus is just a representation of a being who is otherwise completely beyond comprehension.
Imo if the pokemon we interact with is not a god, then it's just not a god! We're all part of the earth, but we aren't exactly the earth but instead our own beings!
Too much water? Well, I don't think the amount of water is the issue in Hoenn... it's that it would benefit from having a bigger aquatic fauna in that water!
Also, I actually like BDSP. 🔥🔥🔥FLAME ME MORTALS HAHAHAHAHAA!!!🔥🔥🔥 No but seriously though, gen 4 was my favorite generation and to be able to play it again was a dream come true. Could it have instead been a Platinum remake and thus better? Ehh yea, but I still appreciate it for what it is and the small improvement they made to what I view as the best Trio of Pokémon games in that current era. TLDR ✨Nostalgia✨
Bro u and me share minds or something, and yea first seasons ash is peek ash 👍 never have seen ur videos before but the fact the we share so many opinions earned u a like
my umpopular opinion is: I dont like gen 4. To me, it feels slow, the story isnt really THAT GOOD as people say, and also i dont really enjoy most of the Dex, especially Infernape (i literally received death threats for saying this 😭). The one i relate the most is the remake one. No, we dont need another Kanto or Jotho remake please stop
Wait so people really believe the pokedex? This whole time I thought it was clear that it was a mix of a 10 year old's field data, local myth and "actual" science from pokemon professors. I think Abra's dex entry should have given it away but if you got to Phantump and it still didn't click I just gotta assume you've never heard of an unreliable narrator.
I really love the idea that the dex is full of reports from kids and the professors just accept it like "spoink dies if it stops bouncing? yes this makes sense even tho we've all seen it faint and get up just fine a billion times before, must be true, kids would never lie or get anything wrong". It's weirdly also realistic, there are myths like "all sharks die if they stop swimming" that people believe in real life too!
@@EliteTrainerLin Lmao can you imagine some professor out there doing a 10 year long study to find out why their Spoink falls over and doesn't die because they whole heartedly believe these reports they use for the pokedex? "Hmmm it must be close to evolving or some kind of legendary Spoink!"
I understand how you feel with nuzlockes,I don't like it ethier,but I have no problem watching nuzlockes though XD and I did try a nuzlocke once in pokemon x in 2013 or 2014,I can't remember when I did this anymore...but man dunsparce was pissed off about something when I was training my pokemon,and the whole thing was a disaster anyway after the first or second gym so I gave up after that,did dunsparce need an evolution in gen 9? apparently not since it decided to murder the pokemon I was training in gen 6
Fun fact, I did decide to try a nuzlocke once, and for the first and only time ever in my entire life... I lost the first rival battle you do right after getting your pokemon. I decided then it just wasn't meant to be lmao
@@EliteTrainerLin wow XD weird that I lasted longer,but I didn't start having problems until the first gym in x,it made me hate infestation alot more than I originally did
Idk if this an unpopular opinion but i actually don't mind the exp all, i literally hate grinding up levels, it felt like less fun, at least in my perspective. Another unpopular opinion but i feel like Game Freak should do more Let's Go, instead of making remakes like BDSP or another remake. Final unpopular opinion is that USUM is better than the original Sun and Moon
I honestly can't tell if wanting more Let's Go games over BDSP is unpopular or not! I think the Let's Go games were pretty well-received by most people, but in general people prefer more "normal" remakes... except that BDSP was so unpopular that people don't want more of that kind of remake! Funny you mention grinding levels though, I was under the impression people loved the new (lol "new", it's pretty old by now) exp-all and that they find grinding boring. I'm in a sort of middle ground place, I like the exp all but I also love grinding exp!
Oh man you hit the nail on the head with the remakes. Honestly if I want to replay the old games I will just use an emulator… even without the online play, they’re all still fun. I want to see more of the Pokemon world, which brings me to my very own unpopular opinion. We need to know the finite number of regions that exist in the Pokemon world. Between games, fans have no idea what to expect because we don’t have much to speculate on except for leaks and rumors. It kills the investment into the story to hold out on this basic worldbuilding!! Also I want a game that features all the regions, doesn’t have to be specifically a mainline pokemon game but just SOMETHING that ties everything together.
I think it would be really difficult to have a game with at least 9 regions and to do them all justice... while it's not entirely the same in pokemon super mystery dungeon you had 5 different "continents" you could visit, some of which were basically the "regions" of previous games, and that was incredibly cool!
A few unpopular opinions I got: I like ORAS more than HGSS and Emerald, Johto is overrated, Mega Evolution is probably the worst gimmick of the 3, the original English intro is mid and every remix of it was better, I actually preferred Sarah Natichenny’s Ash to Veronica Taylor’s, despite all the dumb things that happened, the Unova anime was pretty solid overall. And Ash’s loss against Alain was completely justified.
The problem with your last unpopular opinion is that if Ash kept losing after he had become world champion that kind of undermines his biggest achievement if randon trainer of the day can beat him.
I don't think so! If Ash loses to really powerful trainers it just shows there's more to the pokemon world. He doesn't have to lose to a brand new noob trainer, you can just make his new rivals super strong champions too, with pokemon he's never seen before so it catches him off-guard. Could also be an evil team that keeps attacking him 5 on one, or legendary pokemon that are crazy strong! Or perhaps now he's the mentor to an unskilled new trainer, and we see that other trainer lose instead of Ash. There are many ways to develop new stories for Ash!
I'll never understand Nuzlockes. If I want to play with an arbitrary set of restrictions, I have the power to come up with my own arbitrary restrictions.. why would I ever want to look up someone else's made-up rules? I also feel like Pokémon games in general most of the time aren't THAT boring to me that I'd feel the need to an additional challenge added to it.. usually just using completely different Pokémon is refreshing enough, and there are so many main series games now that none of us are stuck replaying one game over and over for years..
The point of nuzlockes isn’t about how BORING Pokémon is, it’s about how EASY it is. At the end of the day it’s a game made for literal children to be able to beat, nuzlockes impose a specific set of rules that make it so that way pokemon is actually a challenge. Also you do nuzlockes BECAUSE you’re bored of playing Pokémon the regular way (which isn’t different in any mainline games other than legends arceus.) you don’t have to like it, you don’t have to play it, but it seems pretty blockheaded to not understand it
@@emannuelsepulveda7259 you missed the point and focused on the "also". To reiterate, I don't understand wanting to play by "those specific rules" instead of making some rules up.
@@AdeptCharon that’s an even dumber reason to be confused tbh. You’re asking why follow nuzlocke rules rather than any of your own? Dude you can do whatever YOU want. That’s kinda the whole point of nuzlockes is that people go outta their way to play Pokémon with a specific set of MADE UP rules. You can make up your own and play that way, no one cares. The reason “why” it’s those rules is simply because that’s how the very first person did this challenge, people saw them do it and did it themselves. Eventually so many people started using those specific rules and it became it’s own thing. But there’s so many different types of nuzlockes, they aren’t all the same. There’s kaizo runs, Ironman runs, mono type nuzlocke runs. So on and so forth. You getting hung up on something as simple as “lol I just don’t get why they follow those rules when I can just make up my own” seems extremely stubborn and blockheaded, like you simply don’t WANT to understand it because you just think it’s stupid, which is fine. Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion
3:23 okay for some reason people (dw it's not just you) can't understand that this is still physically possible due to the law of thermodynamics, or in other words, it's because of magcargo's INCREDIBLY small size that the fact it's hotter than the surface of the sun is irrelevant let's put it like this, if you had a small candle, it'd probably be about 1,000 or so degrees celcius. you know how hot it is? it's the same heat as *boiling lava.* but obviously, touching a small candle isn't going to burn you the same as touching lava. it's the same situation for magcargo. even if magcargo is hotter than the surface of the sun, magcargo isn't even close to 0.00000000000000000000000000001% the size of the sun, so the actual damage it'd cause is very miniscule in comparison. it really isn't a danger to you or the environment, unless it's in some forest/grasslands or you're trying to touch a wild magcargo for some reason lol edit: oh btw, i agree with all of your unpopular opinions aside from the pokedex one lol. honestly, i'm surprised these even are unpopular opinions to begin with, cuz you're just spitting straight facts. ESPECIALLY the one about Ash being a good protagonist. there was no reason to replace mah boi
Fair enough! I still don't buy that a boy turned into a kadabra - which some dex entries present as a fact, and others straight up admit is just an unverified rumor! That on its own is proof that there are literal rumors and untruths in the dex!
@@EliteTrainerLin Eeeeh, that's only partially true. The Pokedex entries for Kadabra outright states that those are only "rumors" and "theories" about Kadabra, it never once claims them as undeniable truth. "It is *rumored* that a boy with psychic abilities suddenly transformed into Kadabra while he was assisting research into extrasensory powers." (Emerald Dex entry for Kadabra) "A *theory* exists that this Pokémon was a young boy who couldn’t control his psychic powers and ended up transformed into this Pokémon." (Sun Dex entry for Kadabra) And so far, only the Gen 3 and Gen 7 dex entries ever bring this story up. So TLDR; The Pokedex isn't stating that a boy actually turned into a Kadabra, but only that it's a popular in-universe rumor that has gone around, similar to the real life rumor of Mew being under the truck in Vermilion City, despite there being no truth to it.
@@afro025 It does actually, FR dex entry: "It happened one morning - a boy with extrasensory powers awoke in bed transformed into Kadabra." The dex there literally does state that it happened, with no mention of it being a rumor.
@@EliteTrainerLin And in that *same generation,* the Emerald dex entry states: "It is rumored that a boy with psychic abilities suddenly transformed into Kadabra while he was assisting research into extrasensory powers." It's clear the intention is that the two Pokedex entries aren't contradictory, but rather that the Emerald dex entry adds further context to what Firered established. Plenty Pokedex entries do this, expanding upon or clarifying information we receive about them in future dex entries. Even if you really wanted to argue that the Firered dex entry is trying to paint it as a factual statement and not a rumor, it's still an outlier because literally *every* single Pokedex entry afterward that brings up the tale of the boy turning into a Kadabra begins by addressing it as a rumor or a theory. Pokemon Sun, Legends Arceus, even Emerald, a game that was released in the *same* year as Firered. It seems disingenuous to only pull up *one* Pokedex entry that doesn't clarify if it's a fact or a rumor and use it as proof for the Pokedex being unreliable...when every Pokedex entry afterwards directly clarifies what they mean by the statement. I'd agree you have a point if there was more than the FR entry because it'd show that the "truth" is constantly switching throughout the Pokedex...but there isn't. So at the end of the day, a boy turning into a Kadabra is still a rumor in the world of Pokemon.
@@afro025 I think the opposite! It shows the dex entries are being updated and differ region to region as they learn more in-universe! I think it's a really wonderful way of world building! And either way we both agree that rumors are being talked about in the pokedex, so the dex evidently isn't all based on facts and also includes little tidbits like folklore and rumors.
I got through most of the video completely agreeing with you, and by the end I still agree with *almost* everything-but wait a second, did you just call Let's Go a “garbage game”?? It's still the most polished main series title on the Switch, and it's very good for what it is intended to be!! It's just not a game directed at series veterans, and that's okay!
Pokemon running away from you is stressful and not fun! And they removed all the small details that made the towns memorable!! The bike shop no longer sells you a bike, the game corner has no games, there is no safari in what used to be the safari park... it's a pretty but empty shell of a game. Having only gen 1 pokemon in a modern game is SO boring (seriously not even evolutions that had been around for over a decade were added???), the box system is atrocious, they encourage you to treat all pokemon like disposable items and not like living creatures by making you just catch and throw them away for candy, they didn't even have consistent pokemon icons, they didn't treat the starters like equals - and the core mechanic of physically throwing poké balls was only fun for at most 5 minutes. Do I need to go on?!
@@EliteTrainerLin I agree with some of your points, but what I'm saying is that the game isn't for us. The point of Let's Go was to recapture old fans who left the series behind, as well as brand new fans who discovered Pokémon because of Pokémon Go. Most of the things you pointed out as missing aren't important to that audience, mostly because they never experienced it in the first place. I personally know at least three people for whom Let's Go was their first main series Pokémon game, or their first in many years, who then went on to play other Pokémon games in the Switch. They worked well for what they intended!
@@UmbreonLibris That just sounds depressing to me! Making the game worse and lacking in content because people won't know what they're missing anyway... instead of giving them something good or better when they could have done that! Also it *was* the first main series pokemon game on switch so I don't think you can say it wasn't also intended for regular long time fans.
I apologize for not making my point more clear so that you could understand it! My point wasn't "the game is wrong" but "the game is filled with folklore meant for world-building and atmosphere that isn't necessarily meant to be taken as literal facts withing the boundaries of the game's logic". Hope that helps you, random commenter!
I don’t understand why let’s go gets so much hate, I just saw them as simple little games that weren’t supposed to be taken too seriously, they came out over a decade after fr/lg so it wasn’t too much kanto to me, I just simply don’t get it, not saying they’re anything amazing, but definitely wouldn’t call them garbage. ( they also had the best shiny hunting and following Pokémon in the series, I will die on that hill)
I think they suffer the curse of 1) being the first pokemon game on switch and 2) being sold to us as main series games while being totally different from all the other main games. If you tell the fans "this is the next main series games" you're putting A LOT of expectations onto the shoulders of that game. And this is at a point where we didn't know if this was just the new way they'd make pokemon games forever from then on. If they were just a side game duo I'd be willing to say "yeah they're not garbage" but because they ARE the worst main series games we've ever gotten (in my humble opinion) I have to call them garbage! (I'm also exaggerating a bit for comedic effect lol)
Which legendaries are deities depends on which one you are talking about, but it is pretty obvious that Arceus and the creation trio are deities, that's not an opinion, that's a fact
Not only that but its been fully established that capturing said deities, is pretty much the equivalent of catching their avatar. And according to Cyrus limits their full power which takes into considering of certain pokemon not getting wounded as bad as they should from moves that would normally kill someone easily.
@@KazShiro actually only Arceus has that avatar concept. I personally prefer to think he reason Cyrus uses the red chain is because pokeballs can't force pokemon to obey
The legendary one isn't controversial or even unpopular lol same with the pokedex one. The remakes opinion is also like... one of the most popular ones too.
Then where are all these people and why do 9/10 people I talk to say these things?! Seeing as every pokemon post, live stream etc was literally spammed with "gen 4 remakes pls!!!!" for YEARS it's definitely not popular to not want remakes! (But perhaps BDSP finally turned more people off remakes from how bad they were!)
Give him more to do then! Let him be a champion in Paldea, researching all the secrets of the region and eventually finding the legendary ruin pokemon or area zera!
What the hell is wrong with you people say keep Ash forever and lord forbid they try something different from the last 25 years and it’s a good latch on point for new comes who don’t have to binge watch the whole series for a month to a year
@@megasnowey7177 Most people say milotic similar to the word "melodic", but it's actually supposed to be said like the name Milo + tick. I prefer the "wrong" way so I'll keep saying it like that!
@@EliteTrainerLin oh so you're pronouncing it with a short O. I'd mention the rule about a single consonant causing the O sound to be long, but talking about rules and English in the same sentence is contradictory
You could just play the old game *and* get another brand new one so you have 2 games to play! And as a lover of pixel art I don't agree that the new 3D art is necessarily "better" either!
ORAS is great, but it's not better than emerald as it dumbed down contests (which is one of my favorite things about Hoenn) and they removed battle frontier (another favorite!) and of course I already knew all of the story (apart from the post game Zinnia stuff that was new, of course). I would have preferred a *new* Hoenn game instead, where the region was expanded and we got to see all the gym leaders a few years later, the way BW2 did it!
Still confused on how nobody is talking about the fact waking up and seeing a drowzee might actually be scarier than literally every actual phobia
It's so scary nobody wants to even think about it!
I'd say not *all* Legendaries are gods. Clearly stuff like Articuno, Mew, the Regis, Heatran, Cosmog are rare animals, even rarer than Pseudo Legendaries and other hard to get mons since they can't be bread in captivity, nor any of their evo line can. But for stuff that clearly is a unique individual, eternal and with power beyond what regular Pokemon can do like, forming water from nothing, creating or giving life and bringing back the dead, then that thing is functionally a god.
I guess it all depends on how you define what a "god" is! In my mind they'd have to be literal creators of the universe, time, space, essentially be immortal etc to be "gods", but to be fair in a lot of cultures (Japan included) gods can be small and just rule a small part of nature. Nevertheless my opinion is still that the humans in the pokemon world that worship pokemon as if they were all-powerful gods are "mistaken", like how the two clans in legends arceus argue about what the "correct" one to worship is! If we believe the dex, then plenty of ghost types are brought back to life from the dead, so even something as amazing as that is never really exclusive to the legendaries.
@@EliteTrainerLin I mean too be fair, Dialga and Palkia literally control time and space, and arceus created everything else, and the lake trio created wisdom, emotion, and will power, I say that is very much what gods would do
@@Quickpatch12 I very much question your use of "literally", how do you know the trio created wisdom, emotion and will power? How do you know it's not just the regional folklore? You'd then also have to accept that in the pokemon world humans were some kind of empty husks without thoughts or feelings until those 3 came along!
@EliteTrainerLin for that I go with the fact of what the trio can do, it has been stated in many pokedex entries that Mesprit can take away emotions, Azelf takes away will power, and Uxie takes away wisdom. No other pokemon can do that.
Plus your case is assuming that humans existed before the lake trio did, when it could more likely be the case that they were created before humans existed. I go by that because that would mean humans are older then Mew, the ancestor to all Pokemon (accepted since Mew is the only one that can learn every pokemon move that are not signature moves)
@@Quickpatch12 For the trio to have "given" their gifts to humans they would have have to existed without them before. Sobble can force anyone to get sad and cry, grass typs can often calm you down, psychic types can control your movements - it's not at all unusual for pokemon to have powers that "forcefully" affects emotions, thoughts or actions of others!
My unpopular opinion: Recently there's been people wanting GF to return to making 2D games for Pokemon, and, while I'd like to play that too, this is not the surefire way of making "Pokemon great again" people has been hyping it up to be. There's good 3D games (duh) but also bad 2D ones.
A more effective way of making good games is having good development periods, with good length, vision and direction!
Definitely! It's never the fault of the art style (although some games do be looking quite... oof) and most games could be fixed with more resources + time.
Honestly I have always doubted the whole "legendaries are literal gods" thing and I'm glad someone brought it up haha. I always interpret it as people *believing* certain Pokemon are deities because of their power but it's not necessarily literal cuz--like, I can put it in a ball and make it obey my commands lolll. And the Pokedex is notorious for overexaggerating anyway. My trainer has definitely looked at Shedinja's back more than once and they still have their soul as far as I can tell.
Side note: your edits made me laugh.
Thanks hehe! And yeah, would a literal god really let a 10 year old kid tell it what to do??
What they don't realize is that it was straight up confirmed that not all legendaries are actually Gods, some may be bordering on demigod territory but legendaries like the birds, beasts, lati's are just superhuman tier or super rare beefed up mortals especially since some of them canonically breed. The only ones that are straight up God's are certain boxart legendaries like Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, and propably Eternatus(more like alien) And to answer the "catching god and letting it tell it what to do" is the fact that YES they do let you capture it if you managed to prove that you can catch them.
Or in the case of Legends Arceus, the form you battle with or "catch" is confirmed to be an avatar of them and that was way after some were begining to question the legitimacy of God tier pokemon being in a pokeball(or masterball) and listening to a 10 year old. And thats not including the fact that Cyrus gives you a masterball because he straight up tells you that unlike the red chain, the masterball would limit its full power which also would imply why some pokemon dont get wounded that bad in pokemon battles trainers have despite yknow certain signature moves being used that would likely kill someone.
Shout out to all the nice commenters! Especially ones who disagree with me and turn it into a fun but respectful discussion, you guys are so much fun to talk to!!!
Low-key shade to certain other commenters. No names mentioned tho :)))
I feel Ash was stagnating too much, which is a shame because early seasons smack-talking Ash was funny. Woulda liked to see more of that instead of the generic kid character he devolved into. Liko and Roy really haven't been it as replacements, least in my opinion
I think Ash had a lot of cool arcs within the seasons/generations. XY had the best story out of all of them I think! And seeing him become the Alolan champion and then world champion was really cool and a great finish to his story. But I'd still love to see more adventures from him, and I have to agree - the new protagonists (and later version Ash) are too generic and too "nice". I think it's a development of the 2000s slowly turning every cartoon character into a "flawless rolemodel", they can't show "rude" kids in cartoons or parents get mad that their kids might copy them! Meanwhile the old cartoons those parents watched had Tom and Jerry trying to violently take each other out, and they turned into normal adults...
I think it can be very easy to get sick of remakes due to the constant overabundance of fans asking for them to be made. I remember hearing that ppl were expecting Hoenn remakes in Gen5, which with hindsight sounds even stupider. As we know, they create just 1 set of remakes per every system. FRLG on GBA, DP on DS, ORAS on 3DS & BDSPiss on Switch (Kanto remakes have already been made back in Gen3, so LGPE doesn't count). There was a minor demand for Hoenn remakes on the DS when Jotho remakes were already on the DS. & secondly, there wouldn't be much of a graphical improvement from RSE to the then-current Gen5 games.
There're talks about the possibility of outsourced Gen5 remakes later this year, but I don't believe that. I've a suspicious feeling that they wouldn't come out until the Gen10, at very least, which would most likely be on the next console, fitting perfectly with the "1 pair of remakes on each console" rule.
The edited JN clip of Ash and Goh saying their names wrong was too funny help 🤣🤣
I'm glad someone appreciated my efforts haha
I agree with number 1, 3, 7 and largely 12. It was mostly that he had to start from scratch over and over again and never allowed to win a league that was getting tiring (looking at you, Tobias).
Not sure if it is unpopular to say, but I think that Eevee should have gotten new eeveelutions instead of a G-Max form. I want a Poison one, dang it!
Same about eevee! I might be totally wrong here, but I *think* the reason people like eevee is *because* it can evolve into so many cool(er) pokemon, so to focus on eevee itself kind of misses the point of why it's popular in the first place.
I feel like if we got a new eeveelution, it would be dragon type because it's the only remaining special attacking type from before the physical/special split. Faiiry fits neatly into the Special Attacker Club, too, especially because there were 8 SpA types and 9 Atk types. It would be pretty cool to see a counterpart to Eevee that gets all the physical types.
@@coltonstewart8698 why would it have to be a special type?
@@coltonstewart8698 People say that, but I don't see a reason why they wouldn't just make a physical attacker instead to surprise fans, they like to break patterns to be unpredictable!
I feel you on the remakes for sure. I get it from the standpoint of being able to play certain games on current consoles but to straight remake classics isn't great as many times you lose what makes them great. I feel you on the Zubats as it's a great way to level my guys up because Pokemon at times is supposed to be a grind. Mr. Mime for me isn't so much that people don't like clowns so much as the old Gen games Mimie as Ash's mom calls him was more defensive than offensive so many times he wasn't a great fit for teams unlike your Abra or Drowzee lines that fit most balanced teams well. Yes Drowzee is back to ruin your day.
Mine are:
-super training should have never left, aside from Legends Arceus since their was no pokemon amie equivalent in that game (as well as getting an eeveeloution out of it).
-the moss rock and icy rock (and the highly magnetic areas) are totally fine evolution methods, those who complain about using them are just being lazy (about using them, not when they're placed in the post game despite having Pokemon that evolve with them that you can obtain before the league, that's never fine)
-Friendship evolutions are worse than trade evolutions, at least with trade evolutions, if you're able to pull them off, they're both a breeze, as well as one and done; friendship evolutions not only take an excruciatingly long time but also often lock several features behind them, ORAS being the biggest offender of it.
-(this one is a reponse to one of your points) chansey was done better in let's go then it was in the other kanto games for the sole reason that's it NOT in the safari zone, what's the point of creating a high exp.yeilding enemy if you're gonna place it an area where you can't battle it? For at least FireRd and Leafgreen, couldn't it have traded areas with like tangela or someone?
A Nuzlocke can be summarized with the old Dr Seuss quote, "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened"
Do more Pokémon gyms and an evil team
I think the only thing I really disagreed with was the remakes. I loved Fire Red, Leaf Green, Heart Gold, Soul Silver, and Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire so much. They rekindled that nostalgia but it wasnt a carbon copy. The latest remake with gen 4 really let me down. I have no words to describe my salt levels for how one of my favorite regions got wronged. I also like them because some of the older versions just are not released on newer gen consoles and playing the original copies gets expensive or is just done alternative ways.
I loved Lumiose for hatching eggs. Zubat only annoyed me in Crystal when I didnt have fly or repels. Otherwise I really love it. Hoenn is one of the best regions, definitely.
Just to be clear, I still had a ton of fun playing those games! I honestly think HGSS is hands down the best version of Johto we've ever gotten (so far!). But ORAS is not better than emerald, BDSP is not better than platinum, and LGPE is not better than FRLG. If you make a remake it has to at the very least be better than the latest installment of that game, or we might as well just keep playing the old game! Part of the fun for me personally for remakes is seeing new pokemon in the older regions (using an all Galarian team in Johto would be so cool!) but with LGPE and BDSP they just ditched that feature and strictly kept to old pokemon. I think liking ORAS is fair, but I missed battle frontier and contests too much to say it's better than emerald.
I completely agree with the Battle Frontier. I thought it was a slap in the face when they had that little model thing and had a "coming soon" instead of actually having it. It would have added so much extra to the games because the Battle Frontier is so unique and challenging. That being in ORAS would have made it perfect for me. I liked the Lati twins flying feature a lot in those as well.
I forget about the Let's Go games being remakes. I consider them more trying to get people to play Pokémon Go, but I can definitely see the remakes argument. I wouldn'tbe able to handle a shiny running away though lol. They looked cute but I wouldn't play them myself. BDSP just broke my heart when I saw them. I'd been so excited for a remake for gen 4 until that junk. I remember countless hours digging for underground treasure in the underground. Such a cool feature for rare items. @EliteTrainerLin
@@Agentsquirtle As LGPE are considered "main series games" by game freak we have to begrudgingly accept them as remakes lol. Since you didn't play it let me tell you another thing about them that bothers me! The latest installment (remake) on some level becomes "the new canon" of the region. And sure in ORAS it's fine to imagine megas actually existed all along, and Zinnia was always hiding in the region somewhere... but in LGPE the main character isn't Red (or the female Leaf/Green) and the rival isn't Blue - which means the new "canon" of Kanto is that Red did NOT beat team rocket, save cubone, or become champion. It never happened, because now the latest canon is that Chase/Elaine was the one who did it all (with the rival Trace). That just feels SO wrong to me!
@@EliteTrainerLin LGPE are not remakes and were not marketed as remakes! They are a reimagining of Pokémon Yellow for a new audience. And they were very good at that!
@@UmbreonLibris A reimagining is a kind of remake!!!
Zubat gives 1 Speed EV, If I knew that or would've never stop murdering them. Haha. Having never played Emerald, ORAS is my jam. Just got back into it today actually. Pre-Hoen Ash was peak Ash. He lost alot of his entertainment value when Misty left. Around the time I stopped caring about the anime actually. I ain't paying for a taxi in a god damn pokemon game. Especially one based on Paris not New York.
It's not real money and making bank in Kalos is easy 🤣 although I never really use the taxi since I don't find finding things in Lumiose city to be hard!
Imagine being so poor you can't even pay for a taxi in a video game for kids... can't relate. (this is just a joke, i mean no harm!)
@@ShineyGlaceon I'll be honest I always walked past the taxis cuz I never bothered to see if they did anything. I assumed they were boring useless background assets like the noninteractive npcs in Castelia City. Why? 2 decades of playing Jrpgs. Walking or Flying. No middle-ground.🤣
@@ShineyGlaceon I'll be honest I always walked past them because I assumed they were useless noninteractive background assets like the npcs in Castelia City. Why? Because 2 decades of playing Jrpgs. It's either walking or flying. No middle-ground. 🤣
My warm take is that this fanbase will never be happy with anything you could have the greatest Pokémon game happening next year and people are mad that it’s taking long but when it’s only a couple months the fan base is gets all mad that the game is not good like damn. This to the point of where people are calling gen 1 bad games like of fucking course their bad they are literally the first games released back in 1997.
It depends on how you define "a happy fanbase". Pokemon is one of THE biggest franchaises in the world and each and every fan has their own opinions, so of course there will NEVER be any one single thing every pokemon fan agrees on! But overall most fans have always been happy with the games, there's just a small vocal angry minority online, but this is also true for every single franchaise ever made and is in no way exclusive to pokemon so I find it's unfair to act as if it's somehow a pokemon fandom issue! (In my opinion the pokemon fandom is one of the LEAST toxic fandoms I've seen, and it's so big that if you block and ignore every toxic person you have literally millions of nice people left! You sadly can't do that as easily with smaller fandoms)
01:29 You want more water? Do you happen to be a Team Aqua member?
Archie was onto something, that's all I'm saying!
Water enjoyers know to bring repels always
Absolutely, chads bring 999 max repels and surf unbothered!
I usually don't care at all at how people pronounce a Pokemons name EXCEPT, Gliscor. People who say "Glisskor" gives me a visceral reaction
Ash is a fantastic character, but really it was his time to go. He had a wonderful development throughline throughout the gens (except 1 of them lol) and, but he had reached the end of it, maturing greatly and there was nowhere else to really go. He had become an even better character, but at the end, he remains a completed character and to continue making following his journey interesting over a long period of time, it would require either to regress his character or come up with a new character arc that would certainly feel contrived and out of place. I'm a fan of when stories truly end completely tbh, especially since many will often decline if going on too long because of the length, so I'm glad we have our complete and finalized story now.
They did that almost every new generation though, it's not like it was an unheard concept for him! And the could just age him up and/or give him a new goal outside of gyms, like the current anime doesn't even focus on gyms at all so Ash could easily have replaced Roy and Liko. All of Paldea is based on the fact that plenty of champions are running around all over the region, Ash would have fitted right in there! I also highly doubt Ash is gone forever after this long, I'm sure he'll be back in some form!
@@EliteTrainerLin Ash has had a continually developed specific arc from the start though. They don't and can't just invent new things for him to learn every region. Gotta keep the show consistent. And he has had a goal outside of gyms for a while before his retirement. I'm not opposed to him coming back though. That would be pretty cool as a short season or a movie, but I don't really see how they could make another pokemon length series with him after everything.
True Like I don't want to go to same old Kanto I want to see Kanto in the future with the new evolution's and pre evolution's that wasn't their in the original. I want to see new characters like new gym leader's that have more then one pokemon evolution line like how cool it would be except for a rock gym you have to beat a steel gym or a fairy gym.
Yes that's what I want! PLEASE let us see what they are building in that empty plot in Vermilion City, it's been nearly 30 years!!
I so agree with the Hoenn water take, it's why it's my favourite region. They should give us more water please.
Zubats never annoyed me, i was so confused people hated them when i discovered the internet but I also love and miss random encounters
I also miss random encounters! I prefer the mix they had in swsh where you get both over-world and random encounters.
@@EliteTrainerLin Yeah my unpopular opinion is that SWSH is some of the best pokémon games and unlike ScarVi, blended traditional pokémon with open world elements much better. People should respect SWSH more, i just think they neat
@@ddtaylorificus Not to mention the gym leaders all had amazing designs, looked cohesive and felt extremely relevant to the regions culture!
@@EliteTrainerLin Yeah! Honestly it's the pokémon game that had my favourite cast of characters because they all so well designed and integrated. Plus everything tied so well into theme of pokémon sports with the trading cards with extra art and info being so cool!
@@ddtaylorificus You're making me miss Galar all over again even though it was just one generation ago 🤣
I totally agree with your hate for remakes and usernames being used for trainer names as it is pretty cringe. I also agree on Legendaries not being dities and the Pokédex not being 100% reliable while also not being meant to be taken literally. I like Hoenn region just fine and I don’t feel like there is too much water though this take for me might be subjective since Pokemon Emerald is my favourite Pokemon game 😅
I'm glad you agree, and emerald is an excellent game to have as your favorite!
first of all, seeing a drowzee and not thinking to catch it, smh. I love that little guy :)
I've kinda wanted to try a nuzlocke but it feels like it would be asking me to play pokemon in a way I'm personally not comfortable with, something I'm far from used to.
hard agree on mr mime. That thing is FAR too goofy to be scary to me
Zubat isn't a bad pokemon, but personally the problem isn't zubat itself for me, it's the fact that the encounter rates in caves is ridiculous so you'll be fighting a LOT of pokemon, and zubat has the highest encounter rate so it's the one that gets the most sh*t. I always used the wild pokemon as training fodder anyway, you comin at me Imma come at you harder. (unironically I do sometimes get spiteful towards the wild pokemon in this game LOL)
If you want my own controversial opinion, I don't hate jynx, I think it's alright, at least after the redesign. It's not really all that creepy to me, it's just whatever.
The drowzee ran off before I could catch it!
That thing about the Pokédex, I always thought that since the info need to be collected by you. Nobody has completed the dex yet, that it was the ten year old child who wrote it. I.e it’s stuff made up by a 10 year old
My unpopular opinion I think is that is good the Legends games jump around with the generations Kalos need a bit more love , they started with gen 4 what makes people think they're going to go to five? Funny thing about Lumious City is that I always thought that because it was supposed to be a big city you're supposed to get a little lost. Now when it comes to remakes they'll always be people who think they aren't needed, but it was good when the games they did were the ones you could no longer get a hold of or in the case of the gen one remakes get the pokemon you could no longer access to due to the software limitation required for transfer from the GB to the GBA. Heck after FR and LG they seemed to stick to a pattern or remake with a new system and with the gen that they remade is the half of example gen 2 with gen 4 on the ds and gen 3 with gen 6 2/3ds gen 4 with gen 8 switch...and with people now wanting gen 5 remakes with gen 9, makes sense why people are getting annoyed by it some fans are demanding it too fast.
"Every region other than hoen has too little water"
Alola:
Alola barely has any water you actually get to explore! Waaaay less than Hoenn has!
Ok, the only opinion here that I disagree with is the Ash one.
I wanted Ash gone as far back as 2002, his continued presence made me stop watching the anime in Gen3.
...granted, I never looked back or gave the rest of the anime a chance until Horizons, so I didn't really care either way for 2 decades.
I also stopped watching at one point as a teen when it felt too childish for me lol but even then I still thought he was nice for the kids.
Zubat?
I want regional forms of it so we can have more Zubat!
Agreed, zubat in every cave in every region.
Oh, honestly, share a lot of these! Only one is the legendary thing, imho it did kinda feel like PLA went the "literal gods" route a bit, but otherwise yeah every other game/legendary they're just rare and powerful creatures lol. And hell yeah Lumiose is one of, if not THE best cities! It felt so alive and real and explorable. Eagerly awaiting PLZA
Oh I feel the opposite about legends, having people worship dialga and palkia as if they are gods while these "gods" have literally never done anything for them (back then or in the future) it just solidifies my thoughts that it's all in the minds of the humans! They clearly have powers relating to space and time, but they didn't create it in my opinion. Arceus is the only almost-exclusion, but even then all it really did was to use time travel to bring in a human from the future, which even just a celebi could do. But I do like that the "legends" game kind of shows us those myths/legends in action - like they kind of want us to be a bit unsure!
Also I'm so glad to hear I'm not alone about the usernames!!!
@@EliteTrainerLin Ooooh you know, that's a really good point!! Yeah I can definitely see it that way now omg
@@EliteTrainerLin I'd say it depends on what you mean when you say "Arceus." The Pokemon is definitely not a God, since its stated to be a fraction of its power. But the true entity might not even be a Pokemon itself, since at beginning of the game it says the line "I am that which humans call Arcues," which to me implies the Pokemon Arceus is just a representation of a being who is otherwise completely beyond comprehension.
Imo if the pokemon we interact with is not a god, then it's just not a god! We're all part of the earth, but we aren't exactly the earth but instead our own beings!
@@EliteTrainerLin Oooh yeah! That's definitely legit! I think I am convinced on this one now :>
Too much water?
Well, I don't think the amount of water is the issue in Hoenn... it's that it would benefit from having a bigger aquatic fauna in that water!
That too, I want more water pokemon and more water for them to live in!
@@EliteTrainerLin and more non-water type aquatic pokemon!
Also, I actually like BDSP. 🔥🔥🔥FLAME ME MORTALS HAHAHAHAHAA!!!🔥🔥🔥 No but seriously though, gen 4 was my favorite generation and to be able to play it again was a dream come true. Could it have instead been a Platinum remake and thus better? Ehh yea, but I still appreciate it for what it is and the small improvement they made to what I view as the best Trio of Pokémon games in that current era. TLDR ✨Nostalgia✨
They took away contests and that was my favorite part of the games! 😭 I'm glad you liked the games though!
Bro u and me share minds or something, and yea first seasons ash is peek ash 👍 never have seen ur videos before but the fact the we share so many opinions earned u a like
Thank you haha!!!
was expecting an opinion such as "Unova was an overrated region"
Maybe in part 2!
I really liked this video. Looking forward to have a game around Lumiose city
Thank you Mia 🥰
my umpopular opinion is:
I dont like gen 4.
To me, it feels slow, the story isnt really THAT GOOD as people say, and also i dont really enjoy most of the Dex, especially Infernape (i literally received death threats for saying this 😭).
The one i relate the most is the remake one. No, we dont need another Kanto or Jotho remake please stop
I LOVE infernape lmao but not liking a pokemon is valid! And original DP were SO freaking slow!!
@@EliteTrainerLin i know right? and also yes, you can like infernape obviously, no need to insult lmao (not talking to you dw)
@@chara_knife666 Totally! Unless they dislike MY favorite pokemon...!! (Jk obviously!)
@@EliteTrainerLin who is it? mine is Banette
@@chara_knife666 I love banette! My favorite is (shiny) dedenne!
Wait so people really believe the pokedex? This whole time I thought it was clear that it was a mix of a 10 year old's field data, local myth and "actual" science from pokemon professors. I think Abra's dex entry should have given it away but if you got to Phantump and it still didn't click I just gotta assume you've never heard of an unreliable narrator.
I really love the idea that the dex is full of reports from kids and the professors just accept it like "spoink dies if it stops bouncing? yes this makes sense even tho we've all seen it faint and get up just fine a billion times before, must be true, kids would never lie or get anything wrong". It's weirdly also realistic, there are myths like "all sharks die if they stop swimming" that people believe in real life too!
@@EliteTrainerLin Lmao can you imagine some professor out there doing a 10 year long study to find out why their Spoink falls over and doesn't die because they whole heartedly believe these reports they use for the pokedex? "Hmmm it must be close to evolving or some kind of legendary Spoink!"
I understand how you feel with nuzlockes,I don't like it ethier,but I have no problem watching nuzlockes though XD and I did try a nuzlocke once in pokemon x in 2013 or 2014,I can't remember when I did this anymore...but man dunsparce was pissed off about something when I was training my pokemon,and the whole thing was a disaster anyway after the first or second gym so I gave up after that,did dunsparce need an evolution in gen 9? apparently not since it decided to murder the pokemon I was training in gen 6
Fun fact, I did decide to try a nuzlocke once, and for the first and only time ever in my entire life... I lost the first rival battle you do right after getting your pokemon. I decided then it just wasn't meant to be lmao
@@EliteTrainerLin wow XD weird that I lasted longer,but I didn't start having problems until the first gym in x,it made me hate infestation alot more than I originally did
I agree with ALLLLL of that XD
Flupp Nuzlockes
Gotta flupp 'em all
Idk if this an unpopular opinion but i actually don't mind the exp all, i literally hate grinding up levels, it felt like less fun, at least in my perspective. Another unpopular opinion but i feel like Game Freak should do more Let's Go, instead of making remakes like BDSP or another remake. Final unpopular opinion is that USUM is better than the original Sun and Moon
I honestly can't tell if wanting more Let's Go games over BDSP is unpopular or not! I think the Let's Go games were pretty well-received by most people, but in general people prefer more "normal" remakes... except that BDSP was so unpopular that people don't want more of that kind of remake!
Funny you mention grinding levels though, I was under the impression people loved the new (lol "new", it's pretty old by now) exp-all and that they find grinding boring. I'm in a sort of middle ground place, I like the exp all but I also love grinding exp!
@@EliteTrainerLin It would be best if we could turn on/off the exp share, i agree with what you said
Oh man you hit the nail on the head with the remakes. Honestly if I want to replay the old games I will just use an emulator… even without the online play, they’re all still fun. I want to see more of the Pokemon world, which brings me to my very own unpopular opinion.
We need to know the finite number of regions that exist in the Pokemon world. Between games, fans have no idea what to expect because we don’t have much to speculate on except for leaks and rumors. It kills the investment into the story to hold out on this basic worldbuilding!! Also I want a game that features all the regions, doesn’t have to be specifically a mainline pokemon game but just SOMETHING that ties everything together.
I think it would be really difficult to have a game with at least 9 regions and to do them all justice... while it's not entirely the same in pokemon super mystery dungeon you had 5 different "continents" you could visit, some of which were basically the "regions" of previous games, and that was incredibly cool!
A few unpopular opinions I got: I like ORAS more than HGSS and Emerald, Johto is overrated, Mega Evolution is probably the worst gimmick of the 3, the original English intro is mid and every remix of it was better, I actually preferred Sarah Natichenny’s Ash to Veronica Taylor’s, despite all the dumb things that happened, the Unova anime was pretty solid overall. And Ash’s loss against Alain was completely justified.
You're kind of just spitting facts there tbh! Well I still prefer emerald to ORAS, but most of that I think I agree with!
The problem with your last unpopular opinion is that if Ash kept losing after he had become world champion that kind of undermines his biggest achievement if randon trainer of the day can beat him.
I don't think so! If Ash loses to really powerful trainers it just shows there's more to the pokemon world. He doesn't have to lose to a brand new noob trainer, you can just make his new rivals super strong champions too, with pokemon he's never seen before so it catches him off-guard. Could also be an evil team that keeps attacking him 5 on one, or legendary pokemon that are crazy strong! Or perhaps now he's the mentor to an unskilled new trainer, and we see that other trainer lose instead of Ash. There are many ways to develop new stories for Ash!
oh, I guess [adds "it might make you hate Chansey" to the list of reasons not to play LGPE]
You ain't missing much by not playing it.
I'll never understand Nuzlockes.
If I want to play with an arbitrary set of restrictions, I have the power to come up with my own arbitrary restrictions.. why would I ever want to look up someone else's made-up rules?
I also feel like Pokémon games in general most of the time aren't THAT boring to me that I'd feel the need to an additional challenge added to it.. usually just using completely different Pokémon is refreshing enough, and there are so many main series games now that none of us are stuck replaying one game over and over for years..
Just replaying an old game with new pokemon was enough fun for me too. I can sort of see the appeal of nuzlockes, they're just not at all for me.
The point of nuzlockes isn’t about how BORING Pokémon is, it’s about how EASY it is. At the end of the day it’s a game made for literal children to be able to beat, nuzlockes impose a specific set of rules that make it so that way pokemon is actually a challenge. Also you do nuzlockes BECAUSE you’re bored of playing Pokémon the regular way (which isn’t different in any mainline games other than legends arceus.) you don’t have to like it, you don’t have to play it, but it seems pretty blockheaded to not understand it
@@emannuelsepulveda7259 you missed the point and focused on the "also".
To reiterate, I don't understand wanting to play by "those specific rules" instead of making some rules up.
@@AdeptCharon that’s an even dumber reason to be confused tbh. You’re asking why follow nuzlocke rules rather than any of your own? Dude you can do whatever YOU want. That’s kinda the whole point of nuzlockes is that people go outta their way to play Pokémon with a specific set of MADE UP rules. You can make up your own and play that way, no one cares. The reason “why” it’s those rules is simply because that’s how the very first person did this challenge, people saw them do it and did it themselves. Eventually so many people started using those specific rules and it became it’s own thing. But there’s so many different types of nuzlockes, they aren’t all the same. There’s kaizo runs, Ironman runs, mono type nuzlocke runs. So on and so forth. You getting hung up on something as simple as “lol I just don’t get why they follow those rules when I can just make up my own” seems extremely stubborn and blockheaded, like you simply don’t WANT to understand it because you just think it’s stupid, which is fine. Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion
Misty is Ash' worst companion, no contest
Magcargo its hotter than the surface of sun and one thunder can be above 50,000° F
Zubat is cool tbh
Sure is!
My unpopular opinion is simisage simipour and simisear arnt that bad
I agree! I like monkey trio!
Hypno is the best psychic kanto type
My unpopular opinion is that Charizard is the worst Pokémon of all time
3:23 okay for some reason people (dw it's not just you) can't understand that this is still physically possible due to the law of thermodynamics, or in other words, it's because of magcargo's INCREDIBLY small size that the fact it's hotter than the surface of the sun is irrelevant
let's put it like this, if you had a small candle, it'd probably be about 1,000 or so degrees celcius. you know how hot it is? it's the same heat as *boiling lava.* but obviously, touching a small candle isn't going to burn you the same as touching lava.
it's the same situation for magcargo. even if magcargo is hotter than the surface of the sun, magcargo isn't even close to 0.00000000000000000000000000001% the size of the sun, so the actual damage it'd cause is very miniscule in comparison. it really isn't a danger to you or the environment, unless it's in some forest/grasslands or you're trying to touch a wild magcargo for some reason lol
edit: oh btw, i agree with all of your unpopular opinions aside from the pokedex one lol. honestly, i'm surprised these even are unpopular opinions to begin with, cuz you're just spitting straight facts. ESPECIALLY the one about Ash being a good protagonist. there was no reason to replace mah boi
Fair enough! I still don't buy that a boy turned into a kadabra - which some dex entries present as a fact, and others straight up admit is just an unverified rumor! That on its own is proof that there are literal rumors and untruths in the dex!
@@EliteTrainerLin Eeeeh, that's only partially true. The Pokedex entries for Kadabra outright states that those are only "rumors" and "theories" about Kadabra, it never once claims them as undeniable truth.
"It is *rumored* that a boy with psychic abilities suddenly transformed into Kadabra while he was assisting research into extrasensory powers." (Emerald Dex entry for Kadabra)
"A *theory* exists that this Pokémon was a young boy who couldn’t control his psychic powers and ended up transformed into this Pokémon." (Sun Dex entry for Kadabra)
And so far, only the Gen 3 and Gen 7 dex entries ever bring this story up.
So TLDR; The Pokedex isn't stating that a boy actually turned into a Kadabra, but only that it's a popular in-universe rumor that has gone around, similar to the real life rumor of Mew being under the truck in Vermilion City, despite there being no truth to it.
@@afro025 It does actually, FR dex entry: "It happened one morning - a boy with extrasensory powers awoke in bed transformed into Kadabra." The dex there literally does state that it happened, with no mention of it being a rumor.
@@EliteTrainerLin And in that *same generation,* the Emerald dex entry states: "It is rumored that a boy with psychic abilities suddenly transformed into Kadabra while he was assisting research into extrasensory powers." It's clear the intention is that the two Pokedex entries aren't contradictory, but rather that the Emerald dex entry adds further context to what Firered established. Plenty Pokedex entries do this, expanding upon or clarifying information we receive about them in future dex entries.
Even if you really wanted to argue that the Firered dex entry is trying to paint it as a factual statement and not a rumor, it's still an outlier because literally *every* single Pokedex entry afterward that brings up the tale of the boy turning into a Kadabra begins by addressing it as a rumor or a theory. Pokemon Sun, Legends Arceus, even Emerald, a game that was released in the *same* year as Firered.
It seems disingenuous to only pull up *one* Pokedex entry that doesn't clarify if it's a fact or a rumor and use it as proof for the Pokedex being unreliable...when every Pokedex entry afterwards directly clarifies what they mean by the statement. I'd agree you have a point if there was more than the FR entry because it'd show that the "truth" is constantly switching throughout the Pokedex...but there isn't. So at the end of the day, a boy turning into a Kadabra is still a rumor in the world of Pokemon.
@@afro025 I think the opposite! It shows the dex entries are being updated and differ region to region as they learn more in-universe! I think it's a really wonderful way of world building! And either way we both agree that rumors are being talked about in the pokedex, so the dex evidently isn't all based on facts and also includes little tidbits like folklore and rumors.
I got through most of the video completely agreeing with you, and by the end I still agree with *almost* everything-but wait a second, did you just call Let's Go a “garbage game”?? It's still the most polished main series title on the Switch, and it's very good for what it is intended to be!! It's just not a game directed at series veterans, and that's okay!
Pokemon running away from you is stressful and not fun! And they removed all the small details that made the towns memorable!! The bike shop no longer sells you a bike, the game corner has no games, there is no safari in what used to be the safari park... it's a pretty but empty shell of a game. Having only gen 1 pokemon in a modern game is SO boring (seriously not even evolutions that had been around for over a decade were added???), the box system is atrocious, they encourage you to treat all pokemon like disposable items and not like living creatures by making you just catch and throw them away for candy, they didn't even have consistent pokemon icons, they didn't treat the starters like equals - and the core mechanic of physically throwing poké balls was only fun for at most 5 minutes. Do I need to go on?!
@@EliteTrainerLin I agree with some of your points, but what I'm saying is that the game isn't for us. The point of Let's Go was to recapture old fans who left the series behind, as well as brand new fans who discovered Pokémon because of Pokémon Go. Most of the things you pointed out as missing aren't important to that audience, mostly because they never experienced it in the first place. I personally know at least three people for whom Let's Go was their first main series Pokémon game, or their first in many years, who then went on to play other Pokémon games in the Switch. They worked well for what they intended!
@@UmbreonLibris That just sounds depressing to me! Making the game worse and lacking in content because people won't know what they're missing anyway... instead of giving them something good or better when they could have done that! Also it *was* the first main series pokemon game on switch so I don't think you can say it wasn't also intended for regular long time fans.
Hypno entry is true tho in frlg there's even proof
Unpopular opinion: The game is wrong and I don’t know why my opinions are not popular
-This random UA-cam I found. Minutes I’ll never get back
I apologize for not making my point more clear so that you could understand it! My point wasn't "the game is wrong" but "the game is filled with folklore meant for world-building and atmosphere that isn't necessarily meant to be taken as literal facts withing the boundaries of the game's logic". Hope that helps you, random commenter!
@@EliteTrainerLin
Still sounds like “game is wrong” to me
@@thewelder5716 Your comment sounds like "I get it now, thanks!" to me, so I'm glad we could clear it up! Thanks for watching and commenting!
@@EliteTrainerLin
Thanks for wasting more time.
@@thewelder5716 No problem, I'll gladly waste more of it!! :D
I don’t understand why let’s go gets so much hate, I just saw them as simple little games that weren’t supposed to be taken too seriously, they came out over a decade after fr/lg so it wasn’t too much kanto to me, I just simply don’t get it, not saying they’re anything amazing, but definitely wouldn’t call them garbage. ( they also had the best shiny hunting and following Pokémon in the series, I will die on that hill)
I think they suffer the curse of 1) being the first pokemon game on switch and 2) being sold to us as main series games while being totally different from all the other main games. If you tell the fans "this is the next main series games" you're putting A LOT of expectations onto the shoulders of that game. And this is at a point where we didn't know if this was just the new way they'd make pokemon games forever from then on. If they were just a side game duo I'd be willing to say "yeah they're not garbage" but because they ARE the worst main series games we've ever gotten (in my humble opinion) I have to call them garbage! (I'm also exaggerating a bit for comedic effect lol)
The first person never comments “first”
Never happens!
Which legendaries are deities depends on which one you are talking about, but it is pretty obvious that Arceus and the creation trio are deities, that's not an opinion, that's a fact
Not only that but its been fully established that capturing said deities, is pretty much the equivalent of catching their avatar. And according to Cyrus limits their full power which takes into considering of certain pokemon not getting wounded as bad as they should from moves that would normally kill someone easily.
@@KazShiro actually only Arceus has that avatar concept. I personally prefer to think he reason Cyrus uses the red chain is because pokeballs can't force pokemon to obey
Agreed, Lumiose city was awesome!
And they even let us explore it one half at a time so it was more gradual~
Shiney Zubat
Hm....
I expected to come here and hear some salt, but all I got whas reasonably statements and personal arguments that i could agree with 😁😄👍
I think all of my arguments are very reasonable too 😆
The legendary one isn't controversial or even unpopular lol same with the pokedex one.
The remakes opinion is also like... one of the most popular ones too.
Then where are all these people and why do 9/10 people I talk to say these things?! Seeing as every pokemon post, live stream etc was literally spammed with "gen 4 remakes pls!!!!" for YEARS it's definitely not popular to not want remakes! (But perhaps BDSP finally turned more people off remakes from how bad they were!)
My dude how on earth did you miss all the love for remakes?!
@@ShineyGlaceon "my dude" tons of people hate every remake after HG/SS
@@BLUEBOYISLEDGE I dont see to many hate on ORAS, BDSP seems to get more of that
ash isnt bad but he didnt rlly have much more to do
Give him more to do then! Let him be a champion in Paldea, researching all the secrets of the region and eventually finding the legendary ruin pokemon or area zera!
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What the hell is wrong with you people say keep Ash forever and lord forbid they try something different from the last 25 years and it’s a good latch on point for new comes who don’t have to binge watch the whole series for a month to a year
I literally said in the video that I like all of the different things they animate 🙂
I wanted Ash gone for decades.
See the easy solution then is to not watch the main anime and instead watch all the side projects!
He should've left decades ago.
To me mispronounciation is an extremely big deal especially when someone calls arceus "ar-see-us"
I just can't ever accept mai-lotic as MILO-tic, I refuse!!! 🥲
@@EliteTrainerLinI'm not exactly sure how you're pronouncing it
@@megasnowey7177 Most people say milotic similar to the word "melodic", but it's actually supposed to be said like the name Milo + tick. I prefer the "wrong" way so I'll keep saying it like that!
@@EliteTrainerLin oh so you're pronouncing it with a short O. I'd mention the rule about a single consonant causing the O sound to be long, but talking about rules and English in the same sentence is contradictory
Lost me on saying you dont like remakes, they allow for someone who didnt play old games to play same story but better graphics
You could just play the old game *and* get another brand new one so you have 2 games to play! And as a lover of pixel art I don't agree that the new 3D art is necessarily "better" either!
@@EliteTrainerLin I Just think remakes are some of best pokemon games HGSS and ORAS are peak and FRLG and lets go are good, BDSP is shit too
The hottest takes 🥵🔥
Lukewarm, at least!
PEE enjoyers?
I mean oras is an amazing game so uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
ORAS is great, but it's not better than emerald as it dumbed down contests (which is one of my favorite things about Hoenn) and they removed battle frontier (another favorite!) and of course I already knew all of the story (apart from the post game Zinnia stuff that was new, of course). I would have preferred a *new* Hoenn game instead, where the region was expanded and we got to see all the gym leaders a few years later, the way BW2 did it!
Just give up
Candace no