/vp/ battle passwords to battle with other anons (consider writing a post to recruit players) >/vp/‘s own meta (no random effects, no ex): vpnx >meta decks or high level play: vpmeta >/vp/ anything: vp
All he wanted was for kids to have fun trading digital bugs down plastic cables, framed in a sweet yet simple coming-of-age story. How did it deteriorate into Little girls sexualization, Pokefuckery, Eldritch impregnation, competitiveness, gijinkas, &c?
>Biggest region to date with 2 mini regions >You can actually see pokemon out in the overworld instead of having to deal with boring random encounters >Characters are kino, they all have their arcs and good designs >Best gym system in the series, actually trying something different by making it a big deal and changing the elite 4 to a tournament where you fight 6 trainers instead of 4 >You're bored of the main story? It's okay man, just go back to the wild area and do some raids >You can camp and cook by finding ingredients, adding more personality to each pokemon as well as 151 curries of content >Main gimmick is actually balanced instead of being given to already OP legendaries or simply being a nuke button >Strongest region to date, hosting the strongest champion and gym leaders who could be champions >Has league cards which flesh out the characters and give them back stories instead of the literal who gym leaders in gens 1-4 >Great for competitive pokemon, with an actual ranking system as well as bottle caps, TRs, and mints allowing all your bros to become properly trained with little effort >Brought back following Pokemon >Brought back jerk rivals >Brought back apricorn balls >Added things to do online other than just battling and trading >Added marks >Added Brilliant Pokemon >Added square shinies >Has fun minigames like Rotom Rally >Has fun side quests like finding 100 Diglett and finding the footprints of the Swords of Justice >Is still being updated with new events to this day, over a year and a half after release >Has 4 battle facilities that each operate different, basically a Battle Frontier >Useless bloat moves that have no reason to exist were finally cut (Barrier, Foresight, Constrict etc.) >Allowed different mons to finally be used in VGC through dex cut >Pokemon inspirations are the deepest we've seen yet, going far into British mythology >Added being able to remember moves without heart scales >Shillmons like Greninja, Zoroark and Piplup BTFO
