>>48112253>>48112499>>48112551>>48112565>xy introduced a completely unbalanced gimmick that basically forced everyone in competitive to use the same rotation of 9 pokemon, megas have since been excluded from main games and we dont know if theyre coming back, Alola also introduced regional forms which seem to be here to stay>kalos also had its share of kanto pandering, like giving you kanto starters right in the beginning of the game and giving charizard and metwo 2 megas. at the very least alola gave their starters its gimmick >so literally copy and pasting the same shit for 20 years is better, at the very least they found a system unique to this region and in some ways is better than gyms because the totems employ different tactics and are fairly difficult, also i highly doubt they did it completely last minute since the games are built around the trials>i was specifically referring to the tile system gen6 started the decline and gen7 has issues but overall improved a bit
