>>56097865BW was the first game that had the balls to simply not allow you to catch pokemon from the previous gens until post-game. But I will leave that to the other anon, who already made the same point.
This reasoning is straight up incorrect if you consider everything else, such as the whole Team Plasma and N storyline, or things like turning every single static sprite into a looping animation, or hell, even small things like replacing the low HP beeps with an awesome theme. I just can't see it, there is a very clear attempt to impress and you could even consider it a soft reboot of the entire series.
>>56097894They don't want to punish any particular style, that's the point. A one mon playthrough is legit as much as using a full team.
You could say it's already discouraged by the fact types are a thing and you might struggle with early encounters against mons able to hit your weakness, but indeed not impossible if you really want to make it happen.
