>>48163334I’ve consistently played every Gen since RBY (meaning I’m not a tourist who dropped Pokémon and came back years later to play legacy games), and the franchise has been steadily going downhill since the start of Gen 3 when RS cut features from GSC. Of course, the games have technologically improved over time, but the DS era was not as great as you think it was. The 3DS and Switch games have become a lot more casualized, but they’ve also done some good things in regards to PVP. Gens 3 and 4 were that awkward stage where GF clearly tried to implement some added features and complexity to facilitate better PVP, but at the same time his several things from players (natures, IVs, EVs, etc.) or otherwise made actually playing PVP on the game cartridges unnecessarily burdensome. They’ve mostly been moving in the right direction with PVP since XY.
