>>58918819>>58918844Nta but what exactly are you counting as a legitimately distinct encounter method here?
Grass, flower, and surf encounters are basically just variations of the same thing. Might as well count dark grass from gen 5 as a distinct method. In the case of flowers (which is odd for you to mention while leaving out stuff like the swamp encounters on route 14) the only way in which they’re distinct is that they very slightly alter the encounter tables within an area. But so do, yknow, different floors of a cave in other games - do those count as distinct encounter methods? Just going to a slightly different location of an area and getting slightly different encounters counts as a distinct method to you?
Or like, if you’re going to count bush and cave ambush encounters as distinct from each other, you might as well count dust clouds/rippling water/rustling grass from Gen 5 as distinct from each other too. Not to mention
>FossilsHow exactly is this an encounter method? Are gift Pokémon encounter methods?
You say Gen 5 lacks the fishing rod when it doesn’t, as well, it’s just post game exclusive. Are you arbitrarily excluding post game exclusive methods? Hardly fair when most pre-Gen 6 Pokémon games leave most of their unique methods as a way to find national dex mons in old areas, like the pokeradar in DPP, Sinnoh/Hoenn sounds in HGSS, or swarms in either.
All this and you didn’t even mention the friend safari.
I like XY, and I would estimate that it has roughly as much variation in encounter methods as most games (though I do wish it had more in proportion to the larger dex to avoid low encounter rates) but your claims seem founded on dubious standards.
