>>31577501>But DEFENDING it? Saying it's a good thing and finding reasons this is somehow positive? What the fuck?While I don't think it's a unilaterally good decision, the fact that you don't have to actually trade up Pokémon, and can therefore continue to use them in their original gen, is a plus. It also minimizes the "need" for a Living Dex: instead of trading up a Charizard and needing to breed it to get Charmander and Charmeleon, you get the Pokédex data for all three.
Receiving the National Pokédex also makes completing the dex seem like a much less achievable task. I know a lot of people who put off dex completion until after the league, so receiving the national dex at the start of postgame would never give them a span of time where they felt like they actually could complete it.
However, while there are definite advantages to the new Bankdex, I'm not going to pretend that those couldn't exist alongside an in-game National Dex. Just as Bank syncs its Pokédex from the games, it could send data back. The National Pokédex could be obtained after connecting to Pokémon Bank, maybe also requiring that you complete the regional dex. I dunno. (Though, of course, people would then still be complaining about needing Bank.)
As others have pointed out, of course, the National Dex is really only something you're going to complete if you have Pokémon Bank, anyway. With seven generations and seventeen distribution-only Pokémon, catching them all isn't really viable unless you've been working on it for years. There's a certain logic to it: If your core product A has a feature C that is only useful when combined with addon B, why isn't C part of B?
At the same time, there are some very real issues with the current implementation, including the need to connect to the internet just to find out how many Indian Elephants Gardevoir has slept with.
