>>37193795Fug, I forgot about that shit. I remember wanting the AMERICA FUCK YEAH bird but then seeing I'd be stuck with a shitty first-stage until basically the end of the game. Hard pass.
I especially hate when GF does this stuff with pokemon that aren't available until near the very end of the game, and also at very low level so you'd need to grind them all the way up. I remember a really egregious example of this being Bagon in R/S. Only available in the very back of the solrock/lunatone cave which required late-game HMs to get to. And the bagons you could catch here were very low level. And then of course you'd need to train them all the way up to get to a Salamence
So if you *actually* wanted to use a Salamence in your party for the E4, you'd basically need to be at the point where you're going through Victory Road, then go back to the other cave with the bagons, catch one, raise it dozens and dozens of levels, completely breaking the pace of the game. And yeah I get it, it's a pseudolegendary and all that, but goddamn.
XY did a ton of shit wrong, but one thing I really appreciated about it was how it made picking up pokemon and using them immediately quite simple. I actually felt like I could catch a pokemon on a route and start using it, rather than being in this permanently cucked state where I'm stuck with my party as-is and if I want to add anything to the team, I'm gonna need to spend hours grinding it up. And that becomes all the more apparent with these pokemon that evolve at super-high levels
