>>47197869>Sun and Moon were the first games to remove the National DexYet you can still own all pokemon in the game and the only thing that is lost is the dex entries which is made up by the fact that every pokemon that is in the dex received brand new dex entries in years. And USUM is still the game with all the mons available before the dex cut
>Trials were literally just gyms that got reskinned at the last minuteAnd yet they managed to be more fun and memorable than any gym battle in XY. Funny how last minute changes can still be better and more refresging than anything from XY
>Gen 7 started the trends that still plague the series now like needing to add an obligatory regional gimmick like Z-Moves/Dynamax and Kanto panderingThat was started with Megas because it was the first battle gimmick that relies on the power of friendship and was created to sell toys but you don't want to accept this
>Gen 7 removed Triples and Rotation after Gen 6 put them in the postgame facility for the first timeBecause they worked like shit. The game barely managed double battles
>Gen 7 removed the only way to view and reset EVs from the beginning of the game, and the method Gen 6 had to completely train an entire party's stat in 5 minutesAlola replaced it with an equally good method. Both methods had their pros and cons, don't ducksuck one to prove your point
>Alola had the least amount of routes in the series at the timeAnd yet they were still more memorable than anything in XY that wasn't the embarrassing Route 1
>Alola had zero dungeons before USUMSeaward cave, Diglett's tunnel, Vast Poni Canyon etc existed before but okay
>Alola and Galar's games give the player next to no agency While the handholding sucks, that doesn't in anyway mean that XY was somehow much better in this regard when you have the gay ass friend group follow, battle and constantly pester you at every point in the game
