"Some child on twitter who's entire personality was liking Leon" So Hop?

I think Larry is idolized is because he is relatable as hell

I do not understand why people say Mimikyu is a pika clone, his WHOLE THING is that bro isn’t a pika clone 😭

"Pikachu's coming" Shows picture of the Alola girls eating vanilla ice cream.

THANK YOU FOR SAYING MIMIKYU ISN'T A PIKACLONE! I am so sick of people saying it is a Pikaclone when Togademaru is already the clone of Alola. There's more to what makes something a Pikaclone than looking like Pikachu!

well yeah ofc people love larry he's a semi-depressed middle aged overworked man

I’ll say it, I actually really liked sword and shield. I competed in a lot of sports in high school and college, so fighting in a dome with a huge crowd cheering made me feel so hyped and happy

"Who the fuck Likes Meganium?" Me! I like Meganium!

Finally someone who shares my opinion on scarlet and violet, taking out the bugs and the fact the game was rushed to all hell, it realistically is the best direction/outcome the series couldve gone after sword and shield

There is no stopping arguing in the Pokémon community

Game Freak got rid of the game corner because of PEGI. If the game corner stayed the games would’ve been rated 17+ like the virtual console versions of Gens 1 & 2 where since PEGI changed the way they calculate their ratings about 2009-2010-ish.

Enough people dislike Masters EX. They just like seeing their characters interact. It's a "watch the story, skip the gameplay" kind of game.

“WHAT’S YOUR CREDIT CARD NUMBER ROGUE!? SHUT UP! It’s seven by the way” had me laughing

“Opinions can’t be wrong” Racism💀💀💀

Pikachu clones are indeed overhated they're cute. I feel like I'm part of the problem because I was ready for violence the moment you said you didn't like Penny cause that girl is my favorite of the A0 crew

X and y are my favorite gen, emolga is my favorite pika clone and feraligatr is the best gen 2 starter and Typhlosion is my least favorite fire starter. COME AT ME!!!! Edit: so apparently I’m based but I have one that will make you SEETHING in rage… I don’t mind the 3d models of Pokémon, some of them I like like charizard, lugia and blastoise, even the before the scarlet and violet models. COME AT ME NOW!!!!

As someone that dislikes the gen 2 starters cuz they feel hilariously mid im glad someone else agrees

Here's one unpopular opinion:The theory of Venonat and Metapod's evolutions being swapped is COMPLETE BUNK, catepillars become butterflies and moths, but butterflies are the more known comparison and also why would a nat become a butterfly?

Your reasoning for linking Scarlet and Violet more than Sword and Shield makes sense, if you had friends to play with I can totally understand why it would be fun, but I didn't, I was excited by that feature but couldn't take advantage of it as I don't have Online, and couldn't meet up with friends that had the games. Scarlet & Violet felt so lifeless to me when interacting with the world in comparison to SwSh, the colours felt bland, the world feels empty, the npcs just disappear, the buildings aren't explorable they're just menus. The gameplay was fine for me with Sw & Sh, but with Scarlet & Violet (though it wasn't as bad as I've seen it be for some) was quite laggy and I experienced a few odd performance issues. There are definitely good things too, such as updated models on many Pokemon and little improvements such as Blastoise actually using it's water cannons, but they still diminish that as a lot of move animations were made worse such as moves like Pyro Ball and Behemoth Blade, moves from the previous games. I still liked the games, but they're not as good as the Gen 8 games for these reasons imo, they needed more time in development.

My unpopular opinions: Black&White wasn’t that bad of a series & Goh was a good character who didn’t deserve a lot of the hate he got for doing what most of us do in the games.

I get not liking penny, but I mean, there was always gonna end up being a nerdy gamer hacker weeb EVENTUALLY

I wish more people could freely express their popular opinions without being attacked. Like, they're just opinions and everyone is entitled to them, and it doesn't mean we can't be friends with people who disagree. I say this as someone who's been attacked for having unpopular opinions in my youtube videos despite not even having 200 subs... some people just take opinions too personally. Like, I love Typhlosion and don't think it's bland at all but I respect your opinion. Now for my own unpopular Pokemon opinions: -Cynthia is the Charizard of trainers, she's overrepresented and overhyped for not being THAT much of a challenge, and I'll always resent her for also being the most powerful trainer in the Unova games while making the champions super weak in comparison. -I don't believe in the Blue's Raticate Dying theory, he just switched it out for better Pokemon. -I really hate the way a lot of media treats the female protags in comparison to the male ones, in the anime May, Dawn and Serena are all contest trainers instead of serious battlers and in the specials more directly based on the games they only feature the male protagonists. As someone who always plays the female trainer I just wish they would showcase them being badass battlers. -Aside from no Battle Frontier, ORAS were really good remakes on par with HGSS. -Leon should have been the main villain in SwSh and Rose should have been a fakeout villain who ended up helping you in the end.

I prefer Blastoise over Charizard. I mean, it’s a fucking tank tortoise. How is that not cooler than a lizard with wings?

"Who the fuck likes meganium?" 👀 totally not my favourite pokemon or anything, lmao

Here's mine: Gen 3-4 has better music than Gen 5, Sure Gen 5 is good but nothing beats the charm of Gen 3 and 4 music also Hoenn's French Horns are the best Also Gen 4 has the best Bass Sample Cute Pokémon are WAY better than the "cool" Pokémon Eevee/Eeveelutions aren't overrated, their popularity is 100% deserved, i mean look at them they're cute and superior Umbreon is kinda overrated, its design is good but there's better looking Eeveelutions The Pikaclones and Pichu are better than Pikamid Also the hottest one of all: Yoko Shimomura > Junichi Masuda

Unpopular opinion of mine is. I think the Galarian forms of the legendary birds from Kanto should have kept their elemental typings instead of their flying typings when only ONE of them flies naturally. Galarian Zapdos can't even fly, Galarian Articuno flies around using psychic powers, and Galarian Moltres is the only one that's actually flying. They are flying type because they are birds and that's literally the only reason they have the flying type when Fighting Electric, Psychic ice, and Dark Fire make perfect sense when looking at their designs.

Honestly out of the 3 friend characters from scarlet and violet penny has the least screen time and we don’t get enough of her so I understand how she is not as fleshed out. I still like her character.

My unpopular opinion is that Alain deserved his Kalos League win. Here’s why: 1. He’d trained and won against multiple Mega Evolutions by that point. He knew how to deal with a Pokémon on Ash’s Greninja’s power level. 2. I’m pretty sure Ash Greninja did NOT have the type advantage, because Mega Charizard X is Fire Dragon. 3. Alain probably trained more with his Charmander than Ash did with Froakie because he had it for longer. 4. If Ash won the Kalos League, the writers probably would’ve found it awkward to continue his character. 5. Alain probably went through a lot emotionally working for Team Flare and probably would’ve been looked down on even more by Lysandre if he lost the league, so his win felt kinda satisfying to me. I respect y’all’s opinions on this, but I think the Alain slander is a bit much, even almost ten years later 😭

Penny has more character to her, she is canonically a criminal. She stole the money that she gives you for doing the team star quests. And she got forgiven for it after admitting it

2:01 I wouldn't say I don't like Penny, she's alright. What I do have a problem with is the Team Star storyline as a whole. The messages it tries to give are good but the execution falls flat. Firstly, because this is a Pokemon game, we're stuck with the game telling us how bad the bullying got instead of showing us what happened which I feel would be more effective. Secondly, there is literally not a single character who bullied the Team Star members still around. No teachers who were there when it happened. It feels like Pokemon doesn't really want to showcase the aftermath of Team Star's payback and how those people who bullied or ignored them react today. Imagine instead of Clavell being a new director trying to figure out what happened a year ago, he was the person that failed them a year ago and now feels responsible for so many school members possibly at risk of being expelled. It adds more to his character and even adds a couple more layers to it. He wasn't always this goofy director who actively tries to learn more about his students. That only came after the dismissiveness he showed and now sees the consequences of.

When it comes to the Game Corner being missing, blame PEGI. Their ratings rules would greatly bump up the age rating for the games. This lead to the VC versions of the GB games getting their rating being bumped up to to PEGI 12, which is basically the same as the ESRB's T rating. Game Freak didn't want the games to get such an age rating to be bumped up from 3+ to 12+ due to the Game Corner, so they had to remove it from later games.

I agree... Legends Arceus' art style is a huge part of why the graphics look so low quality. Good stylization can make a low graphics game look great, but its also true on the opposite side of the spectrum. If you mess up the stylization it will always look bad no matter what you do. And I feel like people use the stylization as an excuse for why the graphics are so lackluster, like "duh its a stylization choice, THAT'S why the trees look like that!" It just doesn't hold up imo.

I don't think this is you, but there's a certain group of people who say, "opinions can't be wrong" who just mean that they don't want pushback for their harmful or bigoted "opinions" about say, the so-called biological differences between the Races or the "maturity" of young girls. I just don't want that particular segment of the internet to feel any validation.

Honestly for me the hottest take in the video is that no opinions can be wrong. All people are respectable, but not all opinions. Great video tho

I have a strange opinion… i wouldn’t mind a BDSD of BW IF it is bundled with B2W2. Having the games connected for the memory link would be great.

Regarding scarlet and violet, alot of people do generally agree that the game is fun the problem lies in just how unoptimized the games feel and how poorly the switch handles the environment models in the over-world. Also regarding the art style in legends arceus, the problem with the art style is the switch hardware itself as the game looks so much better when emulated properly so if you have a good enough pc try usibg a switch emulator and see how that feels. Opinion time: the anime opening music peaked in the hoenn series. It seems 4kids had been working to improve the music up until that point and the OP themes show the improvement from jhoto and kanto.

Here’s my unpopular opinion I’m glad ash got replaced by Liko

I am so happy you mentioned Lyra, I think her design is adorable and reminds me of like a human version of Hello Kitty

8:24 Lyra looks like a cosplay of hello kitty and coming from a big Sanrio fan, I love it!

I agree that Scarlet & Violet is great. If anyone disagrees with me, fight me. /hj

Goh isn't hated because he takes the spotlight from Ash, it's that he does what Ash SHOULD have been doing. I.E. catching full evolved Pokemon and having several Pokemon we wanted Ash to have. AND, a lot of his captures were way too easy. He caught a fully evolved Flygon, Golurk, Darmanitan and even Suicune and Regieleki. Captures that should be reserved for only the most powerful and recognized of trainers. Goh is not one of them, he was literally a noob trainer like a few months ago. Basically, his development was rushed and he got a lot of special treatment he didn't earn though hard work and dedication. Plus Project Mew didn't end very well, why not just give him Mew at the end...? Goh is probably never going to return to the anime, so why not have him reach his goal since Ash reached his?

Unpopular opinion, I love Beheyeem so much.

Opinions can TOTALLY be wrong if they're based on wrong information. But tastes are never wrong. Johto starters are indeed awful.

"God I hate Twitter" As a Twitter user, mood. Also I like Penny and Nemona because as a genderfluid transfem with diagnosed ADHD and undiagnosed Autism, I find them really relatable.

I guess if I had to put in an unpopular opinion SV (base game) is great. That’s not including the dlc. And that’s not including kitikami or indigo disk. I’d go as far as to say the dlc killed any potential area zero and Terapagos had to be like, more interesting. (Though AZ is pretty interesting, terapagos…didn’t get too much screen time…)

S&V was super fun and refreshing. Getting to explore out of a linear story was amazing and really made you feel like you were on an actual adventure

I get hyped when he says he likes Pikachu clones, then immediately shits on my favourite Pikachu clones, what the hell?

I do agree with the whole thing about SV being better games then SwSh. SV is imo a 7/10 that gets brought down to a 5/10 because of poor optimization and bugs, whereas SwSh itself is just a 5/10. Imterestingly my main isaues with the switch games still apply to both (little to do that isnt battling, permanent exp share, basically having the post-game locked behind a pay wall)

I definitely agree with you about Larry, he's pretty funny but he's a little overhyped

My unpopular opinion is that Sword and Shield really wasn't that bad... I really enjoyed it, _especially_ exploring the wild areas to complete the Pokedex and hatch eggs. I still look back at it fondly, even though it really wasn't that long ago (okay... its been *5 years.* Maybe it has been a long time 💀). The DLC was really fun too. I especially liked the Isle of Armor. The little chicken robot thing that let you craft items was really really fun to use.

My personal interpretations (only on the first few): 0: I find Barry annoying but I don't outright hate him 1: I agree, pachisu & emolga especially 2: I love cyndaquil, but I get what you mean about them not standing out. Except my opinions on meganium and chicorita are the opposite to yours) 3: no opinion tbh 4: Absolutely, yeah 5: he's an interesting character concept but I haven't watched the season he's in 6: I've never played it 💀

Yo the 4kids intros are bangers!!!!!

OMG FINALLY! SOMEONE ELSE WHO THINKS THE GEN 2 STARTERS ARE MID!

15:27 - 15:32 As someone whose favorite pokemon of all time is Electabuzz, I 100% agree. I remember first seeing Gary's Electivire in the anime and thinking "this is the evolution to my favorite pokemon?!?!" I've mellowed on it over the years now but it will never come close to Electabuzz's greatness.

I love how a franchise who’s primary message is peace, love and the power of friendship is riddled with fans who do the opposite. I just like Pokemon and enjoying Pokemon games and videos.

I absolutely LOVE miltank definitely my second favorite pokemon

Unpopular opinion: Staraptor is ugly. No, I will not elaborate further

You GOTTA admit that “Stand Tall” as a music theme goes HARD though. And also “The Journey Starts Today” is just plain wonderful… 🌌

I dislike Goh because he just throws pokeballs, like the mobile game. If they just animated him using quick balls, I’d be fine with him. It’s quite grating how he just throws a normal pokeball at a full health pokemon when other characters spend an entire episode to catch one.

Do object pokemon taste like meat or objects? What does magnemite taste like? On the other hand, what do plant pokemon taste like? Plants? And why is there other fruit? Do applins see normal apples and think “my brothers”

I play competitive so here's my hot take...Pokemon should allow you to bring 7-8 Pokemon into battle but you can only use 6... kind of like a side board like other games like card games.

4:45 I like that masters had the closest thing to a Pokemon dating sim we’ll get

Three opinions in and I totally agree with you. Also thank you for validating my dislike of Penny. She's so generic and boring, I don't know what the fandom sees in her. Which sucks cause she's the 'evil team leader' and having that person be our friend would have been so interesting. Sad they wasted that though. Edit: At this point still agreeing with honestly almost everything you're saying here. Absolutely based. However, I do disagree with the SV one. I still really like the games, but they're currently my least favourite pokemon switch game. The DLC elevated it a good bit, but not above the others. But that's just personal taste. Edit: So, for the rest i'm really impartial. I do agree on not getting Larry's hype. And I love Let's Go, they're my favourite switch pokemon games. They're underrated.

My favorite generation is Gen 5, it always was so NO, YOU CANNOT SHAME ON ME But thinking more now, my opinion is that Alola will probably be praised in the future. It has a lot of interesting characters, a cool pokedex, enviroment, starters, legendaries, the ultra beasts.. the lore is pretty good too I like the Z moves a lot, they actually require strategy and can change the destiny of a match. Probably my favorite pokémon mechanic till now Necrozma is probably one of my favorite pokémon currently, it's a sad pokemon that constantly is in pain and needs light to not feel so pitiful. As you read through it's lore, you see how desperate this thing is, explains why it's catch rate is as low as it is Lunala is one of my favorite pokémon ever (was my first GX card, i was so excited at the time) and Solgaleo is a pokémon my brother likes a ton. Their fusion forms with Necrozma are super dope and i love the designs And man, don't even get me STARTED on Ultra Necrozma, just an absolute BEAST Overall, really good generation, i'm more than willing to know more about it and probably will be my second favorite

IIRC what people didn’t like about Go/Gou is while the ambition to catch many Pokémon as possible is admirable, it’s the WAY he captures them that irritates them. Mind you, I have no idea why I haven’t kept up with Journeys, maybe due to being distracted so much. But from what I know in its beginnings is that Go/Gou captures powerful Pokémon FAR TOO EASILY than he should. Like he could capture a final evolution Pokémon with a single REGULAR pokeball with UNFATHOMABLE accuracy and catch rate and would think the audience would be OKAY with it?? Now, this is from the mindset of those who play the VIDEO GAMES; people who are used to having to BATTLE with their mons before capturing wild ones and understand that it’s not easy doing a pacifist run of capturing. Cause to capture, you have to battle…make them weak enough, you throw the ball and wait to catch with pokeballs that fits the situation. That’s it. And Go/Gou is making all of it feel INSULTINGLY easy.

BDSP looks 100x better than Scarlet and Violet. The “realistic” textures of Pokemon and the landscape look terrible in Gen 9. BDSP captures the cartoony, vibrant world of Pokemon so much better. You can have open world without making it look dingy and boring.

Finally, the first human being on the planet with the same opinion on Larry as me!

Let me try something: Emboar is the best Fire/Fighting Starter Pokemon.

Bro really said there are no wrong opinions when discrimination exists

1:33 I dunno, in my honest opinion I feel like this is true for MOST of the Johto Pokemon... There's just something about them that makes them feel lackluster and forgettable. Not entirely sure why.

I agree that magmortar does just look kinda weird but i prefer electrovire over electrobuzz

You forgot the original pokerap

I can assure you that the pokemon masters community do not like the game because of the gacha mechanic, but because of everything else, the characters are handled really well, the story is really cool, the battle system is really enjoyable and the remixes are awesome. So of you can't look past the gacha system (which by the way is more forgiving that most gacha games) you'll find a love letter to the pokemon franchise.

Pikachu’s coming Pause 11:04 this scene plays next What were you thinking?

Gen 6 is peak I played basically everything up to 3ds never switched to the switch too broke Once you understand kalos is a vacation and animal crossing vibes not epic adventures to be the best Xy and remakes are just the best games

Is 7 being your credit card number also your social security number rogue

2:02 I HATE PENNY TOO! I HATE THAT THEY MADE HER PEONY’S DAUGHTER BECAUSE THAT MAN HAS ALREADY SUFFERED ENOUGH! But also, she LITERALLY hacks into your phone and then they try to redeem her because “She was bullied!” BRO SHE HACKED MY PHONE! I HATE HER

How much yall wanna bet he's gonna get slander on twitter again despite the gajillion amount of times he said he doesn't hate x character

I personally do not like Leon. His personality is the champion/big brother. Like for being champion, the character he's middle of the road at best. Also, my hot take is that I dislike that Pokemon has went away from their more monster designs and more feel like caricatures of different concepts rather than a creature that lives in a world first.

Not mine, but there are too many people who think Lugia’s psychic type makes sense.

I don't care about Shiny Pokemon at all, they would be more valuable if they were completely white and then you can change the color to anything you want

2:58 I respect the video and the opinions, but you did NOT have to do my bro Ed dirty. Anyways my own hot take is that X and Y were good pokemon games, and a good way to transition into 3D. Yeah, some of the animations are dull and the games are easy without too much post game content. But for how many things they added to the series, it’s kinda hard to complain about. They added battle gimmicks other than “look, more pokemon :3”, easy Ev training, clothing customization, DIAGONAL MOVEMENT, convenient internet use, easy friendship bonding, a 3D model of every released pokemon along with an idle animation, more movement options, riding on pokemon, and so much more. Yeah, the pokemon aren’t as bright compared to generation 5, but at least in terms of animation, it’s more polished because they’re not just manipulating parts of a static image, leaving stray pixels and dis-attached limbs.

I agree I also hate Penny especially her design….its funny since I absolutely loved Nemona and Arven. I did feel a bit bad for her when she became Geeta’s government slave at the end of her storyline though.

Although I like penny as a character. I'm working on playing the entire Persona series. Comparing Penny with Futaba is comparing a dolphin with a dinosaur. Futaba is just a more developed character. Side note my headcanon is that if futaba grows up and has a child then i think futaba will be the best mother ever, i know it's not pokemon headcanon but i enjoyed talking about it

Im so glad this man said the truth of lets go. That game wasnt hard at all. But it was so polished and looked beautiful! My emotions run wild with its OST

I honestly think that Nemona is the best rival out of all of them, though that may be because I’ve only ever played the switch games, Violet first, but I think Nemona is amazing even if she is a “kind rival”. Also she uses Pawmo and Orthworm, two of my favorite paldean Pokemon, so she deserves it. I also think she has a pretty good story herself, though it is mostly locked behind the postgame. On top of this, I think that Scarlet and Violet are, if not the best Pokemon game, in the top 3. The open world definitely helps, it has a good story, it doesn’t make it hard to access items and evolutions. My only complaint would be that you can’t select moves using the right joystick, but that’s mostly a non-issue. Plus, out of all Pokemon games, I don’t think it would be much of a stretch to say it’s the best game to come back to, in the sense that it’s fun even after the story has ended. The shiny hunting is easy, the battles are fun, the only thing I’d add is daily trainer and gym leader rematches. I know that blueberry academy’s invite thing exists, but I wish it weren’t locked behind a paywall, both in and out of game.

"I dont have bad takes" *Hates Penny* Yeah, you have bad takes

I love Hikari in her DP dress. I do agree that Platinum has better gameplay.

I just realized is 6:58 an unintentional ralph breaks the internet reference in that $27,001 credit card scene?

What? People are individuals who are allowed to like things I don't? Heresy /s

“Don’t be mentally ill” ~Rogue

Eh, but Penny's also an Eevee lover and shockingly relatible.

“Popular pokemon aren’t overrated, unless I don’t like them and then they’re overrated”

*Hot Take:* Larry is just a rip-off of Nanu from Sun and Moon.

1:47 HONEY, SOMEONE CALLED FOR ME!

6:45 There is other reasons SV sucks. The school setting that limits the adventures with the open areas being empty and Pokémon losing their overworld Ability effects.

My only opinion on penny is that she was made specifically to sell that backpack

The reason the gamer corner got removed is because European Law changed and made it so any game that featured gambling would be rated 12+

I never really go around hearing what the community think, but I never knew people don't like Lyra/Kotone's design. She's in my top 3 favorite design for the female protagonists (1. Rosa, 2. Gloria, 3. Lyra).

14:44 Galarian Darumaka is a perfect example, i rest my case.