Overlap is even worse when you find a Pokemon you love design wise only to find out it's stats are rather poor.

I haven't finished the video, but, I would say: seemingly redundant Pokemon can have value by fitting better on a particular team. A Pokemon can have a different typing or ability that may not generally make much of a difference, but can be huge for teambuilding.

Pokémon just needs a complete overhaul of its battle system. It’s been the same for like over a decade, with no differences. Another thing I’d love to see again is a new game that uses ONLY new Pokémon. Like what black and white did. Because it’ll let the new ones shine before people complain and want their old stuff to come back that would overshadow the new stuff

Absolutely true about limitedness of Pokemon. It seems like with newer games every other mon doesn’t have single niche use and I have to use something unbalanced to do at least marginally good.

I hate how similar pokemon become when there are so many small ways to make them unique. Flash Fire is always stuck on fire types, which means they are always pit against eachother. When you could give Flash Fire to something like Gourgiest, whose theme of a jackolantern works really well with the ability. There are a lot of mons that need massive rehauls, but a decent amount just need a few tweaks.

5:02 This guy basically got his wish to have a pokemon strong against every type in 2013 when the fairy/steel combination came to be..

this is the reason i like smogon, pokemon is pretty awesome competitively when action is taken to attempt to balance it out, creating plenty of interesting metagames with most pokemon getting a chance to shine in lower tiers

I think some examples of overlap were patched but too little too late. Feraligatr and Gliscor have major advantages despite overlap but arent in recent regional dexes. Entei got Sacred Fire around the same time; Vileplume got Strength Sap Generation 7. All stuff that would have been great except power creep ruined it

Yeah it’s kinda crazy that every Pokémon anime and form of Pokémon media preaches that every Pokémon is different and it’s the trainer that brings it out, every single Pokémon game I’ve played however All my Pokémon are different but to me they’re the same as the Pokémon I used last time of the same type 😂 I’ve always liked soultimates in yo Kai watch and that every yo Kai has an actual voice and personality instead of just saying their name.

The last time they really did anything to existing pokemon Gen 7 (Drought Torkoal and Drizzle Pelipper anyone?), and most of the stat buff attempts in Gen 6 went to nowhere (even in the lower tiers) *cough* Roserade's Def *cough* Staraptor's Sp. Def *cough* if anything, it only makes the odds of them being OHKO'd a little bit more random Nowadays they just throw moves at any existing pokemon like darts and hope it sticks and makes an impact (unless the mon is so beyond repair that it barely makes a difference), without buffing any of their stats nor give them a new ability (other than Gallade or the Hisuian mons, or replacing Hail with the superior Snow so that it's actually a weather); All whiling nerfing some mons that are considered over-powered directly or indirectly (Amoonguss by making fellow grass-types immune to powder moves, Thundurus via the Prankster, Swagger, and T-Wave nerfs, certain Megas like Kangaskhan, Gardevoir and Salamence whiling those lasted, Aegislash's stats and signature move, Mimikyu's Disguise ability, the terrains cause of the Tapus alone, Protean/Libero ability, Grassy Glide cause of Rillaboom alone, Zacian's stats and ability, and sadly Zamazenta's too, Urshifu's Wicked Blow, and singles stalling as a whole), only to also contradict that by giving both Incineroar and Grimmsnarl Parting Shot, gave Spectrier Draining Kiss and Psychic, and even gave Urshifu Swords Dance on top of leaving Unseen Fist untouched

its kind of ironic you bring up Golem and Rhydon, considering they were both rather equal in viability for a very long time for SPECIFICALLY unique reasons. only due to a glitch in the original games code is it no longer the case. as Golem can no longer paralyze normal mons. As inteneded however, they filled different nieches that were very important and unique in the meta game

Honestly if Nintendo forced Pokemon to have Multiplayer, thats one of the only good things theyve done ever

Blind Pokemon fan boys pulling up a level 10 tortchick against a level 50 primal kyogre and thinking they can win.

ppl talk abt Sejuns Pachurisu and completely forget how pacha was hand picked due to its specific strengths alongside the rest of Sejuns team as well as the meta

As someone who doesn't keep up with competitive Pokemon, this video is pretty informative (and a little sad) in regards to showcasing how much Pokemon are outright better than each in a sad way. Recent example that really hurts is seeing Weavile for instance get thrown to the wayside but what is essentially Weavile 2, Zacian being wildly better than Zamazenta or Cherrim being a contender for the worst grass type pokemon ever lmao. Pokemon fr has this weird mentality of "There's always a bigger fish" while Yo Kai Watch seems to care more about each fish being cool in it's own right (even if some are extremely good). Kinda sad that despite how popular online battling is, Game Freak and the Pokemon Company kinda just buff or nerf Pokemon off the drop of a hat more than anything.

I'm just commenting in here to say thank you for making yokai watch content( although I don't think this counts, but it's still good). After I completed ykw1, my Ds broke, and there wasn't really much content seen of it. I was really happy to see this channel

I want to make a monster collector myself that takes into account the competitive scene, my plan is to have every fully evolved monster have a bst of about 450 so that even if there are better monster choices it's not because their base stats are overall lower

The thumbnail is a masterpiece, 3 famous KZfaqrs' thumbnail styles and random fanart all thrown together into the perfect storm of Internet. 😂 As for the whole "Nintendo gave this to Pokémon when Game Freak wouldn't" thing, you could make an entire video on all the times that happened.

That Karen on the bottom left thumbnail fr

Very well made video I remember playing through sun and moon and thinking why do I have this Pokémon I caught on route one that I nicknamed and bonded with when there is literally a copy pasted version with better stats on the next route lol

That's the reason why I love playing 6v6 Singles Draft Leagues on Showdown. The participants sort all the mons into tiers based on their experiences in the draft meta. Everyone has to draft a squad of 12 Pokémon; 2 S, 3 A, 3 B, 2 C, 2 D for example. There are even draft leagues where they ban most strong Pokémon, so that the C and D-tier mons are roughly S and A in the so-called SML (shitmon league) meta. Many draft leagues are played in NatDex so you can use all the old mons and moves they took away from many mons (Toxic, Scald, Knock Off) in recent gens. The point is: Just like in Smogon's lower tiers you can use all your favourite weak Pokémon without straightup losing and depending on the meta/banlist even a Sudowoodo can be viable. ^^ So I don't really have a problem with power creep and overlap because I'm not limited to OU or the nasty VGC meta. 😅

nice vid! i guess somewhat of a silver lining to the whole dexit thing was it shrinks the pool of available pokemon which kind of addresses the overlap issue, at least momentarily before the DLC drops

He put phisical water types on the thumbnail, but just you wait till you see defesnive special attacking water types with incredibly (not so much) movepools

Honestly, the reason I didn't mind that the newer games tried limiting the pool of returning mons was because of these issues with oversaturated niches. It is interesting given the huge pool of existing mons to see them shuffled and remixed, even as a casual player. In many ways, it also makes playing more competetively easier since you dont need to worry about trading up a bunch of mons. I think the weaker mons mostly serve as a good gameplay balance, even if in VGC the ability to use almost any pokemon is redundant, within the games it can lead to some power scaling and make progression a bit more diverse (not fun when the only option for a psychic type immune to sleep is hypno, which might be too much compared to an easier girafarig, etc) I just think if pokemon wants to have a more tailored roster, with only a handful of new pokemon, they *need* to make sure the pokemon are there for a reason.

"Strong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favorites." "And I took that personally"- Every competitive pokemon essayist for some reason (no shade it's just funny how often I see people on here dunk on that line in comp essays)

I don’t think that every Pokémon not having a unique niche is entirely a bad thing. It definitely would be better from a utilitarian perspective, as having a lot of monsters in your game that are just bad compared to others is kind of waste of design. But when there are so many Pokémon and they all do different things and have variety in what sets they can run, I feel it becomes a bit too much too keep track off when playing. I don’t know, as someone who is bad at the game and gets stuck on the lower ladder where people use weird, unviable stuff anyway, I find myself getting frustrated a lot because I don’t know what to do against half of it. I found myself having more fun playing Gen 1 than the newer gens because there is only like 10 good mons, another 10 or so meh ones, and everything else is so outclassed they might as well all be Delibird. I think that more centralized metas can be more fun (and competitive) at times, as long as there isn’t like one Pokémon or one team dominating everything, obviously.

Only thing about this video that sprouted me into commenting is ..... wtf is this tier list at 3:43 ???! Who is the psychopath that put MILOTIC in C rank, the same rank as stuff like Articuno, Lapras, Lunatone or Scizor and a tier below freaking Smeargle ? 💀💀💀 I generally am very receptive to seeing other's opinions on ADV OU but damn, this one is getting too spicy for me

Aye man, i love seeing my 252 attack and speed, adamant garchomp use earthquake on an Ampharos

Doubles battles offsets this a little by enabling support Pokémon and allowing for some Pokémon to be good by working well next to other Pokémon which allows for some more variety in Pokémon variety

>Now Game Freak is stuck with a Metagame they clearly don't care about Correction: they do care, they just use it to prop up shillmons rather than make a fun balanced game. That's why Charizard get 3 broken bullshit forms and every move under the sun while Typhlosion gets c*cked out of basic stuff like Earth Power so that everyone can point and laugh at how lame and weak the Gen 2 starters are because f*ck Johto. Pokemon is such bullshit, should have switched to Yokai Watch a long time ago.

I only play casual playthroughs and I just use pokemon that I like, not going off stats or move pools. Only ones that I find cool, or unique. I've never had problems in casual playthroughs of the game, but I do understand the competitive scene. Luckily there's all sorts of metas people can do that'll allow their pokemon to shine.

It’s pretty obvious that all 500+ fully evolved Pokémon were not meant to be viable. Just like how an ecosystem can only support so many competing species, a metagame can only have so many viable mons, so introducing more pokemon species will inevitably lead to others falling out of favor. Idk what your argument is here, in every game some options will outclass others, and as you add more options older ones will struggle to stay relevant.

I agree with the point of the video (powercreep exists within Pokémon), but I think your argument isn't effective at communicating that. The way you present your evidence makes you seem dishonest with your overall point, even though I don't think you're trying to. For example, lets look at the point in your video where you mention abilities. Abilities like regenerator, unaware, and intimidate function completely differently, and it is extremely reductive to boil them all down to the 'take less damage' category. If it isn't clear how these abilities differ, consider how you are defining 'taking less damage.' In your example you list regenerator, which doesn't reduce damage at all. A Toxapex will take the same damage from an earthquake with or without regenerator. In order to list it under the 'less damage' category, you would have to argue that the healing said Toxapex receives when it switches out is 'taking less damage.' If you don't see the problem with this, let me ask you a question: Does the move recover make you take less damage? Hopefully you see the problem with defining regenerator that way. Intimidate and unaware have similar problems, if your opponent is using non-boosting special attacks do those abilities no longer count as damage reducing abilities? Is unaware also an offensive ability because it ignores your opponent's defensive boosts? All of this is granting the fact that the abilities listed are representative of the majority of abilities, which I wouldn't say it is. Either way, the evidence you provide here is faulty, and therefore doesn't support your point. For another example, lets look at the part where you talk about the Pokémon themselves. In this section you directly contradict yourself. Your claim is that Pokémon like Poliwrath are outclassed by other Pokémon who have the same if not better options. As an example you compare Poliwrath and Floatzal, pointing out how Floatzal has aqua jet. However, you also pointed out how Floatzal doesn't have belly drum, so how is Poliwrath outclassed? Just because a Pokémon is better suited to one task than another Pokémon doesn't make the other outclassed. Even if you take the most 'outclassed' comparison you presented, that being the comparison between Poliwrath and Azumarill, you fail to notice what seperates these Pokémon. Azumarill has a different ability, typing, moves, and stats, which make it clearly distinct from Poliwrath or the other water types you mentioned. In this way, you focus solely on the similarities while ignoring the differences between each Pokémon which causes you to fail to prove how Poliwrath is outclassed, invalidating this point. You contradict yourself in other areas of the video as well. At the beginning of the video you claim that the Pokémon company never cared about competitive, but at the end you say that the Pokémon Company is contradicting itself by saying that every Pokémon is special, despite the competitive scene being unbalanced. Which is it? Does the Pokémon Company care about competitive or not? At the end you ask the following question: "What are the solutions?" To this you bring up no solutions, you throw shade at the Pokémon Company's bad games, and say "Just stop playing Pokémon." That isn't a solution, and I think it shows what you really wanted (maybe unconsciously) to communicate, that people should stop playing Pokémon. Overall, your points are heavily flawed. The examples you've used show how you aren't examining all the evidence and/or viewing this from a neutral perspective, despite how you present your evidence. Your thesis, that Pokémon is unbalanced, is either unproven or rests on the previously mentioned faulty evidence. Your failure to examine the evidence in full, reductive reasoning, and logical contradictions lead me to believe you have a heavy bias against (some aspect of) Pokémon, a bias that prevents your video from succeeding. Hopefully you can understand that these criticisms are meant to help you reevaluate your argument the next time you try a video like this. Let me know what you think!

To be fair, Karen was likely referring to in-game. While some Pokemon are better than others, you can win in-game with just about any Pokemon, especially in generations 1 and 2. Really, the problem with overlap stems from the expectation of new Pokemon every generation. Pokemon are inevitably going to be left behind.

COROMON ON TOP🗣🗣‼

Another thing about Coromon is that while of course having base statlines it's "EV and IV" system is actually far more noticable (With Potents and Perfects being different colors then usual to indicate them being rarer and in the case of battle stronger) and lots more customizable since you can dump those bonus stats wherever *you* want. I know one example during my own playthrough of Coromon there's a Coromon called Bittybolt/Toravolt which has a Trait (basically abilities) called Zealous, which boosts the damage of the skills by 20% but all the moves cost 2 more SP (With SP being a more generalized version of Power Points from Pokemon). So for it I kept buffing up the max SP from those bonus "EVs" until I got it up to plus 26 additional SP in which was the max Coromon allows you to level SP. All I am saying is that Coromon definitely plays the balance of individuality and customizability to a tee, each Coromon has it's own thing on terms of statlines and Traits, but you can choose what you want to do with the other aspect of Coromon training. Like you want to patch up the Def stat of a Low Def Coromon? You can do that! You want to boost SP like I did in the example? You can do that! You want to turn a usually mediocre Speed Coromon to having sizable Speed? You can do that!

Really shows the effect of power creep. Golem was already a victim of power creep in the generation it got introduced 💀

honestly the fact that modern pokemon keeps getting more and more unbalanced with each new release is part of why I stopped playing new pokemon games. they're just not that fun to me anymore.

MANY problems with the balance. The type chart has never been in a good spot, and every time they add a new type to fix balance it causes new problems. Certain types are just better than others. The modifiers for damage calculation often have too much of an impact and stacking them is one of the reasons why offense is always so strong and you see one shots (lol double weakness is 4X modifier which is insane). Having offense be so powerful with stacking modifiers means the things that work as tanks have to be ridiculous to be viable, and there is no value in a "jack of all trades" archetype. This also means when combined with the limited movesets and options prediction is often the extent of strategy during the core gameplay loop of a battle. It's fun to build the team, but it's not like you can adjust strategy in how they are used in real time other than switching them in and out. It simply lacks depth. Another large issue that makes most pokemon unviable is the ridiculous stat spread: you are looking at around 300-600 stopping at pseudo legendaries. That is a difference of having TWICE the amount of stats available. Now, if this was used to inflate the stats of a pokemon that would otherwise be a "jack of all trades" type that is flexible I could see it having value. Instead, it is designed so that many of the pokemon you get later on are more powerful by default. I believe this is to encourage you to try out new team members as you go through your playthrough, but it destroys the idea of most of them being competitively viable. The "gotta catch em all" doesn't matter if the majority of them are hot garbage. Even worse, there is no better way to make something overlap and no longer an option than to just give one of them more stats. Now, you could also use the power of the moves available as a counter balance, but nope! The most powerful pokemon with the best types and stats often have access to the moves with the highest base power as well, and you usually are able to spam those moves. Imagine if you had more move slots but the more powerful moves had turn CDs? There are so many ways not just to balance it, but to make the game EASIER to balance. The whole battle system is a house of cards with power creep thrown on top.

I love the Jimothy Cool feature at 0:40!!!!!

wish most pokemon were special like having unique stats, typing and/or movepool instead of being outclassed by the newer gen pokemon.

What's fucked up about rhydon and golem is that rhydon isn't even a fully evolved mon 😭

In hindsight, maybe every Pokemon game should have only had new ones.

The pokedex entry regarding polirath is a fast swimmer is explained by his ability swift swim.

this guys is really mad that he can’t use pikachu on showdown and get number 1

I dislike what the Pokemon company are doing with their ip but to pose the solution of : just play something else is counterintuitive . Fans want Pokemon to be fixed because it can be fixed - PLA was a step in the right direction. I also don’t see why you’re sourcing the anime as how Pokemon are equal, you could have easily sourced from the games but the anime & games are not only different in “mechanics” but made by different people. Overall the video was good though :D

Commenting as a Pokémon Fan, you’re absolutely right. Like, nothing here is wrong While I genuinely believe giving monsters the same abilities or types isn’t inherently bad, Pokémon is guilty of “doing the same Pokémon again but better” a lot And yeah, they care more about merchandising than making a balanced game

Honestly, the Pokémon design are the only thing really good about the series, and the one thing keeping the series alive, besides dumb kids and nostalgia.

Golem has Explosion, and is better in game because u can get it after the 2st badge and its a trade evo which means it can become pretty good early game I dont think RBY Rhydon vs Golem is a great example of overlap

Do you know about persona it has that kind of monster collection aspect

Do you think the 4 move set limitation of pokemon a problem?. I have seen some people defend it, saying that if they have more than 4 moves they would counter everything. I personally think having more than 4 move set could work if they only implement it on lower tier pokemon in order to balance it out.

The anime preaches everything Pokémon is special and you can bring that out but it the games you play as the jerk who only uses pokemon for their stats

The absolute DISRESPECT on that garchomp...youll get your due flygon 🥺🙏

After playing TemTem it really have me a wake up slap to how dull Pokemon games can get, and while they have all the money in the world to be developed. That disgusting game calendar of a new Gen every 3 years probably causes Game Development Morale to be very low. Compared to stuff made by smaller IP's

"Pokemon and Bad Game Design": Oh you're gonna piss off the pokemon fanboys with this one, especially the competitive players.

Mons can sometimes form a niche, but then you get many cases where a mon has literally nothing over someone else. Thank you for lower tiers, smogon, at least they have a roll to see the light of day. I feel blessed Zone and Mr. Craw at least stay functional...

I'm so glad you brought up the most important thing. That PvP was not the main focus. It was built as an RPG. Onix for example is clearly just a first Boss, not a real team member. You hit so many different nails on the head for me with this video. The issue of overlap even happens when looking at options for a single species. Like how Delibird gets Insomnia and Vital Spirit. It's not even funny. Also, Mirage Master was Gen 3 right? Give that guy a Sableye, fairies didn't exist yet, so it has no weakness. Well...except being a Sableye.

Once I though that could be cool a fangame where pokemon were more specialized , for example giving them just one skill and between 4 and 10 moves (with upgrades) , maybe also in double battles and with decisions like give to most of the tanky mons access to follow me for make more enfasis on the impotance of use different roles. Probably I wont never do it , but still I think that if its well made could be cool

How long did it take for a Pokemon fan to dislike, I wonder

I’ve always just brute forces my way through these games cuz I’m too dumb for the strats. 😅 Indeedee is king!

I'm afraid that I didn't get you right, pls correct me, but the problem is not new pokemon being created. The problem is from the pokemon available (around 300~350 per game) the new ones are way more reliable, strong and have unique traits. I don't blame the devs for making them like this because they are having new ideas and learning new coding methods. The problem being that old pokemon don't get the same treatment and are left with their outdated moves and abilitiesm

I always thought it was fun to take out ou teams/boring repetitive pokemon teams with nfe pokemon, gimmicks, my favorites, special pokemon themes but that's just me. If only pokemon did special rules such as only pokemon below 3kg can be used for tourneys. It would at least change up the fights instead of seeing the same exact teams mirroring each other. Could also have all pokemon only have 1 or 2 moves. Trainers are given random pokemon instead of their own. There's so many possibilities.

Pokémon is never balanced to begin with

My biggest problem is that some Pokemon just dont make sense in their stats, moves, abilities, type others Why is there a Pokemon stronger than Arceus in every stat if Arceus is the god of Pokem9n? Why do legendaries have Pressure (one of the least legendary abilities ever)? It just makes no sense

Being a competitive monster taming analizer, I would like to see what is your take in competitive temtem, being a game much more similar to pokemon than yokai watch but fixing a lot of the issues that you stated in this video. Great work btw, keep up the good job!

I will continue using Karen to criticize the meta game she was breaking the 4th wall and never even met Silver. So they can take that little meme and shove it.

Although I get what you’re where you’re coming from, I think that although a lot of Pokémon have similar archetypes they have enough niches and specialization to warrant them, like on the thumbnail crawduant has adaptabilty knock off and close combat to break certain walls azumarill can’t touch, and even when a Pokémon is directly powercrept that just means the lower tiers have an option to use

for me we will never get to see pokemon in a serious way in an E sport or decent competition other than the typical VGS or players choise, since RB the combat system was unbalanced and I'm not talking about glitches or bugs, that's another matter. when you build say, a table, you have to make its 4 or more legs work equally well, if you build without a leg no matter how much you want to put glitter and makeup on the other legs or want to put things that are not legs in the place where the missing leg should go. and that's exactly what is happening right now with things like z-moves, dynamax and TC, they are sensationalist additions that want to give a false sense of complexity to a metagame that is no more. today we could say that the leg is half done and the table stands, but someday someone will get tired of eating their soup and you do not know if you can eat it quietly or the damn RGN that does so much harm to the saga will end with your soup on the floor just like unam limps with 3 legs, I know I went a little off the rails with the examples but I think I explained myself well.

In fairness of the Mastermind of Mirage pokemon episode, Seaking couldn't get the lightning rod ability until gen 5

This is such a great video detailing about Power Creep. I totally agree, every generation it becomes harder and harder to validate every Pokemon as unique and optimal. The recent generations of 8 & 9 especially in my opinion have been the main culprit of Power Creep, like look no further than Calyrex Shadow and Chi-Yu. Gamefreak either A) needs to change up how they go about introducing new mons and balancing or B) fix up past mons and try to somehow bring them up to speed on the formula used now to create monsters. Obviously balancing won't solve anything but it would make the past gen mons super weak and irrelevant and throw away with each power creep in the recent generations. Again, I loved this video and this was such a great analysis of the power creep in Competitive Pokemon!

There's a lot of great points made here. Nowadays I don't really see myself playing much of the mainstream games and find myself playing on romhacks where pokemon are buffed to have better stats and overall usability. Some even get different types/ abilities that bring them even just a little better. I end up favouring fan changes over the ones game freak makes sometimes as the mainstream games take less and less skill and strategy to defeat the main story.

Hey it would be cool if you could cover "Monster hunter: stories" meta game in the future (there are two stories games btw). It is also a monster collecting game and hase really interesting game mechanics that can get really complicatet. I personally really like the game and throm what I have played it seems pretty balanced, but i would love to hear your opinien about it!

1:18 this concept could work if pokemon allowed for more broken strategies such as all pokemon get access to all moves and the only thing that is changed is STAB formula is designed not only for the typing of the move but the pokemon move types your pokemon is 4 times weak to have attacks they use of that type 4 times weaker but they are still available alternatively have them be lower leveled moves like a steel bug type can't have flame thrower but can have ember. also can have the PP based by pokemon too in a similar fashion if weak the standard of the move pool is halved to a minimum of 8 if strong doubled to a maximum of 64 moves that are too strong no matter the type are unchanged or customized based on the pokemon. IDK just a thought. I think the main issue with pokemon in regards to this is that they try to be themed and yet are themed poorly, they try to be unique and yet have moves everyone else does, they try to be strategic but are missing the best move in their niche, it's also very unhelpful you cannot tell pokemon type by color if you could suicune is ice type and so is pachirisu, also lucario would be psychic instead of steel if smash bros is to be believed. point being It shouldn't be true that out of non legendary non mythical pokemon cacturne and slow king galar are the pokemon I find to have the most customization available in terms of moves and even item utility. I personally feel pokemon should have it's moves like items be availible to all pokemon and the abilities and stats is what carries the unique aspects to be worked around instead of the game punishing you for attempting customization. lastly pokemon please stop making moves that only benefit people who know the game in and out no black belt, make heal on hit moves have a minimum instead of being completely type reliant, and flat out remove moves that require the player know the weight class of the opponent; the pokemon's happiness stat; and their level. please encourage more odd playstyles like evasion, item disruption, move countering, status moves that don't just increase your own stats, even stalling as long as there is counter play. lastly and this is for showdown specifically make it more obvious which moves are physical and special attacks.

5:53 nature isn't balanced. the teams get auto balanced. that's adaption.

I'm surprised you never mentioned Shin Megami Tensei in this video, given how much Yo-Kai Watch draws from it. Of course, Yo-Kai Watch is pretty much a small niche series outside of Japan whose once-aggressive ubiquity caused fatigue in its domestic market. Pokémon just has a broader appeal and had much better timing. Pokémon stood out at its release time, and all of its competitors are now stuck in its shadow. Tem-Tem may have better gameplay, but it's a homely game whose monster designs pale in comparison to Pokémon's. Digimon had the best chance of being on equal footing with Pokémon, but it failed to so for various reasons.

that thumbnail is wild

It's only a single player game but how do you feel about combat in min hero?

I love Basculegion, but yeah hes pretty busted and over powered.

Pokémon needs to diversify into other game types. Like what they made a gesture towards with Legends Arceus

This video is good but I would like some more vids on yokai watch.

I had more fun with Digimon Cyber Sleuth on the Switch than the bland Pokémon Lets go

This just reads like that one showdown player who complains about lando T being allowed in ou, or a vgc player saying that all vgc teams look the same

I feel like this video is trying to say powercreep is bad, rather than overlap is bad. Overlap is inevitable, especially with 1000 different Pokemon, you are bound to encounter overlap, and ESPECIALLY without making unique moves and abilities for every single one of them. There are also interesting cases for overlap, like how Golem and Rhydon are essentially the same except Rhydon gets a better movepool, while Golem has better availability and Explosion, or how Doduo is flat out better Spearow, except you can get Spearow earlier than Doduo. I also feel that some Pokemon are there not so much for a meta perspective, but just for lore. This is ESPECIALLY prevalent throughout Johto, where you have Pokemon that are there to showcase new mechanics and have zero meta uses, like Yanma, Ledian, and Sunflora. Also, Floatzel is an awful initial comparison to Poliwrath. While yes, we have now defined Poliwrath as a Sweeper, it is not apparent at first glance that Poliwrath is strictly inferior to Floatzel - because Floatzel clearly has worse defensive stats. Feraligatr and Paldean Tauros illustrate power creep on Poliwrath better. Lastly, some Pokemon like Onix, Cranidos, and Miltank are just designed to be "bosses" to overcome in your adventures. They were purposefully designed to be mediocre in metagame usage, but they were tough to overcome with weaker Pokemon.

If there was a Yokai watch on the switch then I would play the shiza out of it! To bad that the only way I could get the game to run would be on an emulator unless they have a digital version for me to use on my switch.

I fell like the honest answer is simple, yet it would require GameFreak to actually get off their ass and attempt something new. *Move away from the turn based RPG formula* Not all the way, but things like EV/IV systems and natures for example. Both these things are holdovers from older games designed with the idea that the player would be unaware of them; creating the illusion of diversity.

I think as pokemon generations continues on, it will as always add new Pokémon and add to the ever growing Pokémon list since we are already at 1000 Pokémon by gen 9 being out. I’m not sure pokemon will stop adding in new Pokémon. Probably eventually it might have to but with every generation, comes the other things like the merchandise, movies, the cards, the anime, and what not and not just the games that need new Pokémon not just the old Pokémon. Because Pokémon is more then just the games since it is a multi media franchise. Each Pokémon is different by the natures, the moves that each Pokémon gets, the abilities, the ivs, and evs. Certain pokemon fill in different roles like being a all out attacker, a healer, a niche role, being bulky, and more in the competitive scene in pokemon. Certain pokemon have abilities that they really shouldn’t have that either buff or nerf them. Or they take out certain Pokémon abilities like gengar in gen 7. Certain pokemon have low stats then they should or get certain moves them other Pokémon that probably need those certain moves to be good. There’s also gimmicks that pokemon has added over the years that have helped certain pokemon over the years like mega evolution, z moves, tera gimmick in gen 9, the gems in gen 5, and the gimmick in gen 8. I know this has nothing to do with the video but one of the reasons I still play Pokémon is because it’s turn based and that it’s gameplay is simple. Some things like having the special and physical spilt in gen 4 have helped Pokémon’s gameplay. Just like adding natures, double battles, and abilities in gen 3 helped the gameplay of pokemon as well. Or adding in triple battles or rotation battles in gen 5. That’s one of the reasons why I didn’t like Pokémon legends arceus because of the gameplay. The game was fine but the gameplay wasn’t for me and it just wasn’t fun for me. Some Pokémon will just be better then others. Not every Pokémon is going to be good in competitive scene regardless if one of your favorites isn’t one of them or is weak. Some just have low stats or bad abilities. Which is why the tiers exist in the competitive scene. There’s also items as for the competitive scene that people need to consider. As well as pokemon typings that play a role. It’s a bit difficult to balance pokemon with the things you need to consider when gamefreak is making a Pokémon. There’s also a reason why certain are the same in the competitive scene then others. The competitive scene has been getting easier to get into since gen 6 then in the past before generation 6 as the generations continue.

Your video does have a valid argument behind it, however I disaggree with some points and examples: 0:41 Amoonguss was ALWAYS a great mon since the start of gen 9 (and a staple of VGC since his debut), it became even more used after chien pao and espathra got banned since those two were direct counters of him. 1:44 I can agree with this but I feel like this example is just flawed, due to the fact that hatterene is eons better than hypno and girafarig, the latest being considered one of the worst pokemon to ever exist. 2:08 Poli doesn't really need priority when he has swift swim, ofc the other pokemon you mentioned are better but not because they have the move, they are just straight up superior. 2:58 Flygon has been a staple of RU for generations, the fact that a pokemon is not in the first two ladders doesn't mean it's weak by itself, just weaker than the top ones, people overhype OU way too much when even players of that ladder get tired of some metas (cof cof gen 8). 4:19 gameplay doesn't equal story, much worse the anime, the main message of every pokemon being unique still makes sense when they fit a niche in their own way, and this doesn't just aply to pokemon, it aplies to any other monster catching game like digimon. 6:08 Being 100% sincere, this entire row of memes feels like it came straight out of /vp/, everyone knows that pachirisu was just a miracle of coinsidences that ended in a hiraliously efficient support mon that marked history in the VGC competitive scene, only a super small amount of people truly believe that it was because pachirisu was as good as the others, even less that use it as an argument for "every mon can be good in competitive", which considering the smogon tierings there *is* a chance for all, but even with that some mons are just so bad they just end even bellow the considered "worst of the worst"

I agree. As I am a person who has played pokemon showdown as my first pokemon game and a rookie to the series as a whole. I can say MAKING A POKEMON COMPETITIVE TEAM SUCKS SO MUCH BECAUSE OF THIS. Sometimes I just want to use my favorite pokemon with out it constantly being outclassed by the top ten of the teirlist. Sure part of that is skill issue but that doesn't change how effective it is at making anything that isn't a legendary feel like trash to play. Making a pokemon team for at least me sucks because I like to create by playstyle but pokemon's customization has too many options in which only of those options is actually effective. So my time feels wasted trying to make a cool concept that face plants because it's too little of everything. I just hate how situational every single playstyle, move, item, pokemon, ability, and stat is. I hate it on the level is to win you need pretty much everything memorized and still out play your opponent cause the game is all about trick the enemy into your win condition like some kind of long winded chess game. I'm just really frustrated about the design of pokemon such wasted potential

Just watched level 5 stream no yokaiwatch but I'm interested in professor layton and the soccer game they shown I'll give it a shot

Poliwrath should get Mach punch and aqua jet

I feel as though you've slightly misrepresented the competitive scene. It's important to remember that there's 2 camps: The official VGC format and the fan community smogon. Your criticisms of pokemon being outclassed certainly applies to VGC, but smogon's tiering system allows any pokemon to have a niche, and that's because they're always fighting pokemon on their democratically assigned power level

You can easily use just the pokemon you like in any playthrough it doesn't apply to competive which I feel is understandable and makes sense

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I was playing DQMonsters TW while watching this and seeing DQMonsters recognized as a game with so much customization (or even recognized) made my entire day. Monsters is so fun, I love when I end up making a Dark Slime (monster with passives that increase darkness damage) and give him skillsets that only contain healing abilities because I needed a better healer. If someone wants Pokémon merged with oldschool RPGs, I genuinely reccomend to try those games. They don't have much overlap either, since you can give monsters virtually any moveset you want. However, do keep in mind you may need to use certain methods, since they never release outside of Japan nowadays. Thank you, sir, very cool. As for the video itself, what I like about the sheer number of Pokémon is that it makes casual gameplay really fun. Certain monsters combinations can help you tell a bit of a character's story or personality (Oleana from Sw/Sh is a neat example), and when played with friends in something like Pixelmon, it makes it so everyone can have the mons they like without a care in the world because we don't care about winning every game, just beating the challenges we make for ourselves. However, you're right on the competitive side. Pokémon meta is complete chaos.

My fave has got to be syborg y a b rank yokai that can turn enemy yokai into syborg y

Oh yeah? Id like to see what you have in mind to fix this so-called problem.

Most the talk about using Pokémon you like etc isn't talking about competitive just the anime and people like karen the base game where it's possible to use your favorites because it's easy lol

Game balance good capitalism bad 😳

Skill issue