Pokémon Least Favorite aspect in each Pokémon Generation

[Alolan_Apples]

Every generation had their own flaws that made it the worst Pokémon generation in that area. From all the main series Pokémon games (not counting remakes), what was your least favorite part in each game?

 

[SkyKnight03]

Gen 1: There's no trainer rematches or post game (aside from catching mewtwo). The Elite Four feels final. Also a severe lack of bag space.

Gen 2: The rocket hideouts are lengthy and there's several in a row.

Gen 3: They removed the day/night cycle. (...why take out a cool new feature)? also the kanto remakes don't let you evolve the new pokemon into johto forms. Why can't I have a crobat.

Gen 4: it's slow :c platinum fixes this to an extent, but the animations are still a slog.

Gen 5: There's a serious lack of wild pokemon variety in the early game. Black/White 2 does fix this.

Gen 6: ...It's too easy. I know Pokemon isn't hard, but this is mind numbing.

Gen 7: For some reason, many of the trainers only battle with one or two pokemon. Also they locked out mega evo's until the post game.

Gen 8: Dynamax was the beginning of the gimmicks becoming unnecessary.

Gen 9: It was an attempt at making an 'open world game' except the levels don't scale, so what's the point?

 

[Midoriya]

Gen 1: As someone in fan-made game said it best, the types were unbalanced and the designs were bland. : D

Gen 2: The variety of Pokemon to catch isn't really a lot IF you take out ALL Pokemon that weren't introduced in this generation. The game honestly relies on Kanto a bit too much, to the point that it's included in post-game.

Gen 3: Too much H20 to be honest.

Gen 4: Lack of available Pokemon to catch, but Platinum fixes this. My favorite gen.

Gen 5: This one is REALLY nitpicky, but the main character designs are kind of bland. Same for B2/W2.

Gen 6: Fairy type is dumb imo, at least with the way it was handled. Bonus: Mega evolutions weren't given to a lot of Pokemon that actually needed them.

Gen 7: The handholding and long cutscenes kill this for a lot of people.

Gen 8: The story was actually kind of terrible compared to the other games, and the characters felt bland. Hop is also a pushover as a rival, just like Hau. Bonus: Unwanted Charizard fanservice in the form of Champion Leon.

Gen 9: The glitches that could happen in Tera raids are annoying.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Gen 1: Pokémon in battle sprites are pretty bad in RB (Yellow is slightly better and more tolerable) and the glitches pose a problem as a few of them will completely corrupt your game.

Gen 2: Batteries in the carts are always all dead in ones that have been used.

Gen 3: Same problem with batteries as Gen 2, impossible to complete the National Dex outside of Japan, fake copies too common now and the authentic games are being sold for extremely ridiculous prices

Gen 4: Trying to get female Combee, Munchlax, or Heracross from Honey Trees, the method of obtaining Spiritomb is extremely long and tedious and impossible to do if you don’t have any friends or a second DS, Feebas is extremely frustrating to get

Gen 5: The Dream World in general because of how you could only use it for an hour per day, could only choose one Pokémon from each area and sometimes you got two rare Pokémon in the same visit, only way to far, for any Berries in the entire Gen, and necessity of needing Wi-Fi to use the feature and then the entire server and site shutting down less than a year after BW2 were released which had their own rare Dreamworld exclusive Pokémon. Oh and half the medals are completely locked now because they require both the internet and Dreamworld.

Gen 6: XY felt incomplete, the Medal system being locked exclusively to the official site is annoying, and I didn’t get the gifts promised to me for having a Dreamworld account when the changes to the site for XY had happened

Gen 7: I was actually pretty satisfied with this Gen.

Gen 8 and 9: No in-game GTS, Home not causing trade Evolutions to happen (I get why held item trade evolutions don’t work but not Shelmet and Karrablast not evolving after being traded for one another)

 

[Snek]

Wow, I really needed this considering my recent apathy toward the franchise. Let's see now...

Gen1: Psychic is unbalanced. Ghost type is bugged. Limited bag space. No post game. Pokemon sprites were awful. Yeah its the first gen but it doesn't get a pass they could've done better.

Gen2: Level scaling is atrocious. Normal moves like Return make everything trivial. Dark doesn't get a badge boost. Some new mons are in post game Kanto like Larvitar and Houndour. Rocket plot line was lame.

Gen3: No connection with Gen2 made me sad. No day-night cycle, even in FRLG so you can never get Espeon/Umbreon in those games.

Gen4: HM madness in the overworld for the Sinnoh games, even in HGSS sometimes.

Gen5: Lack of mon diversity in BW. This was fixed in B2W2

Gen6: Very easy with ExpShare. Even without it you can solo the game with your starter if you want. Forgettable characters in XY. Seriously I can't really remember much of the games. Sky battles were meaningless and responsible for Flying mon models to be airborne for multiple gens.

Gen7: Ultra Beasts are horrid designs but maybe that was the point??? Handholding and cutscenes make repeat runs excruciating. Lusamine should've been more evil.

Gen8: SWSH story was terrible. Villains weren't villains. Even Rose isn't really a villain so it didn't feel like anything was at stake. Gimmick was unnecessary to the point I wanted Z-moves back lol

Gen9: Villains weren't villains again (this is getting tiresome). Glitches and bugs make game experience awful. Open world wasn't really open world: no level scaling, lots of nothing and felt unfinished. Tera is better than Dynamax but now I'm tired of gen gimmicks and just want better games lol

 

[Holla]

Gen 1: Gen 9 gets a lot of hate for bugs, but after playing my fair share of Gen 1 the number of bugs and programming errors is wild. Also the balancing is terrible. Just get a good a psychic type and watch everything get nuked.

Gen 2: I love Gen 2 but what is this level curve!? Also the majority of new Pokemon are only available in the post game in Kanto… why!? From a lore standpoint that doesn’t make any sense nevermind from a game design one. Also as cool as it is that you get to explore Kanto, at the same it’s boring compared to how you get to explore it in Gen 1.

Gen 3: My fave gen but not without its issues. No day/night cycle was probably the worst, I’m glad this came back for its remakes at least. It didn’t bother me as a kid but not having compatibility at all with Gen 1 and 2 sucks. It also made the Pokédex near imposssible to complete. I still never have in this gen.

Gen 4: Soooooo sloooooooow. Saving a lot of data… endless Chansey/Blissey health bar… the Great Marsh… You get the idea… I finally got ahold of Platinum years later but I suffered with Diamond for well over a decade. As did many people as third games never sold as well as most already had at least one of the first two games.

Gen 5: Not a fan of the graphics style here. Gen 3 and 4 looked so good but the pixelly trying to be 3D but also not really at the same time is just eh. Also why not make the region based on the Untied States as a whole instead of just New York City? I always saw a Pokemon adventure as travelling far and wide through the wilderness not just cities.

Gen 6: Of all gens this gen is just too easy. I even play with the Exp share off and purposely don’t use Mega Evolutions and it’s still not very hard. I know I’m older now and know the series pretty much inside and out but even when revisiting every game Gen 6 by far comes off as the easiest.

Gen 7: I didn’t like how the sequels were handled. The Ultra games had features that the first games should have already had or been in an update. Sure the story was different (and worse) but it felt like a slog to play only a slight different take on the same game. At least in Gen 5 Black2/White2 were proper sequels that actually felt worth playing after their first games.

Gen 8: What is this story!? I know Pokemon typically doesn’t have super amazing stories but this is just awful. Also the Zacian/Zamazenta animation of just turning on the spot is so bad. You’d think for the boxart mascots they’d put in proper animation but nope.

Gen 9: Mainly just lacks overall polish. Too many frame drops and glitches. Raids are fun but the bugginess takes away from them for sure. Also in general I do like the open world style but other things have suffered due to it. Towns and cities don’t feel as real anymore since you can no longer explore inside of the buildings and I can’t even be bothered to fight trainers since you don’t even have to.

Overall I have enjoyed every Gen when I’ve played them despite these criticisms.

 

[Alolan_Apples]

To those who complain about the sixth generation, what’s wrong with making the game so easy? I don’t see it as a bad thing.

 

[Yoshi155]

To those who complain about the sixth generation, what’s wrong with making the game so easy? I don’t see it as a bad thing.

If you can beat every gym, Elite Four member, and the champion on your first try and it’s not because you’re overleveled, then it’s a sign of poor game design. I hate grinding in Pokemon games, but it’s also not fun if you don’t have to put in any effort to win. Then it’s just boring. It’s a better idea to just have things like the EXP share be optional (it technically is but they should have let you be able to use it the way it used to work) to make the game easier while still having some difficulty. I don’t even dislike that game but I agree that it’s way too easy.

 

[LittleMissPanda]

Gen 1 - there are riches of glitches, but it's nothing too crazy unless you intentionally go looking for the real nasty ones lol the one really annoying glitch that is always active and could screw you over is the 1/256 miss glitch, in which a move with supposed 100% accuracy has the potential to randomly miss. The sprites are ugly but that's what gives them charm some are so ugly they're memorable. My main issue is lack of postgame. After you catch Mewtwo, that's it. There are no new areas to explore or Trainers to battle. FRLG fix this problem completely. Also with glitches a person could fill out the Pokédex all by themselves.

Gen 2 - the fact that for some stupid reason you can't catch Mareep in the wild in Pokémon Crystal... Gym Leaders such as Morty and Jasmine getting the short end of the stick by not having a Misdreavus or a Skarmory on their teams, respectively. Bugsy being stuck with Gen 1 bugs. HGSS gives them proper Gen 2 mon representation in their rematches, at least.

Gen 3 - Wally and May/Brendan having lackluster teams. Your rival never even fully evolves their starter. ORAS obviously fixed this. The excess surfing routes never really bothered me. Also the main problem with FRLG is that you can't evolve certain Pokémon until you get the National Dex.

Gen 4 - Rock Climb. Enough said.

Gen 5 - there's not much to dislike about this one. I actually really liked that in BW we were restricted to only using Gen 5 mons until the postgame. I enjoyed being able to use something new rather than sticking with the usual Crobats, Dragonites and Eeveelutions. I'd say the one thing I don't like is that after Gen 5, they never brought back seasons also goodbye Dream World...

Gen 6 - rushed, forgettable, extremely lame rivals, weak Gym Leaders, weak everything lol Team Flare is garbage imo all of the battle themes suck except the XY Legendaries and Mewtwo/Bird Trio battle. I genuinely enjoy them. And of course, the biggest issue is that it's way too easy, with or without EXP share. Pokémon is never Dark Souls level of difficulty, unless you play with certain self-made or fan-made rules/restrictions, but these games are just on a whole other level of easy, it's pretty insulting lol they even spoil you with Gen 1 starters, who get Megas instead of the actual Gen 6 starters. Poor Kalos, it deserved better honestly... Also wow of course Lucario, Garchomp, Gengar, Charizard and Mewtwo get Megas, just more "poster boy" attention lol if you ask me, every mon that got a Mega should have gotten 2, one for X and one for Y. I think a Y version of Mega Ampharos could have been neat.

Gen 7 - Lillie and her family totally carry it LOL no but really, the main thing I hate is how they made it seem like USUM were going to be true sequels a la BW2, but nope. It's just a crappy retelling of events and features that should have already been in Sun/Moon. Fortunately I didn't pick up USUM. Another thing I didn't like was that only Gen 1 mons got love with the regional variant concept.

Gen 8 - I didn't bother to pick up SwSh. Dexit is the worst thing ever. I've seen playthroughs of it, though. I agree that the villains and story is trash. The rival is boring. I don't care about Dynamax and Gigantamax. Mostly Gen 1 mons getting all the love as always, such as Charizard and Gengar, the usual. I was surprised that Butterfree got one because "omg who even uses a Butterfree" lol

Gen 9 - tried way too hard to be as ambitious as possible on a time crunch. It's Pokémon. At the end of the day it's Pokémon, it doesn't need to be some crazy open world thing like everyone else is doing ever since BotW. Levels don't scale with your team. Team Star is lame as hell, Nemona is one note, Penny is overrated. Arven is fine but his story with the Professor could have been much more interesting. Dexit still sucks.

 

[Giddy]

I will probably update the more I play the games again since it's been a while on certain games.

Gen 1 (Red, Blue, Yellow)

The fact you can't find a Pikachu in the wild means your Pikachu is the only one left. Honestly, why did they do this. Pokemon Yellow is pretty much the game where you play as Ash.

Gen 2 (Gold, Silver, Crystal)
I had such a weird glitch where it lost my pokemon in the boxes, and I had to start over ;_;

Gen 3 (Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Firered & Leafgreen)

Wally and his Gardevior, we hardly ever had any proper battles with him, despite him really wanting to prove himself and we hardly ever saw him about? He's got like two battles. I did like the story he had, but I don't think it was really displayed as much well as it could, like how Bianca's story was in Black and White.
The fact he got all the way to Victory Road as well and nothing really came from it other than the fact he decide to go back which just made his whole story fall flat.

Gen 4 (Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, Heartgold & SoulSilver)
Okay! I already saved a minute ago, but better save before this gym leader - SAVING A LOT OF DATA
Also, yes, Rock climb is evil. Definitely when the item that is there isn't very well needed after defeating 8 gym leaders.
I wish there was a way to get the online gifts, I know there is a way but I seriously need help, I can do it with Gen 5, but I seriously need help figuring out how to get them in gen 4. I really wanna do the stuff like Celebi or Shaymin and can't.

That one in game trade who trades you a haunter and trolls you.

The phone calls are nice and all, but half the time the people added to the phone are useless. The phone also doesn't stop, until you pick up or go into a building. The people I wanna hear from, that say they're gonna find cool stuff to give me, never hardly ring. And I've reset my games on this gen for a bit and don't remember them ringing.

Gen 5 (Black&White, Black 2 & White 2)

The only thing I can think of is Dreamworld. Never really understood what it was, I was not an active search everything online gamer, I just played the game. And now the fact wifi and online stuff is gone, I will never understand it. Plus something to do with the Cloud pokemon as well? Something I also think we can't do now?

Gen 6 (X & Y, Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire)

Vivillion's different region patterns was a nice idea, but if you didn't seek online people to trade with, there was no way to really get a lot of the cool patterns. :/ And then, there was the time when the trading GTS I swear everyone asked for a legendary just for this pokemon or something stupid like that.

Lumoise City...
I know we're getting Z A, but the city better be better than what we had to live through. The angle everything was, being on skates and bumping into everything, walking into areas you weren't wanting to do, the sudden swerve of the camera when trying to go back.
The ghost girl looking for the right person, and you were never the person she was looking for (ohh do you think they will finally add what that meant in the new one?) I like mysteries but not when nothing is answered.

Gen 7 (Sun/Moon, Ultra Sun/Moon, Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee)

As much as it was kinda a nice change to battling gym leaders, the things you had to do were super easy. Also hated the rotom dex. Wasn't really my thing, and it kinda irritated me sometimes.

Throwing the pokeball physically never works well enough and I lose a lot of poke balls. Flash backs to the wii 0-0 which I never had but I knew the pain. Also unsure why it was ever called Let's go in the first place, just keeps reminding me of the pokemon go app.

Gen 8 (Sword n Shield, Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl, Legends Arecus)

I have yet to really finish the Sword n Shield game, but from things online, the villian isn't at all like great.
Also yes, Pokemon become stronger when you make them into parade floats.

Gen 9 (Scarlet & Violet)
I miss the fact we used to be able to roll about in Arcues, I dunno why that was removed here. Also miss the fact that since it's open world, why can't the pokemon wanna attack you? They just stand around you, wondering what you are. (Except Tauros, but like SCREW THEM, why did they make it so I would just hate them now?)

Also, the map just doesn't work well enough for me. I continue to get lost despite using it.

 

[Lancelot]

Gen 1 - Glitches. Although I can’t say I’ve played much gen 1 but if I look at it from a current perspective, rather than just the games, my least favourite thing would be the constant bias towards gen 1 pokemon. I understand Pikachu as it’s the mascot but if I never saw charizard again I would be mad

Gen 2 - Grinding seems like the obvious one but I didn’t mind it. I like feeling like I’ve put effort into raising my Pokémon rather than the current EXP share. The level curb however, very annoying.

Gen 3- Thinking about it I actually love gen 3. The rivals aren’t developed very well though.

Gen 4 - LOVE IT. Probably Mount coronet or the snow route but honestly great gen.

Gen 5 - To me is perfection and what Pokémon should be. I want Gen 5 style mixed with Octopath Traveller. I do however HATE HATE HATE Pokestar studios and it is the bane of my existence. I cannot explain how much I hate Pokestsr Studios.

Gen 6 - The gap between Gym 1 and Gym 2 really made me feel like it was gonna be a really fleshed out game on my first play through. Then the lacing just goes to ass.

Gen 7 - I don’t really remember much about Alola tbh. I really want to play it again, but I do remember the hand holding for the first hour and a half of the game annoying me.

Gen 8 - Ass booty rubbish game. Everytime any story event happens Leon does it off screen and you just fight the gym. I want to be INVOLVED in the story. I was so excited for a UK based region and love a lot of the Gen 8 Pokémon. The starters SUCK though.

Gen 9 - I hate every Pokémon design in this region other than like 3. It’s the first game where I have ditched my starter and the majority of my team were not from the region which is really disappointing. A main part of my excitement in a first play through is using new Pokémon and I just don’t like them. Also Terastal hats look SOOOOOO stupid. It’s arguably the most fun I’ve had playing a Pokémon game but also the worst Pokémon game I’ve ever played.

 

[smoky]

gen1: i feel like i can excuse pretty much anything with these games because they were working with basically nothing but a slap on the back from nintendo, but if i had to choose i'd say probably the sprites. theyre so bad lol

gen2: there truly is not much i can criticize gen2 on mostly because im extremely biased and love them but if i had to choose, i'd say probably the lack of johto pokemon in johto. i understand the choice to give players a reason to explore kanto again, but like come on. it gets to the point where there's some pokemon i forget are even gen2 pokemon even when i love these games to death.

gen3: i have so much fun with these games but once i get to tate and liza they lose me a little bit. i feel like the pace just really slows down weirdly enough for almost getting to the climax of the story

gen4: they're not as slow as people think they are. especially dppt. my only problem is the surfing speed honestly. but my real problem is the sinnoh story is so brutal and uninteresting to me. i love the environment of the region though so i will replay platinum, but dp are a snoozefest. hgss are perfection could not ask for a better game period end of convo

gen5: i feel like the proportions of the characters don't work as well as people think they do? like thats super nitpicky but i just feel like they're tall but chibi? idk. it makes them look older which i think is what they were going for, but also compared to gen 4 graphics. its just not as nice to look at imo.

gen6: 70 new pokemon is not enough and i hope they never pull that bs again. i never use older pokemon in a run so kalos teams are super limited to choose from. i also really wish theyre were kalos megas. praying for z-a we get mega kalos starters, mega goodra, and mega heliolisk i would be so happy.

gen7: i haven't played these games since they came out but i just cannot stand them. the story is bad, the pacing is bad, the characters are annoying. i'd have to do another playthrough to really solidify my thoughts, but i truly feel like i will never understand why people like these games.

gen8: they're SUPER linear. i love games where you can explore, find side projects or random side areas to discover. that's something i think gen2-4 gets really well. these games are kinda the worst example of a modern pokemon game. there's nothing to do other than the main story and the wild area but the wild area isn't than fun.

gen9: i love the direction they're going in, but the games are so unfinished. the textures, the whole region. it feels so bare and unpolished. at the very least galar had some depth to it, but if theyre going with this open world region direction, they gotta figure out how to make it look good. if not, go back to gen 6/7 graphics.

 

[ShinyDungeoneer]

gen 1: getting screwed over if you picked Yellow. my poor Pikachu doesn't stand a chance against Brock.
gen 2: Ice Path. enough said.
gen 3: too many Japan exclusive events (looking at you, Old Sea Map)
gen 4: honey trees. LET ME HAVE A STUPID MUNCHLAX
gen 5: the sheer amount of new Pokemon is overwhelming. I just wanted to see a Poochyena before the post game... (I would've said the anime, but I started the anime with B/W, so nostalgia points there)
gen 6: the friend group. I was already overwhelmed with ONE rival, now you're saying I have 4!? no thanks.
gen 7: THE. STUPID. LEVEL. CURVE. Even with EXP. Share on, I still find myself losing to Nanu at least 20 times before I get to FINALLY leave after beating him.
gen 8: the whole Darkest Day subplot. Can I please just go through the champion's cup WITHOUT a world-ending crisis?
gen 9: too many story paths. I get that it's an open world game, but throw more than 2 stories at me and I get overwhelmed.
Legends: the pokemon that can attack you. You're saying that a Shinx can get angry at you for existing near it, but a Buneary is afraid of people?

 

[IonicKarma]

gen 1: getting screwed over if you picked Yellow. my poor Pikachu doesn't stand a chance against Brock.
gen 2: Ice Path. enough said.
gen 3: too many Japan exclusive events (looking at you, Old Sea Map)
gen 4: honey trees. LET ME HAVE A STUPID MUNCHLAX
gen 5: the sheer amount of new Pokemon is overwhelming. I just wanted to see a Poochyena before the post game... (I would've said the anime, but I started the anime with B/W, so nostalgia points there)
gen 6: the friend group. I was already overwhelmed with ONE rival, now you're saying I have 4!? no thanks.
gen 7: THE. STUPID. LEVEL. CURVE. Even with EXP. Share on, I still find myself losing to Nanu at least 20 times before I get to FINALLY leave after beating him.
gen 8: the whole Darkest Day subplot. Can I please just go through the champion's cup WITHOUT a world-ending crisis?
gen 9: too many story paths. I get that it's an open world game, but throw more than 2 stories at me and I get overwhelmed.
Legends: the pokemon that can attack you. You're saying that a Shinx can get angry at you for existing near it, but a Buneary is afraid of people?

I mean at the legends one sort of does make sense at least. The Shinx is like a mountain cat sorta while a Buneary is a bunny who runs from everything