The Biggest Pokémon Hot Takes

“Now, don’t get me wrong. I love black shinies. Some of my closest shinies are black”

Hot take of mine is that meowscarada wouldn't have been hated as much if the internet didn't make such a big deal on the cat staying on four legs

I've never been bothered by npcs not having teams of 6. I mean, they live in this world of monsters with massive powers. Could we as humans realistically all care for 6 huge magical pets at once? I have respect for people who know their limits with pets.

Honestly I would argue that not having XP share actually guides you to overleveling your starter and letting your other members rot in the back

I guess my hot take is that Raichu should be more featured prevalently, like how pikachu is. Can't just be for people in Ash's way

Hot take: Macargo

Quick Ball + 9 Ultra Balls + Timer Ball.

if all shiny pokemon are black, none of them are black

Need VS Want for Pokemon has always been a big thing, its hard to tell if people truly know the difference between those 2 words. We don't need new Pokemon, we want it

My biggest hot take: touching my mom's food after just getting out of the oven

I know a lot of people might disagree with me, but I think the sinnoh cross-gen evolutions are really well designed and overall good pokemon. I especially don't understand the hate electivire, magmortar, and rhyperior get.

This might not be a hot take, but it's a fairly rare one: Pokemon is greedy for not having multiple save files. Every other RPG under the sun has at least 3 by now, it should be the same with Pokemon. But then people wouldn't have a reason to buy both versions, which would make TPC less money, so they don't.

4:55 Toggle option PER POKEMON in the party where you choose if it gets the share or not

3:29 This hot take would have been better if the person said that they wish we had a trainer in each route with a team of 6, kinda like a challenge after beating every trainer in the route. This is very similar to what the Alola games do, where there are routes with trainers that only battle you if you defeat every trainer in that route.

Hot take: Pokémon was a better “kids game” on the Gameboy than it is on the Switch. I’ve been playing Sword with my kid sister (8) for a little bit now and what I’ve noticed is that all the cutscenes and story dialogue are really wearing her down. She’s only 8 so having to read walls of text in order to understand what’s going on is challenging considering that she’s still learning how to read, not helped by all the British slang used that’s unfamiliar to an 8-year-old American. There’s also the problem of all the cutscenes. She doesn’t really care about the story, she just wants to catch cute monsters and explore this video game, and I can’t blame her, that’s how I played video games at her age. At the beginning of the game, all she wanted to do was go back to her house and explore it, but there was so much hand holding, she couldn’t even go near her home. She got frustrated and I had to talk her into pushing through. I could tell she wasn’t having fun and that upset me because I was really excited to introduce her to the games and franchise I loved as a kid. She loves the cards and I thought that playing through the game together could be a good bonding experience and even help her with her reading skills. I knew the game was dialogue heavy, but I didn’t anticipate it being this much of an issue. When I was younger, I played the Gen 2 and 3 games (on emulator, but still) and they were a blast. Now granted, I was already a bit older than her and I had better reading skills but I think that they were much better experiences for a young player simply because they were simpler and allowed for more freedom. They still required reading ability, but there was less to read and no real cutscenes to stop and wait for. I think that’s what made them appealing to kids to begin with, and I think some of that has been lost the modern titles. Now, it has been a while since I played these games and I don’t even think I finished them, so I could be misremembering things, but that’s just how I feel as a big brother and someone interested in education and education through non-traditional means such as video games. It’s just my opinion, and I’m willing to hear yours. Thank you for your time.

Liking charizard nowdays its like a hot take, they be throwing hate to whoever who likes him just because hes game freak favorite too

I 100% believe every single game should be locked to only having that gen's Pokémon in the region to catch until the post-game. Black and White was goated for that. Nothing annoys me more than seeing cross-generational Pokémon filling up spots in trainers' teams and the tall grass in what are supposed to be showcases of the new region's Pokémon

About the new Pokémon in new games hot take- I think gym leaders and major characters should have Pokémon from their regions as most of their team and aces rather than using primarily older gen Pokémon

That Shiny Tapu Fini, I would say, looks better than the real one.

The worst part about the XP share not being a toggle is that it used to be in gens 6-7.