Top 10 Features Pokémon Should ADD

I personally think they should add more than one save file so you can replay the games without creating a new account or deleting save data

I miss when you could put stickers on pokeballs that would allow you to customize the animation of your pokemon being sent into battle. I had a lot of fun making unique entries for each of my main team, and it’s a lot easier for it to be generally applied to all Pokémon than something like accessories.

They need to bring back seasons and combine it with day and night to fusion both algorithms of Pokemon spawns.

I always love how most of your screenshots you use to convay how you feel come from the sun and moon anime and i completely understand why lmao.

I think they should add a proper tournament hall or something, kind of like the masters 8, so maybe 7 npc regional trainers plus the player battle through brackets into semi finals and a final at the end. Could have like 20 npcs and the tournament would pick 7 random ones for each tournament. could be a cool addition and could be a fairly replayable feature.

It would be cool if we got a spin-off where we had to catch our starter. Have 10 or so different Pokémon with 2 evolutions/an evolution line of 3 and let the player lose in a specific tutorial-like area. It would make getting your starter a more unique experience for each player and make that Pokémon so much more special. Getting a Pokémon as a gift or freebie is cool but it’s not as rewarding to work for it and finally catch it yourself

For character customization, I would love to have some height options. Maybe like...3 options? Short, normal, and tall?

Another thing i would like again is the method of catching pokemon of legends arceus, in scarlet and violet i expected to be able to catch pokemon without having to challenge them since it seemed more open world, and instead they removed the mechanic

I wish they had it so your dorm room at the academy in Scarlet/Violet was like your room in Bully, where as you went through the story it would change and we'd have items and souvenirs that we could have picked up or at least have the pictures & badges that we get through the story be stored in the room or on the walls. Plus I would love it if we could dress our trainers as the previous player characters, both with their clothes and their haircuts. Like if you wanted you could dress your character as Red or as Rosa complete with her hair. Maybe even through in the ability to dress as Ash, that could be something special for Gen 10 though they would have to be unisex clothes so every player could use them if they wanted.

For Scarlet/Violet, the gyms should scale with how many you beat. As in, all gyms start at a minimum level and have early versions of their Pokémon, and level to the next gym level when you beat a gym that's not them. Also, the difficulties should be Easy (Easier then normal for every game up to Sw/Sh, which along with S/V, the base game should be the actual Easy), Normal (Regular), Hard (Obviously), and Legendary (MUCH harder, with the Champion automatically much harder than Cynthia normally, and the higher level gyms should be as hard, if not harder, than Cynthia).

I always says that gamefreak lost the opportunity to add a moon phase mechanic in sun&moon that would work like the seasons mechanincs in gen 5 games (ex: some pokemon only appears during the full moon, some only appears in new moon, etc.)

It be cool if they added a option where you can choose any starters you want to choose, from Gen I to 9

Super niche but I would LOVE for contest to return . They wouldn’t be in every city but maybe 4/8. You could get badges/trophies/ribbons from them. Just give more variety to what you can earn. They already did this with scarlet/violet with 2 additional sets of badges to earn

The reason why you wear your school uniform is because you are still technically doing a school activity. The Treasure Hunt. This is literally an event funded by the champion for the school to commence so it only makes sense

What I wish they would add is a Veteran mode that lets you skip tutorial stuff. We need how to catch Pokémon, we know what a Pokémon center looks like, we know how to play the game. Just let us pick our starter and go. It’s so tedious starting a new game of Pokémon and being told stuff you already know

I was thinking, if pokemon were real, and they implemented level scaling in real life, the gym leaders would have to have eight different teams, plus more for the post game events. That's a lot of teams! Just imagine they have a special drawer where they keep these many different teams, and it's labelled according to how many gym badges that the player has. They may even have their own champion-ranked team hiding somewhere in the back, in case shtf. Not to mention their battle tower teams, battle frontier teams, and so on and so forth. It would be a very impressive set up, that it would. Security would be very tight for the gyms, I'm sure. Can't have some ten year old running off with their best team at gym one, and speed running through the game. One would argue they're not even playing at that point. It's highway robbery. The first gym leader would be like, "Why do the speed runners always try to hack my gym?! They could just raise up their team the old fashioned way, but no! Ten year olds be out there being breadwinners by any means necessary. Gosh! I sympathize, but still. Not cool!"

The stuff I think they should add is: 1. Add multiple difficulty levels 2. Make it so you can only use the same number of Pokémon as your opponent so it can be more challenging and fair. 3. Let you go to a previous region to explore like they did in HeartGold & SoulSilver. 4. Stop having the NPC trainers using the SAME POKÉMON EVERYTIME. (I’ve been playing through some DS games, it gets incredibly annoying when most of the trainers including evil teams use the same Pokémon, it honestly gets extremely irritating. 5. The National Dex shouldn’t be a thing. All the Pokémon should be in there from the very beginning so the battles are fresh and you are not battling a million Pidgeys, Geodudes, Magikarps, Patrats, Purrloins, Trubbishs etc. 6. Give us a rival similar to how Paul was in the Diamond & Pearl anime. 7. Get rid of trade evolutions PLEASE!!! It’s not 10 reasons but these will do. 🤔👏

I think they should add a way to travel between different regions (maybe they could let us connect different game saves that we have)

One thing I've been wanting for AGES is a Ball Swapping feature so that you can re-ball your Pokemon for aesthetic purposes. There are so many pokemon I've come to love during my journey that I've wanted to put into a fancier looking or more visually consistent ball but I just can't. If I wanted to re-home my play through Skeledirge in a Premier Ball or a Friend Ball, I would be SOL. If I come across a really cool Pokemon, I have to decide if I want to catch it in a weaker ball that's more elaborate or go for a more effective ball that doesn't look as nice. That shouldn't be a question I have to ask after a certain point in the game. I also think it'd be cool to bring back a level of ball customization in general. Like being able to add stickers or re-paint ball colors. Like an ivory Luxury Ball or being able to slap a Fighting type sticker on my Hariyama's ball.

I think they also need to bring back the national dex. I just want to show Game Freak my programming and modeling skills in an extreme way so they can see that I can help them do that. I'd be the next Satoru Iwata then.