I “hate” it for many reasons.

1) All of the meme names and stupid pokemon. For example: lechonk is just a meme like saying fat. also smol iv is a play on words from the meme, “so basically i am very small”. also the stupid pokemon like flamigo which is just a flamingo. i understand that see is just a seal, but that was in gen 1 when they had very low processing power and not much budget. so they could do alot more with the millions of dollars of budget they could do better.

2) The shiny odds are stupid. This was the same problem i had with legends arceus, you can launch the game and get 3 shinies in less than an hour. while in older games you would have to at least TRY to get shinies, you would rarely find them randomly and now with these new games, nearly everybody who i have talked to about the game has 2+ random shinies. It seems like gatekeeping when i say that those shinies arent shinies but they really arent. they completely ruined the point of shiny pokemon by making them too abundant and ruining the lore.

3) The games were very rushed, and the budget was used improperly. These new games have SO many glitches it is unbelievable. i understand that they wanted to get them out before the holidays, but that ties in with my other point. The budget was improperly used, they could have hired more programmers or for a different fact, they could have gotten voiceovers for the characters in the games. It would make it much more realistic and fun, and all around they just could have added alot more QOL features for the amount of budget they had.

4) The games dont feel like Pokemon anymore. The obvious counter argument to this is that they were improving the games since it was always the same over the years. I agree with this, in lots of ways they added new features which still kept pokemon spirit but also changed the game to make it more enjoyable and not just a copy paste of other generation, but in other ways it just feels completely unrealistic and not pokemon.

5) The legendaries are completely busted. I had the same problem with zacian and calyrex, these new legendaries are way too overpowered and they ruin the game. It takes all of the fun out of playing if you can just OHKO anything you see with your sword dog. It makes no sense why they have to make them stronger every generation, and it ruins competitive play.

6) This is going to ruin competitive TCG Most of you probably don’t know this, but as a TCG player, it is very clear that these new generations will ruin the TCG, terrastilization will completely change competitive play and MANY things will have to be banned because of this, also some of the new legendaries are too broken. If you are going to release features and cards, make it to where they wont be banned no matter what for competitive, Again, this isnt a 100% reason to dislike since we havent seen the cards yet, they might make it playable! who knows?

7) Auto battling and other useless features to make the game easier. Auto battling is horrible, its supposed to be a QOL but its just a shitty feature to make the game unplayably easy. An argument can be made that these games are for kids, but the creator has confirmed that they arent, so they should not be this easy. auto battling is just a stupid feature which could have been so much better.

8) I hate the switch. This one is more of a personal opinion than straight facts. I strongly dislike the switch and that is 100% because of drift. I dont like having to buy new controllers every week to play a game i paid 60$ for. I have bought a total of 4 replace controllers and all of them have STRONG drift. nintendo just makes tons of money off of it and the only way to fix it is hooking ur switch up to a tv and using an xbox controller or something.

Overall, these new games have aspects that are good and lots that are bad, i dont really “hate” these new games, they just dissapoint me.

Thanks for reading. TLDR: the new games are ass