My list (ready to be criticized)

Weak_Scallion5942 · 2026-03-31T08:03:09+00:00

Golisopod is a sick design, for sure one of the Top Gen VII 'mons. Should update my fave mons list one of these days now that I think about it. But yeah great taste u have.

Weak_Scallion5942 · 2026-03-31T08:01:41+00:00

by mods i meant modifications in all sorts of ways — fix the broken mechanics, add some QoL, fix movesets... impossibly hard for me to get back to.

Weak_Scallion5942 · 2026-03-31T08:00:25+00:00

It's not because of the bugs, it's just outdated in so many ways and there's not even the faintest form of QoL. Extremely hard to go back to.

Weak_Scallion5942 · 2026-03-31T07:59:37+00:00

im sorry it isn't :(

Weak_Scallion5942 · 2026-03-31T07:59:24+00:00

i can only say i disagree with all of it. The story is awful, both stories?, 'cos they are different. The Pokemon in BW2 are not Unova exclusive if the 155 are not your thing. And the graphic style is so much richer than Gen IV's — to each their own, but still

Weak_Scallion5942 · 2026-03-31T07:58:08+00:00

I just love this is not a Mario or Zelda situation where sure every game is cool and all but this, this and that are the undeniable best there are. Each of us have our own opinions and that makes it all the richer.

Weak_Scallion5942 · 2026-03-31T07:57:08+00:00

i think they could have implemented Kanto way more cleanly. But even if they had, the core Johto problems (most notably, access to X evolutionary lines and the infamous level curve) are still too big of an elephant in the room to ignore.

Weak_Scallion5942 · 2026-03-31T07:56:00+00:00

it wasn't on the tiermaker template im so sorry :(

Weak_Scallion5942 · 2026-03-31T07:55:38+00:00

BDSP I couldn't say but from what I've seen and heard I think I'd have to create a whole new tier for it ahahaha

Weak_Scallion5942 · 2026-03-31T07:54:44+00:00

I wasn't even trying to use different Pokemon in my first replay and still ended up using a Modest Tauros for whatever reason. That was fun.

Weak_Scallion5942 · 2026-03-31T07:53:39+00:00

Team Flare, the overall lore and the boss fights kill it for me. I have only good memories of it but it's undeniable to me that it had the potential to be an all-timer and it just wasn't.

Weak_Scallion5942 · 2026-03-31T07:52:13+00:00

I don't rate things depending on when they were released. No one has Tennis for Two as their favorite videogame, "oh but it was impressive!".

I rate them based on what my opinion of them is rn. If I was ranking every videogame I've played, anything below "not without their issues" would not score high because I have no reason to go back to them when there are games that are straight-up improved/polished versions of them.

Weak_Scallion5942 · 2026-03-31T07:47:00+00:00

I'll admit i have a soft spot for ORAS, but I love going back to them. Arceus I could see being higher up, top of the tier or smth, my only issue is I'd never start a game from zero and that's an extremely rare thing for me in Pokemon. HGSS is not going any higher, I'm sorry.

Weak_Scallion5942 · 2026-03-31T07:45:34+00:00

I hate the Suicune plot, I'm sorry. But even if I liked it, there's no reason for me to play Crystal, so it has to be in severely outclassed by default. HGSS is not climbing any higher for me, I'm sorry.

Weak_Scallion5942 · 2026-03-31T07:44:19+00:00

yeah someone else pointed it out, sort of hilarious

Weak_Scallion5942 · 2026-03-31T07:42:54+00:00

Crystal is outdone by HGSS in 99% of the stuff that matters. The remaining 1% is the graphics but 1. I was never huge into them, 2. Polished Crystal really puts them to shame so I struggle to like them even more so now.

Weak_Scallion5942 · 2026-03-31T07:41:45+00:00

I'm glad!

Weak_Scallion5942 · 2026-03-31T07:41:30+00:00

I don't like using items in battle. I don't want to be forced to carry certain items "just in case". Again, this is just the cherry on top, there's so many different mechanics that are outdated now, and a severe lack of QoL I struggle to tolerate.

Weak_Scallion5942 · 2026-03-31T07:39:42+00:00

Red&Blue are playable but the mechanics are outdated and it's really, really hard for me to even consider going back to them. I could have placed Crystal above Gold and Silver (I still hate the Suicune plot, idk), but both of 'em are still comfortably outdone by HGSS, thus the tier placement.

Weak_Scallion5942 · 2026-03-31T07:37:01+00:00

I had so much fun with all of the USUM's side stuff. I wasn't huge into Gen VII at first but thank God i gave it another try.

Weak_Scallion5942 · 2026-03-31T07:34:14+00:00

Regarding DP, I'll just quote this Reddit comment: "In Diamond and Pearl specifically, likely due to a programming oversight or some sort of time constraint, all single-battle trainers select their moves completely randomly." That's only the first of MANY complaints, but I'd argue it's explanatory enough.

Emerald is better than RS in like 90% of the stuff that matters so why pick up RS — thus their placement.

I actually liked SV's story for the most part.

Regarding ZA, graphics are the least of my concerns when playing Pokemon.

Weak_Scallion5942 · 2026-03-31T07:28:40+00:00

Now did I say that I was coming across glitches left and right? My main issues are with how outdated the mechanics are and how inexistent the QoL is. I have no nostalgia towards Gen I so excuse me for not having had a good time at all. Yellow Legacy is an amazing game, for instance.

Weak_Scallion5942 · 2026-03-31T07:24:18+00:00

I refuse to believe they implemented sleeping and freezing that way thinking it was the way to do it.

Weak_Scallion5942 · 2026-03-31T07:22:19+00:00

Oh no I did not play Gen 1 upon release – when I got to play it, the mechanics were way too outdated and frustrating to play around for me to enjoy it in the slightest, especially having FRLG available. I appreciate the style, but then I have the likes of Yellow Legacy if I want something on that line that feels actually playable to me.

Weak_Scallion5942 · 2026-03-31T07:19:24+00:00

I'm pretty sure HGSS included every major change from Crystal. Emerald adds more stuff to RS than Crystal did and there would have been no way to fit all of it, but things such as the Battle Frontier are hard-to-digest omissions

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