I actually agree with most of the things. You know it's a problem when I can only name a small number of the Pokémon I do like (Rockruff and Lycanroc, Golisopod, Decidueye, Nihilego, Naganadel, Solgaleo), with the rest just being average to downright horrendous imo.
Yeah same here. The Pokémon is one thing, but I honestly really disliked the game as a whole with trials. Also, I know gen VI gets a lot of flack, but one thing it did really well was its extra features like Horde battles, Super Training, PSS, DexNav. Gen VII replaced them with crappier versions. I absolutely detest Festival Plaza and SOS battles.
I had a big post, but I ended up deleting it, so I'm just going to say I hated Gen 7 for the same reason I hated Gen 5. It removed every fricken diversion and replaced them with garbage. I actually liked the soccer minigame and the Amie minigames in Gen 6, the Super Bases in OR/AS, and I even liked Pokemon VR, too. Gen 5 had next to nothing outside Pokemon World Tournament, which I'm sorry but it's just not the Batte Frontier, and Triple and Rotation battes which Gen 6 carried over and Gen 7 REMOVED, and the incredibly shitty Pokemon Musical and Pokestar Studios! Oh boy, they brought back the Factory, big deal, that was my least favorite facility. Oh, they have Mantine Surfing, which will probably get boring soon. The only interesting looking diversion is Battle Royale, and that isn't enough IMO and, I could be wrong, but it looks like they removed it in US/UM.
Hyper Training is just super training with no fun minigames.
Pokemon Refresh is just Pokemon Amie with no fun minigames.
Pokemon Pelagion is a slow, no-gameplay sprite animation designed to get items.
Festival Plaza's an inconvenient online hub.
Also, the trials are just dungeons and the kahunas are just gym leaders. It's old features with a new name.
So this gen has a "Move along, nothing to see here" feel for me.
Overall, is the game balanced as is? No, there are definitely things that could be done to improve balance. I think the Ice type needs another resistance, I think Intimidate needs a bit of a nerf in doubles (for instance only hitting one random opponent), I think Dark Void needs a buff in singles back to like 85% accuracy, and there are several pokémon like Ledian that can use a buff, but the way Smogon tries to create balance is just weird. They try to still somewhat follow the game mechanics but instead of adapting mechanics or pokémon to create more balance if they want that they just divide them all into tiers and separate them, then introduce some weird rules like a sleep clause and ban Double Team.
Ice is the absolute best type offensively. ...Unfortunately it's also the WORST type defensively. I'm assuming that's what Game Freak was going for, but they sure as hell don't show it by trying to make so many defensive ice types and so few good offensive ones.
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