Pokemon Sword & Shield: 10 Things You NEED TO KNOW

Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield (Nintendo Switch) are upon us soon. Here's everything you need to know to be in the loop.
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[@itsbrewsky5519]

"There has never been a pokemon game with voice acting in the past" Pokemon Stadium Announcer: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@superdarknova6785]

I think he meant mainline

[@madhippy3]

@@superdarknova6785 Stadium is mainline and I refuse to hear otherwise.

[@bruhmomentomori7771]

Lone_Bro or battle revolution that said every Pokémon’s name up to that point (gen 4) and move

[@KentaSims93]

@@madhippy3 So... if it's mainline, that means it was developed by the same company as this game... yikes XD

[@KingAgniKai]

@@madhippy3 are you sick? Stadium is a SPINOFF.

[@Lillian2167]

So glad we can turn the auto save off. No one needs the game to auto save when you accidentally faint a legendary or lose a gym fight.

[@dtell3424]

Don't worry auto save only works when you enter or leave a building or town. That is what is said on the official pokemon website

[@iHasaComputer]

Acting like that matters. If anything the game will be so easy you won’t do either of those and if you do I’m sure there would be a way to battle the legendary again. The recent games aren’t as unforgiving as the older ones so auto save might just be better left on

[@YouStinkMike]

Now if only we could turn off the exp share

[@neeko.b]

Lillian2167 Or screw up a branched evolution, replace the wrong move for a new one... The list goes on, so yeah, it being optional is great.

[@sechabatheletsane9784]

@@YouStinkMike dont make me cry

[@radityaputradjohan3289]

“Being able to use specific pokemon that has sentimental value to you” right, like my Blastoi- oh WAIT

[@paleoleft]

they're being added as raids

[@Fenronin]

my boi Aggron... oh nooo

[@clutchhonor2210]

Blastoise is confirmed... just as Bobby said.

[@paleoleft]

@@clutchhonor2210 yeah they're just in the extended Dex

[@clutchhonor2210]

Good enough for me lol

[@edge3220]

400 Pokemon is NOT a lot. Sun and Moon had 800 of them.

[@TheFancyUmbreon]

Calling the current dex count a "strong lineup" really shows how little you know about Pokemon. Over half of the current pokemon aren't returning, despite being available on a handheld console with significantly less power, and of those that have been cut are tons of popular pokemon, including every single starter (except Charizard line), every single legendary (except paywall Mew), and a ton of other frequently used heavy hitters. For a game that's A. on a console as powerful as the Switch and B. the series' debut core game on a home console.

[@kingkeltic4228]

It's because all the OU shit in competitive. They want better competitive without people using the same ultra strong pokemon like every other pokemon game in existence.

[@baconbaconbobacon]

King Keltic correct, in fact most competitive players ive heard from welcome the change, it forces you to make different teams and with no Z moves and no megas it’s definitely gonna be different, looking like weather wars are gonna be a standard for this gen early on

[@kingkeltic4228]

@@baconbaconbobacon Hell yeah you get it. That's why I'm excited most OP Pokemon are gone it's gonna make competitive fun again. I haven't done competitive since 4th gen so I'm excited to get back into it.

[@baconbaconbobacon]

King Keltic great to hear your coming back and with a fresh new slate it wont be hard to catch up on, though even returning players are gonna have a while to learn what this meta is made of but it will be fun to see. There are definitely some cool stuff like the new item, room service for trick room and that galarian weezing is gonna be pretty fun to use as well.

[@NationalPjVillain]

King Keltic that is complete bullshit. You can balance ou and all that shit without cutting Pokémon. Just like in literally every single other game, you can ban certain stuff from being used competitively. Gamefreak would just have to put a certain “tag” on Pokémon that can’t be used in competitive and it’d achieve the same thing without butchering the dex

[@jacobrodriguez3712]

ahem* 400 Pokémon is not a “big amount” of Pokémon. The last game had more than twice that amount. Always having shared experience is BAD because it makes the games easier and EV training harder Autosaving is not a good feature as reloading your save file is basically an integral part of shiny hunting, catching legendaries, playing Pokémon in general.

[@turtato2155]

You're not even gonna use 400

[@kascade519]

@@turtato2155 "you're not even gonna use all 400 Pokemon" is a dumb argument. Everyone has their favorites and them not being in the game will definitely be a disappointment. I know I'll be disappointed if Cyndaquil, Sandshrew, and Kabuto aren't in it's just ugh.

[@ToasteBlade]

He clearly doesn’t play the games and understand why some of these things are not positives. Like only 400 Pokémon is a small amount and WON’T take long to complete. Perma exp share makes the game too easy as it has in the past.

[@happiestaku6646]

Cloud I hate to tell you this but... Those three didn't make it

[@happiestaku6646]

Mustapha El Saytari no we just want all of them to be able to be transferred over, even if we can't do it until the story has been completed so the main story isn't steamrolled by over leveled Pokémon.

[@timofzo7015]

I hope you can turn of autosave for catching legendaries

[@Dannycky96]

You can

[@BeeisaDork]

You can turn it off in the options menu. You can also turn on the option to skip cutscenes too.

[@wasimroks9703]

Yea all 3 of them

[@lior21254]

Yha this the thing that run through my mind when he said there is no use for none auto-save in Pokemon

[@awelojoe5544]

what legendaries?

[@semiijge6686]

Im just mad that only Charmander made it and not the other two

[@bloodwolfgaming9269]

Charmander is the only starter to make it out of every other singe starter from all the other games. And with the Legendary Pokémon, Mew is the only one staying, all the rest are cut from what I've seen.

[@Darklord_tK]

The recent datamine says bulbasaur and squirtle as well as 33 other pokemon are being added as raid battles so the total amount of pokemon is going to be 435

[@TeamfightTactical]

@@Darklord_tK Those are not available in game, so they will be event pokemon or not available at all.

[@MrPenetroso]

@@TeamfightTactical or available post game, if it has any

[@newsdan8193]

Oh that is some bull

[@devastatheseeker9967]

I love how they mention the dex cut but not how bad it is...

[@jayfarias8440]

Gotta love the shilling

[@firetypespecialist1452]

You forgot the part about how this game divided the pokemon community.

[@supa4ys843]

I have no idea where you got that from, but that is definitely not true LMAO you don't speak for the rest of us

[@somedude5819]

@@supa4ys843 ...it is decisive though. I think you need to check the definition of that word.

[@deckevil5196]

I can almost guarantee that about 80% of the people that hate this game are still gonna get it

[@somedude5819]

@@deckevil5196 I won't.

[@moe.winner]

Just being as unbiased as I can be, realistically the number of people who are upset by national dex is significantly less than the number of people who don't use that feature at all. Even if 100% of the people who move pokemon between games were to not buy this game it would be a drop in the bucket of sales. Of course these people are also the most vocal so it can appear as though everyone is upset when it's just that one group.

[@madmacabre]

Wow this guy legit twisted every downfall of this game into a positive.

[@dtell3424]

Right at the start of the game just go to the settings option in the menu in the game and turn off auto save

[@corvidconfidential8826]

*bird

[@pacoramon9468]

No: Venosaur, Blastoise,Dragonite,Kabutops Crobat, Alakazam,Ferraligator, Maganium,Slaking, Quilava, Sceptile, Greninja, Archeops, Lord Helix, Furret,Torterra, Staraptor, Bidoof, Empoleon, Infernape, Pachirisu, Aggron, Absol, Starme, Tauros, Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, Pinsir, Blaziken, Arbok... More than 50% of all pokémon.

[@Yammicles]

@Vlad Tepes lmao he was positive about the game so he must've been bribed?

[@stygy9929]

@Pokémon & FF fan no way have I heard anyone go: "hmm I sure hope we get a cooking simulator in pokemon, better yet, remove pokemon to make room for cooking!" I get thay they wanna make new experiences and all but thats not an equal sacrifice. At this point nothing in the game is. Personally, if there was like a battle frontier or 120ish new pokemon then I'd be like "I guess the effort went there".

[@alazgreat1366]

The reason for manual over autosave, is so that you can change your decisions, or reset the battle with one time battle mons, aka legendaries

[@zackgravity7284]

Yeah that shit is pretty important haha

[@alazgreat1366]

@@zackgravity7284 lol

[@Zer0Brain]

@@alazgreat1366 Which is why theres an option to turn off autosave

[@rawrespada4158]

Also shiny farming on legendaries.

[@alazgreat1366]

@@rawrespada4158 actually the box art legendaries and starters are Shiney locked, ik this might count as spoiler, but I thought I'd let you know so you don't reset three k times trying it

[@silverthehero1295]

The manual save is preferred in Pokemon for resetting for legendaries, shinies, etc.

[@wishuponajirachi]

but it can be turned on/off. I've fallen asleep at 5am playing pokemon - but now with auto save it's not frustrating when that will happen.

[@silverthehero1295]

Just saying Pokemon is the exception to what is a preference for many. And I’m not judging, but why stay up that late playing anyway?

[@wishuponajirachi]

@@silverthehero1295 because it was fun. why sleep when you could have fun instead?

[@nofilterneito]

RamenBlack Because you may fall asleep accidentally and lose your progress because you don’t have it attached to a charger.

[@wishuponajirachi]

@@nofilterneito Ya when i'm into a game im really into it so I forget how late it gets or that i'm not plugged in

[@ChichiNaka]

these all sound like points from a person whos never played pokemon, you don't know why you wouldn't want autosave in a pokemon game?

[@metanightmare4454]

Even more so when he acted like 400 is a lot of pokemon. That's literally not even half of them BEFORE counting the new ones.

[@REDONI7]

@@metanightmare4454 im glad people with brains are in the comments. so many people are just passively accepting having over half the pokemon cut from a game. anyone uninformed about the roster amount should know this has NEVER been a thing.

[@maythesciencebewithyou]

@@metanightmare4454 I stopped the video when he said that. It felt like Gamefreak payed him to say this bullshit.

[@chrischimera]

They should just make a pokemon game where you can go to all the regions and get all the pokemon specific to those regions instead of making a newer region each time.

[@MrWangss911]

@@themadregis1517 so 6 is good enough for you?

[@Dabrownman1812]

400 is super small, not sure why the dude makes it seem big. 400 is like gen 3 size

[@JR-mk6ow]

I would trade 90% of characters customization for a bunch of extra Pokémon

[@Dabrownman1812]

@@JR-mk6ow hell yeh, did you hear they canceled a tokyo event? I want pokemon to do well but I know there's agendas at work here.

[@Dabrownman1812]

@PikaCinema don't even sound right

[@Dabrownman1812]

@PikaCinema small using previous standards of pokemon yo. Compare the game to previous entries is what you do. Haven't been this small since about gen 3.

[@R4GEMODECLAN]

you try making hundreds of unique characters with special abilities and stats every couple years and say that again

[@lucthegiant]

Metagross isnt in the game, who else is upset?

[@snydecontempt]

Lucas • Damn, Metagross is one of my favorites! I even bred a shiny competitive one years ago on Y.

[@gfamhomevideos8062]

Yeah my shinny metagross is being benched this season😭

[@Dokindam]

Fam I'm annoyed that the dratini line didn't make it. Ahh well dreepy, drakloak, and dragapult will make up for it.

[@SawdEndymon]

Ampharos as well😥😥😥

[@RoyG.BivDevoe]

Me! I love Metagross. Garchomp isn't going to be in this either so I'm even more mad.

[@tkdguy93]

Sorry gamranx. I love ya"ll but I don't think think you thought some of these through. Xp makes sense when comparing to other jrpgs but in pokemin you only have one "party" member out at once. Where as in most other jrpgs you can have more than one out at once. Also, autosave is okay? Let me know how you feel about the autosave when you accidentally KO legendaries, try to reset, and oh guess what auto save happened after the KO.

[@NailujG]

You can turn off auto save

[@sampenney545]

You could just manual save before doing the legendary fight and choose that instead of autosave like u do on most other games

[@DelphinusVyse]

Pretty sure they're also going to allow you to re-battle legendaries if you KO them at this point. There were already cases of that in Sun/Moon. Tapu Koko at the very least off the top of my head, which was great anyway if you didn't want to re-battle the Champion every attempt for shiny/nature/etc.

[@ragreenburg]

I absolutely love the positivity you bring even talking about these games while tons of other KZbinrs just trash it.

[@ghostmemories5795]

_"Is Goku in it"_ -Tom

[@cauldron806]

No luigi is though.

[@dtell3424]

Unfortunately he was cut from the pokedex like other fan favorites

[@sergeantmituna6260]

No unfortunately Goku got cut but we have Yamcha.

[@matthiasck]

They told me NO so I cancelled my pre-order

[@TheReZisTLust]

I saw him.

[@joelnelson4228]

Can we talk about how the pokedex part has pictures of pokemon that aren't actually even in the game?

[@acidfruitloops]

What I'm sayin. I knew I wasn't that high. Yet.

[@Bread_n_buttur]

DLC

[@Spud_Farmer]

@@Bread_n_buttur lol

[@VINOS234]

Just a few more years for a diamond/pearl remake Can’t wait

[@Catadventures131]

Can’t wait

[@DenizDivine]

there are already leaks for gen4 remakes to come 2020

[@rrrrr1963]

Probably gonna come I'm maybe a year. Pokemon doesn't want to leave a gap between release years. And the next game that should be remade is DP.

[@sechabatheletsane9784]

Lmao! I wouldnt have my expectations up too high. You'll find they removed MANY thingd.

[@Daniel328DT]

Preferably another company to be honest. They're just going to end up being half-baked games with lots of past content missing. I don't trust GF, not after what they did to the Battle Frontier.

[@edge3220]

Mandatory exp share is NOT a good thing. The OPTION to turn it off would have been the way to go.

[@kazzakyle5010]

エッジJ their is an option to turn it off if you don’t want to use it

[@maryamlendar1359]

@@kazzakyle5010 you can't dumb ass thats the point can't you read?

[@boldknock7436]

Cant we just wait and see if it breaks the game or... i dont see exp share being permanently on an issue if the game is balanced around it

[@andersalstrup3077]

It is a great thing in terms of level design. Before they had to factor in for if people kept it on or off, often reducing levels to ensure people who dont have it on can have fun. I know it's a long video but try to check out the 7 hour oras analysis video someone made. It is a deep dive into the franchise as a whole and does a great job at explaining where the franchise currently is along with pointing out things like what I mentioned.

[@cheeseonyomama]

Did Gamefreak sponsor this video? This completely ignored things I feel I should know before buying the game.

[@Yoodz]

You gotta wait for a before you buy video so they list the flaws

[@ragreenburg]

Like what? He mentioned that you'll only be and to get 400 Pokémon which I feel is the biggest thing to bring up.

[@cheeseonyomama]

@PikaCinema so it's just 10 things you should know that's chronologically posted during a time that happens to be before you purchase the game? How is it not a before you buy then? Oh because it's half of one, this video is all fluff without the "oh yeah, *you only get 400 Pokemon*" smh

[@fatefinger]

cheeseonyomama Apologists defending gamefreaks terrible decisions and lying to the fans about why they made the decisions they did. But gamefreak doesn’t look at us or the fans as fans or even people. They view us as money.

[@Minohorse]

I wasn't going to say anything, but did you really just mentioned having only 400 Pokémon as a positive thing?

[@donadon4030]

The positive thing is that all 400 are catchable in-game, which is kinda nice. Still crap for cutting almost all of the most popular pokemon out.

[@zs7238]

What other games on Switch have 400 unique monsters to catch? I seriously think people are overreacting about the dex cut. Those that have completed the national dex, sure, they’ve got a reason. But a lot of people just hate for hate’s sake. I even saw someone who never finished a Pokémon game angrily criticize the cut. It’s spreading like an epidemic, while in reality, only a small fraction of these people will actually bother to collect even those 400 mons.

[@lugia233]

It is

[@happiestaku6646]

ZZ Z 488 didn't make it. Let me put it this way, Pokémon Go has more Pokémon in it then a mainline console Pokémon game.

[@lugia233]

@@happiestaku6646 of course it does. But what is the point of those pokemon being in the DeX if you cant acquire them in these games?

[@jjcho5617]

4:00 >>Being able to use that specific Pokemon that has sentimental value to you .....Uh, EXCUSE ME?

[@Erikai_]

JJ Cho yeet my Empoleon I guess :,((

[@jaynesgsm]

They got rid of all the pokemon with sentimental value

[@calvinmatthews1527]

Only 400? So, if the wild region will be as large as they as say, You'll find a lot of the same Pokemon there.

[@Aeronautiqul]

Animals grouping in herds? No way, that doesn't even happen in real life!

[@oldfag_adventures]

considering most games top out at maybe 200 pokemon? it's not terrible, it's better than having to port 400+ pokemon to complete your national dex

[@oldfag_adventures]

@Sakurai so yes the number did creep up over time as they put more emphasis on completing the national dex you need more and more copies of pokemon to complete the dex (explicitly speaking in terms of pokemon you can catch in the game not receive over trade or something like wondertrade)

[@Peachpaper12]

@@oldfag_adventures No?? Platinum which was 11 years ago had like 210 in the regional dex + in the post game you could find even more, the whole dex was at like 493 and could get all of them by transferring, so a decade+ game has almost 100 more Pokemon coded in it than SwSh

[@asteroidmonger]

You guys forget those older games used mainly flat graphics to animate Pokemon. This game is a lot more detailed so the comparison is unfair. 400 is a lot if they are better designed and rendered than ever before.

[@masondelmundo6150]

They know that US/UM had 807 Pokémon in it, right?

[@kevmeteor7554]

400 catchable 807 transferable

[@Minohorse]

@@kevmeteor7554 Still 807. This one will be 400 catchable and 400 transferable.

[@TheArtiKle]

@@Minohorse Nope 400 catchable. Only the 400 that are already in the regional dex can be transferred in.

[@kevmeteor7554]

@@Minohorse Ik just making it clearer

[@Set451]

@@kevmeteor7554 you can't transfer all the pokemon. You can only transfer the pokemon that are catchable

[@GoInGcRz]

When I saw Salamence wasn't in game, I was more than pissed...

[@Aeronautiqul]

My Scizor isn't in the game and I spent hours to breed a perfect 6IV Scizor. Oh well, time to try out different Pokemon for ranked. I might give a sandstorm Ttar and Excadrill team a go!

[@reno2934]

I don't get why, they brought back a lot of crap people don't really like but leave out fan favourites. I thought they would just cut out the rather crappy Pokemon, the voltorbs, the trubbish, vanillish etc. Bring back all the cool and fan favourite ones.

[@LittleLexi24]

My boy Gengar is

[@quart8730]

I’m glad they were removing a lot of the pokemon in OU. I heard that 90% of them were removed

[@kingtink7525]

Most pseudos isnt in the game for competitive reasoning

[@kokobean5921]

3:47 That statement was so controversial, and Hypocritical I don't even know what to say.

[@ChanceSarsis]

we want you to have sentimental value on your pokemon -proceed to butcher 63% of the dex-

[@itsbrewsky5519]

I think it is just further proof that they are talking out of their asses whenever they talk to the press

[@dragonweirdocreap]

They are referring to the fact that u can now switch their nature's and stuff to make em viable even if they had garbage stats/natures. But yeah, wtf is the use of "sentimental value" when they butchered potentially many players favorites.

[@aboveredemption4448]

@Lowell Justice "only"

[@pacoramon9468]

You could catch more pokémon in the DS games.

[@PaleGhost69]

Most important thing you *_NEED TO KNOW:_* How to read.

[@cjc4426]

Wzat

[@emeraldblack842]

Lmao

[@matejmatuska6700]

and know english or japanese chinese or any of other leanguuge im from slovakia and sk languge will not be ther or czech only languge i kow read is english and write and speaking is hard for me

[@Spud_Farmer]

Games too hard already

[@jamesalexhowlett]

I hate a lot of the stuff they’re changing, but I appreciate your content

[@Asura_Kishin]

400 pokemon hard for completionists?? Wish gamefreak had just been honest with us from the start, people wouldn't be so upset about the cut

[@westinian5502]

If they had done that and added more starters than just charizard I’d say there probably wouldn’t be any or much less hate than this

[@thedanieljamesjeff]

"POKEMON! GOTTA CATCH AN ARBITRARILY DEFINED PERCENTAGE OF THEM ALL! our hearts so trueee...

[@brianestrada1993]

This honestly looks like it was gonna be a 3ds game but they just changed their mind at the last minute and didn't upgrade the graphics at all

[@ok-hd1fk]

The graphics do look better than the 3ds but compare to other games in the switch not really.

[@BirdieImagineeBCH]

@@ok-hd1fk well that's because it's upscaled. Pokemon sun and moon would probably look like this if it came to the switch really.

[@EpicGamer1.]

That's actually what happened actually.

[@steven6214]

Sadly i probably won't be buying this, too many of my favorite Pokemon have been cut for me to want to stick with it, maybe next time GameFreak.

[@The_Maf1a]

lol

[@mawibblap]

don't worry, you may stick out new pokemon that you see and like it c:

[@KenadianKenough]

They said they don't intend to ever do a national dex again, so I guess our best bet is buy this used or not at all, if we want Gamefreak to reconsider that choice. :(

[@zzz43344]

Oh, ok then...

[@HellhoundXIV]

Lol, that's one way to lose costumers.. *permanently*

[@retrosoul8770]

I agree but it ain't laziness, seems more like greed if you ask me. More Pokemon and better graphics equals less money due to more investment, but when your IP is one of the most profitable of all time, there's little excuse.

[@LFanimes333]

They will probably fix that with the time. If they don’t make that, the Japanese Community will make something. And I’m afraid that they are pretty extreme when it come to games... And I am happy, cause I love the game and want GF to go fuck himself and lose a lot of money to learn what they have!

[@Urbrainongaming]

Im really bummed 90% of my favorites are missing.

[@siranalysts8798]

Get over it and just use the new ones

[@Urbrainongaming]

@@siranalysts8798 nah

[@Finshiii]

Gengar is in. ill buy it

[@LoquaxProto]

@@siranalysts8798 nobody cares, there are good new ones but it's not worth losing most of them

[@gene4516]

@@siranalysts8798 imagine telling someone to get over the 'gotta catch em all" game not allowing you to catch em all

[@matthewneubeck4421]

If they don’t bring back Nat Dex in the next games people will still be super pissed. It’s stupid of them to not have them all here

[@yopierre498]

400 isn’t a lot. Sun and moon had like 800+. They literally wiped all legendaries and starters. All of my favorites like garchomp, suicuine, and darkrai are gone. I don’t even think it’s possible to add them later as dlc.

[@wolfx.2546]

what you need to know: GameFreak succumbed to corporate greed and will deliver 40% of a game with slightly improved graphics, having asset flipped a lot of junk from Lets Go, including its engine. This all for a mere 20$ increase in price!

[@iHasaComputer]

And they’ll do it again. And again and again.

[@wolfx.2546]

@@iHasaComputer sadly

[@sirplayalot11x]

My favorite hypocritical thing i heard about this game is from both the Pokemon cut and forced exp share- Sheeple: "Well with not as many old Pokemon you have more chances to play with the newer ones!" Same sheeple: "Alright, forced experience share off the bat, now I don't have to swap out my main pokemon anymore!" T_T

[@jacobedler296]

"It's an urban city" - Falcon 2019

[@celestialstar5563]

Thank God I didn't get spoiled by the leaks

[@Gag1800]

Rural city is a thing, so Urban city kinda differentiates it from that. Though most people would assume urban if one just said "city"

[@lerbyn]

​@@Gag1800 is it tho a rural town is a thing but when you say city it becomes to large to still be rural?

[@Gag1800]

​@@lerbyn I looked up rural city on Google, turns out it might just be an Australian thing. It's basically somewhere that's too big to really be called a town but not urbanized enough to be a full fledged city. So... culture difference I guess... and no idea what Falcon was thinking

[@corrieoneill7580]

Gag1800 I mean, the region itself is based on the UK with the first place having major inspirations from a pretty cool city Manchester which, when in visited, was basically old meets new

[@danieldragotti2608]

Dont gigantmax wailord, hes too big and crush the word

[@dtell3424]

And don't dynamax or gigantimax any pokemon that can learn explosion or self destruct (voltorb and electrode) because they will wipe us all out if they use those moves in giant form

[@afarensis9720]

Not with that in-battle scaling, he won't

[@anthg4563]

What word?

[@CasperVonGhoul]

Aaaaaaand now I want to do just that just to see it.

[@danieldragotti2608]

@Adrenaline RushHG227 Studioz no their is, wailord is so big the game is his gigantmax form

[@Sunrie]

Correction: There are 400 pokemon across two separate games

[@Snaxis257]

Sunrie there are still 400 in the regional dex

[@cursedex80]

@@Snaxis257 Hope you're up to date with your Nintendo Online suscription payments.

[@ThanhTran-jm2lx]

cursedex fuck that im just bough it and realize i cant play online anymore? and im the only one who have switch in my district omfg

[@EliC09]

I'd rather have more Pokemon in the games than more customization options and curry ingredients/recipes

[@arkham626]

Frankly i don't feel like you were the one to do this video, i always like your videos but i feel like you were completely out of your element on this one.

[@ranikoteiche710]

It's soo obvious that he isn't really a pokemon fan, so it kinda felt awkward listening to him

[@probablyabsent326]

@OnsideDragon then what are you doin here friend?

[@probablyabsent326]

@Games Cubes I don't, its just frustrating to watch someone be so pointlessly rude. I'm sure this isnt representative of who you are, and I hope whatever is troubling you gets better soon.

[@probablyabsent326]

@Games Cubes ah fuck I saw a grayish icon and thought it was the same guy, my bad. Have a good one.

[@cIII545]

OnsideDragon you just called that guy an idiot, yet you say his “burns” are bad..

[@HPReal]

Reminder that Charmander is the only uncut starter and Mew is the only uncut Legendary.

[@NoSmoke1]

And Type: Null for whatever reason. Must be some story reason why that one comes back

[@IAmCreasy98]

Mew is a mythical

[@supercyc10]

See, The level of voice over work I was expecting was something a little less than BotW. Not the cutscene parts, just the grunts and the aww during regular talking points. Grunts and awws are universal, no matter the language.

[@RynKen]

Game Freak: "If we don't have to, we're not going to."

[@jonathann.5754]

Fe Awakening style could also be achieved easily for the trainers

[@wishuponajirachi]

I would find the grunts and aws kind of out of place if that was it. sometimes things are better if it's all the way or not at all. botw had a lot of dialogue in cutscenes

[@AlanXEverfrost]

1: Graphically speaking, it is one of the weakest if not THE weakest 60 dollar game on the Switch. 2: It has visual glitches galore, such as terrible pop-ins, sudden frame-drops and glitching or even missing shadows. 3: Several of the features it is proudest of have been done many times, more often than not better, for many years. These features are very limitted in this game, even then. 4: Like before, you don't actually change the story, so it is a true JRPG where you experience the story told to you. You only change your looks and team composition. This is the least grievous part about this game, since it's up to standards. 5: The new feature "Dynamaxing" and "Gigantamaxing" does not feel like something additive to the game when you consider Mega-Evolution was dropped for it. 6: It does, indeed, not have voice acting. Even in the old Zelda way with some nonsense words suited to the emotion so make re-recording the lines in different languages unneeded. 7: The game has been made significantly easier by allowing you to use drugs to alter your pokémon's personality. Some of these changes are good timesavers. Some of these are bad as they are not optional, such as the EXP Share. Some you can fake, like a party limit. Some you can't, again, like the EXP Share. 8: The character customization is featured so prominently because it had been absent from the series for years, and even when it came out it wasn't as well develloped as several other games on the same system...years before. It is better than all of their previous attempts. It is NOT better or equally good as most games with character customisation on the Switch today. 9: Game Freak tried to make the game seem bigger by adding the story that the region has 18 gyms, but you can only fight the 8 THEY specified for you. But there really are 18, more than twice as many. You just don't encounter them or see them or fight them. Basically, it's invissible, unprogramed, unplayable extra content and you should feel grateful to experience such a big and varried world. 10: It has the smallest available pool of pokemon at 400, where even Diamond and Pearl had 493. Of course, several of those you had to transfer from other games but you could then breed or use them however you wanted.

[@Litevaar]

@@naturestonesmusic592 Is that seriously how you are going to respond to legitimate concerns? How Juvenile.

[@Brother_Piner]

@@naturestonesmusic592 It's an everyone game here. Kids and adults cherish the Pokemon titles, and there's a far larger audience for it than just kids. Blowing it off by saying it's a kids game, especially after making a really dumb insinuation about someone is just asinine. I was actually going to buy the damn thing, but because of everything he talked about, I no longer am. I'll spend my money elsewhere, thank you very much.

[@kirbymmaster6806]

You are very right what is Game Freak thinking

[@AzikuraProductions]

Never been less interested in a pokemon game.

[@pranabmalla2617]

We can't catch 'em all this time 😢

[@yorandelcroix8996]

What did we get instead then More clothes and cury

[@pranabmalla2617]

@@yorandelcroix8996 that means we need to collect 'em all

[@yorandelcroix8996]

@@pranabmalla2617 HELL YEAH!!!

[@elitepower4057]

You haven’t been able to *catch* them all in one game for ages, you just can’t *transfer* them all to the current game now.

[@Jaekization]

elite power Of course not every Pokémon is available to catch in one game. That isn’t the point. You have always been able to transfer over all Pokémon into one game though until now.

[@geoleo965]

After ALL THE CONTROVERSIES behind it, the one thing one should know is to *avoid it like the plague.*

[@tagus100]

What controversies? Haven’t been following this as much as I should.

[@YouStinkMike]

Cl4ymist3r oh boy there’s a lot

[@diegosolorio1318]

Sucks how i wanted to get this game. But not all of the pokemon are gonna be included. My fav isn't gonna in it. So i wont be picking the game up at all.

[@tcgfuego1583]

Diego Solorio cool

[@redkiwi418]

But I don't get it? Don't you need pokemon home to get your old homies in? You would have to wait a couple of months regardless of if they were coded into the game or not. Doesn't that defeat the purpose of bringing over old mons?

[@exlibris5772]

Diego Solorio Okay

[@vax1s89]

Good for you.

[@Chizuru94]

Problem is, that's not the only thing. Just check that reddit mega thread about its other issues x-x

[@liamhayes9544]

So you don't catch a legendary and the game auto saves? How is auto save good then? Unless you can load from older saves like botw

[@avvolt685]

You can choose to turn autosave on or off

[@user-pe1bv9xw7q]

Liam Hayes u can also notmally save and have autosave off

[@ironichoodies]

If you exit the game without saving... Autosave removes that kind of stress.

[@theals9605]

Autosave one kicks in when you enter or leave a building and when you enter or leave a town

[@TheWitchofEndor-1]

Their voice no voice acting excuse is “there’s so much text it’ll be hard”. ... fire emblem?? Literally every single bit of text is voiced. This sounds to me like they’re just lazy. Also the “painting a picture of the character” is bullshit. If the character has a design and stuff they say, they have a distinct personality. So no, their arguments don’t make any sense and they r just lazy.

[@wi4305]

They just wanted to get a product out before December.

[@aldinp6341]

Yes, they may be lazy, but Pokemon doesn’t need voice acting.

[@wi4305]

@@aldinp6341 I'm not talking about the voice acting. I'm talking about the fact they cut a lot of Pokemon and the graphics could be a little better. I most likely will buy it still but they could have done a little better.

[@FabioHenrique-ls3iv]

the witcher 3 bro, look at the amount of voices and text in that game

[@aldinp6341]

w I Oh ok, sorry for the misunderstanding.

[@justinarney3050]

removing options is never a good thing. The EXP share was given to you and automatically on anyway so the only thing this really changes is that players that don't want to use it can no longer do that. Recent interview with GF state that if players want to train only 1 pokemon then they should just remove all other party members to do so.....

[@sethorlando]

😱😱😓😩

[@RobCabreraCh]

This list just shows me how casual I am when playing pokemon games

[@projectcamo7173]

I'm getting a switch lite in a couple of days, any recommended games? ( I'm getting Breath of the wild first)

[@Traumvita]

Project Camo fire emblem three houses

[@Darkmenon]

Xeno blade chronicles 2. It was awesome. And fire emblem 3 houses.

[@omega458]

Super smash bros ultimate and dragon quest 11

[@frankie8180]

Mario odysey i dont own a switch but the game looks pretty cool

[@icealchemist250]

@@frankie8180 Mario Odyssey is a beauty of a game! I would recommend this 100%

[@ReclusiveEagle]

What do you mean "You can NOW pass egg moves between the same species" We've been able to do that since Gen 2. Also "Supplements" aren't new either

[@pocketmonsterhuntr]

He didn't say it correctly, egg moves can now be passed between both parents if they're the same species instead of just to the child

[@IAmCreasy98]

And supplements have been reworked

[@Jin-vt8nz]

Imagine running into a shiny Pokémon in the wild area, but you can’t catch it at all because you need the next badge lol. Those new catch restrictions are so dumb.

[@Chizuru94]

afaik, and I read that a few times, they disabled shiny PKM in that area til you get the badge.

[@catcherj1080]

J.I.N. The new restrictions save this game. Imagine walking into the Wild area and throwing a lucky pokeball and then you’ve got yourself a lvl 55 machoke.

[@fwdooms2540]

Yeah this restrictions are dumb. Now I cant use that lv 60 heidreigon I found because of them and sweep the game.

[@Jin-vt8nz]

Jonah Wells Disobedience was a thing in past generations. They could have extended it to Pokémon trainers caught instead.

[@Jin-vt8nz]

Kylonal _ Who needs a level 60 Hydreigon when you can have a level 60 starter by your first badge lol. The amount of exp the wild area throws at you is insane. I admit it’s awesome for leveling competitive Pokémon, but if that’s possible, then why restrict catching?

[@chocomilk4092]

The grafics hasnt gotten better ever since x and y

[@kazzakyle5010]

jeronimo mendoza neither has your spelling.

[@DarkLord-pz4uk]

You can’t judge a game by its graphics

[@chocomilk4092]

@@DarkLord-pz4uk im not saying its bad the game looks amizing gameplay wise im just pointing that out

[@LittleLexi24]

The graphics are way better the X & Y, so yes they have improved

[@me29903]

Don’t buy it untill Nintendo makes a decent game worth buying

[@MAR1N4M1]

I'm going to have a blast with this game. Went and caught most of the Pokemon in the last couple games and I'm sure I will enjoy catching what's available here.

[@cheese0069]

I got gas today for $1.39. Unfortunately it was at Taco Bell

[@GRH_Roadhouse]

Lol that was funny 👍 May the fonz be with you brother Roadhouse

[@fishfan2]

I was about to say what the fuck lol

[@zephiin]

You know you’ve grown up when Pokémon makes you say wtf 😂

[@NYKing1998]

I haven’t played since emerald & I’m genuinely overwhelmed

[@noah5664]

In a good or bad way?

[@totalishnc]

@@noah5664 I.... Think he meant in a good way?

[@kevincarter1919]

FastLane Zan me too bro, last game I played was emerald and it’s crazy to see the developments they’ve made.

[@mwm71638]

Theres less content than emerald

[@MrGNC92]

@@kevincarter1919 Developments? Animations are glitchy, graphics are horrible and they included less than half of the total Pokémon in the Dex (the ONLY starter from all the other regions that isn't Galar is Charmander, for example). Gamefreak is lazy AF.

[@Rogue0DK]

Video called "Things you need to know", and it does not include the difference between the two versions. Try again gameranx.

[@NailujG]

What? The only difference are some species of pokemon, a few gym leaders etc. for each game. Its always been this way...You can search it up yourself to see which ones

[@Rogue0DK]

@@NailujG And I would have liked to know the particulars of this info, so they should have been included in this video. Like you said, the games always have 2 versions and fans always wants to know the difference between them.

[@NationalPjVillain]

TaeKun you could say the exact same for literally everything he mentioned in the video

[@NailujG]

@@Rogue0DK Eh i could agree on that

[@vorkavaskov1243]

@@Rogue0DK Learn how to use google then

[@smallone123121]

Be careful with the auto save. I’m turning mine off

[@brostradamus11]

Good tip

[@munfri]

Why would you turn it off?

[@brostradamus11]

So you can save before an important encounter or battle and soft reset if you don’t like the result without being concerned the game will save a result you didn’t want

[@thelguy1743]

I'm turning it off because I'm used to saving myself

[@kurtlim7]

same here. except maybe when i'm in the wild area...

[@drunkducky2292]

I mean .... I like how youre clearly trying to be positive with everything! But its clear your knowledge of the franchise isnt as vast as it should be neither is the understanding of the player base. Half of the things you mention here have divided the community into basically the more "hardcore" group and the more "casual". I dont like using these words but still. It seems that these additions ARE good for the second group of people but honestly pokemon doesnt need to reel people in . Its the biggest franchise of entertainment ! Game freak hasnt been paying attention to the first group of people for years on end and honestly this game looks to me like it will not even pay any mind to the will of those more "hardcore" people by not even letting us ACTUALLY be hardcore. Exhibit A you say that 400 pokemon are a lot for a complitionist and breeding is and inconvinience(which is fine for you) but for people like me 400 pokemon are a joke and taking away the meaning of my breeding is honestly heartbreaking

[@PiggyMonsta2009]

"There hasn't been a Pokemon game that has featured voice acting in past" Me: there also hasn't been a Pokemon game that didnt include all the National Dex Pokemon but ig Game Freak is trying different things this year.

[@thekeegster6278]

Ruby/Sapphire want to sit down with you.

[@BalenciaGa609]

@@thekeegster6278 Ruby and sapphire did have a national dex.

[@daftdragonpanda2793]

Sun and Moon didnt have a national Dex..... But ok, if you say so pal.

[@blankname3816]

@@daftdragonpanda2793 when people are talking about the national dex, they dont literally mean the pokedex entries. at least sun and moon let you use any pokemon

[@dtell3424]

It was actually confirmed that you can access your pc box from anywhere as long as it's not in the champions cup or during gym battles

[@ryantyanmyan2528]

I can't wait to go to the bathroom and come back to a Machoke snapping my spine in half in the wild area.

[@youtubeii434]

Honestly not interested in this one at all, gamefreak has sold us many pokémon games on the anticipation of this "big one", which is definitely not. We can wait all we want, we will never have it. I'm done with this franchise for good, I've been burned out

[@dolebiscuit]

I'm calling it: The full Pokedex will be available with a future DLC.

[@EvanSJ]

sadly no

[@rhyno3780]

Dont count on it. IF they add a national dex, it would be in the next game.

[@donovanjoseph737]

3:48 That quote is the embodiment of “yeah, sure”

[@cuneoluis]

you guys dont play pokemon, you dont know why pokemon doesnt have an autosave? lmao

[@GrayMimikyu]

Lmao I respect Falcon on every game, but now I'm starting to doubt him, it's like he doesn't know anything about the pokemon game so why did they had to make a video, I didn't see he make a video about Aterlier Ryza.

[@iKayorei]

This game will be the first time I put my foot into the realm of Nintendo Switch. I haven't played my 3DS for years now and after being on PS4 as my primary gaming device, it's nice to go back and play some Nintendo games again.

[@goofballjim6167]

John Smith thats me. I need a really good game(or group of games) to give me a good reason to keep playing my hand held console while i have a powerful console(PS4)

[@dans7350]

Great video. Thanks for avoiding all the negativity. Super excited 😆 Game looks so fun.

[@johnschwalb]

I was super excited, I had even got passed the fact that some old pokemon were going to be cut. Then I learned bulbasaur and squirtle were both cut while gamefreek gave charizard another form. The only reason I could think gamefreek cut them is for balancing against the champions charizard. He is going to used the charizard in Godzilla mode and squirtle would make the fight too easy and bulbasaur too hard. Its bullshit.

[@estebanmartia8698]

Reason for no autosave when you waste all your pokeballs etc. While trying to catch a legendary and not wanting to waste the masterball on the games regular legendary.

[@SinZeravilo]

I'm sure you can turn the autosave off like most games that have it. Or at least be able to change the times intervals that it happens.

[@kingkeltic4228]

You can turn off autosave in the options menu in game relax.

[@estebanmartia8698]

@@kingkeltic4228 I am relaxed. He just said there was no positive but I'm sure we all remember at least one time like that. Autosave is a great feature especially if you've been playing for hours but unfortunately forgot to save.

[@codypwnsu]

@@estebanmartia8698 it doesn't autosave constantly. it's when you're changing maps/going in and out of buildings/etc, so if you are in middle of a battle and run out of pokeballs you can just turn off your game and turn it back on and you'll be at the battle again (if you saved in front of the battle). so you can have auto save on and still be able to save before legendaries like before.

[@ahlexander]

Autosave is not a good thing in Pokémon games. How do you farm for natures when you catch something or reset for shiny Pokémon?

[@thats4thebirds]

Ahlexander they removed farming for nature’s, which can now be reset w an item. but yeeeah resetting for shinies you’ll just need to turn it off.

[@voidmantis9133]

@@thats4thebirds farming for nature? berries?

[@Scarlett-Husky]

You can disable Autosaves in the menu. You'll still be able to reset for shiny legends

[@medieval4516]

By turning off the autosave feature, which they confirmed you can do. Honestly people will try so hard to find any reason at all to bitch about something.

[@thats4thebirds]

Simon L'Écuyer by that I mean, putting a Pokémon w synchronize and trying to trick the game into bringing up a mon w the right nature. Or egg nature w everstone etc

[@NATESUCKSATGAMING]

Surprisingly positive video about a game that has really split the fan base.

[@cybersoldierforever]

Well ok. They cut out a lot of Pokémon.

[@devastatheseeker9967]

There are about 800 pokemon before sw/sh only around 310 got in

[@loganj4594]

@@devastatheseeker9967 who cares at this point lmao

[@iHasaComputer]

It’s only 9.5 GB lol

[@maryamlendar1359]

@@loganj4594 i do

[@devastatheseeker9967]

@@loganj4594 stop caring and they'll be even more scummy in the future

[@finsoups8971]

no metagross tho....

[@calcium4222]

And no Aron ;-;

[@Brother_Piner]

@@calcium4222 and no Salamence.

[@zadventrue]

Imagine if pokemon was made by EA.

[@dtell3424]

Then we would have loot boxes of pokeballs instead of just paying for them

[@zadventrue]

@@dtell3424 and legendary pokémons of loot too hahaha

[@Sifu-Myers]

They would make it so only gen 8 is available then every other pokemon sold individually for 0.99cents

[@georgesewell3936]

Probably be better than what game freak have been putting out tbh.

[@FemkjeMW]

I think it slowly will be lol

[@wertminkefski3857]

They gutted a lot of my favorites from GEN I - V. Gonna pass on this one unfortunately

[@gene4516]

Thank you for passing. You, and everyone who does the same, is what will make sure Gamefreak changes their ways, instead of us having to just 'deal with it'

[@19icewolf97]

Same here, no Scyther (and other faves) no money from me

[@tywright9196]

Absol is my favorite and he was cut but I’ve lost zero excitement. Seems boring to use the same Pokémon every single time

[@gene4516]

@@tywright9196 I can guarentee you have used only about 100-200 pokemon in your time playing the games. That was what was so great about how many pokemon there were. There was always someone new to try.

[@Greensky02]

The last pokemon game was gen 1... how much gen 1 do you want!? =p

[@mghq-mobilegamerzhq2533]

Falcon: They removed the exp share Me: Noooooo wtfuuuuuuuu Falcon: All exp I distributed automatically to all pokemon in the party Me:not gonna lie You had me in the first half

[@TheFancyUmbreon]

@D3rpy N3rd You can't even turn off the EXP All (which is what this is). Ohmori's response to why you couldn't turn it off was "Those who have it turned off want to train one specific Pokemon. We thought: is there a way to achieve that? There is, simply by putting the rest of your Pokémon in the PC."

[@luke4422]

D3rpy N3rd you won’t even need to EV train really, a trailer showed this

[@marcocavaco2382]

The witcher 3 and RDR2 had more characters and ALL VOICED ACTED

[@sleepingshepherd96]

They are lazy

[@doccomeau2770]

Except when you can't move that Pokemon into this game.

[@doccomeau2770]

@Mustapha El Saytari you are telling me not to be a little kid after making a very accurate joke. Why do you feel the need to attack and insult people because they don't suck Pokemon's pole like you? Only one that sounds like a little child here is you my friend. Adults move along when someone says something they don't like. Children get butthurt and lash out. I'm Just Saying!

[@theals9605]

I’m definitely disappointed I can’t move my favorites into this game. I’m gonna miss them. Personally, I’m really hyped for this game besides that, but I definitely agree with you that the fact you can’t move some Pokémon into this game definitely sucks.

[@jeffmalone9398]

Good job on explaining the changes for the game as well as just a general overview. Not only is this useful for newcomers but also for a veteran, something a lot of poketubers aren't doing properly. Thanks for the video.

[@tatsumakisenpukyakku5576]

4:45 "There has never been a Pokemon game with voice acting" ? This is incorrect, they used voice acting in Pokemon Masters Falcon... Gotta do that research my boy..

[@bloodwolfgaming9269]

And in the Detective Pikachu game to right?

[@lior21254]

And in pokemon arena and stadium

[@GeneralDurandal]

8:07 The mints are new, and access to the box away from the PC too, but the vitamins, the stat-hexa-grid, exp gain from Rare candies, have been around. Egg-moves between the same species, also, breed an Eevee with something to get egg moves, then that Eevee can pass those egg moves down regardless of the partner. As long as one of the two have an Egg-move the mother can pass down, it will pass down.

[@midgettiger6389]

I’ve never gone back to change my starter bc I always chose the right one. The water one lmao

[@4NDR3W0T4KU]

sammmmmeeeeee

[@ZackSNetwork]

Yeah you can't go wrong with water starters, grass are typically the weakest and fire is a coin flip.

[@LilotheBetta]

@@ZackSNetwork Grookey gang grass type pokemon are not the weakest it can defeat the water type pokemons

[@happiestaku6646]

That's a weird way to spell fire.

[@EvanSJ]

Whackenstein ok

[@ReclusiveEagle]

I mean technicalllllyyy..... In Pokemon Black 2 White 2 you can hear Roxie singing and this is the first time ever we had a voice actor in game. After that came Pikachu in XY

[@joshcasticshow]

Actually, according to the Website, you access it anywhere except mission places like the gyms.

[@gravitygas3891]

That transition to #7 was SUPER clean.

[@the_Yokaii]

Honesty super excited for this game

[@gene4516]

I think you mean youre excited for this half complete pile of trash :D

[@shadow_ryu2826]

@@gene4516 I completely agree, this game complete utter trash.

[@jimmypadgett4288]

The game is honestly fantastic.

[@cesar_otoniel]

4:15 I feel insulted that they basically say they are being cheap for the sake of being cheap. And BTW there was voice acting in Pokémon Stadium for the N64 (But just the battle commentaries).

[@FemkjeMW]

They are trying to do as less as possible tbh just look at it the switch can play the witcher!

[@SqueeBug]

How do I go about catching that legendary “Falcon” Pokemon?!

[@ApolJooce]

Legendary... Falcon?

[@EliC09]

You can't. It was cut from the games...

[@djvaughan5619]

Amazon preorders also offers a gold outfit/backpack, Nintendo itself has plushies, and best buy is offering a double sided coin. All for double pack pre orders