Reacting to Your Hopes for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet

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[@MandJTV]

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[@sturm2186]

Thank thought this video allow me to see you the pokemon community likes so I can make my pokemon game even better : ) Edit: If you want images just ask and I will send them to the sub reddit

[@Ok-9112]

nice video! 👍

[@jessegartung294]

Temtem is using the iv because they are focusing on battles and you can see how well it’s going.

[@pop8644]

I think having an open world Colluseum/XD Gale of Darkness game would be cool. The beginning tutorial battle with metagross for the battle simulation when you start the game in Gale of Darkness was pretty cool to see, too! That way, they can get rid of those long tutorials. In colluseum you start with an Umbreon and Espeon, which is pretty cool. Snagem balls and shadow pokemon could be pretty cool too. Expanding the shadow pokemon mechanic into newer games sounds cool too.

[@aliyahwilliams8168]

Bro. Wtf raid ITS 2022.

[@aceofaces0007]

I will say that while SWSH’s story may not be the best, I personally love how the culture of Galar is really the first in the franchise that treats Pokemon battling like an actual sport that takes place in stadiums with matches televised as part of a truly organized league like soccer matches. Given that soccer is just as important to Spanish culture as it is to British culture, I would love to see major battles get similar treatment.

[@blackmark2899]

On the low, I actually kind of appreciate how it actually treated the Player like the child they are supposed to be. You weren't thrown or involved in the goings of the "evil team" until at the actual end.

[@BergmitetheBlueandPointy0712]

And I love how Legends Arceus is connected to Galar, making it relevant despite people’s hatred.

[@joshcasticshow]

What do you mean? The story was good.

[@BergmitetheBlueandPointy0712]

@@joshcasticshow It is quite good, and I don’t think Rose is really evil.

[@joshcasticshow]

@@BergmitetheBlueandPointy0712, I don’t think he was evil. He was just doing what he thought is right, but he didn’t realize what he was doing was wrong.

[@henkjrkassens5998]

I hope they add an option called: "experienced pokemon player" which makes it possible to skip most of the tutorials. For the new features we need a tutorial, but the basic fire is weak to water is only necessary for beginners.

[@justxaine.3544]

The catching tutorials are so infuriating considering I’ve played since 04 with fire red and leaf green and replayed dpp countless times it’s annoying

[@henkjrkassens5998]

@@justxaine.3544 yeah, I can relate to that. That's why I hope they give us the option. It will also make it easier to speedrun and shinyhunt the game.

[@hrodriguez561]

@@justxaine.3544 I don't mind the catching tutorial

[@ghengiroo4143]

Definitely, or maybe a “seamless tutorial” where it pops up on a small part of the screen without interrupting the gameplay.

[@Sunny00002]

Or maybe something like the poke tv thing in fire red and lead green that has the tutorials there and you can watch them whenever you like

[@turtleduck2085]

I want a Swablu that will actually sit on my head like a hat. I do not care if the rest of the game is not that great, I will buy it if Swablu sits on my head like a hat.

[@e5858]

Yes.

[@Septimus-yr3nt]

Agreed

[@Shifty-Minty-Co]

I second that executive decision

[@ssspottyyy]

Glad we’re all on the same page, if no swablu hat, then we revolt.

[@arec6345]

Fully endorse this. Swablu hat or bust

[@-9O21]

I want two main themes. First of all, I want the main character to grow up in a larger more central town rather than a small secluded one because from my experiences, all protagonists start in a small town. Also, I want more real interactions between us and the characters or between the characters themselves because they may not have been given enough depth as a character. For example, in the epilogue of sword and shield right as you exit turfeild stadium, piers sort of forgets Sonia’s name. Instead of him getting it correct, he could’ve said a similar name and then Sonia correcting him instead of piers continuing with he had to say

[@armean117]

black 2 and white 2 have your character start in a bigger city

[@kingteddieP4]

Well with the nature of the game you were never gonna get that city theme you wanted lol

[@gobalbucs]

Mikey: “Colonizing is problematic.” Also Mikey: “And then you can interrupt their play-with _violence!”_

[@StackatackaStudios]

LoL FR

[@ShinyTogeticFTW]

1:43 the idea about the gimmick for gen 9 having something to do with light makes a ton of sense to me because the two ends of the spectrum are infraRED and ultraVIOLET

[@catcraft18]

We're probably gonna get some upgraded versions like in gen 7 called super scarlet and ultra violet

[@IndoctrinateHallucinate47]

@@catcraft18 i don't think they'd ever call it ultra violet since ultra sun and ultra moon are a thing

[@catcraft18]

@@IndoctrinateHallucinate47 oh thats true it was more speculation because ultraviolet light is a thing

[@francis7336]

Aaand here we have the names of the sequels ladies and gents

[@stevekim1991]

Infraded and ultraviolet aren't even the ends of the spectrum? What are you on? EM Spectrum: radio waves - microwaves - INFRARED - visible light - ULTRAVIOLET - X-rays - gamma rays

[@owensaliba9385]

I hope the Nidoran line gets some kind of new regional form, I haven’t seen a lot of attention, and I’ve always liked them (maybe a little too much).

[@zukipeach]

i agree!! the nidoran line is one of my favorite ones, they really could use some love, they are really good and cool looking pokemon :(

[@Wailmur]

It would be cool but I feel like they wont do it because of how many they are

[@arec6345]

Nidoran lines definitely deserve some love. It's bonkers they didn't get megas or dynamax....

[@edgyanole9705]

Wdym they get quite a bit of love

[@joshpohlner8716]

I know that the games have already been released, so this wouldn't apply to SV, but I think that giving each Pokémon a sort of "personality" type which doesn't affect stats or abilities or anything, but it changes how the act when out of their Pokéball in the overworld. For example, one Pokémon could be lazy and sleep more when sent out, and another might be more energetic and run around more and be more playful, whilst another is more shy and sticks closer to the player. Not sure how easy this would be to implement, but I think it would make it much more immersive and make each Pokémon feel truly unique

[@tylerroars]

I agree with this 100%! It would be great if the behavior matches their nature and personality characteristics and not just species wise.

[@youtube-kit9450]

It wouldn't be exactly difficult to implement since you basically just assign a different set of animations to a specific value being different, which could even be just bound to their nature or something (let's each 5 natures have a personality type that would make sense if grouped together, which also means that with mints, ability capsules, bottlecaps and EV items being just easily purchasable, there's still something to breed for if you feel like it). But while it wouldn't be difficult from a programming perspective in the sense of how complex it is, it would be a huge amount of work to create basically 5 times the animations and stuff for a feature people aren't likely to care about in huge numbers.

[@tylerroars]

@@youtube-kit9450 I wouldn't be suprised if gamefreak went back to the pokemon not closing their eyes when they sleep but also I'm pretty sure they would add extra animations if they felt like it🤔. I mean, all the pokemon in SV have sleeping animations and flying pokemon can run now like what😂

[@mercedestrenz1881]

Ice types need a buff. Buff their special defense by 50% during hail.

[@dungbach5932]

Or maybe a 25% defense and 25% special defense boost during hail

[@joshuasuess8883]

Isn’t there a move for that

[@sharkbirdgaming]

i think ice should resist fairy and water, water because they are basicly the same thing and fairy because fire resists fairy

[@Oscarus4250]

Maybe buff of additional 50% to Defense, as an counterpart to Rock having +50% in Special Defense

[@ceilingfearsme]

@@sharkbirdgaming plus ice freezes water

[@JohnnyMacs19]

Honestly the idea for the new forms being "weaker" would have been perfect for arceus. Something like sneasel had to naturally evolve into modern sneasel in order just to survive would have been cool.

[@garrettiguess1]

Or maybe the world used to be harder but now thanks to humans catching Pokemon it isn't as hard to survive so maybe old forms should be stronger

[@ghengiroo4143]

To be fair, Avalugg and Arcanine are worse because of the Rock-type and different stat spreads.

[@skrilix5738]

@@garrettiguess1 Well, but then they wouldn’t evolve, because natural selection wouldn’t change anything if they could already survive

[@HayatoByakurai]

@@skrilix5738 It's actually the opposite. Natural selection wouldn't *prevent* the weaker variant from coming to existence, because it would be able to thrive just like the stronger one.

[@robertpowell9982]

As cool as something like Sound type would be, it would likely be super effective against Rock, Ice and Psychic. While Psychic getting a nerf isn't too big of a deal, Rock and Ice definitely DO NOT deserve the nerf.

[@cormorantcolors6791]

Idk about psychic either tbh

[@arec6345]

Huh that's a good point

[@camdenrad1124]

I think it should be super effective against water too because sound waves travel faster through liquids

[@AshenDust_]

It could be super-effective against Steel, Water and Fairy, and that would balance the game more. It would have to have lots of weaknesses to balance being super-effective against the 3 best types in the game, maybe weak to Bug, Psychic, Flying and Fighting, which all make sense.

[@crimsonfox8496]

@@AshenDust_ it would make zero sense for sound type to be super effective against fairy and steel, sound would just bounce off of steel

[@francis7336]

I really want the habitat list from BW2 to return. It was such a great feature and I don't understand why they abandoned it in later gens

[@youtube-kit9450]

It's just one of those neat things they just for no reason abandoned later. Be it the underground from DPPt (imo one of the greatest minigames in pokémon ever), the habitat list (Imo ORAS has the best one but both had great ones), battle frontier (this one I actually can see where they came from, it takes a lot of coding to make separate facilities and people likely mostly only used the tower in the first place), super training or poképelago (both imo fantastic ideas, and combined would've been perfect - you either lay on hands yourself to perfectly EV-train your mon in 20-ish minutes, or you let it rest in a spring over hours if you don't feel like doing it and have time to spare).

[@donovan802]

7:40 Mikey: “It’s basically just like sleep but potentially infinite.” Sleep in Red, Blue, and Yellow: “I AM infinite”

[@iexisted583]

Blizzard in green and red (Japanese version) I am fear(90% accuracy 130 damage 30% freeze)

[@gamieTG]

@@iexisted583 120 base power

[@RobertHinchey]

I mean, if you're going by gen 1, Frozen WAS infinite. The only way to get out of it was with being hit by a fire move (which is unlikely to happen since I can't think of many pokemon that had both a fire and an ice move) or an Ice heal. If you had neither, then you'd stay frozen forever. Sleep you could at least still potentially wake up

[@jamesdinius7769]

@@RobertHinchey Or Haze. Yes, Haze thawed frozen Pokemon for some reason.

[@RobertHinchey]

@@jamesdinius7769 Yeah Haze too. But it's the same issue as with a fire move in requiring your opponent to use the move for you which was relatively unlikely even with the poor AI of gen 1

[@buttfartsman]

I was actually speaking with a coworker the other day and I would love to see Zangoose/Seviper get their own evolutions based on that rivalry. I think it would be really cool to see Zangoose evolve into a Dual Normal/Poison or even Steel/Poison from several battles with Seviper; Maybe even a mechanic where the Zangoose in your party has to fight a certain amount of Sevipers to evolve and vise versa. I would love the design to incorporate some elements of the rival pokemons skin/fur as well to symbolize this ongoing battle. With Seviper possibly evolving into a Fire/Poison type to combat the Zangoose evolution or even Poison/Flying or Dragon with dragon-like characteristics added. I think that it is very likely given the trailer, but I will just remain hopefull for now.

[@mr.bananaman7901]

yes omg. im so for this. i have been waiting long enough since kalos that maybe. just maybe. seviper and zangoose gets some much needed attention

[@Frysbear]

Yep. THIS. I saw seviper in the trailer and immediately thought how cool it would be if they got evolutions or at least we can see them interacting in the wild. Cool idea! :)

[@InitialPC]

the having to fight the other sounds good on paper, but they never appear in the same version together I do like the idea of dual typing them against each other maybe we could make seviper poison/fighting so its strong against zangooses normal i think itd be cool seeing what such a form would look like

[@Zerum69]

I love the idea of being able to do any gym at any order Maybe excluding the first one cuz tutorial, and maybe the last since it could be related to story elements, you know something like the first game where the final gym was the evil team leader in disguise, but that's just a maybe, the one i really want to be fixed is the first gym

[@hyrulechampion5451]

I feel a Tropius regional variant would plantains instead of Bananas since those two fruits have a variety of similarities. It could have higher Defensive stats than Tropius as a reference to Plantains being tougher then bananas. However since Plantains come from Asia it would be more likely to happen in an Asia based region. Also due to Plantains are so often used in multiple forms of cooking, This Pokemon could have some form of special relationship with fire.

[@Yvs8962]

I think in regards to the "doing gyms in any order" thing a more interesting way to do something similar would be to let the player choose one of four possible areas in the region that their character is “from” and starts their journey in, and that determines your path throughout the region. Like how in BW and BW2 you take very different paths through the same region, but in this case more integrated to function as the same game, where the story ultimately culminates in the same way, but the 1st gym leader in one route might be the 6th in another, and presumably there could be more route-based differences, but yeah I think that would be cool.

[@RFDN0]

I honestly want all 18 types to have a gym. We only need 8 but can choose our order and types to face. That fixes difficulty. If we are allowed to rebattle gyms then training can either be done or it would be post game to see high level teams. Each city can have side quests/story that ties into the main story which would make replaying the game more viable as you can take completely different paths than the previous playthrough. Wish it was only 1 title not two but that is pokemon for you. Haveing choice locked legendaries would have made replays of different paths more likely.

[@Vector-ne7we]

Like the anime or manga how many badges you have is the level of their Pokémon

[@sonicdudeatdawn2]

doing gyms in any order would beget moans of *no difficulty* from the fanbase, if you beat one gym and that makes the rest tougher what's to stop someone from scouting about for a bunch of super effective types? it absolutely can work just not with this fanbase scattering eggshells on every inch of flooring at gamefreak

[@RFDN0]

@@sonicdudeatdawn2 It means the fan will choose their difficulty. If they want a hard challenge then they chose neutral or bad type matchups. Solid strategies can be made for any team type. Fans will complain about any game. We see that with every game ever made. But scaling gyms and giving options should make the overall fanbase happy.

[@Yvs8962]

@@sonicdudeatdawn2 Idk man I only play througy Pokemon games doing hardcore nuzlockes anyways, sometimes type exclusive so I gotta get creative with some fights. To me this wouldn't necessarily make the game easier or harder, just give the player more options which is almost always a good thing

[@prestonstanley7736]

I feel like if they did that part for Sawsbuck, the different seasonal forms would just be in different spots. Like, the summer variant on the plains, and the spring variant near a whole bunch of blooming flowers, and the like.

[@nerddwarf]

Or day cycle Morning, Day, Evening and Night can all get 1 form Both are possible

[@kawaiidere1023]

@@nerddwarf Night- Winter Form Morning- Spring Form Midday- Summer Form Evening- Autumnal Form

[@nerddwarf]

@@kawaiidere1023 that was my thinking

[@kawaiidere1023]

I really hope Sawsbuck is in the game. It’s a cool and aesthetic Pokémon that is currently really hard to get for the Pokémon Home national dex

[@prestonstanley7736]

@@kawaiidere1023 aside from luck in Pokémon Go. And wasn’t it in XY?

[@cryptic4762]

I could totally see Sawsbuck having different types depending on seasons. I don't think it'd happen in Spain-based game, where it's pretty moderate to hot all year. Or it could be like Shellos and just vary depending on where you found Sawsbuck in-game I suppose. But... Spring - Grass/Fairy. Cherry blossom antlers and pink streaks through fur. Variations like Spinda, so each streak through fur is different. -100hp, 70 attack, 90 defense, 40 special attack, 85 special defense, 90 speed -Flower Gift, Sap Sipper, and Serene Grace abilities. More moderately speedy defensive pokemon, with flower gift (previously only available to cherim) Spring Sawsbuck to bolster ally stats. More secondary effect moves to allow Serene Grace to be utilized better -Signature move: Heals and prevents status conditions for 5 turns for ally side of field, neutralizes terrain and weather condition effects for ally team. (Will not take sun boosted fire damage nor deal sun boosted fire damage for example) Summer - Grass/Fire. Fire antlers, reddish fur, end of tail on fire like Charmander, flames on hoovers -75hp, 115 attack, 65 defense, 40 special attack, 65 special defense, 115 speed -Flash Fire, Sap Sipper, and physical variation of Solar Power abilities. Speedy, hard hitting physical fire glass cannon. -Signature move: 90 base physical fire damage. 40% chance to burn, 20% chance to flinch Autumn - Grass/Ghost. Entirely white and almost white-ish translucent. Dark purple/black antlers with radiance -75hp, 90 attack, 50 defense, 90 special attack, 50 special defense, 120 speed -Sap Sipper, Cursed Body, Perish Body. Speedy mixed suicide attacker. -Signature move: 110 base special ghost damage attacking all targets. Blocks enemies from leaving the battle. Primarily utilize perish body and the Perish Body to take enemies out with it. U-turn, Volt Switch, Flip Turn can still be used Winter - Grass/Ice. Brown and white fur, similar to normal Sawsbuck. Ice antlers, maybe some stalactite icicles on antlers. Hooves have a frost effect and freeze the ground where recently walked. -85hp, 40 attack, 80 defense, 115 special attack, 80 special defense, 75 speed -Slush Rush, Chlorophyll, Sap Sipper. Moderately bulky hail and sun sweeper -Signature move: 90 base special attack. 20% chance to freeze/frostbite, 20% chance to flinch

[@kchgamer1788]

I didn’t realize how important grit dust was in arceus. I got completely trounced in late game battles because of it. I honestly love that Evs could make a bigger impact and needed for better strategies.

[@alecbormia4523]

Wolfey: I’d like to not see a ground-fairy type bc that seems broken. Mikey: I’d like to see a ground-fairy type bc wolfey said that’d be good.

[@oceanman3765]

but wolfey said that itd be good

[@Richtofenfan]

Steel type would still be supper effective along with water, ice, grass. It wouldn’t be bad to be honest

[@alecbormia4523]

@@Richtofenfan steel is weak to ground tho so no it would be bad.

[@alecbormia4523]

@@oceanman3765 no wolfey didn’t say that it was good, wolfey said that it would be busted and that he didn’t want it to be introduced bc it would be that broken. EDIT: Don’t forget Wolfey said that this typing is the 3rd best typing out of all the possible type combinations which includes existing and not existing ones.

[@_RiverStyx_]

I actually agree with the Chatot guy, my love for the bird has grown since I found a shiny one in legends and it'd be cool to get a regional form and possibly a regional evolution

[@ThatOneBenji]

Yay for chatot

[@thepungod4811]

Maybe this Chatot's design could be based on eighth-rest rather than a eight-note. Having some kind of ability to where it nullifies and sound based attacks against itself would be interesting too.

[@Fvckallofyou1]

Maybe it could become a parrot that would sit on the player’s wrist like a trained bird

[@runedoom]

@@thepungod4811 sound proof is already an ability.

[@NisarKhan-jm1uh]

I like chatot. It looks like a mix between a lovebird, cockatoo and a macaw

[@alexreese614]

When it comes to the gyms, I feel like having just a few gyms be in any order would be perfect since there's almost always a point in the pokemon games where you are just doing the gym challenges for a few gyms. I wish it was any order for the whole thing, but I completely understand due to balancing order and including a story.

[@annienunyabiz6627]

19:20 Completely agree. My son played BDSP for the first time, got all the way to Cynthia with zero issues, and got steamrolled by her. I tried beating her with his team, and got her down to her last 2 before losing, and that's with all my knowledge of years playing. So he had to spend a week grinding new pokemon who were more competitive instead of using the ones he'd grown attached to. After all that time, he gets to Cynthia and got steamrolled AGAIN. He burst into tears and hasn't touched any Pokemon games since then. I had to beat her, and nearly lost. Came down to 1v1. What they did with the Elite 4 and Cynthia was just wrong for any kids playing. I've played every gen, and this just solidified gen 4 being my least favorite generation.

[@marcshade9916]

I think the gyms would be more interesting if Instead of having monotype gyms the gym leaders would have a team archetype like a doubles gym leader or a rain team gym leader or even a stall gym

[@CrazyWeridoRH]

I like types but it’ll be cool to have themes and variation. For world building, imagine if the fire gym kept one water type with him to make sure no fires he makes get out of control. Or a normal gym that specializes in abnormal normal types like Ditto and Porygon.

[@marcshade9916]

@@CrazyWeridoRH that's also a really cool idea

[@Matchgirlmadness]

I want a gym that has like themes instead of types like a music themed gymleader or sumn like that so it won’t be “oh it’s a fire gym, i can sweep this with a water type” Weirdly i think i was using those for an OC story and struggled with wonderland aesthetic themed gym and an executioneer one, anyone know what a good pokemon for those?

[@CrazyWeridoRH]

@@Matchgirlmadness Executioner theme could be things like Scyther/Scizor, Haxorous, Bisharp, any bladed pokemon. If you want to go darker, have an electric type for the chair, a poison type for lethal injection/gas, and a grass type with vines for hanging. Very dark but if it's subtle it could work.

[@juliefarrell6688]

I have a fan region with that. The bosses have archetypes, not types. The region used to have gym leaders but the league was destroyed in the civil war so there's only bosses, one of which is a crime boss, who uses rough and nasty pokemon. Yeah Pokemon Apocalypse is not for little kids Sorry for going off on a tangent

[@herobizarre6010]

Here's to hoping for the return of Kalos as Post-Game, like Kanto was for Gen 2, but we see new Kalos variants of Pokémon in Scarlet and Violet.

[@pixelotter542]

I just wanna see Looker again

[@unitds27-delta]

I'd absolutely love that

[@RammerHammer]

I doubt we'll ever get the full gen 2 treatment of getting to explore an entire region again, but I would love to return to small parts of Kalos to learn a bit more about the ultimate weapon and AZ and such

[@CR0WT0GR4PHY]

Eh, Kalos felt like a fever dream to me

[@herobizarre6010]

@@BigM5304 not with that attitude it isn't

[@colslaughter3734]

The removal of IVs would be amazing! The rental teams in SWSH are a great way to get around it, I suppose, but as much as I love competitive Pokémon, I’m often discouraged when I consider the amount of work that I’ll have to put in for a new team (especially if I’m looking to make some weird experimental teams)

[@Deimos0VI]

I still want a reference to someone a very long time ago "discovering" the Unova region (Basically I want a pokemon version of Christopher Columbus) Also, if they do go back to traditional gyms elite four and champion, I want there to be a gym for every single type (Maybe some are unlocked post game, maybe you only have to do 8 of the 18 gyms) I just really think the Elite Four, some of the strongest trainers in the entire region, being limited to only one type just kind of ruins the point. (wishful thinking time) I also want (but won't get) a post game where you either go to the Galar region to study the dynamax/gigantamax phenomenon or go to the Kalos region and study the mega evolution phenomenon. Just imagine, you and your friend are both playing through the game (you each have the different versions) and all of a sudden the two of you are like "wait what?" and see how you each went to a different region. IF they have a difficulty slider, I feel like along with "easy/hard mode" they should add small fun challenge modes like (for example, if we use swsh) maybe a Leon mode, where you have no map at all. Small little challenges like that would be really fun and would add so much more enjoyability to the game. (Also please don't make the changes permanent, like have it in the options menu where you can turn certain challenges off. Difficulty can be permanent, but challenges like this should not be)

[@VanishingPuppet]

I also have to say that gyms in any order would add SO much replayability. You'd change gym order to see the different teams gym leaders might have or if there is any special dialogue for going to the farthest possible gym with no badges, etc.

[@SWAMPuS]

Honestly, I’d like another dark/physic type that isn’t just Inkay and Malamar. I can’t really think of any other Pokémon with this typing, and I think it’s pretty cool

[@ARandomMinecraftVillager]

I came up with a regional variant/evolution for Xatu that loses the ability to fly, but gets more powerful mentally and the eyes on it's belly become another face like a totem lol

[@foxashock6161]

ok I can do that but it will take like 10 years because im not that good at coding but in my pokemon game I am trying to figure out how to make there is a dark/psychc type

[@linsteven9163]

Dark/Psychic is very cool. (Also Hoopa Unbound is Dark Psychic as well)

[@SWAMPuS]

@@linsteven9163 woah, thanks for telling me!

[@zealthethornydragon]

But it has no resist so it cant take a move very well

[@maximuskeene8572]

i want to see a return of triple battles. swsh only had single and double battles. triple battles really make you think about what moves to use and what types to pair with. you get that with doubles but triples takes it up a notch

[@a2gamer234]

I think natures are just like IV’s. They’re random, and forces you to catch a different Pokémon with a helpful nature.

[@josh4fun668]

I say leave in both IV's and Natures for people that enjoy breeding but make Mints and Bottle caps easier to acquire.

[@kingab9959]

My biggest hope is to have a post game were we able to battle with characters from all the games so far, like a world tournament ( i think they did that in gen 5) i would love to see it, a tournament ranging from 4 to 32 participants with all types of iconic characters and NPCs, like rivals, protagonists, champions, gym leaders... And with that the dialog mentions event's in the other games like Helio or Selene being the first alola champion or Gold talking about his battle with Red

[@cameronjensen9397]

They did do that in Generation 5, and while I didn't win enough to reach that point(I think), I know that the tournament was good. You faced up against 4 people(16 participants), and all of them were powerful or challenging.

[@abrahamlincoln9160]

Gold/Ethan never canonically fought Red. That's something You, the player did. If every possible moment in Pokémon games were canon, The legendary Birds and Mewtwo shouldn't be obtainable in the Johto games since it's possible to catch them in the Kanto ones, and i did catch all 3 legendary birds. I used Articuno to fight the League, actually. Wouldn't have beaten Lance without it

[@cameronjensen9397]

@@abrahamlincoln9160 Interesting theory. But don't forget that there is technically the pokemon multiverse to consider.

[@abrahamlincoln9160]

@@cameronjensen9397You're right, but including Red was already a difficult task for Pokémon because he's technically the protagonist from that game. If you were to include every single protagonist, or even just a few, it would be very difficult to consider what set of actions each protagonist does. Does Ethan catch Suicune? Does Dawn possess the Creation Trio? that's probably why every game has it's own protagonists, since a direct sequel involving the same protagonist as the last would be impossible.

[@kingab9959]

@@abrahamlincoln9160 it's actually possible to do teams for the protagonists, just give them the 3 starters(to represent all players) and some others pokemon that they were given or faced that was part of a story in the game, for example: Victor/Gloria could have a team made of the starters, a toxtricity (the final evolved form of the toxel given in the day care), Eternatus(since the fact that it was caught by the protagonist is cannon), the final form of applin ( because of the sidequest) or even Urshifu.

[@Togekiss.]

I’d really like to see the gulpin and mankey lines get a regional form, also hoping for the return of secret hideouts as they were in the gen 3 games and ORAS, not the underground exclusive versions.

[@sunnydays07]

Yes and not like bdsp where they just look like terracotta armies. Actual bases you could live in, please!

[@bodgmasterxionobst3r983]

God the bases in BDSP are awful I remember very clearly how cool it was to basically make your own gym by personalizing trainers, objects and other things But Idk if they fit Scarlet and Violet

[@mandothepando9637]

Agreed, dark type regional mankey/primeape should have been a thing already! As for gulpin, fairy type gulpin?

[@Togekiss.]

@@mandothepando9637 i was thinking ground type for gulpin

[@redhood5264]

3:39 has the most prophetic take of all time. I'm so tired of people saying "make it hard like the old games". There's nothing hard about grinding. Keep spitting bruh

[@raggedshadow5709]

Imagine we get to travel the entirety of kalos in the postgame that’d be cool

[@gerieconomides2776]

Imagine if, after the postgame, we could travel to any region at all (that has yet been announced) and compete in things like World Tournament Junior Cup (I think that's what it's called) and catch pokemon from different regions, maybe even mentor some newbie trainers who need some confidence and encouragement!

[@conlon4332]

@@gerieconomides2776 I think that would be way too much work to actually happen, but you're right it would be super cool!

[@PossiblyKapri]

Like in HeartGold/Soulsilver where you can go to kanto!

[@raggedshadow5709]

@@PossiblyKapri yea exactly

[@Mystery_Cipher707]

They would most likely do that in the DLC, but I’m on board with your idea!

[@66Roses]

I want a class system. They've had Trainer Classes for NPCs since the beginning, but never for player characters. I want to be a Dragon Tamer and get a passive buff for training dragon types, like maybe a 10% increase in experience gain. Or maybe be a Bug Catcher and the catch rate for bug types is increased 50%. I feel like replay value is the one consistent weakness of Pokémon games, and a class system would do a lot to improve that.

[@RolfeSenpai]

I actually really like this idea. I would also like it if it affected your character’s story and interactions with certain NPCs. I’m always in favor of improving and expanding upon Pokemon’s RPG aspects.

[@jamesdinius7769]

As long as I can still run a balanced team without penalty. No bonus, but NO drawback. I don't want to be shoehorned into specializing.

[@theanimalagency2490]

This could be cool also I agree Pokémon sucks in the replay ability department

[@theanimalagency2490]

@@jamesdinius7769 I agree but judging on how the original comment was written I think if we get exactly that I don’t think you’d have to worry about that

[@donovanlocust1106]

Dope! I've watched a lot of monotype nuzlockes and this could actually be something that makes it interesting to do.

[@stormaurora1985]

I think it'd be neat if you started in a different hometown depending on which version you get. Could be tied into the whole "rival schools" concept - you go to the purple school in Violet because it's the school in your hometown, while you go to the orange school in Scarlet because that's the school in your hometown. It'd be a more substantial version difference than what we're used to, and it'd be an easy way to give players a little different experience traveling through the region depending on how long it takes the two paths to converge.

[@The_Prime_Kiwi]

Could also maybe lead to a different first gym?

[@callmecatlord2322]

Gen 1 old balls here. I love the idea of an official battle simulator and making competitive more accessible in general. SWSH had a terrible single player experience (not counting dlc), but the way they made getting into competitive way more accessible was great! It let me finally try playing competitive for the first time even though I've been interested since gen 4. For that reason alone SWSH has been one of my favorite generations

[@zwartkatdre]

Dude, your sponsor parts are so enjoyable. Thanks for making them so fun. I hope other youtubers learn from u.

[@donovan802]

GIVE FLYGON MORE ATTENTION!!! I love Garchomp, but it’s only fair that the FIRST fully evolved Ground/Dragon (and frankly, the cuter fully evolved Ground/Dragon Type) got something. Maybe not a regional variant, but something…

[@raghavthombare3895]

Yeah totally agree😤

[@theanimalagency2490]

True flygon needs something I love it and frankly it has turned into garchomps younger brother

[@future7879]

they scrapped the idea of mega flygon because they could not figure out how to make it look cool, while respecting the idea of outgrowing its dna, and i believe that's how they ended up just making mega garchomp. i do still wanna see something like a regional variant of flygon that adapted to heatwaves instead of sandstorms, as spain and portugal are known to be quite warm.

[@FoxGalahHasMovedToNewAccounts]

I want Mega Flygon because Gamefreak was too lazy to make one properly.

[@ascarletmoon17]

I totally agree on the 'difficulty' thing. I feel like people don't always remember that the Pokemon games are meant to be for younger players with a wide variety of skill levels. A hard mode for the fans who've been dying for harder pokemon games is fine, but I feel like it's weird to expect a children's game to be on hardmode naturally.

[@aag2139]

Same goes for people complaining about the gyms not having varied types. Its literally there to teach kids the types. Having them actually have crazy strong and varied teams defeats the whole point. It would be nice to have options though. Like being able to turn on or off the different experience types , etc. The main target audience is kids, but it isnt exclusively for them (and even if it were, there are some smart and competitive kids out there anyway) so it woild be nice for people with morr experience to not have to be hald held or have the kiddie wheels on the whole game.

[@ascarletmoon17]

@@aag2139 That's why I said a hard mode is fine. Just some people seem to want a pokemon game that's like Dark Souls, hard and unrelenting from the start with no other options, which is unrealistic.

[@aag2139]

@@ascarletmoon17 yeah same

[@EmeralBookwise]

Also people don't really need difficulty settings just to get a harder game. That's why self imposed challenges like nuzlock exist.

[@ascarletmoon17]

@@EmeralBookwise Exactly! Plus there are mods and fan games- the community has a lot to offer anyone looking for a challenge.

[@chronicgaming3280]

I have his recurring thought in the back of my head that we will get another legendary bird or two to build of of the Spanish number theme. Sort of like the two additional Regi forms.

[@concertpapyrus8361]

Mikey should do a Pokemon Friendlocke! (original idea by saltydkdan, any mainline series Pokemon game from gen 1 to gen 8 is allowed) For those who don't know what a Friendlocke is here are the rules: - Gather as many friends as you want (preferably 6 or more) into a Discord server/group - Enter a call and boot up the game - One Pokemon you catch (including the starters) is equal to a random friend in your discord server, once that random friend is picked they get to join the call and control the Pokemon. - The randomly picked friend takes the roll of Pokemon (getting to use moves in battle and choosing whether to evolve or not) whereas the host takes the roll of trainer (in this case Mikey gets to choose held items each friend would use, what healing items to use in battle, and which friend to put in or out of the boxes) - If the Pokemon faints, it dies and is released, and the friend controlling that Pokemon is kicked out of the call and the discord server/group. - You can't catch anymore Pokemon if all of your friends are already assigned a Pokemon OTHER OPTIONS: - For Salty's 2nd season of his Pokemon friendlocke there were a lot of roleplaying and lore for some reason so if you wanna do that go ahead i guess - I highly recommend a Randomizer Friendlocke because it makes it a lot more fun and challenging - Legendaries are up to you whether if you want to assign a friend to them or not - You can have the choice to revive a single dead friend after halfway through the game, the friend getting revived is random and the Pokemon they are assigned to is also random and not the same Pokemon they we're once assigned to.

[@Blaze4ification]

One thing I'd like to see is more differences with each version, like I say this in my fan made Legends Kyurem paper I wrote, but in it you can either play as the peaceful prince of white, or his twin the prince of black who is more abrasive, you're rivals, brothers, and friends but should you choose prince of black you have a friendly rival, prince of white is chose a jerk rival, then turned villain 1/2 way through because your ideals set you on different paths. I don't think we'd see this in SV, but would be neat.

[@singularleaf3895]

That would be neat in a spin off style game, just to test the waters and wring out the possible wrinkles. Which is the whole point in the spin off games it feels.

[@alexanderstorti7770]

I really hope they continue the trend they started in Gen 7 and that all the new Pokemon fit the region. Gen 7 started this with all it's new Pokemon relating back to either being tropical or some aspect of Hawaii. Gen 8, every Galarian Pokemon is British. Even the new Hisui Pokemon have inspirations from ancient Hokkaido. Really hope that continues here.

[@nickdentoom1173]

Stufful and Bewear being non-tropical say hi

[@enderwiggin1510]

If you want to put in difficulty settings, I feel like the professor should ask you when you played Pokémon for the first time (they could ask what was your first starter or the first Pokémon game you played?) so they can get your age

[@tylerbuckland9786]

I would really love too see shedinja get some love its been my favorite pokemon for a while and it hasn't gotten anything, I would like too see it get better stats and maybe even a regional form with a different type

[@bauz2957]

One Thing I thought of as I was looking at the circle in the City shown to us was that there are representives of each Pokemon type and you can both decide, who you wanna challenge and in which order. This could also fit very well with this whole school idea. You could influence your future gym trainers by your decisions inside the school.

[@rayeex6]

We could meet more rivals and more diversity of characters, like your rivals wanting too chase their dreams and you inspire them. However they keep challenging you during the game to show you what they've learned. In short I want more dedicated rivals to the main game. I love the idea 💡

[@coltonfricke7289]

One of my biggest hopes is that they’ll have a regional form for Eevee, that had the exact same gimmick with all the eeveelutions, but for the PHYSICAL types, I think that’d be a very cool way to make a eeveelution of every type!

[@christakanst7014]

But what would the type be?Will it just change in design like Hisuian basculin?

[@destinpatterson1644]

This is an amazing idea

[@themewer]

@@christakanst7014 fighting cuz why not or poison/ghostn to go with violet

[@Sarah_Bragg]

@@christakanst7014 I don’t think that the type of the regional eevee would have to change.

[@hhjan594]

This idea sounds so cool

[@valkyrierain313]

Rumors: different school factions Me: Two families both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene...

[@smartcam8095]

PFFT. I’d love if they would make a reference to that in the game besides Pokémon but that would NOT be good considering how absurdly dark the story is

[@arec6345]

1) I would really love to choose which gyms in what order like Origins. Thought that was great, more realistic take. 2) I want more Pokedex entries about Pokemon interacting. 3) Mikey being real opinionated. Here for it. 4) like how Mikey and Grunty Boi have just accepted each other's existence at this point

[@umbreonfan1099]

I'm personally hoping for an ice-poison type, just thought it would be cool.

[@bodgmasterxionobst3r983]

Sneasler would have been the perfect opportunity, but as of now what would even fit as an ice/poison type in this Iberian region ?

[@Yuyuki727]

@@bodgmasterxionobst3r983 A Jamón Iberico Pokémon. One that wasn’t prepared properly and so it is Ice-Type for being in the refrigerator, Poison-Type for being spoiled.

[@myodraknight3684]

Like a virus trapped in an ice block

[@yuubiwoomi3300]

Same, i made a fakemon skunk that is a ice/poison type

[@edgymcedgelord5297]

I have been toying around this and the idea I have that it would be some kind of frog that hangs around in the peak of mountains.

[@danieljay6196]

Getting rid of IVs would honestly be incredible. One of the biggest reasons I haven’t tried competitive battling is because I don’t have the time or patience for perfect breeding

[@cortster12]

They won't do it, you can quote me on this. They might change it, but they cannot do it because breeding is too important for too many people. Also, they left IVs in the code for Legends: Arceus, and the stats for pokemon in that game have the ghosts of baseline IVs in the effort levels, which shows that each pokemon have IVs, they're just turned off right now and will be enabled once exporting to the new games later this year is allowed.

[@danieljay6196]

@@cortster12 I figured as much…just a nice thought haha

[@tailsmilesprower9451]

Ivs are not going anywhere SwSh kinda of fixed it being able to borrow rental teams hope that is in SV And hyper training

[@theboi5584]

It’s not that bad when you get into the swing of things, but I’m probably saying that because I’ve been doing it for like 2 years at this point lol. I would probably be fine if they ended up taking out IVS. But if they do keep them in, just keep expanding on how easy making Competitive Pokémon in SWSH is.

[@ladle1003]

Pokémon Showdown is great for that. It isn't officially, but it's basically the same. They even program in bugs and glitches from the games.

[@washno.8251]

Something I would love is Tropius’ regional variant is on phototropism, unlike normal Tropius being related to gravitropism (yes, I watched the video on the Pokémon you pronounce wrong).

[@itzlapis_]

I love this video for the fact of the amount of good ideas for VGC. Petition for Mikey, Cybertron and Wolfey to be the commissioners of Pokémon esports 😂

[@mrblakee4764]

One of Sprigatito's evolutions HAS to be called Dandeleo (Dandelion + Leo).

[@Soleilune1995]

And it has a flower mane.

[@okieiko7628]

14:26 The opposite of that item (physical moves turning into special moves) would be great for Sceptile, having a good Special Attack stat but a WAYY better physical movepool.

[@merlintheageless]

Yeah, except that any item like that would not be healthy for competitive. It would lead to a lot of mind games about whether you can take a hit or not. Do you gamble that it's actually a physical attacker or a special one? Maybe if it displayed text letting the opponent know it would be ok, otherwise it would need to have some sort of substantial drawback like reducing damage by 25% or acting like a choice item.

[@misolaneous]

@@merlintheageless wrecking opponents sweepers with Trick though 👀👀👀

[@mr.sandman7339]

@@merlintheageless It still wouldn't necessarily be that bad. If you use this "kinetic prism", you forgo a boosting item like Life Orb/Specs/Band. It will be stronger than normal, but I don't think it's unmanageable. With how bulky a lot of these new mons are, I think they'll be fine. I'm more concerned about Trick making this unhealthy than I am about raw damage.

[@specimenx4139]

@@mr.sandman7339 Keep in mind that this prism, like Mega Stones and Z-Crystals, could have a property in which it can't be removed from its holder during battle to prevent the holder from handicapping an opponent (with moves like Trick and Bestow) and vice versa (with moves like Knock Off).

[@Grandflea02]

I just want an eeveelution for every type I even thought up a method of evolution for each one a while ago Normal: Level 30 with high happiness, at noon (like dusk lycanroc time) Fighting: Level eevee up after beating a fighting type in battle Ghost: Use a rare candy or exp. Candy on a fainted eevee Bug: Level up while holding silver powder Poison: Level up while badly poisoned Rock: Level up in an area like a cave or a desert Ground: Level up in a sandstorm Steel: Level up after eevee survives a hit on exactly 1hp Flying: Level up while holding a float stone Dragon: Level 40 with at least two other dragon types in your party

[@Ihearteatingbatteries]

Something I really hope for is a regional variant for Komala.( Maybe as a fighting-normal type or just a fighting type) Something which isn't really related to pokemon scarlet and violet - I really hope they make another game that's similar to pokepark. I've barely seen anyone making videos or comments about it.

[@WindriderDelta]

I really hope Oricorio will reappear, as it has only been available in Alola (excluding spinoffs). Perhaps some new dance forms for it as well?

[@MegaVideoman23]

breakdance fighting type, figure skater ice type, ballet fairy type, or ballet dark type (a la black swan), whirling dervish sword dancing steel type (like how the ghost forms feathers look like fans have them look like blades), and to make it more distinct make it more physically oriented (cause dancing is a rigorous physical activity) and give it a physical version of revelation dance, call it revolution dance cause all these dances incorporate spinning... but it's just a thought.

[@-w-4252]

@@MegaVideoman23 i would love a water type form dancing form based around kokomi in genshin. She does water dancing right?

[@ArmourFarmer]

if you think oricorio's bad as it hasn't returned, take a look at gogoat

[@gus_0065]

it would be super cool, but if it doesn't happen, at least they're going to appear in pokemon go.

[@InTheHouseOfWolves]

Flamenco Dance is a thing in Spain. I’d be disappointed if it didn’t make another appearance.

[@hisuianchar1548]

Also personally, I would want a bug type psuedo legend. And also I want a wooper regional form (for no reason in particular) and it’s evo would look more like an axolotl. But maybe that would be better for a region based on Mexico.

[@kimberlyramin]

In case you didn't know, Quagsire is actually based on the Giant Salamander, a much larger amphibian with a similar body shape to the Axolotl

[@GamerZero-mn9gq]

Where's my damn dragon bug?!

[@KraylebStudios]

Any Pseudo legendary that isn't a dragon or psychic type

[@lucaszayed9616]

I really love getting new strong pokemon, and flying is my favorite type, but most are found really early and are pretty weak, when they evolve they get stronger but your opponents get stronger too making it hard to use some really cool pokemon while having them a good part of your team so I would like some early game strong flying types and also some in late game too. I would also like to see some new regional forms because flying types dont get much regional forms.

[@youtube-kit9450]

It's honestly weird because Pidgeot and Fearow were mid to weak, Noctowl is mid to weak, Swellow without its guts facade set is basically weak, then they suddenly made an insane hard hitting juggernaut for an early flyer in Staraptor... and then went back to weak, unimpressive flying type in Unfezant, Firearrow only is good with its hidden ability, Toucannon isn't very remarkable... and then after another 4 gens, finally another imposing, good flyer. And then... they completely do a 180 and the new flyer in Paldea is... Squawkabilly? Unimpressive, no evo, no special typing... wtf? Gamefreak actually did a decent job with stopping to introduce overly abundant type combos for certain types, like how they noticed we didn't need more bug/flying (last one gen 6), grass poison (last one gen 5), bug poison (last one gen 5), rock ground (just absurdly many in gen 1/2, never again aside from Rhyperior), Rock/Steel (basically gen 3/4 was in love with it, then they stopped), And while they definitely cut back on normal/flying since gen 5, why they still think they need to introduce more of that is just beyond me. The best and easiest way to make the early route birds remarkable is to just give the flyer a unique/uncommon typing they can take advantage of, and ofc stats to let them use it. Most of those flyers evolve at the rate of starters anyways (18-ish first evo, 35-ish second evo), so let them have 500+ base stats ffs.

[@moonwillowdrawsstuff3668]

This is just me theorizing potential good pokemon ideas based on the "unused typing" chart at 2:11 if you are making a fangame of pokemon or something, and think my ideas here are something that would fit with the region, you may absolutely use them! I'd love to see updates on how they turn out, if so :) -I think ground/ghost or rock/ghost could be a really cool fossil pokemon. Whether that pokemon's revived from ancient times like traditional fossils, or that it's literally "the fossil pokemon", I think that typing would work well for something like that. If it's a literal fossil pokemon, it could be a three stage going from like a sample of rock with maybe a bit of bones sticking out to form limbs/head, to a giant skeleton mashed together with rocks and the like -I also think fire/fairy could make a really cool will o' the wisp pokemon. Maybe a 1 or 2 stage pokemon found later in the game, or a really interesting starter -Poison/steel could be an interesting concept behind a poisoned arrow/sword pokemon. Like how Remoraid and Octillery have a gun and a tank, respectively, as their inspiration, that same concept could work well with this typing -Bug/dragon okay hear me out... you know those giant 2.5' Dragonflies that lived during the dinosaurs? That. -Fighting/grass alright so I know this wasn't on the unused list, but a Venus Flytrap boxer would be really cool...

[@Blaze4ification]

Something I'd like to see would be decisions mattering. Like in Legends Arceus I chose Pearl clan despite my love of Dialga, 1 because I just vibed with Pearl Clan's ideals more (always thought Dialga was the more chill one of the 2, and that you'd want to take your time with things, vs the desire to grow ever expanding and to the future... interesting how the clans flipped that script on me), they're more chill, more about a country life style, living in the moment... 2 dang it I crushed hard on Irida. That aside I was hoping that I'd get a tent in the Pearl clan, that I could treat it as my home, a restore point at bare minimum which would've been more beneficial in that location vs the Diamond's location in the Mirelands, however... nothing, like I get Dialga in a special ball that's neat and seems backwards, kind of underwhelming though. I'm not saying despite this being geared towards older fans we need a dating system like Fire Emblem, but Fire Emblem has always since the 1st game in I think 92, had it where your decisions matter, impact the whole story. Now there are ways I think this concept can even grow within Fire Emblem's franchise, such as combining remakes like Blazing Binding Blade, or Thracia and Genealogy should be the next set of remakes, make it 1 game where decisions in part 1 affect the story in part 2. Pokemon I'd like to see develop this sort of thing too, not as impactful as Fire Emblem (as fun as nuzlocks are I get it permadeath might not be fun for others), but I'd like protagonists to be more impactful on the plot, that's the whole point of RPGs, and even if not in gen 1 and 2 felt like they were elements there. You could choose the order of gyms you challenged (which I've wanted back since DPP the last games to have this, another thing I want), you weren't challenging Team Rocket out of a desire to, but because it felt like you wanted to, I know they halt your progress intentionally but the feel of it was that it was your decision, not forced on you.

[@natspencer174]

i am with you 100%. i am a huge longtime Pokémon fan. i would love to see decisions made throughout the story that effect what happens. i would also love to have a relationship and personal interaction system that affects things like in Fire Emblem: Three Houses.

[@crabgame6326]

@Prajwal Yadavi chose diamond specially to anti simp

[@AzureGreatheart]

I would like an equivalent to the support system in Pokémon, but I’m not sure about the term “dating system”. I am willing to go into more detail if requested, but I am completely exhausted right now, and I’m going to bed in a few minutes.

[@Blaze4ification]

@@natspencer174 I mean honestly yeah, I'd love the whole dating system in Fire Emblem games etc... but at the same time those are T for teen, for more mature audiences, Pokemon is E for everyone, even if the majority of us are long time fans, they still want to primarily appeal to the younger fans, so I wouldn't expect that in a Pokemon game. This also isn't me saying Pokemon is meant for children, it's meant for everyone that's why it's E not C rating, but they do make it a point to target child audiences outside of Legends and gen 5.... that being said since Legends and Gen 5 were geared towards us older fans they could've given us a lil something. Like maybe a game mode that benefits from you having high bond not just with Pokemon but human characters, could work whether it's contests or a battle facility. This also isn't me saying Pokemon is meant for children, it's meant for everyone that's why it's E not C rating, but they do make it a point to target child audiences outside of Legends and gen 5. Not saying we need children like in Fates, Awakening, or Binding Blade (yeah the implications alone would probably bump the rating up), but eh something, you can build bonds with fellow trainers up to A like in Fire Emblem, get benefits in side game modes or mini games, and S support with only 1 character. In a battle scenario I can imagine a combo attack, like I don't know Blast Burn from Typhlosion mixed with Hurricane from Akari's Staraptor makes a huge fire tornado, and benefits during a contest like scenario too giving double points or something. Combining your Decidueye's Leaf Storm with Adaman's Leafeon's Petal Blizzard, Irida's Glaceon uses icebeam on your Samurott's swords for an icy ceaseless edge. Like that's if you want to get crazy, but simply adding dialogue for characters would be bare minimum and nice, maybe Irida wakes you up instead of Akari, you can buy stuff from the Pearl clan only they would have access to vs Diamond clan, Ginko Guild, or Team Galaxy, heck joining Ginko Guild you could do requests to deliver things to make more money, and maybe extra job equivalents in the diamond or pearl clans to earn currency too.

[@Blaze4ification]

@Prajwal Yadav BACK OFF SHE'S MINE... I'm just kidding lol, but I'm sure a lot of people did pick a clan hoping for more going against their grain because they were expecting more. My brother stuck with his guns because he likes Palkia otherwise he would've picked Diamond Clan (especially since that means he had to then catch Dialga in the special ball he really pulled the short stick on that one). Like if it meant nothing I would've just made my own clan, Platinum Clan or something, maybe gone off to Johto they're not... too far away? Sinjoh ruins are 1/2 way between the regions... though you never actually see where Sinjoh is specifically on a map... speaking of that should be happening around this time too, the Johto clans and Sinnoh Clans came together to worship their shared God, taking from the ruins of Alph and Spear Pillar to build the altar and ruins.

[@tempest6357]

I personally would love if they gaved some love to some of the forgotten Unova Pokémon such as Zebstrika. Swanna, Sawsbuck, Heatmor, etc.

[@tropicalnoriaki]

I agree, I love these Pokemon and they've basically been forgotten in the past

[@theanimalagency2490]

Agreed but why stop at unova I mean I would argue Pokémon from kalos have actually been more forgotten

[@akiraotoishi5756]

I really hate the starters for legends arceus. You would understand if your favorite pokemon wasnt picked out of the bunch and now we either wait for years and years for alternate forms or never.

[@Auxo.]

Zebstrika isnt *that* forgotten

[@jaretco6423]

Auto. I think he meant that those Pokemons weren't as good in meta or competitive.

[@wenam87]

Another comment to add for around the 7:00 mark regarding the incorporation of dex entries in the game is that I came across a Mr. Mime hoard in Obsidian fields and there was one Mr.Mime who was sitting on an invisible chair (not sleeping) as if it was sipping tea or coffee with it's legs crossed. And then another one did the same thing at the same time lol I thought it so interesting that I spent probably almost 30 min playing around with that hoard before catching them (sad face). And also when you stun them with sticky globs, they put their hands to the side as if the walls are closing in on them lol.

[@All54321]

Watching this after Scarlet and Violet is out is interesting to see how many of these came true and how many didn’t. It’s nice to see how many of these ended up in the game.

[@17zay17]

Mikey is 1000% correct about the barriers to entry with competitive pokemon. I never thought about getting rid of IV's (that also works) but always thought it would be really smart and fun to have a pokemon editor/battle simulator type feature like he was talking about. I always imagined like after you beat the game or complete the regional dex, that region's professor tells you he made a new invention that allows you to edit your pokemon's IV's, EV's, abilities, change moves (including egg moves), etc. I think that would be an amazing way to remove the barriers to entry while tying it into the story and completion of the game as well

[@TrueLucinova]

Every time I think about regional forms and unused typings, I always imagine a regional Sunflora (or maybe just a new evolution for it) getting the Grass/Fire type; after Ursaluna, I don't think a new evolution which adds a secondary type would be that out of the question, especially for another Johto Pokemon lol (I guess Sunflora would be underwhelming to some people, but I love regional forms/evolutions which draw attention to underutilized Pokemon) A few other Pokemon I'd be interested in seeing getting attention would be Dunsparce, Luvdisc, and Maractus... but I'm not quite creative enough to come up with my own ideas for them offhand. Regardless, I'll probably like just about any regional form they introduce

[@iBenjamin1000]

new evolutions or regional forms almost feel like they should be reserved PRIMARILY for overlooked and forgotten pokemon.

[@singularleaf3895]

@@iBenjamin1000 that's my biggest hope, like cool charizard got new stuff again... but what about Lapras, or Tropius. Two really cool pokemon people on average like but doesn't seem to get enough love. Lapraa gets some here and there but it some how doesn't feel enough.

[@TrueLucinova]

@@singularleaf3895 Oh, I didn't even think about Lapras! I used to have this idea back when X and Y were first announced for a Mega Lapras with icy armor, but I'm not sure how interesting that would actually be (I also made it up, rather than drawing inspiration from anything in particular) Tropius as well, now that's a Pokemon I'd love to see become relevant! I've always liked its design, ever since I first saw it in Pokemon Colosseum, which was my first Pokemon game, amusingly; I was definitely around for at least Gen 2, but I never got into the series until I happened to play the GCN games

[@Will-Dabeest]

One thing I'd like Pokemon to add that just might be something I want is for you to be able to send out any pokemon you choose at the beginning of the battle instead of being forced to send out the pokemon that's in your first slot. In the anime everyone get's to throw out the pokemon they want to use first (I'm pretty sure I've seen in in some of the games too when some of the poke balls are grayed out when fighting someone and defeating their pokemon.) Yes for a gym battle you can change who you want to be in your first slot before entering the gym to have a better type match up but with a trainer in the wild you're forced to send out whoever's in your first slot. It would just help make it feel more like a free flowing game, something that's more in your control. Just a simple feature I think could come in handy if you have a bunch of wild pokemon or trainer battles to get through before the next town so you don't have to waste a turn switching out.

[@KingOIIy]

15:43 Mikey: "how does this not have more upvotes?" Me: ....cause it's a KZbin comment, KZbin doesn't have upvotes

[@zeropolybius2936]

I would like to see ev’s changed out with something like a attribute point system when you level up. Basically when you level up you get a certain amount of ev points to spend.

[@CrazyWeridoRH]

That'll be cool. I guess they already have the Protein, Zinc, Iron, etc. So that could be a repurposed version of them.

[@RFDN0]

EV's are easy to work with as is. Replacing Iv's with something like that may be better but I wouldn't be sure of that.

[@stinky7570]

They should make Quaxly a sleeping duck. Hear me out. He is a relaxed duck. (That's his thing right?) Maybe his little hat thing will turn into a pillow. I would love that!

[@sahilwable3011]

That's cool. And in the anime they can give it to ash as he already had some *sleepy* pokemon before

[@shadystuff673]

Smart

[@MinionGaming9876]

That would be adorable and maybe it can be part Psychic type

[@dislikebutton-chan4783]

Haven’t watched the video yet but I’ll say that I would like them to bring back Pokémon walking with you, specially since it’s open world it would feel even better than before. Or like if you can fly the same way as in arceus, have it be not one Pokémon but let’s say you can choose one of five different bird Pokémon and you can have the option to use your own instead of a random one, the same would apply to surf. I know it would be hard to have all bird Pokémon programmed but it could be like 5 birds (pidgeot, Fearow, Staraptor, Swellow, and honchkrow) and 5 fish for surf (Lanturn, Whiscash, Gorebyss, Mylotic, and Seaking) even have the, have different speeds and other things depending on the Pokémon. But I would really like to see my Pokémon more than just in battle, like I said walking around with me and using them for when I need to. And secondly I would love them to keep the battle system they had in Legends with like the bosses, I’ve never felt so challenged before by a Pokémon game (looking at you Noble Avalugg) and having that new feature was so much fun, and the alpha Pokémon too, I would like them to expand even more on that system and that we have more challenges and stuff to do than just repeating the same battle sequence. Actually aiming and dodging was really fun Edit: I forgot to add, WE NEED DIFFERENT DIFFICULTIES, say what you want but at this point Pokémon is more than a kids game, it wouldn’t kill them to add difficulty settings at the beginning for easy normal hard (and maybe expert when you complete the game in hard mode) like have AI now Super effectives, swaps, keep up with levels, use weather and hazards effectively stuff like that, like I know Timmy might have a hard time, but I shouldn’t be able to sweep a water gym with a single Raichu just because it’s 5 levels above everyone else.

[@Marshmallow95936]

Black and white did that whole difficulty thing too, so I think that should be something that's implemented too

[@Toddular330]

It would be interesting if instead of getting rid of IVs giving the ability to get items such as the grit to increase the IVs to allow you to take all your favourite Pokemon to the very end.

[@merlintheageless]

That already exists. It's called Hyper Training.

[@youtube-kit9450]

Honestly, after they finally made gold/silver caps easy to get with money and dropped the level for hyper training from an idiotic 100 to a way more reasonable 50, I personally am "ok" with IVs still existing. I'd still rather have them not exist at all, but if they keep it at least this accessible, I'm ok with them.

[@elijahthomas4231]

My idea for my Greece/Italy region would be a grass bird that evolved with a fire stone or seed and swapped out it's flying type for the fire type, as it would be a wildfire phoenix.

[@robert-joshuamcfaddin7041]

Cool idea there

[@yukikitsune7366]

That would be awesome.

[@Rcd5000]

I agree, ivs suck. Keep the grit items from legends arkoos. They are a great addition. Also, like some people said, I would love the same Pokémon in scarlet and violet with new regional forms, but the form depends on which game you have. This would let people use Pokémon they love (assuming gamefreak includes those Pokémon) but choose the typing they like better. And maybe in the post game, they could let you get the other regional variations from Pokémon scarlet or violet (whichever game you didn’t choose) in like maybe doing side quests, where you have to catch all the regional variants in your game before you can catch the same Pokémon but with a different type and design in the unlockable post game islands, where you can catch one regional variation in one island and keep on going until you catch all the regional variations not in your game. And your prize would be something called the Variation Prism, which has unlimited use and let’s you change your Pokémon to the other form. For example, let’s say you have a fairy type variant in Pokémon scarlet and a dark type variant in Pokémon violet and you’re facing a Machamp. You could use the Variation Prism and turn the dark type into a fairy type. If they added something like this, I would love it.

[@sblack53]

Grit items are just primitive Vitamins. Protein etc are likely remaining as is.

[@Rcd5000]

@@sblack53 true. But like I wish gamefreak could make getting vitamins the same way as grit items. Releasing unwanted Pokémon for vitamins would be a nice feature instead of spending money for them in like all the other Pokémon games.

[@merlintheageless]

@@Rcd5000 Or you could just use the EV training methods that have been present for several generations now. Pokepelago in SM/USUM, the soccer minigame in ORAS and PokeJobs in SwSh. Also IVs would be hard to remove because you DON'T always want a full 31 IVs. Special Attackers want 0 Attack IVs to take less damage from confusion(The status condition not the move) and from Foul Play. Also some Pokémon will run fast or slow builds depending on the team. Some Pokémon are good because you can run fast OR slow builds on them(where you want 0 IVs in speed). Removing IVs would have a lot of negative consequences.

[@WannabeMason]

on an esports note, i think a good idea would be something like tournament standards. take clash royale for example. if you compete in a tournament, your cards are set to level 11 so it’s an even playing field. in pokemon, they could make all levels, iv stats, etc. the same (or make it at an average level for all stats)

[@chrish6415]

10:15 agreed! What's the point of saying "here's the competitive stats of any given pokemon. One of them has an interesting, intuitive method of maximizing your personal battling method. Oh, the other one? Idk, just breed a billion times until it comes out right. That's another thing competitive players do right? Waste hours upon hours of their lives giving themselves carpal tunnel syndrome?" Also, it just feels creepy. Like one of those pet shows where people bred 15 generations of pug to get their breathing ruined just the right way to impress the judges, except these are supposed to be creatures with near human intelligence on the low end.

[@nightwolf89]

I really hope they keep the pokedex "tasks" and "ranking" systems from Legends Arceus simply because those mechanics actually motivated me to complete the pokedex, which is something that no other game has been able to do.

[@jellysauce3938]

I really hope they bring back the camp and food system from SWSH. Now matter how many flaws the games have, you can’t deny the fact that this was a massive step towards being able to interact with your Pokémon more, and I would really like to see a return, maybe with even more features like being able to move around as well or play fetch

[@thirty_ish8651]

Absolutely! I loved that feature so much

[@cornonjacob]

Ideally we'll just be able to do that out in the world instead of it being done separate thing

[@lunaria973]

Yes! I DIE thanks to the adorable moments I have in camp.

[@oryza_1973]

I agree - especially since the cooking system offers a way to gain exp, revive pokemon, and heal up both hp AND PP in the wilderness without sacrificing mass amounts of PokeDollars on potions and stuff. However I would like to see them also include the Let's Go follow mechanic and the send out to play mechanic from Legends. Just,,, *all the interaction with my mons, please*

[@gaspardsavoureux8680]

I love the camping but I wish I could just pet my pokemon instead of just using toys

[@flickyfkosstitcher8547]

There's an artcle by THEGAMER that talks about Chloe's unevolving Eevee being a potential hint at a new Eeveelution being introduced in gen 9; they back up their theory by remarking on previous main characters evoloving their Eevees into the newest Eeveelution released: Gary got Umbreon in the Johto arc of the original series, May got Glaceon in the DP series, and Serena got Sylveon in the XY series. Towards the end of the article they suggest that Eevee evolves into a ghost type (which they dubbed Spookeon); as an avid Eeveelution user, and fan of ghost types, I say "HAIL YEAH!" to that one.

[@JCVidZ0912]

Yeah, definitely a new Eeveelution (I’m a big Eevee fan) and I also hope that the professor in this game (if there is one) studies shinies, that would be cool

[@aesiro1336]

Personally, I want more love for the bug type. It has been dubbed down to nothing but the first gym, and I want to see a late game bug gym. They are just so underrated.

[@RFDN0]

Gen 4 Arron is an Elite 4 member. Guzman is in gen 7 a champion re-battle. Bug type is the current weakest type, rebalancing the type or stacking OP mons onto a team would be needed for a later gym placement.

[@abrahamlincoln9160]

Bugsy's Scyther caused me pain and suffering, I think it's fine where it is

[@rayeex6]

Get rid of gym types and insert theme types. Bugs have some kind of string shot move, so why not make a gym that slows your speed and reduces your accuracy while incorporating SOME bug type mons

[@RFDN0]

@@rayeex6 because the gyms are designed to teach new players how to play.

[@rayeex6]

@@RFDN0 oh God, I completely forgot about the new players. I also had the idea to create an in-game type chart of strengths and weakness that could help new players

[@tigerandfriends9481]

12:06 imagine if there was like a mini game like the ultra wormholes from USUM but instead of like riding through a wormhole you're sailing a ship and it functions similarly like the farther you make it the better the pokemon are and maybe a small chance of encountering legendaries

[@catcraft18]

Or it could be the battle area like something called the battle reef or something where you sail and sail around encountering other trainers in ships

[@potatohead826]

2:03 They might’ve done this with Paldean Wooper (poison ground) and it could become poison steel.

[@karthikvakkalanka9112]

i think that instead of removing the exp all, they should just make it exp share, and add an exp cap similar to that of insurgence. at a certain point, youre pokemon will earn less exp until you reach a certain point, etc. etc.

[@youtube-kit9450]

Just make the exp. all optional again, let us choose set/switch battle style, and let us implement a level cap. They already can put level caps for specific battles like in the battle tree or maison, just let us turn it on for gym battles, rival battles and generally boss battles aswell. Imo, that would be better so exp doesn't just go to waste and the challenge still is there.

[@HPMunshcraft]

I'd like to see different difficulty levels to choose from like normal, hard and because it's so popular, a built in nuzlock mode. for those who want it a bit harder.

[@catcraft18]

I do think that we should get difficulty options but I doubt we would get a built in nuzlocke mode. Not trying to shoot anyone's hopes down It's just thay game freak has never acknowledged nuzlockes so I wouldn't count on it.

[@cshjp]

I totally agree, I get that Mikey doesn't like tough pokemon games we've seen that with his insurgence playthrough but for the rest of us who feel like the past few games have been mind numbing. It would just be a nice change to have to actually strategize our gym battles

[@shinyeevee37]

I personally hope that there'll be a peacock pokémon, and maybe a new eeveelution or two

[@thecow1283]

If there isn't a eeveelution i ain't playing

[@Razmcjaz]

I agree! I would love a new eeveelution! Maybe like a ground type, or DRAGON. Ohhh and a peacock? I would LOVE that! I love your ideas bro!

[@verchi3816]

Maybe the colors of the peacock will change depending on which version you have:D

[@postonian425]

flying type peacock eeveelution?

[@Oscarus4250]

@@Razmcjaz Or Steel one based on knight

[@art1st001]

I think a good implementation would be the "self-battling" mechanic from the minecraft mod "Pokecube". With this mechanic, you are able to put your own pokemon to battle each other. This could be used for a more realistic way of teaching moves or training EV's.

[@goldmemberpb]

What came true - We got dunsparce evo, Tauros regional form, and the idea of relic being used with charcadet. We also got two grass/fire now and a poison/steel type. I do wish they implemented an safari zone like area for regional form evolution though. it just feels bizzare to see Alolan exeggcutor and have no way to evolve them from exeggcute. BB biomes would have been perfect for that.

[@spryeetus1384]

I hope the keep the move mechanic that was in Legends Arecus, instead of losing moves forever, a Pokemon can learn a new move and you can replace it to try it out, and switch it back if you don’t like it. I also liked the way to evolve Pokémon that usually needed to be trading, by the ones who need items just being given the item, and the linking cord

[@DiragonProductions]

I just want this game to be "Pokemon, the customizable edition" What I mean is that since it's open world, I want the player to choose many different aspects like difficulty or exp share.

[@insan3giraff39]

17:15 They added both lol Moose=Ting-Lu Flamingo=Flamigo

[@-KatVids-]

12:18 I like the way you were thinking here but also imagine you could also do the undiscovered islands thing like you said, but you could like also go to other Pokémon regions like say you’re going on a voyage and you run into the Alola region or any other region for that matter

[@Blaze4ification]

I want a Tauros and Miltank prevolution to tie these 2 officially into the same group (for lore), then give them evolutions (for power), a Calf Pokemon that looks the same be it male or female, but males evolve into Tauros, females into Miltank, a Minotaur would be fine or (especially with spanish vibes) just a bigger bull that references the bull fighting, I'd want a Minotaur saved for a Greece themed region but I could see it worked into bull fighting too I suppose. Like I've been wanting a prevolution of these 2 for YEEARS, I know it seems silly to add baby Pokemon, especially since so many of them seem irrelevant even lore wise, like I don't think Igglybuff, Cleffa, Budew, Azurill, or Pichu need to exist, but Tyrogue made sense since it ties Hitmonlee and hitmonchan together and gave a new evolution, elekid and magby meh I guess didn't need to, even though I like Elekid. Especially Smoochum especially since Jynx never got an evolution, they were the elemental punch trio, Electivire and Magmortar exist, and even if I hate Jynx it should've gotten an evolution. When it's necessary baby Pokemon are a neat idea, when they have no relevance outside of MERCHANDISING yeah no thanks. edit: Similarly I could also see this happening for Volbeat and illumise, forgot about them, newest video reminded me of this comment as I left a similar one there. a prevo to tie the egg group knot, then an evolution to make them stronger.

[@pokemenagerie9]

Agreed, doesn't have to be this game, but Tauros and Miltank need a prevolution and evolution at some point in the future.

[@callnight1441]

yes! i've always wanted a prevo for tauros and miltank

[@himankdhawan778]

Are you new on this channel dont you know that miltank is mikey's least favorite pokemon

[@13thMaiden]

This is a Whitney approved request.

[@Blaze4ification]

@@13thMaiden I am glad she approves, most memorable gym leader from my favorite region be they famous or infamous reasonings... though I dread what kind of power she could have with this knowledge... especially if they got babies and evolutions, slapping an eviolite on her Miltank oh dear lord Arceus what have I done. As long as it makes sense baby Pokemon are fine and I'd like to see more, another line could be Volbeats or Illumise. I'm not a competitive person but I understand that they probably don't want baby Pokemon which is why you also give them an evolution on top of it. Babies for lore reasons, and evolutions for lore and power reasons, as long as it makes sense, like if Absol got a prevolution out of nowhere that'd be weird.

[@marlinfromfindingnemo8954]

3:55 the other thing with this the older gens seemed harder because A you were younger, and B there were less options for Pokémon to use so the more Pokémon that are in the same region the easier it’ll be

[@Saitken]

That and the internet has gotten infinitely better at getting information up on the internet almost immediately

[@billcipher8645]

Exactly, I see the complains about difficulty from people who claim early gens were somehow 100 times harder which was never the case. Arguably many say that Let's go Pikachu/Eevee is the easiest Pokemon game, it was my first after knowing only about gen1 Pokemon names from the anime and it was pretty challenging at times. It wasn't exactly "hard" but challenging enough to be satisfying as well as very relaxing. There's no reason to make Pokemon some kind of highly advanced, extremely hard experience that only a handful will find enjoyable, it can be an option but forcing it on everyone, and new fans especially, is just gatekeeping the game from newcomers and younger fans for no reason

[@EmeralBookwise]

Seriously, as someone who was already 20 when Red/Blue first came out, I can attest that the games have always been easy. As long as you know the type chart and build a diverse team you could always pretty much sweep any fight.

[@gobalbucs]

For real, I’m so sick of hearing people say earlier gens were harder. _No, they were not._ They only seemed harder because you were younger, you didn’t have years of playing the games under your belt, and information for the games as well as the Pokémon themselves were not as readily or entirely available. I started with Crystal in my early 20s, and I beat it fairly easily with virtually no knowledge of Pokémon. I figured everything out as I went along (didn’t even look anything up). The games were never hard.

[@yukikitsune7366]

That and in the first couple games the programming oversights like the ghost type issue for psychics in gen 1.

[@FaultyWin]

Something I'm thinking is improving abilities - first I'd split them in 'minor' and 'major'. The minor abilties (mainly given by flavor and not too broken in battles) could be passed by breeding like moves, and perhaps more than one can be active on a poke. Major abilities will stay on a mon, maybe even be species locked (like the one that allows Aegislash to swich forms) It'd be too much work, but could be interesting to fix some odd cases (like some levitators who could gain the Levitate ability and another non-major ability)