The 7 Sins of the Pokémon Community

[@MysteryMusic512]

I’ve never seen your channel before, this video got recommended to me, and now I really want this video to blow up. It was very entertaining and more people have gotta see this.

[@TheRogueRenegade]

Thank you that means a lot! I’ll be posting more often hopefully

[@robertmajor8947]

Yeah it also popped up for me too and instantly clicked on it, because of the pokemon and not the specific detail always added to said pokemon

[@perritoshido5845]

Same, first time I’ve seen this channel and I love it :D

[@TheRogueRenegade]

@@perritoshido5845 Thank you!

[@An_Entire_Lime]

Saaaaame :D

[@truegreen7]

When you're enjoying a random video you came across and get complimented out of the blue. Priceless. Thanks!

[@TheRogueRenegade]

You’re welcome! I love your creativity a lot, you come up with things I never would have even thought about

[@ShuttersYT]

Comment No. 2

[@PokemonGirliee]

YOUR MY FAVORITE POKETUBER!!!!

[@hulkboykaden1352]

Yes this happens to me all the time

[@Mut-ant]

more like out of the green in your case

[@MMothmanIrl]

It doesnt matter what fandom it is. Every fandom has a dark side, Thank you for coming to my ted talk,

[@Enigmaa3]

one of the few things i loved about swsh: unlike sv you can make food literally ANYWHERE, in scarlet and violet you can’t make a sandwich in a town square, but in swsh you can be like “gimme a sec leon i gotta make some curry before i help you save the world from the giant monster the chairman summoned”

[@gmk9321]

That and shiny hunting Pokémon not available in the Paldea region is also a reason why I prefer sword over violet sometimes( Shiny alolan vulpix is one of them)

[@long_dennis]

@@gmk9321 wdym shiny hunting not available in Paldea? You can shiny hunt in paldea

[@gmk9321]

@@long_dennis I am talking about shiny hunting Pokémon that are not In The paldea Pokédex or just recently as I type this available to be transferred from Pokémon home

[@TheUltima_Werewolf]

Despite the fact that I love the story of SV more, I'd still rather play SwSh 10 times over

[@Mut-ant]

I liked both swsh and sv 🤐

[@Jw87563]

3:06 I love how Greed immediately followed the Merch promotion. Nice comedic timing

[@redaskarigaming17]

lmao

[@Rubin82]

What promo lol? sponserblock

[@darkflame1.067]

@@Rubin82 same lmao

[@dany_fg]

As a shiny hunter I will leave you with 2 things: 1."The definition of insanity is doing the same thing. over and over again, but expecting different results" 2. the knowledge that I'm currently hunting for Palkia in bdsp and had done over 11,100 encounters Update: got that palkia at 11,429

[@non-existent_charlie]

Good luck

[@TheUltima_Werewolf]

I'm starting a Shiny Yveltal hunt in Ultra Moon (My first soft reset hunt), and I've already gotten to 170 resets before I took a break to finish my living dex for a Shiny Charm lol

[@manoftruth0935]

@@TheUltima_Werewolfalways get the shiny charm first. And since it’s a switch title, start a new profile and give the full dex over to the new one, and shiny hunt there.

[@TheUltima_Werewolf]

@@manoftruth0935 Ultra Moon is a 3ds title, not the Switch

[@TheUltima_Werewolf]

@@manoftruth0935 Also wait, why would I complete the living dex on an alt account and then transfer it back to my main?

[@REDscar9000]

3:26 aqua with dawns hair

[@TheRogueRenegade]

I like Konosuba

[@ChaoticEvo]

@@TheRogueRenegade I watched it but only season one because Hulu be a B¡+(h

[@zachattack2834]

Proud to say that as a gen 1'er I love what this franchise has become! Only thing that hurts me is that ash and Pikachu are no more. 26 years of my life.

[@Baka_Crazy]

I played Pokémon since Gen 1 too and I also like it that Pokémon is changing (for the better at some point, for the worst at some other points). Problem is I was attacked by someone who started with Gen 5 and blamed me for having fun with Pokémon games these days. I really hated that. I hope not many fans who started with Gen 5 are like that

[@TheCrankyTechnician]

Same here. Started waaay back when Pokémon first arrived here and as far the games go, I'm delighted with the changes over the years and generations. My favourite change has to be the Special/ Physical split in GenIV. It allowed for so much more diversity and freed previously average Pokémon from their chains, so to speak.

[@senakuma9985]

As much as we love ash, he's not going anywhere. We can enjoy new characters as improvements to the series because pokemon can't revolve around ash for eternity, it's just impossible.

[@TheVoicesOfTheBeyond]

As a person who kinda started with Gen 1, the recent Pokemon games disappoint me. I can name like 5 fangames that have better quality than the originals.

[@timewarriorsaga]

Only became souless open world shit

[@void7080]

Love how almost all of these apply to Verlisify

[@TheRogueRenegade]

So true

[@An_Entire_Lime]

Everyone mentions this dude's insanity but I've never actually seen any of his takes And at this point Im absolutely horrified to ask

[@OneHundredFiftyTwo]

@@TheRogueRenegade fr

[@void7080]

@@TheRogueRenegade I am sure the guys retarded at this point

[@darkcrow3350]

@@An_Entire_Lime don't

[@aetheralmeowstic2392]

The first R34 of Sprigatito was posted about 5 minutes after the first official trailer for SV that it appeared in

[@shadowstalker-r4c]

oh... my.... gosh.... this is horrid.... yet i can definitely see this... i hate this community. love the products, hate the community.

[@Didyouknowthatiexist]

How do you know? How do you know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@trollerpilotxiv3079]

"Oh my gosh, a new character! I MUST! DRAW!! _PORN OF IT!!!"_

[@aidantawney4776]

@@shadowstalker-r4c ha as someone who as played way to much overwatch I absolutely agree.

[@White_Night_Demon]

where

[@Clownieo]

Gamefreak still deserves flack for Violet/Scarlett. They have a wonderful story, but the world still feels so... empty. I want random houses outside of the cities. I want to be able to explore cities and talk to NPCs. They can do all of this. It just feels like they're holding back.

[@Feraligatrfjhgujvgh]

Yeah the open world felt a bit to empty. My complaint would be lack of level scaling. What's the point of an open world if you can't do it your own way?

[@BluDr3w]

truest non-toxic statement

[@sketchsskotch1073]

But game freak is small indie company that has 2 people developing it, and pokemon probably doesnt make enough money as a franchise to make a big enough budget for a good game; like if they grossed more money, like say the highest grossing media franchise in the world; then maybe they might be able to make a game that runs at a stable framerate, but expecting stable framerates? No glitches? kinda unfair and too high of a standard.

[@BluDr3w]

@@sketchsskotch1073 yeah, maybe if we all as a community support their patreon

[@tpfoxCastro]

@@sketchsskotch1073 To be fair, half of that sentence is actually correct. Even though the pokemon company has a lot of money gamefreak's teams don't because they aren't given that ammount of money. For some stupid reason those rich bastards think that a small team can make a gigantic game even though idie teams are bigger than that! It's just sad see all of the gamefreak slander when nintenro and the pokemon company have most of the fault

[@pokemonking4613]

8:00 I was suprised by the fact there was r34 of sprigitito literally the day of the first trailer lol

[@vyktorehon5995]

The competitive stuff is true especially after I learnt about EVs and checking IVs. I've become very picky about my wild Pokémon and ev training

[@kingzombie951]

Same I used to love just cassuly playing pokemon after getting of shoole. But then I started watching KZbin c Videos about competeive pokemon and can't enjoy pokemon like I used to. I still enjoy it but never can choose Wich Pokemon to use.

[@vyktorehon5995]

@@kingzombie951 yea now certain mons just disgust me cause of them stats

[@kingzombie951]

@@vyktorehon5995 it's not really stats for me just type matchups I worry about stats after I'm done playing. Never acctuly played competitive yet. Was going to when sword competitive was big. But never finished game cause sword and shield weren't my favorite pokemon games. Acctuly one of the first pokemon games I didn't like that much. I've grown to like it because of max raid dems

[@laneweber8478]

It really sucks to use a team only to be able to look at their IVs later and find out that they suck

[@helpfulreaper7684]

You could say I'm more wrathful when playing pokemon, I just hate it when I lose a raid several times and have to rethink of a new strategy. Especially when there's players out there who intentionally make you lose a raid battle just because

[@not_a_hostile_person]

those god dang shiny flexers…

[@TheGreatBackUpVIDEOS]

I don't pay for subs so I don't have internet to do raids with...so I get the joys of having NPCs who bring a Magikarp to a fight with an electric mon only for them to get ohko'd by Discharge and immediately lose the raid...FUN!

[@grapesvine]

I liked how the merchandise section was right before the greed section.

[@TheRogueRenegade]

It was the perfect place for it

[@gmk9321]

I got randomly recommended this video and as a fan for more than 13 years I gotta say I agree 100% with pretty much this whole video. And yeah your take on scarlet and violet is also justified and you are talking to a guy who perfectly falls under gluttony( 750+ hours on Pokémon sword and thousands more from gems 1-7yet the 200+ hours on violet was much more enjoyable, I just prefer sword because of shiny hunting Pokémon not available in the new game).

[@gmk9321]

Update: 480 hours in and I stopped playing since these glitches that were caused by the newer updates did take a toll on my motivation to keep playing. Still play from time to time and still enjoyed it while it lasted but dang I can 100% see why people hate to to their core. Hoping dlc is decent at least

[@daviddavis3939]

Competitive is easier to get into than ever before. Mints to change natures, bottlecaps for IVs, egg moves pass in picnics if you have the right item and an open move slot. I will still never actually play it but I have pokemon that I could use if I wanted.

[@TheRogueRenegade]

It is but sadly it still doesn’t stop cheaters

[@An_Entire_Lime]

​​@@TheRogueRenegade It does make the gap in time way smaller though, which I think is the main problem with generating mons. As opposed to earlier gens where competitively viable mons were an insanity to get. I don't even blame them from cheating back then, I would too if I was forced to get a good legendary with only soft resetting

[@HeavyWalrus2]

Id argue that “cheating” in gen 9 doesn’t really matter because as mentioned before, all you need to have a competitively ready pokemon are a few caps,a mint, and 15 minutes EV training. So cheating is less of “Not fair! You have a broken pokemon on your team!” And more of a “Ok bro, you cheated but what for? You literally could have gotten that great tusk in 20 minutes” Case and point, cheating is annoying but it isn’t as big of a deal as it was back then. “But there hacking in shinies😢” Thats on you for putting value on a Pokémon of a slightly different color that can also be found a lot easier thanks to sandwiches.

[@no-zk6ls]

@@HeavyWalrus2Counterpoint: Nowadays you need to buy all of these things to compete in vgc: 1. Gen 8 Mainline game 2. Gen 8 DLC 3. Legends Arceus 4. Gen 9 Mainline game 5. Gen 9 Dlc That’s a huge sum of money to just be able to compete. There’s also the problem with trick room teams. I would need to find 6 different mons that have 0 speed IVs and some of them like cresselia are very hard to get. Or, if I want to get one of the genies for a regular team I NEED to catch it in legends: arceus which as you know absolutely sucks ass to do. And it’s not even possible to check ivs in legends arceus so that makes trick room teams even more awful to get. Trading also doesn’t work, because there’s no guarantee that the person who traded you the mon didn’t hack it in. In conclusion: Time to plan is a very valuable resource

[@brunoreis4455]

well cheating actually still have its place, there is still no way to minimize IVs and trickroom teams need that, lr minimizing your attack IVs on your sp attacker yo minimize foul play damage or more getting the pokemon that arent even in your copy like urshifu being needed in pretty much every team in tournaments, so while big influencers can just ask their fallowers for any poke and receive in minutes, lesser known players that dont want to buy 2 extra games (sword/shield and legends arceus + DLC) play the campaign to just have 1 poke for your scarlet and violet team is oofie. a whole paragraph but ya I kinda dont look down on most hackers since they arent getting a competitive advantage(since stats are all legal), its more of getting to the main point already, afterall catching your pokemon legit doesnt make you a better competitive player amd pokemon dont have a official battle simulator for those people to compete in, so yeaaaaa hacking isnt going away anytime soon :^ but ya just wanted to leave it out cuz hey, at least in pokemon hacking is mostly chill in co petitive when compared to pretty much any game, where people actually try to get advantages and I think its cool hackers respecting the legit stats and move sets for this stuff

[@RetroNC]

Damn, what a great video! Thank god the algorithm recommended this fun vid.. can't wait to see your future videos!

[@TheRogueRenegade]

Thank you so much!

[@creativecritters6791]

Please give us the seven virtues as well! That actually does sound beautiful, and it would be a great way to compare both the bad and the good and show what GameFreak and the community do right! I'd say it's only fair to do so.

[@TheRogueRenegade]

I might if i can actually come up with any ideas

[@ZenithintheMaking]

I wanna try as well. For Humility, There are the people who just enjoy and love playing the games and media and encourage the franchise and if something that is reasonably dislikable they go about it and normal matter that don't make them crazy in front of people's eyes. And not only think about themselves but think about everybody else and the standing of how things mean to the world.

[@An_Entire_Lime]

I forgot what the opposite of lust is called but its definitely those people who actually honest to god enjoy Gardevoir as a pokemon with no added motives. Cursed to receive weird looks from everyone ever

[@ZenithintheMaking]

It's chastity btw

[@concertpapyrus8361]

Nah screw that positivity is boring /j

[@ricosimon1057]

7:38 TheRougeRenegade: but hey at least nintendo hasn’t took me down- (Nintendo took TheRougeRenegade’s video down with DMCA’s due to the copyright claim.) TheRougeRenegade: 😡 Are You (censored) Kidding Me?!

[@TheRogueRenegade]

They got me

[@Abaddon92]

Gardevoir: looks herself up on Google Also Gardevoir: 👁️👄👁️

[@TheRogueRenegade]

Poor Gardevoir

[@briangruenewald7536]

Same with Lopunny?

[@victoroliveira3577]

Itsa stick girl!

[@Cornin33]

She was my favourite Pokémon ever since I was young, so naturally I Googled “Gardevoir” and looked at images. 7 year old me was never the same

[@Astralreaper7955]

@@TheRogueRenegade Actually The Biggest Victim Would Be Lucario He Has The Most Amount Of It For Some Reason

[@saathvikbogam]

I got recommended this video and my god, this shit is too fucking good. I hope it blows up.

[@TheRogueRenegade]

Thank you! I appreciate it a lot

[@Pero-zl4jp]

I feel like verlisifly fell off back in 2016-19 he was stirring drama everywhere. It was crazy impossible to not at least acknowledge his existence.

[@Frogadier_00]

When I first started doing ranked Pokémon battles and wanted to be a champion one day he was the first person I came across and I Judy looked to him for advice. A few months later I noticed my team's and strategies I learned from him weren't all that well, and this was also when I saw a long af exposing video about him. Fast forward to now and this is the first time in a while I've heard of him lol

[@Pero-zl4jp]

@@Frogadier_00 lowkey nostalgic. He was going after anyone and everyone at one point

[@MrGrombie]

You should do the virtues one. It's good to have a duality about life. And when you're only focused on looking at shit, you will always look down. Rather than forwards.

[@PugMaleAndSingle]

If lust was a living being, it would be Godzilla but instead of being fueled by radiation it would be fueled by members of the pokemon fandom.

[@aprinnyonbreak1290]

Sometimes I wonder why there's so much of it. Obviously, a part of it is just the size and visibility of the fanbase and IP. Statistically speaking, if someone wants to make or commission some art, there's a reasonable chance they're a pokemon fan, that much makes sense, and is fairly properly represented in the art of human characters. But, the sheer volume of it still feels disproportionate, and especially the anomalously high quantity of furry/feral art. Again, statistically it's somewhat likely that someone interested in that stuff is probably a fan of pokemon, but, it's such a high amount compared to other properties. There is more art of individual pokemon than there are for some entire IPs; even relatively unpopular pokemon have pretty high quantities of pornography. Even more amazingly, this has largely breached into mainstream awareness as well. The Vaporeon meme has broken into the sphere of basically anyone who inhabits any space online.

[@Aaaaauugghhh]

I randomly got this video recommended to me after getting back into Pokémon after a while, and ur channel is criminally underrated, keep up the great work dude

[@TheRogueRenegade]

Thank you so much! I'm trying to upload more now

[@gmk9321]

@@TheRogueRenegade good to know I would love to hear more from you about this franchise. As a fan for more than 13 years I must say I agree 100% with the things you said especially with scarlet and violet being underrated( and this is talking to a guy who very much falls under gluttony due to 750+ hours on Pokémon sword and at least 200+ hours on every other Pokémon mainline game and Pokémon mystery dungeon game EACH). The only reason why I would ever prefer sword or shield, legends arceus, and BDSP is the fact that I want to shiny hunt Pokémon available in those games respectively. these new games despite their obvious flaws was so much fun and I still do have fun just causally just riding my miraidon all around the region( even if I always get stopped by small tiny Pokémon just trying to hatch a shiny starter they keep giving us with these 7 star raids).

[@icewizard3664]

I know right. This is the first video I ever saw of you and I am starting to feel bad that I never watched you before. You deserve more love my dude! 😊

[@grunkleg.2934]

Banger video. One thing I'll say about pride and competitive is that usually the relationship is inversed, or at least frequently. There's so much shit you can find where people who have no idea what they're talking about going on crazy tangents and act like people who play competitive are playing the game wrong in some way or another. E4 Karen is their mascot

[@TheRogueRenegade]

That sounds awful and thank you!

[@G0atedDigbarrrr]

Another thing about pride is shiny flexers.

[@idosomethingiguess3680]

Yeah.

[@ashwood1385]

2:29 I’m sure WolfyVGC is probably a cool guy, but his whole career is built off of he won worlds years ago and that’s all he pretty much advertises now. Like dude we get it you’re good at competitive but I don’t care that you won worlds in 2014 (I don’t know if that’s the year or not)

[@TheRogueRenegade]

This guy gets it

[@mayalonde1138]

I agree.

[@MishKoz]

I can't believe beloved youtuber TheRogueRenegade has resorted to Boob In Thumbnail 😔

[@TheRogueRenegade]

I'm sorry Mr Mish Koz, it had to be done

[@Glacial11]

Great video! Also another one for gluttony is people who reached max rank in any of the pokemon mystery dungeon games (I did in both Explorers of Sky and Super and I’m not sure if I should be proud of that lmao)

[@makeeeveeacupcake]

I don’t like scarlet and violet, i have my reasons but i don’t feel like typing a whole essay rn

[@TheRogueRenegade]

Whole bible

[@flamingdragon1527]

@@TheRogueRenegade *YOU QUESTION THE WORD OF THE MIGHTY JIMMY!?*

[@omarameer9496]

No!! What about Larry???

[@Red-lu1rx]

​@@TheRogueRenegade 12:13 Wait people don't like sword and shield? I saw só many Pokémon slander videos that were basicaly making fun of people hating the ones who enjoy the game

[@rustedbubble4756]

Because they didn't liberate their pokemon in pokemon sv

[@Sephifhy]

7:48 sir, you are a GENIUS FOR THIS

[@OddToSee812]

Great vid! I enjoyed seeing how all these values come into play within the community. One thing I would like to say, though, is that I think you meant Pokémon Company when talking about gamefreak. Gamefreak makes the games, sure, but Pokémon company manages the deadlines and everything else, hence why games are rushed and whatnot- just figured I’d put it out there so not all the hate goes towards one and not the other 😂✌️ Edit: I mean the first time gamefreak is brought up, the second time I agree they should expand the team

[@CHOTCNUTRL]

The one about the Competitive scene is so true. I've never gotten into competitive because I saw how it changed my older brother's perspective on pokemon and I like to just enjoy the game and story rather than worrying about IVs or EVs.

[@northstarpokeshipper2148]

The shipping community in Pokemon is a pretty good example of some of the sins: Lust: self explanatory. Envy: supporters of the smaller ships can get pretty jealous off all the attention some ships get. Wrath: some shippers have attacked supporters of rival ships for no reason besides “He Ships this character and that character!”

[@TheRogueRenegade]

Ohhh you're right! I didn't even think of that!

[@northstarpokeshipper2148]

@@yarc9 yeah, and a toxic one as well. I would know, because I was especially toxic to the Amourshippers. I am 15 and a half months cold *insert turkey Pokemon here* when it came to bashing Amourshippers.

[@theconnorthatusedtoreactto6283]

Well as a person who loves the hoenn region and went on watpad for videos ideas and looked at the ships for that and a whole ass warfare was happening before I got on there

[@northstarpokeshipper2148]

@@theconnorthatusedtoreactto6283 Yeah… its a three way war for May there between Brendan, Ash, and Drew. And Brendan didn’t even meet ani!May

[@theconnorthatusedtoreactto6283]

@Northstar Pokeshipper Idk never watched the anime but I guess Brendon is dead or something and from what I know ash has interest with other people

[@JusGabu]

I absolutely LOVED this video. I feel like this video was one of the best Pokémon videos I've seen this year. Keep up the great work! Also I'd love to see a video about the 7 virtues

[@TheRogueRenegade]

Thank you, I’ll do my best!

[@luckyday5721]

I really enjoy catching shiny pokémon as after it found my first it's become a personal favorite past time in the games but after a long time and a lot of luck I've more than 100 shinies I've personally captured...I rarely flaunt and brag about it outside of a comedic sense and have managed to keep each one I've caught and traded duplicates to friends of people who've never had one to try to make that spark to find their own like I had. I give everyone who read this a "Sparking Power 3" to help you in your own hunts.

[@jmurray1110]

Personally I tend to get lucky with my exclusive shiny charm stumbles in scarlet and violet but I tend not to trade dupes as I intend to make a shiny living dex Also fuck the Pokémon company for making Pokémon home cost money with a basically useless free version

[@luckyday5721]

@@jmurray1110 Yeh

[@waffelz_]

8:58 Me who got a full odds (1/4096) shiny Scream Tail:

[@dumpsterbabies8453]

this scene is just pm7 and tea sky man

[@bostonrailfan2427]

@@dumpsterbabies8453MandJTV and it’s a gimmick with them…it works since both have 10x the subscribers as this channel

[@Damien224]

11:41 I mean, shield was my first Pokémon game that I actually played, and didn’t steal from my sister and just walk around, I think it’s a pretty good game story-wise and gameplay-wise, but omg violet is better

[@HistoricalFanatics]

9:06 i fucking found a shiny Pokémon (lachonk) on the first route with Pokémon

[@arandomthingintheabyss2062]

who else came here to see what he do with lust

[@ahha6304]

OK I do admit in lust section, especially Nemona

[@munchrai6396]

I mean, if the nature is negatively impacting a valuable stat, then yeah, I'll reset that boy. Don't really care about the IVs or neutral natures but a negative nature is such an obvious flaw that it feels really bad to use sometimes. I will always remember the Golduck I used in Pokemon XD, which had an Adamant nature. Absolutely sucked that it couldn't OHKO anything to save its life

[@aprinnyonbreak1290]

Saaaaamee. Whenever I play a romhack, for the most part, I don't care what nature a pokemon has. Neutral, + a whatever stat - a whatever, those are all fine. But I'll reset/recatch if I get stuff like calm beldum, Adamant Magnezone, or Timid Notridley

[@bearholdensharkslux4791]

My favorite generation is gen 3/4 because those are the games I grew up playing on my DS and those night rides from grandparents were the best

[@decarabiaumbra560]

As for the pkhex thing, at least on the brightside with that is that game freak is implementing ways to make getting perfect and battle ready pokemon easier the last couple of generations. It still takes forever though to acquire the items necessary, and practically impossible for the rng dependant items.

[@kittenfan7664]

two words. TERRA SHARDS.

[@decarabiaumbra560]

@@kittenfan7664 Precisely what I was thinking about when writing the comment. Especially after that Mewtwo raid... I still haven't even beaten it yet.

[@kamikaze.33]

By far and large, I love your content dude! It draws me in even when I need to be working on other things lol (although I get distracted by a lot of things lol). That said, I do feel strongly about saying that I emphatically believe you completely misunderstand "Gen 1'ers." I mean, I can't speak for all of them, and tbh I really don't know if I would even call myself a Gen 1'er per se, but my first Pokémon was Yellow version on the GB color. Anyway, I know for me at the very least, it's not so much about the innovation and introduction of new game mechanics over the generations. In fact, I don't believe there's a single "Gen 1'er" who'll try to argue that the physical/special split wasn't a monumental improvement or that dynamic turn order doesn't make the game make more sense now, or even that the addition of items and Pokemon abilities weren't the greatest idea since sliced bread! Oh, and literally everybody (Gen 1'ers included) are ecstatic with not only the quality of life improvements over the past few generations but the ability to perfect any Pokémon's IV's, use as many vitamins as you want, and change their natures, etc etc... LEGAL competitive Pokémon has never been more accessible as it has been now and I know most Gen 1'ers are happy about that too!! Now, I think everyone's a little more on the fence when it comes to crazy changes, like the addition of mega evolutions (which centralize the competitive meta game around the select, chosen few blessed with mega evolution and almost destroyed VGC), and I'm not sure I've heard anybody say that they actually liked the over-powered, Z-moves (at least not out loud lol). And I know SOME people complain about even things like dynamax (which on the surface you have to admit, seems stupid asf lol) but I believe that actually brought some much needed balance back to Pokémon that otherwise weren't viable and unlike mega evos, any and all Pokémon got the ability (albeit there's still only a few that were blessed with a special move, at least those moves weren't too over-powered, except Charizard's of course lol). And there's definitely many who don't like Terastallization, although PERSONALLY I find that gimmick the most fun out of all of them and easily the least broken gimmick they ever introduced. My point being, the "gimmicks" are where Gen 1'ers become kinda divided... The one area I believe really defines what Gen 1'ers collection "hate" about newer Pokémon though, isn't purely those aforementioned things, but rather it revolves almost entirely around design... As each generation goes on, new Pokémon designs have become increasingly more and more lazy looking, uninspired, or simply stupid asf!... I've already gone on too long and would be surprised if anyone's read this far lol (although I kinda hope you do lol..), so I don't wanna write an entire thesis on why Pokémon designs have gotten worse (although, I seriously could LOL.. I know, I know, I care WAY too much about a children's video game lol 😅). But just to give a couple quick examples, look at Pidgey from Gen 1 versus say Fletchling from Gen 6... Take a look at the care and detail that goes into Pidgey, a very un-extraordinary bird by all means, but there's so much detail in the legs, it's talons, it's feathers and even beak, Spearow too has so much detail drawn into its design. Now look at Fletchling.. notice how instead of "realistic" sorts of detail it is drawn with literal stick legs?.. there's no real detail in the feathers, just sort of these broad strokes of flat color made with very simple, angular shapes. It looks very cartoon-y. Now I know, it IS a cartoon, but hopefully, you see what I'm getting at.. and before you say it, I'll admit that Talonflame fixes a few of these designs travesties. But Fletchling is far from the only one! Another one that jumps straight to my mind is the difference in design between Pokemon of the actually same evolutionary line! Look at Tangela's and Tangrowth's designs. Tangela is far from perfect, but for the most part, there's a lot of detail and care put into shaping and drawing each of his visible vines that envelope his body (but sure, the feet are pretty stupid I'll admit). Now a few generations later when he gets a new evolution, it's drawn very lazily in comparison with only a few segments of vines given any but of detail just here and there on him to try and give like the "illusion" that he's covered in vines. And what the hell has its stupid feet become now?? And why are his tentacle arm tips red?? (Admittedly, that last ones less important but always bothered me for some reason lol). I could honestly keep going on but for the sake of anyone still reading, I'll stop there.. But aside from the argument that aesthetics are only something in the eye of the beholder and not everyone's gonna like everything (which I fully agree with), the problem really starts becoming apparent when you place these Pokémon next to each other in game. Often, older Pokémon are brought into newer generations and the more serious, detailed style of the past clashes hard with the more simplistic, cartoon-y style of more present games. They often DO NOT look like they belong in the same game at all! There's no cohesiveness to the overall designs which can really ruin the immersion. And don't even get me started on the inspirations of newer Pokémon (or the lack thereof). I mean, we used to get dinosaur monsters, vicious plants, charming fairies, and ferocious dogs, nowadays we get literal keychains, talking/floating ice cream cones, a lamp, household appliances, living garbage bags, even an actual f***ing car! I mean, I understand that creative genius can only get you so far and eventually you'll run out of ideas, but we've only just hit 1000 Pokémon.. they shouldn't already be so desperate for Pokémon ideas that they've had to resort to making literal machine gears as Pokémon. It's not even like they're just gear-like, no! They are actually NOTHING but gears spinning each other! Oh, and I guess they have a couple nuts and bolts that kinda look like a face, but WTF?!?! If that's not lazy Pokémon design, I seriously don't know what is!...

[@RokkTheRock]

oh god verlisify i havent heard that name in years. i feel like i just aged hearing you say his name. i felt at peace and now its disturbed knowing his horrible existence is still around /lh

[@SomeGuyOnTheInternet5]

Thanks to the internet, a certain copypasta of my third favorite eeveelution is branded into my skull Vaporeon doesn’t deserve this😭😭😭 I mean they’re probably right tho

[@anonymousxiii4780]

The shiny bit. Yeah that one is so relatable it hurts. I traded my friend an egg. Cause I’ve been trying to get a Shiny Hisuian Zorua. All the eggs ended up being normal. But the one that I traded HAD TO BE SHINY! ARE YA JOKING WITH ME! If I hatched that egg no doubt it would’ve been normal.

[@jyapp4489]

Honestly, I learned to balance out a good chunk of these during the course of my time in Pokemon. It gets tiring to just linger on all of these bad things, let people have fun and enjoy the game. Its a game. Great video!

[@victoroliveira3577]

Even lust?

[@Lupinemancer87]

We can all agree that loving various creatures and animals is perfectly fine, but some people, unfortunately, takes it too far. Sometimes I wonder what is wrong with humanity :D

[@trooniggerslayer]

My eyes flicker when lights do and when it gets choppy, in games. So playing scarlet or violet on my og switch feels like a epilepsy, not that oled works better now that I got it, unofficial ways is not a fix and I personally literally cant look away from these issues because they make me have an attack on my eyes kind of.

[@nyctophobia478]

I've never watched you're vids before and I LOVED this. I kinda want this to blow up.

[@Mimiyan_or_Pikapikafan]

Scarlet and Violet would've been my favorite Pokemon game of all time if it weren't for the bugs, glitches, frame rate issues, hell I crashed once, lucky it was right after an auto save but still. As someone who's planning on making games when they're 18 or older (I'm 17 so there's the context. Almost 18 tho, and that's gonna suck, because people will say I'm an adult. And I honestly don't wanna be an adult lol) I can't support a company who will not allow the polishing and actually care needed and instead rush games out. This was a leap they were making, but they didn't have the road to jump to. And the longer the issues with SV continue, the more I've distanced myself from the Switch era of Pokemon. And I was one of the people who was stupid enough to try to defend the trees in Sword and Shield ok, I am actually making reasonable decisions now. So I think we need to boycott Pokemon. Pokemon GO is having a boycott because of all it's issues, and now the competitive scene issues on two completely different ends of the same spectrum... Pardon my (insert another language here) but Pokemon is currently f*cking up more and more, and becoming even more popular despite it. Also to add to the frame rate issues, they should've been fixed by now, and players shouldn't need to mod a console to make it better, let alone it's the switch, and Nintendo. And Nintendo is the most anti-hack company of all of gaming from what I've gotten

[@mingyaa]

12:40 Back during sun and moon era when the metastones where being releases for participating in those events. I made it onto a video of his using hacked pokemon. Was a glorious time. Even he was questioning why i had many shinys.

[@tomymommy2787]

0:53 was literally going to say Gary due to the footage lol

[@abbexx4283]

I remember when lockdown was slowing down I went to target where at the time they had a 3 pack per person policy but I saw a guy just casually take about 6

[@Cat.In.A.Wig.]

To be fair, GameFreak aren’t actually entirely responsible for time restraints. It’s the rest of The Pokémon Company that are forcing obscene time schedules on their development team of 163 people.

[@Chaosmarauder]

Oh the scalpers got so bad at some of the stores I worked at we had to put a limit on what they could buy as well as all their known associates. And the fact they had a tax exempt card just pissed us off more. Like with the money they saved from that alone should have been enough to set them up with shipments Edit:thank you! I honestly felt like I was the only one with the Pokemon card thing! I definitely just don't get how people can sit there and watch them do that.Like yeah couple of tubers im subscribed to do it but I'm just like "ok you have fun with that, I'll just wait for the next video of -insert series/game-"

[@seineevee]

6:33 Pokémon Uranium Version… Pokémon Brick Bronze…

[@ChaoticEvo]

Wait, THATS WHY IT GOT TOOKEN DOWN!?

[@quanglu8636]

“As long as they don’t gain any profit from it..” Me who play Pokémon Brick Bronze: *inhale* true… but heartbreaking.

[@hyperblaziken6572]

6:06 oh God he said the word "modding" in a video about a nintendo game. Be careful man the nintendo ninjas are already coming for you

[@TheRogueRenegade]

They got PointCrow, I’m next

[@Coolgamer10364]

Seriously though death threats are wrong i agree 100% and hopefully we will see a day where death threats have ceased

[@guyman2481tog]

I usually don't find small channels this good

[@TheRogueRenegade]

Thank you! Hopefully one day I’m not small anymore

[@robertmajor8947]

I find small channels much better than the bigger ones imo. Especially those that stream, because you can actually interact with them if they're that kind of streamer

[@AlexMatrix0]

clearly you aren't a fan of Alex Matrix

[@ChrisHinners008]

13:12 snorlax in the early Pokémon games is also a perfect description of sloth. Wake up bro there's a Pokémon center literally right there💀

[@OneHundredFiftyTwo]

3:44 I see what you did there

[@phoenix1045]

about the shiny hunters, remember when MandJTV sprained his wrist because he had to spam A so much while hunting shiny kabuto

[@mattguy1773]

Pokemon is certainly Something

[@TheRogueRenegade]

It sure is

[@guidoblok]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the still image at 13:30.

[@ilikelanecinderaceuwu2069]

You really slipped yourself in there 3:44 💀anyways you explained well and the vid was very enjoyable👌

[@TheRogueRenegade]

I had to and thank you!

[@MikeXeno365]

14:30 me and the boys using the item duplication 🔥🔥🔥 You're crazy if you think I'm about to waste hours trying to grind for a ability patch or TMs

[@asurayeager6219]

bro got caught lacking already 2:35

[@harrisonk2635]

14:40 I felt that, my friend will get a shiny literally every time he opens his game, I wish I was exaggerating

[@Random_artist742]

In my opinion sword and sheild was pretty good and scarlet and violet was the best! Sword and sheild does not have a lot of fun in it and scarlet and violet is very long and has cool features! The fps may be ehhh sometimes and the cutscenes may be very long but that just makes the game more challenging but may be annoying.

[@umboh07]

Yeah, Sword and Shield are underrated

[@lumashoes]

I honestly kinda agree, and even though sw/sh and scarlet and violet are very flawed games, overall I think they were still very enjoyable to play, and if you don't nitpick them too much, I think they can be really good. I don't think they're THE BEST out of the series, but I think they are still good.

[@AlexleLive]

Your comments on Shiny Hunters are spot on... Yeah I spent 130 hours and 700 DA for a Shiny Nihilego. And that's only counting the DA I reached the damn Jelly fish.

[@DaNullVoid]

Man, you hit every right point in this video xD. Keep up the good work.

[@TheRogueRenegade]

Thank you!

[@DaNullVoid]

Anytime

[@igorgiuseppe1862]

2:19 THIS! lol that is why im casual when it comes to pokémon and many other games

[@milezw]

4:59 Is Gamefreak just KONAMI under a different name? lol

[@bartholomewfish6089]

I have named at least three of my Pokemon Jimithy

[@darkknight9827]

I remember when I played pokemon x , I was so obsessed to get Garchomp, gardevoir and aegislash asap that by the time i got all 3 pokemon , my other pokemon were way more over levelled (thanks to exp. Share ╥﹏╥) Imagine level 50 pokemon against level 30 pokemon.

[@vossboss220]

1:40 THIIIIIIS Competitive pokemon has fried my brain

[@kartikalmighty]

Can we just pause for a second and wonder why the hell this man has 35 hours in Pokemon Home? I literally have 35 hours in Super Mario Odyssey, and that's a full game, what the hell

[@TheRogueRenegade]

It's not my screenshot but who's ever switch that is must have had a lot of Pokemon to transfer

[@kartikalmighty]

​​@@TheRogueRenegade First off, didn't expect you to reply. Thanks for that! Secondly, wow, that guy needs to touch some grass if he has that many Pokemon.

[@Murdocke89]

You’re committing most of these sins with you view on sword and shield lol

[@NsABullitzZ]

Every new release seems better over time, gen 5 and 6 weren't liked that much when released but now are seen as great games

[@Captions-Eric]

8:58 just gona use this outburst to brag that my second pokemon in Pokemon Moon was a shiny youngoose

[@arlen7726]

I largely don’t tryhard Shiny-Hunting, and these days I’ve gotten better about picking which ones to hunt. Somehow, previously, all the mons that I liked enough to even *want* a shiny of in the first place were always deceptively difficult as shiny hunts and I would only ever find out the hard way. The one thing I like most about non story-specific gameplay in ScVi is how the overworld pack-spawns make it *so much easier* to encounter some shinies. That said, if you’re going to shiny hunt something, do your damn research beforehand, it’ll likely save you a lot of grief.

[@GarlicKing101]

Over a year later, and SV still has no fix for the framerate and bugs and glitches

[@ThatPurpleGem]

2:22 *cough* *cough* wolfe *cough* *cough*

[@discocharizard]

Yo dude I found you from this your funny as heck I’m subbing lol

[@TheRogueRenegade]

Thank you so much!

[@echo-__-13-_-]

I'll be honest, I'm a person who occasionally defends sword and shield but only because it was the first pokemon video game i played. But i still like Pokemon Scarlet more

[@MKRIGHTspike]

Same it’s one of the first games I played I don’t see what’s bad about it I love the story en characters might not be the best but I love the Pokémon even the starters even tho people say there bad I really like them inteleon is my fav starter en people hate me for it

[@charlesosborn-b9j]

Does anybody else actually really want to see a video on the 7 virtues of pokemon now that hes mentioned it

[@TheRogueRenegade]

👀

[@sonicmaster206]

12:07 Because BDSP runs better than SV and doesn't erase your save data after an update they're still shit though

[@DabCraftGaming]

The day GameFreak make a game and no one complains will be the day the sun explodes

[@thephoenixfromoz]

I don't think sword and shield is that bad, they're some of my favorite Pokémon games :/

[@caidenmagill1006]

Literally the gyms and league with a audience being in huge stadiums is probably one if not my favorite thing Pokemon has done

[@gwblueberry]

They were great games

[@Joseph_Drew_III]

“iT’s JuSt ThE sAmE gAmE” the so-called innovation you’re looking for only leads to Starfox Adventures.

[@deadlydingus1138]

I’m just going to say it. I found terrastalization to be more fun than any previous gimmick. Yeah, the pokemon don’t get new forms or moves after doing it, but the fact that you can just change its type whenever you want without it being a guaranteed win is a bit more engaging than “Haha. Mega go brrrr”.

[@matthewroberts198]

Also cool that any Pokémon can use it AND cover their weakness at the same time.

[@darienb1127]

I haven't played Scarlet and Violet, but I do really like the idea. Cassete Beasts does something similar with moves that can change your type for a bit, but you can use those way more compared to Terra types.

[@MasonGamingX]

Envy fr when my friend caught 6 shiny froakie in a row on Pokémon go. At least I got a shiny sylveon though

[@robertmajor8947]

Made a mistake to instantly go for the Lust part of the video 💀

[@TheRogueRenegade]

Don’t do it

[@gladoseon4117]

@@TheRogueRenegade I was honestly surprised that Lust wasn’t the longest section

[@vinnyplays1605]

I was playing pokemon while watching this and right as he got to the wrath section a galarian bird spawned and it ran away. I guess bro got a free example

[@CSK2008DS]

I thought this video was very good and I liked that you mentioned people that like sword and shield better than scarlet and violet, including myself what I find very funny and you be you you like what you want also very creative idea for your video and the reason why I don’t really like Scarlet and Violet so much it’s probably because of the creativity but also the creativity is through the roof. What is also good. I don’t know why I just feel that way, but anyways great video very relatable. Everybody is very unique because of this and many other reasons, and I love that. So like what you like be who you are. 😄

[@sonlost]

My battery was expanding too but I just unscrewed it and replaced it with a new one 🤷