The Importance of Difficulty in Pokemon Games

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[@JPRPokeTrainer98]

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[@keetendailey4337]

I mean whether u criticized them or not u like Pokémon as much as I do, and u only what them to be the best they can be, which is meaningful, don’t u agree, I can’t wait for sword and shield

[@ahmadishere8179]

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[@JPRPokeTrainer98]

@@ahmadishere8179 Thanks man, I appreciate the kind words!

[@PokeHokage]

I had torracat, and the z move...lurantis still kicked my ass

[@charliez077]

@@PokeHokage I beat Lurantis easily with Torracat's Z move. it was even worse in USUM - I used the in-game traded Hawlucha and Lurantis went down after a single Z-High Jump Kick (no grinding)

[@shadowsta9]

Remember saving before each Elite 4 member?

[@joshwatts5869]

shadowsta9 man lol I felt this comment on a spiritual level

[@liberalistbat6352]

Now they have maybe 3 or 4 pokemon and I beat them all with a lv70 fire starter without saving

[@greteb1951]

Ahhhh the good ol’ days

[@jayc5964]

I do that anyways

[@MercuryA2000]

habits still ingrained in me. Only time I don't is when my lv 100 embodiment of time itself if trying to level up my smol bois.

[@EntropyDilemma]

"I hope Sword and Shield will be on the difficult side" Hop: "WOAGH You already knew about type advantages?!"

[@bruhe8895]

"hah you're a master at type advantages"

[@ossomysteriossobutyoucanca9472]

Blake Kekai It was fun, but really easy. I was able to use 4-5 of my first 6 Pokémon all the way up to the champion battle, and won using nothing but them.

[@vincentmcgrath5983]

I literally used Sobble and wrecked over 90% of the region without needing any assistance from other Pokémon.

[@ossomysteriossobutyoucanca9472]

I mean, I (by the champion battle) has been using the entire game a Cinderace, a Greedent, a Boltund, a Gyrados, a Ninetales and a Cinccino.

[@bruhe8895]

@@vincentmcgrath5983 I spammed pyro ball on my cinderace and it was easy sailing from there

[@iAmRelmfu]

I still think it’s weird that they haven’t added a “hard mode” in newer Pokémon games. They have to know that there are a large amount of adults and experienced players buying these games.

[@charlieparker4435]

They had a challenge mode in pokemon black and white 2. tbh I wish they brought that back and allowed access to it right from the get go rather than waiting to beat the main story to unlock the key to get access to it.

[@alanbrito141]

But their target audience is kids, who they understimate so that's why these games are just becoming easier

[@Godtierlee]

@@charlieparker4435 I was just about to say that

[@ajguevara6961]

They are relying in people beginning nuzlocke runs to compensate for the easier games.

[@iiovemiku]

it would be so easy to add a hard mode or nuzlocke mode. You could even be able to turn on or off which rules you want, such as repeats, pokemon centers, items, or losing when all pokemon faint.

[@rinpendra6377]

Emerald’s Battle Frontier separated boys from men

[@GeteMachine]

Frontier brains actually used legendaries.

[@rinpendra6377]

Frontier brains aren’t actually the problem. Their team isn’t really that strong. It’s the way to get to them. Random trainers running stall double team Ludicolo and Electrodes’ explosion, brightpowder and quick claw equips are the main issue.

[@afarensis9720]

Hence why Gamefreak removed the ORAS Battle Frontier....they didn't want little Timmy crying after getting pummelled by Annabel's Raikou

[@V-Jes]

@@rinpendra6377 Doesn't sound any different from any other "battle 50 trainers in a row against BS pokemon teams" other games have too with gen 7 even throwing megas, Z-moves and known trainers into the mix too.

[@josephcerrera8299]

Yup pokemon mansion is for kids.

[@RuilinLinRyan]

Gen 3 was hard. I mostly remember getting lost in bodies of water and having to fight a ton of tentacruels

[@BOOMERS._]

I hate how the gen 3 remakes are easy to beat

[@charliez077]

@@BOOMERS._ exploration is imo still fun in ORAS, however otherwise the games are ridiculously easier, yeah (overpowered Exp Share, free Mega Latios/Latias - nuff said :-( )

[@yokaiwatcher8500]

7.8 out of ten, to much water

[@Modie]

@@charliez077 I mean, why not just turn off the Exp Share? Or use more Pokemon than 6 (I did in X/Y and I was constantly 5 levels lower than my opponents, some times even more)? This is what I never understand in the discussion. The points in the video are actually kind of valid, because while you can still make it harder for yourself through just using weaker Pokemon or those on lower levels, the compared Gym leaders have different difficulties based on their coverage. But saying the Exp Share destorys the balance is such a weak argument.

[@TwinBladeFury]

@@Modie Exp share ruins Sword and Shield and you can't turn it off =x

[@yonybaloney3861]

I miss just having a rival and that's it. No friends that pop up every few mins.

[@notscorchingsands9718]

i don't blue and silver are just sore losers that nobody acts like

[@SAMIAM514]

useless friends too

[@notscorchingsands9718]

@@SAMIAM514 Like real friends

[@DwynTwo]

This! I wanted Bianca and Cheren to get run over by a bus at some point whereas Blue, Silver, Brix/May and the fourth generation rival just showed up every now and then and were actually competitive.

[@JoeTheLumberjak]

Blue, Silver, and (to a lesser extent) Barry were the best rivals as far as interesting battles go. Cheren and Bianca were okay too, I guess. But all the other rivals were way too easy to beat. They hardly even put up a fight and don't even get full parties till the end of the game, if at all. I miss when rival battles would catch me off guard and give me a run for my money.

[@JC-ev2ns]

In Kalos they give you two starters, a fossil, Lucario, Lapras, and make catching the legendary easy. They basically give you a team of 6 Pokémon, you could have a full team only having to catch the legendary.

[@charliez077]

Gen 6 is a joke difficulty-wise, the sad thing is that Gen 7 only upgraded the difficulty of boss fights (totem battles are cool - unless you win in 1st turn which is often very possible), but Exp Share is still broken + Z moves are ridiculously overpowered for the single campaign. someone at Gamefreak should be fired.

[@ezzili]

@@charliez077 The kids today are more soft, cuz that's why I think they're making it easy. Back in our days we had the patience to "figure out" how to get around a tough enemy, even if we had to battle him/her like 10 times before succeeding. Kids these days give up faaaast. So, to make it more attractive, I think thats why they make it so super easy.

[@charliez077]

@@ezzili and as I keep repeating - fine, I can respect that BUT in that case, Gamefreak, give us multiple difficulty mods, both for these kids and for us skilled players.

[@ezzili]

@@charliez077 Tbh I think every PKMN game should be as hard as Pokémon Diamond. Makes it more meaningful to complete a game that was challenging, cuz I didn't enjoy completing Pokémon X. Waaaay too easy.

[@itzrixis1919]

@@ezzili I have a copy of x on the way, I never thought diamond was difficult either though. Hopefully x isn't as bad as everyone says it is.

[@MrNrj6490]

“I hope Sword and Shield will be more difficult” Game Freak: PERMA XP SHARE

[@hadronhydrogen7674]

Remember the days when the xp share was only on one pokémon? Back then it was actually difficult to train up your team.

[@Kurameno]

I actually find exp share very bad because when i try to level up 1 pokemon it gives exp to everyone and i have to battles more. It’s either you go with 1 pokemon in party or share exp

[@mungo8423]

honestly the exp share was super annoying, as certain pokemon would be way more leveled up than others, and I cant solo train a pokemon, which would encourage me to farm exp candies, which made the games too easy, like the champion was super easy, only like one or two of my pokemon even fainted.

[@that1boi800]

XP CANDIES LUCKY EGG RAID DENS

[@jalkiruokayes2517]

FROM THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE GAME

[@GlitchManOmega]

It makes me angry, actually ANGRY that some of the regular and even endgame opponents in Gens VI and VII have Pokemon on their teams that don't have four moves.

[@liberalistbat6352]

Most of them don't even have 5 or 6 pokemon.

[@artofthepossible7329]

@@liberalistbat6352 That annoyed me so much.

[@flaminghorsebackrider6969]

Gen XII sorta made up for it with Totems, but I’ll agree there. Imagine Guzma having two more chances to use First Impression with a U-Turn Scizor.

[@lyncario5515]

@@flaminghorsebackrider6969 Guzma came back in gen XII? That's so awesome!

[@flaminghorsebackrider6969]

Je regarde d'en haut It appears I’m about to be whooshed, but I think there’s a misunderstanding 😅

[@Yun-tr2vd]

I just hope that the gen4 remakes keep the difficulty level ..

[@rosadiamonds2204]

Spoiler: They very likely will not

[@legendgamersnl3946]

You probs get megas early or the new mechanic of gen 8. New types like fairy disbalance it and exp share.

[@Anove]

What difficulty lmao

[@lisabarnes924]

M P *throws the box of Pokémon Platinum and the side games, like Pokémon ranger* PLAY IT.

[@leonardofarias8843]

@@legendgamersnl3946 we only had acess to megas after the fifth gym it wasn't early in Hoenn it should not be early in Sinnoh

[@AndroidHarris]

Other people: it depends on what Pokemon you use. Me: ok... sure. I'm not gonna use the 2 starters and the mega lucario they give me for free...

[@charliez077]

haha exactly. I'm gonna turn off Exp Share, choose not to use Mega Lucario/Latios (Gen 6) and use Z moves just for some battles (Gen 7)... and yeah, it will depend on what pokémon I use :P

[@morgantrottier5387]

I mean I never use the Mega Lucario

[@AndroidHarris]

@@morgantrottier5387 yeah but still I judge a games difficulty by what is available to you and what they do to challenge you. Giving you a Mega Lucario while no one else has megas besides like 3 gives the player an upper hand. In SM they handled z moves better though by having other trainers use them but definitely not in XY. You literally get a snorlax before the second gym... 😒

[@Xylarxcode]

@@charliez077 But... I do the turn off the Exp Share. I like to train my pokemon manually. Doesn't make the game that much harder, tbh. Even with the Exp Share turned off, it's still pretty damn easy.

[@davemccullagh4297]

Turn off the xp share. Your Pokémon are 10 levels below wild Pokémon yet it's still super easy

[@Anreii]

I don't understand why there can't just be a difficulty option lmao

[@vulpifi7796]

You can change the battle type from "shift," to "set." It removes the prompt that tells you what pokemon your opponent is sending out, and asks if you want to do the same. That makes the game more challenging

[@Anreii]

@@vulpifi7796 It makes it harder in one context. What I'm thinking more is higher level/smarter AI to raise the difficulty. It's equally as easy to beat a super strong Pokémon as it is to defeat an entire gym. *Thank you for the tip though

[@offtan]

Black 2 has a Challenge Mode with smarter AI and larger levels, but it only gets unlocked after you beat the game.

[@tbc9652]

@kollie79 it is available in sword and shield 🤦‍♂️

[@charliez077]

Anrei it is absolutely possible and needed, gamefreak is just TERRIBLY incompetent.

[@ducky36F]

Sun and Moon held your hand at literally every step. It was incredibly frustrating.

[@pokemonmaster0079]

Especially when this wasn't your first Pokemon game. It was like trying to teach a healthy 20-year-old how to walk. When Lillie was teaching me to jump over the ledge, I was yelling at my 3DS, "I know how to do it!"

[@elcocho1568]

Main reason I stopped playing after an hour. Never finished, most likely never will.

[@gelatin25]

I bought a 3DS during SM release date, and was super hyped about it as the last main series games I owned are Emerald and Leafgreen. Bought Sun, Moon, and ORAS, along with this RPG Stella Glow. Finished Moon in 1 week (was dragging as well, it was too frustratingly easy), dropped ORAS (again, too damn easy) and just played Stella Glow on that thing for a little over a month, then ended up selling my 3DS in the end. Swore to never buy a Pokemon main series game ever again without watching a stream or playthrough first. 😅

[@googlewolly]

You don't know the meaning of "literally." It may be very hand-holding, but it doesn't do it literally at every step.

[@googlewolly]

@@bryanperez6045 yup. That's one way to put it.

[@Mattropolis97]

Some of us played through BW blind with no prior knowledge to make it more fun.... I thought Basculin would evolve....

[@bentenv7524]

That was honestly so much more fun than knowing all the pokémon beforehand. However, Black and White seemed to be really easy to me. Or that might just be the fact that I didn't know any English when I was playing the games before BW...

[@Mattropolis97]

Benten Van Nuffelen the games before BW were definitely harder. They kept getting easier and easier. Also congrats on your English dude, you write like a native.

[@bentenv7524]

@@Mattropolis97 Yeah, I feel like you had to actually search for stuff before X&Y. Now the games have less easter eggs I feel like. But then again, my first pokémon game was Platinum so I don't really know how the first 3 generations were. And thanks man, who knew you could get almost fluent in a language by watching youtube for a couple of years.

[@Mattropolis97]

Benten Van Nuffelen Emerald was my first and even though it had its flaws, it was a pretty good/challenging game. Before the 5th gym you had to grind your Pokémon past level 36 off of battling level 20’s in the desert and all the extra stuff like catching the Regi’s required being able to read Braille (which is kind of an oxymoron) and solving decently hard puzzles that always took a few tries. Lol I help exchange students learn English so I should just tell them to do that

[@jacobmorales2451]

The Jackass Linguist black was my first💙 but I played the older games too✅

[@TheBfutgreg]

Gen 4 did it best for sure, Platinum being solidly difficult, and SoulSilver having some really difficult Elite 4 Rematches

[@charliez077]

totally. tho I think Gen 5's difficulty was totally fine as well.

[@VicoMMIII]

Gen 4 specifically diamond and pearl are the hardest games and I love that about it and I hope and I very much hope that the remakes are difficult aswell

[@kurtmostat8491]

Gen 4 and 5 *really* set the difficulty bar high up, but in a good way, they're not the kind of difficult where you need to use legendaries and uber tier mons, you could defeat them with practically any time as long as you put in enough time for grinding

[@king5corpion]

Kommandant Makaröwitz That’s not difficulty, that’s poor game design. If the only way of making a game hard is to force the player to grind for hours then it’s not difficult.

[@charliez077]

Jzhu 64 actually no, you don't need any grinding to win any Gen 4 battle except Red. It is very fun and occasionally difficult tho unlike the games since XY.

[@jettcooper9266]

“Watchog’s hypnosis reminded you that your rival gave you chesto berries for the battle” Me (who’s played black and white 20+ times): omg... are you serious?

[@gavrielfeigenbaum9274]

So it's not just me?

[@uteriel282]

always one-shotted that ugly rat so i never noticed.

[@charliez077]

Uteriel tbh i feel like you had to grind a lot for one-shotting him...? Or i guess using sawk is a massive help. Otheewise that watchog can be very painful (retaliate, effectively a 140 bp move at a second gym!!)

[@KrisGaVerdan711]

Woah I'm not alone

[@aidang7651]

Everything in pokemon goes through my head, in real life they need a Pokémon Course.

[@ZygonCannar]

Gen 5 does not get enough credit for how it handled difficulty. First of all Black 2 had a hard mode, which was unheard of for non-rom hacks. But the base game had a lot of difficulty in it too, but to counteract it, there was always stuff around you could utilize to make a winning strategy. While for many those pokemon themselves can be a miss, it was seriously great design I wish we saw more of.

[@lo4tr]

The thing I didn't like about Gen 5 was how boring and grindy it got. The earlier games were better at handling the mid-game grind to keep up with the levels of the trainers. Gen 6 was arguably okay with keeping the grind to a minimum... unless you play a Nuzlocke, where the higher levels means if you lose a mon you are fucked for the next 4 hours.

[@HootingLance]

The difficulty setting was great, but I still can't believe it was locked out. If you wanted to change the difficulty, you needed a friend who had completed a specific version of the game already. What?!

[@coot33]

​@@HootingLance Action replay to unlock when you need to cheat to increase the difficulty.

[@charliez077]

@@lo4tr "Gen 6 was arguably okay with keeping the grind to a minimum... " - uh, to such a minimum that if you play the game with one team and Exp Share on you will end up horribly overlevelled by Gym 4 and 10-12 levels above the Champion. that's not good balancing. and in Gen 5 if u are for some reason underlevelled: a) weaker pokes get much more Exp there, b) Audinos c) Nimbasa's Stadiums

[@viniciusmedeirosfranca9803]

Nope. Pokemon black 2 is very easy too. Pokemon platinum and pokemon SSHG, for example, are way more painful. Just compare the fight against Iris and the fight against Red or cynthia in gen 4 games.

[@ryanluebker2618]

I’ve played every Pokémon game since I was 6, and I can say as someone who is an experienced veteran, once Pokémon games left the DS and moved to the 3ds, they got ridiculously easy

[@DamilolaOlugboji]

Pokemon X and Y were ridiculously easy games

[@legoobi-wankenobi2008]

I never beat the pkmn league in heargold

[@johnt3606]

Can't even compare ORAS to R/S/E. In the original gen 3 games most gyms took more than 1 try (except the ones where I clearly had the type advantage) In the rock gym I had to evolve my combusken so it would learn double kick, in the second one I had a bit of difficulty, in the third I literally lost twice against it, and trained a breloom just to beat it. Also against the magma leader i couldn't defeat because of the damn Alakazam and Crobat (they literally sweeped my whole team lmao), and had to train a metagross n garchomp. Now in Omega Ruby, most enemies had just 3 Pokemons, the gym leaders were too damn easy and I beaten most of them without any difficult. I won't say much about XY because this comment will be too long but it was easy too

[@decoral]

I mostly agree with you, except that i think that Ultra Sun and Moon had their fair share of difficulty to a certain extent!

[@legoobi-wankenobi2008]

@@decoral until you defeat the pkmn league and grind chansey all day

[@Freakachu_42]

"I feel Sword and Shield deserve to be on the more difficult side." Big oof.

[@oscarnator2324]

I know Right I didn't think while playing the game 😂 Was just mindless battles where I click whatever move says super effective with no strategy

[@c3ntravaswani427]

Sword and Shield man... some of the problems in that game don’t even need to be problems. They’re just there to piss everyone off.

[@1creeperbomb]

Heh, I had to make it more fun for myself by forcing myself to use only 2 pokemon and not to dynamax.

[@111Misael]

The more difficult ones to enjoy that is

[@ryangarza5513]

It's actually not that easy if you don't use exp candies or overlevel your Pokemon. Leon was especially the hardest battle in the game

[@gurleen7041]

honestly i don’t blame pokemon for wanting to keep the game “easy” for kids but i just don’t understand why they still haven’t implemented a veteran mode????

[@charliez077]

gurleen exactly.

[@dracomet2097]

Black and White

[@danr8267]

@@dracomet2097 you needed both versions to unlock hard mode and even then you had to beat the game first to unlock it.

[@camusthesable178]

Playing without the exp share basically is the veteran mode

[@gurleen7041]

@@camusthesable178 yeah but correct me if i’m wrong i haven’t played it in a while but wasn’t exp share something you couldn’t turn off in swsh?

[@noelsrx376]

We need more champions like Cynthia.😈😈

[@charliez077]

THIS!

[@mikebarnes7441]

She was too easy

[@daltonroe3753]

@@mikebarnes7441 i swept her entire team with gyarados.

[@nebbynebula3744]

@@mikebarnes7441 Maybe for you it was but, most people didn't have an easy time with her. Your personal experience doesn't results in determining if something is trash or not. People talk about Diantha being to easy, yet if you turn off the experience share, don't use the extra starter and the mega Lucario they give, you'll find the Championship is less of a push over. 🤗

[@nebbynebula3744]

@@daltonroe3753 Dalton Roe I had almost a literal copy of her team: Togekiss, Roserade, Garchomp, Froslass, Infernape, and a shiny Lopunny but, I still struggled. You seem to have an unpopular experience with her. I wonder what type of Gyarados you had. 🤔

[@barackobama6715]

I actually moved my Ampharos and Mewtwo from my Soul Silver to Platinum to beat Cynthia.

[@RRTR4Evr]

Huzzah! A man of quality!

[@alexanderstilianov]

Nah, just catch a Gible in Wayward cave and train it till it becomes a Garchomp, teach it Earthquake and clap her cheeks. Or just use Giratina with Calm Mind.

[@GIN-zh7jo]

i had to transfer my lv100 swampert from emerald on a friend's game and trade it in mine to beat her lol

[@prajwald36]

I don't use legendaries

[@cober5768]

Took 4 years for me to beat The sinnoh elite 4. When I restarted my game I made sure to save my level 100 infernape, because I didn’t want to deal with arons bullshit.

[@drehasthebestbeats2874]

Used to take me about a month to get through Ruby. Took me less than a week to get through Pokèmon Y.

[@christiancinnabars1402]

Dre Has the Best Beats Ruby is definitely doable in a couple of days, especially if you only played it when you were a kid. I did a rerun of Emerald and managed to beat it in four days. The problem is, I finished Pokemon Moon the day I got it.

[@drehasthebestbeats2874]

I said, "Used to," but yeah.

[@drehasthebestbeats2874]

Let's just pretend you didn't say that.

[@drehasthebestbeats2874]

I already completed Y, and as I said, in under a week while playing about 2-3 hours per day. The game is not hard or tedious whatsoever. It's too easy.

[@wonderlandartwork3579]

I bashed through X in a single day.

[@shakenbake7777]

Remember when getting blindsided by the rival was an actual threat rather than a punching bag of free xp?

[@TheGreatBackUpVIDEOS]

I mean...no but Barry still feels like more of a threat than whatever the hell is going on in X and Y....wait, was there a rival battle at any point? I feel like I didn't actually fight anything in that game...other than maybe the gym leader but that's more cus of their exceedingly slow gym being a slog to walk through.

[@BardockSkywalker]

@@TheGreatBackUpVIDEOS My Thoughts, Exactly

[@charliez077]

@@TheGreatBackUpVIDEOS tbh if you were unprepared even Gen 1 and Gen 2 rival could be deadly at times! I did get almost beat by him even on one more recent replay (Viridian Town, Azalea Town). those games just do not let you be ridiculously overlevelled.

[@jaleelhull941]

May popping out on that strip of land... Easy if you're team is healthy... Not so much if you haven't healed

[@ashyflame]

Remember when you had to grind two weeks in order to beat a league good times

[@jgr7487]

3 words: "Watchog used Retaliate" I do fear that more than Miltank's Rollout!

[@_KungFuBarbie_]

“Dewott fainted!”

[@jgr7487]

@@_KungFuBarbie_ Pignite fainted

[@charliez077]

I forgot Watchog gets Retaliate! Base 70 (140) move at gym 2 is nothing to laugh at! tho recently I replayed Emerald and I forgot Makuhita had Focus Punch!!! I almost lost :)

[@mikebarnes7441]

You obviously suck then

[@jgr7487]

@@charliez077 I usually go through blind, get a Sableye & use it against Brawly

[@ElwindMage]

We should make the first gym have all legendary pokemon, to you know, spice it up a bit and *cull the weak.*

[@clayness9059]

Siron Aban make the first gym leader Tobias from the anime

[@bokcho1]

Clay Ness my guy had a mf DARKRAI

[@deeznoots6241]

Dragon first gym but all starts have a fairy evolution

[@theregularterrarian3933]

The starters evolve at level 69

[@expecttheunexpectable7775]

@@theregularterrarian3933 all starters final evo is hydreigon

[@RektemJem]

just bring back the hard mode from b2w2 but give us it at the start

[@mikebarnes7441]

Hard mode*

[@RektemJem]

@@mikebarnes7441 im dumb

[@pokemind7159]

Turn the exp share off in the new games, youll find that other trainer's levels are actually higher than yours for most of the game

[@edward6749]

It still wasn’t hard? Like idk what even chaged

[@charliez077]

@@pokemind7159 I don't want to self-limit myself. I want to be given clear borders by the game and be able to use everything it offers me - if that's via a "Hard" mode, fine with me.

[@Andonimenesmusic]

"Game freak has never done a Darks souls version of pokemon" Try beating Pokemon stadium 2 with rentals in an original Nintendo 64 cartridge and not an emulator.

[@haydenhsu3016]

ironmoger that’s platinum

[@lifeisanenigma213]

ironmoger Pokemon Stadium 2 was developed by Nintendo of America Inc., HAL Laboratory, and Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development. Game Freak did not make Pokémon Stadium 2 and thus has never made a “Dark Souls version of Pokémon”.

[@blannk]

why does the emulation thing matter

[@vanitaspero1043]

@@blannk Savestates

[@Jcend]

- my guess is save states

[@BackReaper2Win]

Do you guys remember the fight vs Red in Pokemon Gold/Silver?

[@laky3348]

To this day i still didbt beat him, and i also cant find my pokemon soul silver copy anymore

[@X3nophiliac]

im replaying silver and crystal and im so scared

[@Serjo777]

@@laky3348 You know what I can't find since we moved years ago? My folder with all my gen 1 holo Pokemon trading cards, which would probably be worth thousands today (not that I would ever sell them or anything, just saying). I can't describe how much that hurts :/

[@HardGuess]

@Jarod Tang that's because you overleveled them. Being able to easily beat people is a reward for spending more time and searching trainers to get EXP.

[@HardGuess]

@Jarod Tang oh. Ok

[@frog4death]

In Pokémon X and Y, they literally hand you 5/6 Pokémon that can beat the whole game. Your +1 just needs to be something to cover fairies.

[@kayeka4123]

Mega Lucario is fast, has a Steel typing, and learns Flash Cannon by TM and Metal Claw by relearner. Fairies have already been covered just fine.

[@frog4death]

@@kayeka4123 You right, i just checked the Pokemon list again (been a long time since I played). You'd only really need to catch something that can handle a gyrados (and you can honestly just teach Lapris Thunder or have your Lucario be faster if it is a Mega-Gyrados when fighting the main villain)

[@bobbuilder625]

@@frog4death or just use blastoise. you can just surf everything to death and win.

[@arvindacharya6505]

Remember when we needed " Rare Candy Cheats "

[@bigtimetimmyjim6486]

Gen 6: We are the easiest generation by far! Gen 8: Hold my beer

[@notscorchingsands9718]

Gen 1 and 3 are the easiest

[@soulreaper1461]

Gen 8: Hold my built-in exp share making players afraid of exploring the Wild Area to not be overleveled

[@notscorchingsands9718]

@@soulreaper1461 Just swap out lol

[@notscorchingsands9718]

@Adam Infinite3 How?

[@notscorchingsands9718]

@Adam Infinite3 Gen 1 -3 are a joke, beat the elite four 15 levels under, 20 in FRLG. No pokemon is hard.

[@winguard007]

Me: chooses Popplio Totem Lurantis: You will be immediately killed by this action. Proceed?

[@Kaz999998]

The feels man, that thing killed my flying type all easy too.

[@winguard007]

@@Kaz999998 I had to teach my Trumbeak Flame Charge to beat it.

[@charliez077]

Shame that my Incineroar (SM) and Hawlucha (USUM) both one-shotted him...

[@darthravo]

Hahaha yeah I spent so long trying to beat the damn Lurantis! I finally decided to train one since it seemed to be so good, boy was I wrong 😂

[@jeffythedinosaur2792]

I chose litten whoshiwashi was a nightmare

[@trixbag]

I don’t know if there was any “haha gotcha” intentions behind this one, but in black and white Cheren gives you Oran berries for your Pokémon to hold after you defeat him in the trainer’s school. Obviously after seeing him use them on his own Pokémon and the nice hp recovery without wasting a turn, I stuck them on my Pokémon right before the first gym battle. Little did I know the gym trio’s starting lillipup(s) had pickup for an ability, which led to them stealing and subsequently healing from the berries I put on all my team members at the time. That’s always been a bit funny to me, and it definitely ramped up the challenge as a starting trainer, if only a little bit.

[@yadajoku]

Fun fact: in Red and Blue, Oak says that Charmander is a Pokemon for more experienced trainers because the first few gyms require you to work around type advantages. I think. I heard this from another video.

[@shaunthesheep24]

And then they gave him metal claw before he even evolved in the remakes...

[@roughousegaming9606]

Adam Infinite3 sorry about that misunderstood u 🙏

[@uteriel282]

@Adam Infinite3 you could just catch a nidoran at the beginning and train it a bit till it learns double kick. brock was easy no matter which pokemon you started with so im not sure why you call the fight a pain. and if you only have charmander then just train it till it evolves and even ember two-shots brocks onix. hell i made a single pokemon challenge run in red/blue with charmander as my starter when i was a kid and beat the elite 4 with a then lvl 80+ charizard. i thought it would be harder but i stomped everything with slash and flamethrower. the only other mons i had were hm-slaves that i never used in battle even once. funny thing i learned from it was that blues blastoise still knew bubble lol.

[@uteriel282]

@Adam Infinite3 ember works a lot better then you think. fire moves like ember only get weakened by 50% when used against rock types. compared to normal types like scratch which get weakened by 80%. because of that its a lot easier to beat a rock type with fire moves than it looks just from the effectiveness. also a lvl 16+ charmeleon has a higher atk stat than the def stat of a lvl 14 onix which means that the damage you do also increases. doing 30+ dmg per hit to a lvl 14 onix is quite easy to do that way. also i did this myself more than once so i know it works.

[@uteriel282]

@Adam Infinite3 as to nidoran and double kick. its the same as charmander. you train it till it learns double kick. (maybe even evolve it) and you otk both geodude and onix. double kick is a fighting move which is super effective against rock types. it aso hits twice which means 2 times 150% dmg. and unless your mon is multiple lvl below brocks onix you otk. its just that easy. again did it myself and know it works.

[@timekeeper2569]

0:50 "Than those of you who use Maractus... if you guys even exist" **nervously looks at my Maractus** **looks back at the screen** uh, no, we don’t really exist...

[@Moonstriker2514]

I am the fool who used maractus in my final sword team never played gen 5 didn't know how bad it was

[@timekeeper2569]

Moonstriker 2514 i’d still use maractus because i love that babu lmao

[@dervakommtvonhinten517]

claiming that you make your own difficulty is stupid. the challenge of the game is to FIGURE OUT the best team not pick the worst on purpose. thats like saying "in chess you make your own difficulty when you play with fewer pieces". NO. you pick stronger opponents, more skillful opponents.

[@JoseDorda]

Why are you comparing rpg for little kids with chess?

[@dervakommtvonhinten517]

@@JoseDorda because i thought adults were smart enough to grasp the underlying game concept i used for a comparison. game difficulty doesnt have to do with how difficult you make it YOURSELF. that would be (since you dont like chess) like playing darksouls and you dont allow yourself to use weapons. that shouldnt be how the game makers intended to create a challenge. a game should be desinged in a way that the game itself tests your skill. would you play super mario with a broken controller to have a challenge? no. you would play increasingly difficult levels and see if you can make it to the top. the top in pokemon is the elite 4. and if that top can be beat without even applying basic principles like type advantage, just cause you got your starter to a high enough level while not even grinding, then there is no difficulty. and sun/moon even made it so that you wouldnt have to know the type matchups. it even tells you what moves would be effective.

[@JoseDorda]

@@dervakommtvonhinten517 playing with a broken controller is a false equivalence just as playing Dark Souls with no weapon, because those are scenarios that couls make the game unbeatable, doing things like turning the EXP share off is closer to switching the difficulty of a game in the options. I also expected than a adult would understand that a company should never mess with their target audience or switch that audience out of nowhere just to please a niche that also happen to buy their product.

[@dervakommtvonhinten517]

@@JoseDorda more adults are playing the pokemon games than kids. so much for target audience awareness. and try beating the game only using icognitos. its unbeatable. almost everything else has been done in a futile attempt to get some challenge out of the games. cause nintendo seems to have found their own challenge. make the game easy enough so that a curous squirril smashing buttons can beat the game. a difficult mode wouldnt be abandoning their underage audience. it would be fulfilling a long held wish by the majority of the player base.

[@JoseDorda]

@@dervakommtvonhinten517 "more adults are playing the pokemon games than kids", that is false, and if it isn't you better back up that claim with an actual source.

[@jeremiahlau2881]

To add insult to injury Wulfric even says that he may be " a total pushover"

[@azurai3934]

Candice (at least in Platinum not so much DP) was the best Ice type Gym Leader and she was the seventh Gym Leader

[@comicstrider4851]

Me: **sees Whitney in the thumbnail** Me: *_*PTSD Flashbacks*_*

[@kratos13254]

Just recently played though crystal again. I swear to god, no amount of grinding can save you from the near 100% hit rate of her miltank.

[@comicstrider4851]

@@kratos13254 she's exceptionally terrifying if you picked Cyndaquil as your starter... That rollout traumatized me

[@kratos13254]

Comic Strider SAME

[@deltathedummy2303]

what? she was a pushover now MORTY is where the difficulty is

[@thephantomoftheparadise5666]

I know how you feel.

[@brooklyn-ce1px]

I remember first playing Emerald and my friend and I couldn’t for the life of us figure out how to get to Sootopolis. I finally bought an entire guide for the game just to figure it out and I think that’s the singlehanded reason it’s so nostalgic for me and I always go back to it 😂

[@goodknyght4319]

YES THE SOOTOPOLIS

[@Doxsein]

I remember being stuck on that part too. Only found sootopolis through luck, by diving and exploring areas and randomly deciding to click the lighted tile which prompts an option for you to resurface. I was so mind blown when I resurfaced in sootopolis city 😂

[@Kaizoku-o_PirateKing]

Oh, the horror

[@giadapastorello4165]

I got stuck there and never managed to get out. It was 15 years ago, didn't used internet very much back then and I'm really waiting to finish Gold and buy Emerald (the cartridge got lost)

[@Mavuika_Gyaru]

Black and white 2 had a difficulty setting and I think every game should come with that

[@jalvrus9600]

But you needed two games if you wanted to choose that difficulty level since the beginning of your run xd Still a good thing

[@theregularterrarian3933]

Difficulty: Easy Normal Hard DARK SOULS LEVEL DIFFICULTY

[@jalvrus9600]

@@theregularterrarian3933 I want that.

[@afarensis9720]

They should set a difficulty at the beginning. That way kids can still enjoy, but so can hardcore fans

[@sandwich434]

Leave my homie Maractus alone. I’ll have you know that my Maractus destroyed parts of N and Ghetsis’s team.

[@jaydeejay4166]

I never would have thought that I would grow to appreciate Maractus

[@chegu613]

plus it's such an unknown pokémon that people forgot about it/forgot to transfer it into newer generations, which means you can trade maractus for really good pokémon on the GTS, like those level 55 evolutions.

[@lastofall3555]

Lmao, chill out.

[@artofthepossible7329]

@@lucy3766 And in BW1? With a Hydrogen that has a maxed out Frustration?

[@AlphaladZXA]

@@lucy3766 most people dont use setup moves like that dude

[@JC-ev2ns]

Kalos was the easiest Pokémon region by far. By the time you beat the Pokémon league your Pokémon will be high 60s low 70s without having to do much training. I don’t like grinding but when I can beat the Pokémon league with zero training on the first try you know it’s bad.

[@BOOMERS._]

My pokemon were all 80s and up my greninja was lvl 92

[@charliez077]

yeah Exp Share was absolutely broken in Gen 6 - and it more or less still is in Gen 7.

[@temmie2032]

nah, LGPE are WAY easier.

[@charliez077]

@@temmie2032 I've just (re)played both and Let's Go + XY/ORAS are about as equally ridiculously easy. (U)S(U)M are equally ridiculously easy with the exception of more difficult totem battles/Ultra Necrozma.

[@temmie2032]

@@charliez077 the Difficulty isn't the most important thing After all. The most important thing in a game Is the history. So #Gen5and6ForTheWin. Lol

[@parkershaw8600]

"Easier than tying the shoelaces on your crocs" is such a powerful phrase

[@MajorSpam]

Just bring back the Frontier already, the OG one from Emerald. Thing was so tough, I spent more hours on it than all the games from gen 5 to 7 combined.

[@charliez077]

yeah it's inexcusable they didn't bring back the amazing Emerald Frontier. by far one of the best things in any pokémon games. in USUM we get "Battle Agency"? the worst facility ever!!

[@eagletgriff]

my god i just kept trying and trying to beat a frontier brain. i havent beaten one, even the silver version cus i didnt know about ev training at the time lol. battle front was definitely my favorite part of the game

[@JacobTD]

I think Junichi Masuda said he purposely made the gen 6 games easy since people would rather play games on their phone than do anything hard.

[@charliez077]

I wouldn't mind this philosophy if the result would be MULTIPLE DIFFICULTY MODS. I understand Gen 6 was the first Gen they tried that, but it's inexcusable they didn't repair the difficulty in Gen 7. yes, the boss fights are fun, but the rest of the game with Exp Share on + Z moves is literally BROKEN.

[@siragon756]

@@charliez077 ... nobody coerced you to use them, right ? I mean, we all know that z moves and the 6gen exp share are busted. Don't complain about the games being too easy if you use them...

[@charliez077]

@@siragon756 no buddy, you stop complaining about other people who want a balanced videogame, ffs!

[@siragon756]

@@charliez077 where am i complaining exactly ? I'm just stating facts : the game is more balanced if you don't use the 6gen xp share, the megas and the z-moves in regular battles and they are not mandatory. I'm not saying it's perfect, but it's already better. And i'm not saying it should not be changed for the next games either.

[@bigbangpegasusmaster]

No, he said that regarding why the BF wasn't included in SwSh, it's just as stupid though

[@MegaPokefan97]

Battling every trainer in Sword and Shield puts you 20 levels over the Champion

[@DanielPereira-ey9nt]

Thats a lie, and a prety absurd one, in what reality you end up with a full team of lv80--lv85 mon by playing normally trough a pokemon game ?

[@tresixteen]

Daniel Pereira if you battle in raids and obtain enough exp candies in theory you could have a team of level 100s

[@trent800]

Tresixteen Oh let me grind my starter up too level 100 OMG platnium is so easy I one shot everything

[@DanielPereira-ey9nt]

@The Anonymous Lemon that mechanic only applies to traded mons, mons catched by you will aways obey you

[@kenmarkollano5795]

@@trent800 The problem is that it's hard to grind in earlier games like it's a chore but in newer games it's much more of a breeze.

[@GodSpeedCrow]

Remember switch training Pokémon to have a balanced team? Now all the noobies have high levels easily

[@alex.d7419]

Ikr

[@uteriel282]

remember using checkpoints with high exp rewards like diglets cave to stop and grind your mons for a few hours? havent done that since gen3.

[@sidharthbommineni7780]

Remember planning your switch training pokenon when you find a low level that you wanted to train

[@josephmarvoruy2517]

Me trying to evolve my magikarp in early part of FireRed and LeafGreen. 😂

[@JETZcorp]

@@josephmarvoruy2517 I swear Magikarp was put into the game just to teach players how to switch train. I remember as a kid with Blue version just DESPERATE to level that stupid fish in order to get that dope Kraken thing I saw in the anime.

[@DJTileTurnip]

HOW DARE YOU INSULT MARACTUS

[@Mars-et8vc]

she is easy in my top 5

[@samahissimplistic]

It's so underrated, yet SO cute and needs more love

[@PelemusMcSoy]

I've been playing through White this month, and I gotta say I regret not giving it a chance sooner.

[@llysender]

Yeah she can easily set up with accupressure sucker punch areal ace and needlearm on confaggreous and sweep ghetsis team in BW1 at lv47, maractus should be banned to ubers. My only issue with maractus is that they don't learn seed bomb in the first game.

[@samanthot_]

@@llysender Too bad it's a pure grass type so it just gets brutalized by literally everything... Why did you make grass types terrible, GameFreak?? WHY

[@Roge9]

These games really need a hard mode tbh.

[@awolowiecki720]

“We’ll see if SWSH is too hand holdy”... LOL

[@KrullerAX]

I know speaking about Pokemon Z is beating a dead horse at this point, but this elusive third version sould have been there to fix the difficulty (and the unsolved mysteries). X/Y is one of the worst generation for me because it felt so unfinished. Even with the brilliant gameplay mechanics and awesome new Pokemon they implemented.

[@TheThundershock100]

True, and we gotta know more about Zygarde. The lore behind it and why the evil team wants it so badly (idk if they really do in XY but it would make a good story).

[@Underworlder5]

@@TheThundershock100 seems like a problem when a legendary is fleshed out in the next generation. XY needed a sister game

[@AlexRiversMusic]

KrullerAX this

[@notscorchingsands9718]

So many upset people who wanted to buy the same game

[@tezcanaslan2877]

copcoop24/LightningPlays Zygardes backstory is explaind at sm

[@kit2877]

People: It depends on what pkmon you use Me: but I should be able to enjoy the games using my favourite pkmon who for me are pretty strong and fast special attackers

[@artofthepossible7329]

Every now and again having a playthrough where you pick different pokémon then what you are used to is typically recommended. At the very least you don't get bored with knowing your pokémon, moves and general setup before you even boot up the game.

[@DijaVlogsGames]

Damn, my basketball team always wins agains high school teams. But I want to play with the players I want, including Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley!

[@huyvuminh1048]

@@DijaVlogsGames well because the only option I have is high school team. I can't even find half-decent league without some stupid crippling weakness.

[@heathc148]

Boohoo

[@snowcold5932]

OI my Basculin was in the top5% of Basculins

[@martianmadwoman]

BIG AGREE

[@weenkerz]

Your basculin was in the only 5% of basculins

[@smittannl]

"Pokemon had never been hard" *Points at Cynthia

[@notscorchingsands9718]

Still never

[@linko9720]

Cynthia and liza and tate (gen3 psychic gym) , they are an ass

[@notscorchingsands9718]

@@skyfall7110 No just not bias to gen 4.

[@albertthepeacock8020]

Just use a Garchomp or the box legendary to beat Cynthia not that hard guys

[@linko9720]

@@albertthepeacock8020 legendary just take away the challange imo

[@jiggerblayne]

I love how Whitney is still one of the hardest gym leaders.

[@KInowski49]

True. Defense curl and rollout to wipeout an entire team... oh yeah and milk drink

[@ryanamburgy2791]

Defense curl?

[@KInowski49]

Ryan Amburgy it doubles rollouts dmg

[@ryanamburgy2791]

Matt Kinowski miltank doesn’t have that though.

[@KInowski49]

Ryan Amburgy Woah...I just got Mandela effected! I guess it doesn’t have that move

[@charliez077]

if Gamefreak wants to cater to the youngest audience, they should give them Easy mode, not an Exp Share that will make you much higher leveled than your opponents! no, I don't wanna grind but I also want the opponents on solid levels. I loved the difficulty and the Exp Share (hold items) mechanics in Gen 5 and I would love a game like that again.

[@60darklord]

charlie z I wish the trainer battles would better scale to the EXP share. I LOVE the EXP share, it makes training a low level Pokémon so much easier but it does sadly ruin the difficulty, I’ll end up at the elite four with level 70’s and the trainers are 55-56

[@charliez077]

@@60darklord totally. but I have to say Exp Share has one other questionable/negative effect - it takes the whole "I will try to use this weaker poke in this battle, but if I survive, he will get stronger" thing which Gen 5 has imo done pretty perfectly. I am now replaying Black 2 and tbh having more fun than in Sun. I really wish the Exp Share was more of a middle ground between Gen 5 and Gen 6/7.

[@V-Jes]

Exp share isn't a lucky egg what would boost your xp so the xp is still the same while that "I will try to use this weaker poke in this battle, but if I survive, he will get stronger" is just complete bs considering the weaker pokemon can just switch out and still gets the xp even if it doesn't use a move in older games.

[@charliez077]

@@V-Jes very late reply but partly disagreed. the previous mechanics isn't flawless but at least it DOES reward your weaker mons for at least participating in a battle - so you get to actually use them. I don't wanna go back to switching Lv 5 Magikarp from each battle like in Gen 1, BUT at the same time now with Exp Share getting that Gyarados or Butterfree seems piss easy and you don't get invested in that Caterpie/Metapod at all. I'd welcome some kind of a compromise.

[@V-Jes]

@@charliez077 there is a compromise and it's called just turning the EXP share off when you want to.

[@theR1ch]

I was in middle school when Red and Blue came out. I'm 31 now. How many times do we have to learn the value of friendship? When Blue and Silver showed up and forced me into a battle I was thinking "Oh yeah, it's ON!" Every Rival from Gen 3 and onward was a JOKE (Minus Hugh because he played the role of a wingman). Oh how cute, Hau and Cheren and Barry want to fight me. Ohz nohhhz, here they come. They're gonna get me good.

[@RahulMaru3507]

hop is good

[@blippy117]

hop, bede, gladion, and marnie are all vibin doe

[@TheGrandRevo]

Ok, honestly why does every single poketuber have a still image of their “avatar” that they almost always never draw or animate? This a trend? Idk it bothers me

[@gekkemesto]

TheGrandRevo I think it’s weird too, i’d atleast animate it if iwas one myself

[@TheGrandRevo]

Literallly every single one including the bigger ones like Tamashi and Jwittz who I assume starter the trend

[@TheGrandRevo]

navidesuka to have a fan draw a awkward avatar starring at you through the video? Sounds easy to me. You know what’s hard? Originality

[@SomeNormalArtist]

TheGrandRevo My guess is that they like having their persona dressed as a Pokémon Trainer, so they share the picture cause they hope their fans will enjoy it as much as they do.

[@TheGrandRevo]

navidesuka so it’s a impossibility, point is it’s pretty dam common and god knows why they all play by the same rules minus a few who do more than just “Top 10 favorite towns” bull crap

[@FlameChargeNinja]

Hot damn that new intro. Holy moly that new avatar! JPR is evolving!

[@Bedhead142]

I still play emerald on my gba sometimes, it is 1000% more enjoyable than any Pokémon game of late I played.

[@GP-eq3gh]

Gianni Carlotta just bought one because of this

[@Mystic-Aidan]

Oh hey! It’s the guy that needs to upload more! Seriously tho, I flipping love your videos. Keep up the great work!

[@Aramis98]

Community: talking about how easy Pokémon is Cynthia: *LAUGHS IN GARCHOMP*

[@Pine0wlple]

Yes, please add a difficulty level option! I’m tired of just walking through the whole region spinning my arms and then being called a campion! Fire Emblem added 2 type of difficulty options and it’s amazing!

[@ijustpulledthetrigger5482]

There should at least be a difficulty option

[@sleepiepee]

The Retarded Kitty I couldn’t agree more.

[@alexbluecyndaquil]

That would make Sun and Moon MUCH better!

[@charliez077]

@@alexbluecyndaquil not just Sun and Moon, all Gen 6 and 7 games in which Exp Share is basically broken.

[@awesomeness0759]

They should also have an option to turn guide off, so we have to figure out where to go

[@ijustpulledthetrigger5482]

@@awesomeness0759 they should, it will help make the game longer cause sometimes I feel like they are easy and fast to finish, I dont want to finish sword and shield right away, I think I'm gonna overtrain my pokemon and try to get every shiny so I dont get bored

[@JayTayD]

I just finished X and didn’t lose a single battle. I’m playing platinum now and almost lost to the gym trainer before Roark 😅 and then lost my first battle to Fantina 😓

[@David-gj9qr]

During high school I went back and played platinum after having played one of the gen 6 games and platinum was surprisingly difficult

[@iyang2341]

Same, after completing the Isle of Armor DLC I restarted platinum and I'm at the elite 4 and holy crap its hella difficult

[@literallyh3093]

just got back from 7/11 with a chillie dog and arizona. Time to sit back, relax and enjoy this video on this clear saturday afternoon.

[@WardofSquid]

Mood

[@incomments2864]

I would go for something more healthy and I did. So what I said matters.

[@datboi2886]

Time Lizard that’s a fuckin vibe

[@Axeloy]

Are you me?

[@playerhateroftheyear1084]

This isnt Instagram

[@matthewstockhausen]

the rotom dex was more annoying than navi -_- Pokemon games stopped being memorable, some of my favorite memories are grinding up for the next big boss instead of well i arrived in town over leveled so gym time. on difficulty i had to start restricting my self to only using the same number of pokemon in any battle, unless i have only one type / only advantages Im allowed one main advantage, no exp all, and cant be over leveled. i know pokemon is for kids but the games should start off easier and get harder. npcs get more pokemon, exp becomes rare, hazards ramp up, story walkthough becomes less directional while the intensity of the story picks up, you should want to beat your rival not hide from how friendly/annoying the 30 of them are, you should want to beat/go after the evil team, and the champion shouldnt be a free win.

[@fartchamber12]

artificial difficulty from over levelled npcs and a lack of exp available to you can be a boring type of difficulty, I'd prefer it if gamefreak were smarter with their difficulty. Giving the npcs strong cover moves, better AI and just better strategies is probably the way to go

[@LunarDelta]

@MagamisZon Indeed. In the video he says it took him and his friends *weeks* to figure out how to beat lance and steven. Not only are they delusional, they just suck at Pokemon. I've always thought of myself as someone who sucked at video games, but even I was able to beat them on the first try. Platinum was *slightly* more difficult. But only just slightly.

[@Underworlder5]

if you make the games more difficult by reducing grinding options, there should be a post game feature designed with grinding in mind, for the sake of pokedex completion, competitive buildup or just wanting to level up your pokemon

[@flaminghorsebackrider6969]

I highly recommended trying out Persona if you want a harder/more adult Pokémon. They have basically they same combat, just Persona has less variety.

[@Deathlock61]

Pokemon isn't for kids it's for everyone of all ages gf has said this before

[@SinisterHoodedFigure]

We needed this video. Pokémon Stadium, Pokemon Colosseum, Whitney, Platinum Level differences not correlating with the difficulty is a valid point. That’s why hard mode Romhacks are made. We need a mountain to climb in our lives. Even in children’s games.

[@notscorchingsands9718]

not always.

[@ezzili]

I actually found Diamond harder than Platinum, not sure exactly why people thought Platinum was so hard...

[@SinisterHoodedFigure]

EzzIlI enemies in Platinum had better AI and movesets. Diamond had far less options for the player, and more wildcards and Bronzong for the enemy.

[@tayloi2]

why do people always say platinum was so hard? ive replayed it about 5 times with different pokemon every time and not once has it ever been difficult

[@Nick-mp1zh]

This is especially noticeable with the newest Pokémon game. It feels like it was made for toddlers

[@charliez077]

to be fair XY is even worse. SwSh would actually have an okayish difficulty if it wasn't ridiculously easy to get overlevelled in Wild Area.

[@KrullerAX]

I really liked the thought process and the examples shown in the video. You get a new subscriber man. That's the second video of yours I'm watching and I'm impressed with the quality.

[@RobotHunter1234]

>Difficulty in Pokemon >Hau on the thumbnail >Pick one

[@Robbie_Haruna]

Never forget his Eeveelution that has both Charm and Baby Doll Eyes. The former literally makes the latter redundant. Not to mention his starter that doesn't even have four moves.

[@alexanderstilianov]

That's the point?

[@ConsarnitTokkori]

comparing him to whitney?

[@navyblues6661]

OK but *ALOLAN RAICHU*

[@albertthepeacock8020]

Hau>>>>>>>>>>>Blue and Edgy Blue

[@masteroflag]

Note I’m commenting before seeing the video: Gen 1. Dumb AI and is meant to be beaten when you are under the level of all the bosses. By being at or above their level slightly it’s easy mode which is why it and Gen 2 are considered grind fests Gen 3 had an alright balance since they realized you had to have a water Pokémon to get anywhere so only one gym early before you needed one had an advantage and even then your starter can beat it. Gen 4 and 5 gave you an actual challenge before the post game Gen 6 and 7 had to cheat to make it difficult at all

[@titanicfudge._.7038]

Gen 2?

[@masteroflag]

TitanicFudge ._. Gen 2 has similar complaints but it’s way more obvious as those of Gen 1. With Gen 1 it’s believable you can get to the late 50s if you get lost in victory road’s puzzles for hours. And if you still are not good enough repeating the elite four fights will teach you. With Gen 2 no one is really above 60s in the trainer department and wild Pokémon are in the 40s max till mount silver. Heck the main game has the 50s as it’s end levels. So when you get to Red who has a level 81 Pikachu first and everything else is in the late 60s to mid 70s that should be the cue that Pikachu is only level 81 so it can keep up with level 64 Pokémon with high base stats. But everyone just complains about needing to grind to the impossible to get to late 60s and 70s to beat Red when if you are smart you can do it with mid to late 50s team. Which is even told to you with catching Larvatar in mount silver who evolves at 55 to his final stage and until then can handle Pikachu if in the late 40s to early 50s anyway.

[@masteroflag]

TitanicFudge ._. Also early game also shows this mechanic to you in Gen 1. Yes Squirtle and Bulbasaur can steamroll Brock but only with the moves they learn at level 12, the same level Brock’s Geodude is. And if you already have two or three Pokémon on your team and didn’t grind your team is around level 10 or 11 when you get in there. Giving the satisfaction of getting that new powerful attack by beating his grunt or the Geodude if at 11. And since no Pokémon you catch can beat rock besides Butterfree with confusion it’s a great teacher to either grind or learn out to use leech seed and bubble to your advantage. And then you get to misty who unless you grind you couldn’t possibly have 3/4 Pokémon at level 18, let alone one at 21 unless you go see Bill first as an easier sort of grind. Sabrina’s OP psychic type gym forcing you to grind or know who can tank hits and put them to or poison them. Lance’s dragons being strong against most other types and immune to ground. All meant to teach you to stop grinding and start playing smart. And if you can’t play smart play more of the game so Pokémon becomes your life

[@torrent3481]

it's definitely hard to move forward at some points in gen 2 but, that's what i like about it. the puzzles, the cave labyrinths, the things that made the game actually interesting. if pokemon games only focus on the battle aspect and exclude the adventure aspect every game would, well be exactly the same and that feels boring. yeah, the games focus around battling but, it really does get boring only doing things like the battle tree or battle tower and online battles over and over again. it's good to have that change of pace with other content which is why i like mantine surf so much.

[@charliez077]

@@torrent3481 great points and I will add that what killed the exploration difficulty was actually not Gen 6 at all but Gen 7 with the full 3D mode! I was so looking forward to it, but I think it had a huge negative effect of killing all the exploration puzzles. they should work on that really hard, there is not a SINGLE difficult area to get through in Gen 7 - Poni Canyon is at least quite fun and the upgraded USUM Mount Lanakila too.

[@JRCody-ds3ec]

As a character, it makes sense that Cheren gives you chests berries. He is a nerd and even though he is your rival, he started out as a friend.

[@afromarco005]

Next make the importance of skipping dialogue tutorials and cutscenes in pokemon.

[@bunny5735]

Teachy TV We need primo

[@RoseSupreme]

2:29 I actually appreciated this, because I had only just recently picked up my long-dormant copy of Moon and had no idea where to go, so seeing the red flags telling me where to go was a lifesaver. It's also good for those who spam A through dialogue, so they might miss where the NPCs are telling them to go.

[@briansherrod1916]

X and Y had so much potential but it was way too easy. I found the first five gens to be a really good challenge

[@myristicina.]

Brian Sherrod I think let’s go is the easiest I legit finished it in 3 days

[@Karaaa99]

MoonlightSky I got so bored with how easy it was, that I stopped playing after the 5th gym and popped firered into my gameboy and had a go at it instead.

[@junichiroyamashita]

I came from years of Firered to Pearl,i remember beating the League at the first try, while i had to really learn how to play to have a chance against Lorelei

[@davidvazquez5200]

Agreed. I only finished X out of a sense of obligation to finish it before starting my first play through of Ultra Sun, which was just as easy with the exception of the fused Necrozma/Solgaleo. I wasn’t paying much attention at all. I was watching tv and just hitting buttons absentmindedly while battling the elite four and the champion. And was like “wow that was lame” and moved on. I finished Ultra Sun a few days ago and am now starting Black. I have yet to play Gold/Silver and their remastered counterparts though

[@laudydorado5245]

I can't even recall X/Y gym leaders now... Their not memorable and the story had potential but was too shabby in execution. We don't even access Mega Evolution during the main story except for Event Blaziken & Lucario during story and even without it, the story was easy, unlike in Gen. 7 where Z-moves are incorporated all throughout + Mega in post game.

[@lrod312]

They should do away with ‘type’ oriented gyms and use stat based gyms such as attack, sp. attack, defense etc. based ones. It’ll teach newer players that there’s more to gaining control of a battle other than simply tossing up type matchups while also keeping veteran players engaged and challenged.

[@Vigriff]

I had a similar idea.

[@Ashberryvillage10]

Sees Whitney on thumbnail *Great Pokémon War PTSD flashbacks*

[@Dave_Chrome]

I've played the first 5 generations, loved them all to death. I remember playing Y for an hour though. Got to level 10, did some Super Training. I also remember thinking that there were too many rivals, and that none of them stood out.

[@Dave_Chrome]

My favorite games are Platinum, Soulsilver, and White 2. Although Pokemon Blue has a special place in my heart...

[@doyin9388]

I used to just choose the Pokémon that looked cool and use them for the whole game

[@Fimbleshanks]

I still do that, tbh. I gotta look at them for 70+ hours, so they may as well make my eyeballs happy.

[@uteriel282]

i always make a team of a fire, water, elec, grass, flying and ground type pokemon for a total of 6 in every game. done that since red/blue and the only thing i cared about other than typing was how they looked and if i had fun using them. thats how mons like houndoom, victreebell and sharpedo became part of my fav pokemon of all time.

[@Kaizoku-o_PirateKing]

I do as well. No matter which gen, you can make it work. I only build actual teams for pvp post-game.

[@TheGalaxyWings]

Magikarp

[@Acacius1992]

@@uteriel282 Same here :D Even I not always choose a Ground type but sometimes another type I dont have in the team, Fire Grass, Water, Electric and Flying always in my team.

[@125Dave8]

I remeber getting lost on Sinnoh's Mt. Coronet several times. I remember Cynthia's Spiritomb giving a really hard time in Diamond. To me, Sinnoh was really hard and it holds a very special place in my heart. Also, after going through the Wild Area in Galar, I do believe Pokémon should slowly evolve to more of an open world RPG.

[@BlueDevilVR66]

While X and Y where too easy, they do have something going for them. X and Y are great for Mono-type play throughs

[@armaggedon390]

I had a fire only team for the most part in that game. When it came time to fight Diantha, I purposefully evolved my Charizard X so that I would have a type disadvantage. I still soloed her team with Charizard.

[@BlueDevilVR66]

@@armaggedon390 I have noticed some pokemon just do extordinairly well. Krookodile, Venussaur and Tentacruel all just do so well in Kalos

[@versaillesbitch342]

armaggedon390 Charizard is Fire/Dragon so it is not weak to fairy.

[@shofu]

big facts

[@original_shmirko_account]

yo

[@tarendurin]

I felt bad because I beat UNecrozma with Let's Snuggle Forever and I felt like I missed a really fun and difficult battle just because I wanted to start out with a bang. Didn't think my mimikyu would one hit the bastard.

[@emc246]

Mimikyu is ridiculously strong. I ended up reviving mine 4 times so I could use the free turn to use Play Rough.

[@crusadrian5010]

Yea I feel you. I overleveled my Malamar and used Topsy Turvey to give UNecrozma pisspoor everything. After that I just dodged or tanked everything with affection. I think it only took two foul plays. A 2HKO on the most difficult pokemon besides Whitneys Miltank makes me feel like I missed out.

[@TheThundershock100]

Man, I'm missing out on this UNecrozma battle. Every good game and 3DS emulator can't be on a low end 32bit PC

[@wolfskullcave]

replay value my ass, game only has 1 save file.

[@awmmusicofficial8014]

Greg S. Yep, it’s been like that since red and blue

[@Nameless_mixes]

Honestly, I thought US/UM were wicked difficult because the totem boosts were overpowered, being able to bring in a partner Pokemon and then both mons having moves to cover their weaknesses (and throw in other mechanics as you mentioned) and it felt a little over done. Plus the level gaps were a little extreme. I feel like if they’d made the totem battles as double battles the games would’ve been a little more balanced (but in 7th gen, double battles were lag central sooo... I can see why they didnt pursue that route). But yeah, I think gens 1-5 were all perfect examples of how you can have a nicely balanced difficulty in the games without feeling like it’s a cake walk and also without feeling like you need to just constantly level up your Pokemon to stand a chance against the opponents.

[@samsulh314]

I would also like to see some more puzzles in the game (both in gyms and the environment). But yes, more difficult battles would be great!

[@RevengeRaptorREAL]

Let's all hope and pray the new Sword and Shield games will give us something to work hard over. Isn't the point of Pokemon games to be played as long as possible for the biggest experience? So if I struggle at parts in the game, it will give me more of a reason to play and to work towards that goal. You get more out of a game that you don't rush through like a speed run, and its why I enjoy playing Pokemon as much as I can.

[@Dennis-sv2de]

IIRC Junichi Masuda won't be in charge of Sword and Shield. He's also the guy who was responsible for excluding the Battle Frontier from ORAS because "people don't spend as much time playing just one game anymore nowadays thanks to smartphones and what-not". He's kind of responsible for making the games easier, too. But honestly all I want is for them to not make the game hold your hand. If Sword and Shield actually lets me move from one city to the next without an NPC talking to me and guiding me to the next gym I'll be content.

[@charliez077]

@@Dennis-sv2de was Masuda realy responsible for excluding Battle Frontier from ORAS? I thought they simply didn't have enough time, if that's the case, I officially hate Masuda, lol. in Gen 6 and 7 there is no facility comparable to Frontier or at least World Tournament and it SUCKS (btw Battle Agency is a complete joke too)

[@Deathlock61]

@@charliez077 yes he's the reason why there's no battle frontier in oras and why the games got easier but luckily he's stepped down as the director

[@charliez077]

@@Deathlock61 wow, I can't believe he would scrap the legendary Emerald's Battle Frontier, the EXACT thing the games would need now. stuff like Battle Pyramid were so cool - and getting Battle Agency instead of Battle Factory in USUM is absolutely mind-boggling too... well let's hope Masuda's stepping down will result in some new life to difficulty in Pokémon :)

[@Gatitasecsii]

USUM are the most boring games I've forced myself to play in my entire life. I got halfway through the tutorial (so about 15 hours in) and I couldn't bear the handholding any longer.

[@temmie2032]

Ultra Sun (and Moon) were kind of fun, but I compleated It in like 3 days... /: (13-14 hours)

[@RetirededKat]

Oh man, Gold and Silver... I had to work my way slowly through the Elite Four the first time, losing to each one multiple times, running out of items, it was a real grind, but so much more satisfying than beating Sun or Black version.

[@JoseDorda]

Oh man I game I beat just mashing A from start to finish because I just my starter whole game.

[@RetirededKat]

@@JoseDorda That's one way to do it I guess :P

[@notscorchingsands9718]

Well you got better. So the harder games aren't hard to you.

[@notscorchingsands9718]

@@boxenjoyerkona that's a hater. you find gen 2 hard? LMFAO

[@johntaxpayer2523]

@@notscorchingsands9718 i recently played crystal for the first time and i found it really easy

[@cuddlebug9699]

Literally was playong Y RN and got to the double battle in the Pokeball factory,The fact you can just say No and completely heal your Pokemon,Trade party order and save before it completely took me off of it. I remember in Heart Gold and Platinum where the enemy grunts would boast about how "Taking you on after my buddy has weakened you gives me the upper hand" meanwhile Team Flare just stands there and lets you heal

[@lLucasFinch]

You are right, I finish ultra moon in 20 hours with all pokémons lvl 70 + and I didnt nothing, just play the stupid history. I remember when I played Pokémon Yellow until Platinum, I spend some hours training my team before a gym or elite four.

[@totallyahuman5481]

Daisuke you know that since you have more experience so it is easier than the actual game is right yes they do make it easier for people but still you have more experience

[@phoenixgamer10gaming18]

Why doesn’t Korrina have a Lucario in the games

[@cinnamonpanda6040]

She does, she fights your lucario with hers

[@charliez077]

bc that would be too challenging for Little Timmy

[@gnarly_charley]

Ni no kuni 1 was one of my favorite games ever. Ni no kuni 2 was much anticipated...but was so easy I quit playing it. Challenge is needed in all games

[@michaelbowman6684]

Pokemon you basically get for free in Pokemon X & Y, not counting any Legendary Pokemon: 1 Kalos Starter (Obviously. Greninja, btw) 1 Kanto Starter (Charizard for life) 1 Snorlax (A solid Normal Type) 1 Lucario + Megastone (Fairy Killer) 1 Lapras (Nice Surf user and Ice coverage) 1 Fossil Pokemon (Tyrantrum ez clap) The only Pokemon you need to capture is Snorlax, everyone else is obtained through side-quests and optional stuff. EDIT: You can also obtain a 2nd Kalos Starter and a Ralts + Gardevoirite after completing the game. The Kalos Starter is the one that Shauna picked, and the Ralts is obtained from Diantha, holding the Megastone. Both of these Pokemon are be obtained by trading, but ANY Pokemon can be used.

[@MiriaJiyuu]

If you got the game early enough you would also be handed a torchic with speed boost. While you had to contend with levelling issues in regards to obedience, it's not until you get to like th 5th gym that you're finally against something torchics evo line ISNT supereffective against. Not to mention torchic-blaziken is literally a line of high attack. You barely had to try to win the fights, their damage is so high and you are faster due to speed boost/over level which is literally blazikens stategy and it's just handed to you.

[@ratedzeus783]

I remember learning several double's strategies from Colosseum.

[@oresti9271]

Cheren : here those chesto berries you will need them Tracy : before you battle me take those 10 potions