That would be the lack of many Johto Pokemon that are widely considered some of the strongest in the game , particularly Ampharos and Girafarig. This will put a lot more pressure on you to find powerful Pokemon. While the variety in the wild is greater, the power levels of your options are made slightly weaker by the greater list of unobtainable Pokemon. Pokemon Black 2 specifically wins in terms of difficulty thanks to a hard-to-unlock Hard Mode, which you could load to other games if you'd unlocked it.
This is mostly irrelevant since you needed two games and DS consoles to do it, but both these Unova sequels gave a much greater set of challenges with their larger Pokedex. This expanded Pokedex makes Team Plasma far more threatening, and new first and second Gyms make for much better Normal and Poison-type tests. This game's challenges are also expressed in the World Tournament, an especially deep challenge that lets you fight against powerful versions of Gym Leaders from throughout Pokemon history.
Totem Pokemon were all raised in power to be even more menacing, and the new expanded Pokemon variety included many that evolve at late levels to put you at a disadvantage.
That said, these lead to a difficult game in a way that feels more unfair than challenging. It's miles ahead of the original Alola games, but be wary that it's not fundamentally more interesting or deep of an experience.
All of the original Hoenn games have managed to hold up really well, with the Elite 4 being a great final test and the villain teams being fairly challenging thanks to the reliance on Fire, Water, and Dark-types. The first two games are still certainly great for this, but Emerald absolutely succeeds as the most challenging of the three. In terms of quantity, Emerald's inclusion of the Battle Frontier makes for the most challenges and even features a post-game fight with Former Champion Steven.
However, even excluding these features, the rest of the game has much greater team diversity and much stronger rivals than trainers got in the original Hoenn adventures. The absolute hardest Pokemon game has to be Pokemon Platinum, and it earns this title with all the polish that the original Sinnoh games sorely lacked. This game featured a much more balanced Pokedex, stronger Gym Leaders, a fresh new Battle Frontier, and a much stronger Elite 4 to build up to the final showdown with Cynthia.
It hardly feels unfair either, as the game gives you a much wider variety of options for your team that all feel reasonably powerful at the time you encounter them. You might struggle in certain parts of the game, but it's never anything you can't outwit with smart battling and a bit of grinding, and you'll come out of this journey perfectly tested in your skills as a Pokemon trainer. Gene Cole is a Canadian freelance writer with a B.
He works hard to keep an open mind towards a huge variety of games, and loves learning about how different people make and play them. In his free time he loves wandering aimlessly in Slime Rancher, fiddling with competitive games like Poker and Magic: The Gathering, and amateurishly attempting to speedrun Super Mario Odyssey. Share Share Tweet Email. One of the most significant improvements introduced with Gen II was letting you choose your gender at the start of the game. Jigglypuff, Pikachu, and Vulpix also replace the original starters, and the game features the newer Dark, Steel, and Fairy types.
And I still look back on it fondly. And to clarify, this is the gen I ROM hack, not to be confused with the official game of the same name. Many story events are waiting for you all around the region, which will remind you of different anime episodes, complete with the same characters and locales. Also it replaces HMs with tools that Ash can carry in his backpack, rather than wasting party space on an HM slave.
Real-time battles are also a new concept that makes combat more dynamic, innovating rather than rehashing the same concept from the original games like Nintendo does. Give it a try and see what you think! And now you must adventure through the Tunod region in a bid to stop the impending disaster of dimensional collision. Like new moves from recent generations that were missing from Glazed. Keeping up with the decay theme, your starter options are the poisonous Paras, Koffing, and Baltoy.
What is the best main series Pokemon game? Which Pokemon game is the most fun? Which Pokemon game takes the longest? The Pokemon Company. Similar to Sun and Moon, it received a mixed opinion when it initially released. This was due to multiple reasons. First, the story that was set in the Black and White region was one of the weaker ones we've seen in a Pokemon game.
This was in large part due to Team Plasma, one of the less interesting villains. This is combined with the Unova region and the Pokemon that were introduced in this region. Similar to Sun and Moon, there were some highlights in this region. But, for the most part, they were lacking in comparison to some of the other games we're going to dive into later in this article.
It was a revolutionary console in its own department, but it was clear at the time that the software was tricky to develop for Black and White. The game was highly anticipated, as it was coming off the tail end of the amazing Diamond and Pearl titles. Nevertheless, there's still a good reason to check out Pokemon Black and White.
The game offers some unique battle animations with it being on the 3DS. And while the villains were lacking, the gym battles and the Elite 4 were above average in comparison. Do not slack on Black and White, even if it the last game on our Pokemon games ranked article.
Released in , Pokemon Sun and Moon was Pokemon's last entry on the 3DS and one of the most experimental Pokemon games we've seen from the series. The game forged gym battles in favor of Pokemon trials. The Aloha region featured a Pokemon trial per island and also incorporated Totem Pokemon. Essentially, these were overpowered Pokemon that players would have to challenge to progress past a certain area.
Similar to gym battles, but many trainers around the world could not grasp this concept when it first released. While the game had mixed results in terms of trials and Totem Pokemon, there were some aspects of the game that were delightful. In terms of Pokemon that were introduced during the seventh generation, there are some notable faces that fans of the series still go back to.
The debate is still up in the air whether or not fans love these Pokemon or not. One of the areas in which Sun and Moon lack is certainly in post-game content. With little to do after the credits roll, it's tough to justify having this game ranked any higher. This one may come off as a tad controversial because the game was only released in , but hear us out.
While Pokemon Sword and Shied was the first Pokemon game released on the Nintendo Switch, it was also one of the series' most ambitious projects in recent memory.
Sword and Shield implemented a fantastic feature in the form of the Wild Area, a massive part of the Galar Region where Pokemon would spawn throughout in the overworld. While in the Wild Area, the weather would also decide what Pokemon would spawn, an excellent concept from Nintendo.
Since this was the first time Nintendo tested this feature out, it received a decent amount of criticism from fans. For starters, many trainers thought there could have been so much more done within the Wild Area. It's essentially half the Galar Region, and there's not much to do in the Wild Area besides catching Pokemon and participating in Dynmax Raids.
On the topic of raids, these were mini-boss battles in which you could partake with online friends or NPCs. The Pokemon you could find in these battles were also much stronger than regular Wild Pokemon, but there was never an incentive to partake in these battles. We can't forget the backlash Pokemon received prior to the game's release due to the lack of a National Dex.
A staple in every Pokemon game was left out this time around, and fans of the series did not hold back in criticizing Pokemon for this decision. While they've done a decent job in implementing more Pokemon in the form of expansion packs, the initial blunder by Pokemon cannot be forgotten.
All-in-all, Pokemon Sword and Shield is by no means a bad Pokemon game. We're sure Nintendo is going to take the feedback from this title and fine-tune their next main series game that we should expect around While this Pokemon game was technically the first to be released on the Nintendo Switch, it was not the first main series title.
Instead, it was a showcasing of the Nintendo Switch's features with a remake of the classic Kanto Region titles. Sure, the likes of Spewpa and Binacle are pretty… bad. But Talonflame? They somehow manage to be extremely tame and extremely weird at the same time, and ludicrously pair each and every one of their successes with an odd or downright bad design decision on the whole other end of the spectrum.
Who cares whether or not the five-year-olds are having fun? In general, the entire atmosphere of Sinnoh is superior in Gen 4 because of how well-suited the region is to the art style depicting it. The art and music are loads better here though, leading to an overall superior experience. Just remember that neither these games nor the remakes are the best way to explore Sinnoh — more on that later. Coming out of the Rock Tunnel and heading south to Lavender Town is still as impactful as ever.
Silph Co. See that pun? Ultra Beasts are great, Team Rainbow Rocket is still a brilliantly absurd concept, and in general they just feel like a slightly more fleshed-out version of Alola.
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