We've spent so much complaining about gen 8, so it's fair to ask, what are some actually cool things you like from gen 8?
The girls are good fap materialThat's it5 years later and people only talk about the girls.That's what pokemon is good for nowadays. Providing coombait
>>56791424I like the character designs.
>>56791424Pla is the objectively best Pokémon game since hgss and it’s technically from gen 8 so there’s that.
>>56791424both are dei goyslop
You can dress like a whore.
>>56791424Raid battles
>>56791424Alcremie
>>56791424The QoL.>single friendship/affection stat>mints>candies>bottle caps for level 50 (no clue why they set it to 100 before)>no repels>TRs
>>56791496why are you lying? >>56791508
>>56791424Return of the apricot balls. This combined with the 100% catch rate of raid-mons has allowed an unprecedented level of balltsm to emerge
>>56791424Runerigus, Orbeetle, Grimmsnarl, Falinks, Dragapult, Eternatus, Regieleki, Calyrex (and it's whole story) and Galarian Moltres
>>56791424Dynamax was actually a really good idea.
>>56791602This, it has issues with balancing in single and a base concept that isn't *that* exciting, but it brought a new life to a lot of Pokémon with how it interacts with their movesets and it fulfills the "you get to choose an ace Pokémon with extra fighting power" fantasy better than Megas since you can actually pick anyone for it.
>>56791424These guys are cool.
>>56791424I like Gmax a lot. As a fan of kaiju, it was really awesome. Gmax Grimmsnarl is one of the coolest designs in Pokemon. Never thought they'd do some giant demonic being in this franchise.
>>56791424It gave us me my favorite Water starter
>>56791424nessathats it
>>56791424The ability to run your own tournaments was really cool. I'm kinda mad S/V doesn't have it.
>>56791424the dressing mechanicssome of the new pokémonthe inspiration from the british islespretty much all trade evos being found in the wild
It was supposed to be a coombait thread but since you guys are giving serious answers:I like the stadium gymshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quYjN57Tycg
>>56791424Corviknight is unreasonably badass
>>56791424I think it actually had decent visuals. Or maybe gen 9 was just such a downgrade that it looks good now.
>>56791424I like how visually beautiful and impressive the Gigantamax transformations are, Dynamax doesn't impress me as much.It really makes you feel like you're facing a final Boss. Its use as a mechanic is pretty meh
>>56791533Its still locked to level 100 though? In SV its 50.
>>56791508kek
>>56791424Character designs were good and I like some of the Pokemon
>>56791424The Gen 8 dex is almost entirely garbageThe clown is alright though
>>56791424I enjoyed the music more than any other gen
>>56791424I hate gen 8 with a burning passion, but it did bring along some of my favorite mons to date like CorviCHAD, Orbeetle, I love the Galarian variants of the legendary birds, I like Centiskorch and I love Appletun. The music is also pretty fantastic and has some really memorable bangers, not the (((Toby Fox))) tracks, those suck dick and are overrated because "muh undershit".
>>56791424I liked raids as a way to have more co-operative play and the access it gave you to different pokemon you may not have found otherwise was pretty ok, like I didnt find a Dreepy in my first playthrough but I did find a Drakloak in a raid
>>56791424As an AVID hater, even I can say good things about this travesty.>SOME character designs are fine. Sonia, Oleana, Cogita, Aresu, Peony, Kabu... even Chairman Rose was fine, if a bit boring/safe.>The implied sense of scale was nice to see. The execution was terrible, but you could somewhat believe these were full-fledged real scale places, at least from a visual standpoint.>Some baller Pokémon managed to shine among the stinkers. Special mention goes to the bar none coolest regional bird, very nice regional bug, good boxart legends (if a bit overshilled), unique gimmick mons (Toxtricity and the merengue mons) and Sirfetch'd.
Galar appreciation thread? It's time>Biggest region to date with 2 mini regions>You can actually see pokemon out in the overworld instead of having to deal with boring random encounters>Characters are kino, they all have their arcs and good designs>Best gym system in the series, actually trying something different by making it a big deal and changing the elite 4 to a tournament where you fight 6 trainers instead of 4>You're bored of the main story? It's okay man, just go back to the wild area and do some raids>You can camp and cook by finding ingredients, adding more personality to each pokemon as well as 151 curries of content>Main gimmick is actually balanced instead of being given to already OP legendaries or simply being a nuke button>Strongest region to date, hosting the strongest champion and gym leaders who could be champions>Has league cards which flesh out the characters and give them back stories instead of the literal who gym leaders in gens 1-4>Great for competitive pokemon, with an actual ranking system as well as bottle caps, TRs, and mints allowing all your bros to become properly trained with little effort>Brought back following Pokemon >Brought back jerk rivals>Brought back apricorn balls>Added things to do online other than just battling and trading>Added marks>Added Brilliant Pokemon >Added square shinies>Has fun minigames like Rotom Rally>Has fun side quests like finding 100 Diglett and finding the footprints of the Swords of Justice>Is still being updated with new events to this day, over a year and a half after release>Has 4 battle facilities that each operate different, basically a Battle Frontier>Useless bloat moves that have no reason to exist were finally cut (Barrier, Foresight, Constrict etc.)Yeah I'm thinking KINO
>>56791424This nigga
>>56791800I actually really like the very very start of this (first 18 or so seconds) and the base theme is alright. But I also despise the soccer aesthetic and the moment the chanting begins I'm tapped out.
>>56793289You must be 18 to post on this site.
>>56793348Yawnfag is 35, actually.
>>56793362And yet one wouldn't be able to tell with that blatant "babbu's first Pokeymanz" post. Embarrassing.
>>56793282The PlA characters are not from gen 8.the only thing Galar and PLA have in common is being DEIslop
>>56793387Unfortunately PLA is *technically* considered Gen 8. Even if you disregard them, a precious few Galar designs aren't bad.
>>56793379Sorry for having good opinions, I forgot that wasn't allowed here
>>56791424>nice and bright cartoony artstyle>amazing character designs>beautiful environments (sometimes)>gym battles feel like actual events>good ost sadly, everything else is mid at best
This gen gave me my favorite pokemon girl my beautiful wife Melony who makes me extremely happy even now (Additionally some of the pokemon designs are great and it was fun exploring the overworld with it being a good foundation that gen 9 built off of)
