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"One taste I know won't change is how much I love raid shadow legends".....................Yeah Wolfey, we are not idiots, we know you are only saying that because you have to.

Your mouth is so wide in the thumbnail you look like a mega glalie

Uninspired copy/paste content, clickbait face, AND a Raid CTA in the comments 😂😂

,i hope b2 and w2 get a remake with better graphics

why wolfey….YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE!

I think nostalgia is not a negative, but rather a big part of why pokemon is so special. The time it came out, the craze, the age you were when you first experienced pokemon. It all added up to a franchise that will never be forgotten by diehard fans.

Yeah I understand why he clarified by saying nostalgia will effect his decisions but I think if someone were to say they are ignoring nostalgia then I would doubt them to begin with. Isn't the whole point of ranking your favourite is by using your bias opinion? But yeah nostalgia lets you ignore a lot of problems that you aren't necessarily letting other games off for.

Black 2 was my favorite as well! I care a lot more about plot than a lot of pokefans, and bw and bw2 I think did a fantastic job, especially the sequels in showing the consequences of team plasmas actions in the first. I also loved the conveniences they added. Grinding didn't seem so bad when I could just battle a breeder over and over and also earn money, and the y button was so convenient. Little things like that made it so much better. I also love the pokemon in them and the music is fantastic.

Hit it right on the mark! When doing the remakes, gamefreak shouldve really done yellow, crystal, emerald, platinum. But no, greed to sell two games won. Everyone knows the 3rd gane of the gend were easily the best

I know gen 5 praise isn't that new, but it's so satisfying to see it finally get the recognition it deserves after being hated so much upon release.

Playing Emerald, Platinum, and Black/White 2 on release was really something else. Even as a kid growing up, you could tell those 3 games were something special. The fact that gens 3, 4, and 5 had back to back bangers makes looking at the current state of Pokemon legitimately pretty sad. I hope we get to see a game like at least one of those three again.

Straight facts those 3 generations hit different in my childhood fr I’m glad I experienced em as a kid by the time gen 6 came around I was starting high school

@nautgaming nautgaming BDSP was also developed by a different studio than every other Pokemon game.

@Supxrkicks I think scarlet violet will be good because pokemon has been hit or miss alternating lately Legends arceus was amazing but bdsp was THE SINGLE WORST REMAKES EVER for obvious reasons Arceus was amazing even my older friends loved Playing it n some of them don't even play pokemon anymore like I love how mature n realistic it was

@Cruel Reality "Oh look, someone has a different opinion from mine, so that automatically makes THEM wrong" 🙄🙄

At first, I thought SV would be a flop but as soon as I played it, I got hooked immediately

I absolutely love legends: arceus. I love almost all pokemon games (except sun and moon and bdsp) but legends: arceus is literally all I wanted since I was a little kid. it was a beautiful introduction into the origins of pokemon trainers and I genuinely hope they will continue the "Legends" series for notable main legendaries. I'm thinking something like "Pokemon Legends: Mew" for starters

I also prefer the 2D games aha I'm also a gen 1 player so that's probably why. I really hope they make another new original 2D game that'd be awesome

Revisiting this one, you think Scarlet/Nexus would take up the first-place spot now? Or where would you polace it?

Definitely agree with Black 2 and White 2, still my favourite till now

I am currently working on my Pokédex and need to get my Lugia from SS to Home. That's why i am playing through Black 2. And tis game shows how good a Pokémon game can be. Triple battles and circle battles were never again used i think. The Pokémon feel so alive and the music is superb. But not as good as ScarVi.

I’ve never been more liberated and proud to see B2W2 being in the spot it deserves to be

Ikr … I thought I was weird to love them

"I've never been more liberated" What did Team Plasma and Ghetsis do to you? Where is your trainer?

true i love those games

Personally I love shining pearl I love it !!!!

Something i appreciate with X and Y is that they still use regular drawings for the trainer and gym leader portraits. The pokemon artstyle is so distinct. I don't think 3D can do it justice. Mixing the styles and playing to their individul strengths is the best of both worlds.

@Tamer Koh Well, to each their own 🙂

I disagree, only because they were static, like cardboard cutouts. It was a step back, compared to every single trainer animating in Black and White 2, with the pixel art.

X and y was awesome

Yes i love the gym leader portrait

I agree! I did like the trainer png's. Although i preferred black and whites animated trainer sprites, they had a bit more life in them.

crazy how your S+ and F tiers contain my personal favourites lol

This guy really has balls to ask us to subscribe just right after he said he doesn't like the Johto and Hoenn remakes😂

@Jose Enrico Coronel I mean mid means middle of the road man and judging how you only named a few titles under it, it makes sense to be mid. But the main reason i say it’s mid is cus aside from the delta episode the game wasn’t anything crazy. Post game was a little weak, the main game was way too easy even under nuzlockes with hard rule sets, Steven got replaced with a way worse champion, and the originals look better and have more to offer. To me a whole remakes purpose is to either be just as good as the old game with new graphics, or to offer a far different take on the old game while still keeping its charm. I don’t think ORAS did either

@Bruis 15 I wonder why you think it's mid when it's better than XY, Moon Sun, and BDSP. If we have gotten the same Battle frontier in Emerald, it would be on top of the list.

@SweetSweetAliB They would've been stellar games if they had included just that small but big detail. Hell I'm sure that the games would've still been played a lot today even. There is no reason at all not to include a bf, it's really a waste not to. So I can't help but to see what could have been. While I type this, I have kind of realized why they didn't include this incredibly well received feature. The entire reason is because people would still play it today, which would make future games obsolete. Or you would be forced to include it in every following game, which is a hassle I guess? It's despicable yet somehow still a little understandable.

@DrewX86  I played emerald as a kid and did the battle frontier a decent amount and I thought oras was quite swell

The Hoenn remakes are only liked by people who never actually played Emerald. The amount of fun one can have in emeralds or even platinums battle zone is unreached to this day and it boggles my mind that they haven't remade it, especially in the remakes of said generations.

There's a few facts that boosts both Black and White and Black 2 and White 2 imo is that being that there's a lot of interesting detail within the stories of these games. One of my personal favorite things in the entirety of Black and White is that N, no matter what text speed you have the game set to, always talks at the fastest possible text speed. It makes him feel like he knows what he believes in and knows what he wants to say before he even says it, and it makes his idealism feel more real, fleshing him out as a character a bit more without really doing much.

@Kaz Kat Gamer My favorite part about black and white is how gullible N is to believe and how moronic Ghetsis is to believe that crappy speeches and being a regional champion will suddenly make people stop being with Pokemon when the entire world is unhealthily addicted to and reliant on them.

my favorite aspect of B/W is that N's team is always pokemon you could catch around that area to further cement his goals and practice. On top of that Ghetis (how ever you spell his name) team is designed to be in total opposition to N's since he was just using N anyways. He had a counter for all N's pokemon.

18:58 when he said "good music" and i saw groudon pull out a trumpet I was half expecting a touhou song to play

It's so nice seeing B/W2 getting the deserved recognition. I had a blast with them, even during EV Training. I liked so much seeing it as a sequel and I actually enjoyed story. The rival had a different drive other than "I WANNA HUMILIATE THE MC" or "I WAS BORN WITH THE MOST SEVERE CASE OF HYPERACTIVITY KNOWN TO HUMANKIND".

@Iamlonely527 I agree

@Edgy Anole It was indeed a shame that his motivation to get stronger after failing to get back his little sister's Purrloin is his entire personality, which arguably makes his overall character weaker than Bianca and Cheren. But hey, at least Hugh didn't just default to Gen 6 and Gen 7 rivals (Gladion was okay though, Hau is shit).

@Weldon Sirloin Yeah, this was true a decade ago. I was even one of those gen 4 stans who hated b/w because it wasn’t like gen 4. But that era of infighting is long past, and anyone nowadays who says bw/b2w2 are underrated either a) hasn’t seen consensus opinion since before the Romney campaign or b) is *hard* nostalgiabaiting and thinks bw2 are in a tier above every other game

@Just some wheel I'm pretty sure it's negativity bias, because when gen 5 first released for some reason people didn't like it, I know it has quite a few flaws but still, then overtime many people in the fanbase started to realize how good it was, and most people getting into it were also gen 5 fans, but because of negativity bias most remember gen 5 dislike better

gen 5 fans try not to victimise themselves after making up 4/5ths of the fanbase challenge (impossible)

I think Ruby/Sapphire were the games I enjoyed the most back in the days. It felt like a more revolutionary upgrade from the previous version (H/G) compared to the other games.

@I C Yes you are right, I meant G/S of course.

You mean G/S? Not H/G

Agree. those were the golden days of my childhood. But I also loved Johto as it felt difficult at the time and I just loved the legendary dogs, still remember playing this at school. Apart from that I mostly agree with Wolfey.

Emerald is my favorite. The battle frontier was so good I actually spent so much hours trying to breed pokemon to get the best nature and IV's when I didn't even know about the competitive. Black2/White2 are definitely a 2nd for me tho. They actually had double and triple battles while roaming around before you beat the game. It was getting annoying in X and Y were they kept mentioning it but the only time I see it is in the boring battle frontier 😭

Them skipping the battle frontier in the hoenn remakes pretty much made me drop Pokemon in general. Those blueprints you see in the postgame were they are going all "we will build something here some day maybe eventually" were the biggest middle finger to anyone who hoped for their inclusion too.

Honestly I think Gen 5 is just okay.

X and Y are iconic they changed the franchise forever. I really wanted them to make sequels to fill out the game.

x and y desperately needed third version or sequel type like bw2. justice for best snake mon zygarde.

X and Y are my personal favorite games, and they definitely deserved better.

@Phat Phungus Yeah they stopped the developpement of pokemon Z (apparently they were going to make a ZX and ZY version, we got that from SM's source code), and rushed SM's development to release it on the 20th anniversary (SM started development in 2014 and was released two years latter apparently).

Yeah they really should get a sequel like black and white 😭 I would love a game with an open world but more like exploring cities, towns, and other urban areas like assassins creed ya know. I love the wild areas n all but they are not doing as well graphically as the cities and towns are. Plus it would be a cool change in environment

@Cured1976 they were going to release it apparently but they couldn’t because I think the anime had finished and so they needed to add sun and moon. That’s why zygarde is in Sun and Moon.

Wolfey, thanks for all your content!! The quality has seriously been going up every singly upload since you decided to refocus how often you upload and I am loving it!!

@Birdmanforever they are spinoffs he is only talking about main series games

Love the new videos too but I also kind of miss the 40 mins chaotic unedited wideos

Pokémon dugeons? The Pokémon game on game cube you said every Pokémon game

BW2 are the pinnacle of pokemon, everything that was added the past 4 gens was in there and more, the region felt super alive, the characters were fun, the graphics were great. BW and BW2 was a great time to be a pokemon fan

I personally really like sun and moon but I can see why others don't. The cutscenes can be really overwhelming at times and z moves aren't the greatest gimmick. The thing that really makes me like the games is the Alola region itself. I really just love the whole Island aesthetic and the music is also outstanding. I do have to admit a lot of this may be nostalgia talking because sun and moon were the second ever pokemon games I played and the first ones I beat.

Heart Gold and Soul Silver is my #1. I think it has the perfect execution on almost everything. I remember being so sad that I beat the pokemon leauge in Johto only to find out that I got to play in a whole other region in kanto with the same team.

I have been an X & Y defender for so long. People really underrate how important they were in moving along the speed and ease of raising a competitive team. Also, a great in-game online ladder system. Considering Sword & Shield made such an effort toward making competitive pokemon accessible, I feel like I've seen more people begin to at least point out that X & Y did this too! Also: your channel has grown so much and your videos are amazing in quality, truly--3 Michelin star Pokemon content!

Just because now I'll get my 3ds everybody says 3ds pokemon games are bad? No, they are very good even if I have not played them yet

I think it was one of the prettiest regions. But the lack of story… and post game… hurt

X & Y are very over-hated. They're definitely one of my favourite Pokémon games. The only critique I really had with it at the time were the most annoying rivals, but honestly, looking back, Serena wasn't that bad (definitely better then Hau and Hop that's for sure). Plus, they brought my favourite mechanic in mega evolutions. The game I actually didn't enjoy playing was sun and moon. For me, those are bottom tier Pokémon games. I just really don't get the X and Y hate at all.

I agree!! X & Y were what made me start to competitive pokemon. Plus, the mega evolution are really fun, from different stats, to possibly altering the pkmn type, and ability

Such amazing games, sad to see people dislike it.

The "Still going" gimmick of the Blissey health bar in D/P was class. Top tier editing

My friends and I have always likened a Blissey being KO'd to a chicken with its head cut off. You give it a half-assed limp-wristed punch, then watch it run around in a panic as its HP ever-so-slowly... painfully slowly... goes down, until it inevitably tires itself out, lays down and takes the big sleep.

Jimmick*

I respect your opinion but I've never disagreed with you on pokemon games more in my entire life. Was nice to not see Sword and Shield dumped at the bottom tho, it's good that it got SOME respect.

I might be a bit younger than most here, but my first pokemon games were X and Y, and are still to this day my favorites after playing most games. Nostalgia plays a way bigger role than you may think, and for me it makes Gen 6 be the best for me

Same, X and Y is my childhood

This list is crazy wth 😂

i personally love getting lost in a city in pokemon like the fact that Lumiose is big enough for that to happen is dope

but you dont get lost because its so big you get lost because the design is shit and there is no map

The fact that The Pokemon Company got away with essentially selling the same game 4 times in one year with Gen 7 is hilarious. AnywayI love those games they're awesome

Bruh

I feel like they added just enough to Ultra to make them worth playing, and the story didn't annoy me anywhere near as much as the original Sun/Moon. If nothing else, I think they are the definitive gen 7 games.

The fact that bw2 is advertised as being a different game is false advertisement. Just giving your game a different shittier plot with the same villain and giving us mostly the same shitty characters and adding a few locations and rerouting your journey isn't being a sequel, your mechanics have to change as well, that's the point. Either your mechanics change or the entire world does and neither happened. Either way, USUM was advertised as a definitive edition, it didn't have a 2 in the title but funnily enough it was more a sequel than BW2 was, it offered more gameplay modes and even entirely new Pokemon. USUM also has objectively more shit to do, check the post game checklist of USUM and compare it to BW2, BW2 is a joke in comparison.

Yeah third best gen imo.

@Princess Pikachu then make voice acting optional. No one would force you to use it so what’s the problem? Stop justifying Game Freak’s laziness and no Pokémon having voices doesn’t have anything to do with voice acting.

SwSh and ScVi are my favorites!

I really liked sun and moon. I was pretty invested in all the Lusamine shenanigans. And wondering what the totem pokemon is gonna be, I really liked that new curiosity element. Kinda sad to find you found the story bad but yeah we all have our takes.

FireRed/LeafGreen will always be top of my list, partly nostalgia, partly because they are still great games and not overly complicated

Sword and Shield is my worst experience playing a Pokemon game 😂

The only game I want to argue is X&Y, because I know what that generation could have been if we had gotten "Z" to flesh out Zygarde's story, dive into the pokemon war, etc. But I realize that's making a generation better than what was actually given. I'll forever be annoyed that we didn't get Z.

@Kyleigh Godsey I can relate man. I use to think diamond was the goat game until some time passed. I played white 2 and heart gold recently and totally changed my opinion on things lol

@Natertot gaming I think I've got some nostalgia goggles because those were my first competitive games and thus feel better to me, but at the time they felt fun, if only a bit easy. I think looking back its easy to see how weak a link they are in the series, and how most complaints about pokemon now can be traced back to those games

In before the kalos remake is going to be 'Z'. Calling it now

X and y were weak games.

I'm sorta hoping the next legends style game is for Kalos, since it never got a third game. I desperately /want/ g5 to get the next legends because I miss Unova and it's got a very rich history to delve into, but Kalos could really use the help. It was so empty bc of how huge the map was, I want to know more about the region

Your list is super similar to mine, but I did highly enjoy ORAS. I was just happy to be playing Gen3 again on a new and improved system. Probably list it in B or A personally.

And their soundtrack is just 👌👌👌

Agreed ORAS was honestly amazing

Great review.

Finally someone gives Emerald the respect it deserves and for the right reasons.

Emerald definitely deserves its S tier spot.

I agree with your list, Sun and Moon for me will go higher on the list only because it was the first Pokemon game I was able to buy with my own money and that feeling really elevated it for me. Also I was able to catch a lvl 10 Salemance and that is pretty cool 😎

Having only ever played Platinum, and having done so only years later, BDSP was a way of experiencing a Pokemon game I hadn't yet played without the issues of lag and slow movement. I still like Platinum more, but I wasn't really expecting more than what we got with BDSP.

Title : I Ranked EVERY Pokemon Game Me : so you really want the smoke huh? Also me after seeing the no.1 on the list : it appears that you can dodge a bullet my friend 👍🏻

From the perspective of someone who plays non competitively, swsd and blwh2 were my favorites. I know Pokémon doesn’t always have the deepest stories or best narratives but these games have the most memorable characters ever. Plus the jump in graphics for swsh and blwh made it a lot more exciting personally. Even though I grew up with the start of Pokémon, I don’t have much value for that nostalgia minus the music. Still, I definitely agree with most of your rankings! Just gotta get around to playing arceus cause I’ve been too intimidated for some reason…thanks for making your videos and keeping it fair, interesting, and funny all at once!

Lets go is one of my favourites tbh. I love how casual it feels compared to other pokemon games and it finally gave me a reason to try to fill out the dex because you cant fight wild pokemon. I also simply cannot remove sword from my top 3. It was the game that rekindled my love for the franchise and i hatched a shiny mudkip in it

I'm so glad to see Gen 5 placed high, I was like, 11, when Gen 5 came out and I remember how all my online friends hated them so much wishing the series would be like Gen 3 again and I just remember kinda just quietly sitting there pretending not to love them. I'm glad they're finally getting the love they deserve even tho its been like this for a while, it's still nice to hear lmao

Gen 5 is the gen where the developers give their all and very passion about. But what they got from that are insults and hate and worst pokemon sales. That's probably why newer pokemon doesn't feel as good ever since then since what's the point of putting their all when doing bare minimum give better sales and reception

Gen 5 is easily my most favorite, I've replayed it over 20+ times in just that year 😂

@Courtney If you want my opinion, I think the transition to 3d games really held game freak back graphically which is still evident today. On top of that I feel that they are attempting to appeal to a broader audience by making their games easier than usual which doesn’t sit well with long time fans. I wouldn’t necessarily say they lost their passion, but I would assume it would be difficult to be passionate about a franchise that Nintendo is forcing you to milk just about every year.

@Senerio21 Pokemon gave their all and love for gen 5 , it had the best graphics of the franchise an amazing story characters , etc, and people hated it. So they lost their passion

@Senerio21 I only use samurott when I'm playing black or white. But for 2, it's always Emboar.

I loved Gen 5 it was definitely my favorite generation so far and I’m scared when remakes come out on switch they’ll ruin them like they did for Diamond and Pearl

Respect you for putting Black and White up there. Really love the refreshing encounter and great story 🙏

X/Y is one of my favorites. I was so looking for Z to come out.

My favorite games were pretty low on your list, but hey, that's the nature of subjective opinion. And some of those (Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon) really grew on me, because although I didn't really like gen 7 at first, the nostalgia has kicked in enough that I'm enjoying playing through them again. Looking forward to digging back into X/Y afterward, because I really enjoyed them the first time (and not so much the second time, but it's been a while). Meanwhile, Black/White wasn't my favorite, but it did one thing really well that I haven't experienced in the rest of the series - I genuinely despised the villains and wanted to beat them for story reasons, rather than simply wanting to beat them because they were in my way. Plus, the battle music when fighting them is among my favorite in the series.

Gen 3 Sprites were genius and the pokemon looked really cool, gen 4 was slow but had hype Legendaries and had an especially difficult Champion fight which has burned itself into the poor souls of those opposing Cynthia till this day

@WeirdFlex I see why people struggled with her, but I also beat her first try. On the other hand, it took me a few tries to even get to her because for some reason I got held up at Flint. I guess my team just didn’t match up well against fire types (I only played platinum, so he did actually have fire types)

@WeirdFlex It's because we didn't know her team when we played casually, and if you don't know about Garchomp, it's the first time you see that Mon. Also, you need either something with an ice move, your own Garchomp, or be at least five levels higher than it to beat it. I didn't know any of that when I was 10

How do so many people struggle with Cynthia? I played the game when I was 10 and beat her without healing. I legit don't get how so many people struggle with her fight

Gen 4 is slow but it's an actual experience that stands alone well enough unlike the modern games

@LBS_Colin agreed for both, I would add that Gen 5's personality in the pokemon and animations is top notch

Glad to see BW2 as #1. Those games have been my favorite since release. I hope the eventual remake does them justice!

I loved USUM (one of my favs) but understand your criticism. I didnt play the OG SM so that probably helped me have a better impression of it. I do appreciate some of the new features it brought (RIP Poke Pelago!)

ultra sun is definitely my favourite pokemon game, I have always loved the storylines of pokemon and the single player experience.

Super glad you gave Legends Arceus S tier, its absolutely deserving the game is amazing

For me it was a very different experience I put it down after 1 hour of playing

People are sleeping on how good B&W is. And there’s the 1 undeniable reason. Driftveil bgm. Change my mind. Imagine B&W remake, if GF fucks it up I’m gonna lose my fucking mind

It's too hard to pick a single favorite so I'm just gonna call myself a gen 3er. If you count FR/lG with R/S/E that was the best. The wireless adapter that came with FireRed made Pokemon much more social.

gen 2 and gen 5 designs were the best for me so I'm very excited / terrified by the next remake pokemon make. Judging by how they've slowly remade all the oldest games in the series we'll either get a new version of gen 2 or gen 5. I would love either of those in a new game / sequel to Legends Arceus. If they make a BDSP or Let's Go style remake though I'll die inside.

It's good to see Unova finally getting the love it deserves in recent years. White was my first pokemon game when I was 6-ish when I played the first game and have very fond memories of my first pokemon game but coming back at 18 having finally gotten white 2 (so fucking expensive) it's a very new adventure but it is still Unova and has everything that made me fall in love with the series as a kid but still new enough for me to enjoy and seeing so much appreciation for what that game did has been so great after the years it was called the worst in the franchise

Seeing you saying Black 2 and White 2 being the best makes me so unbelievably happy. The games are AMAZING - I love the story, I love the new areas, I love the characters, the obtainable Pokémon, fun little features that got added and so on. Those games are my absolute favorites. I can actually 1:1 agree with S+ to everything including A-Tier on your list. Besides that, there are some things I do not agree with too much on the lower tiers, but this is such a wonderful list, tackling each game's strengths and weaknesses. Amazing vid, Wolfey :)

Amazing video just because it appeases to your one shitty favorite that was put in 1st place just to appease the loud majority? what a garbage assessment. This entire list is trash, the entire list is all over the place. Sword and shield is above ORAS and HGSS? FRLG is bottom tier remake next to LPE and it's above most of the games on this list. Saying fucking ORAS is worse than emerald just because of the battle frontier when ORAS excels in literally everything else in features? Speaking of features what does BW2 have that most of this list doesn't? A shitty movie mini game? An easy mode battle pyramid? A complete fan service battle tower with no unique gameplay features? As far as features go, I'll take worm hole ride, mantine surf, and battle agency over any of that crap.

BW was able to give us a breath of fresh air by having the main story be exclusively Unova Pokemon and having one of the best stories in the Pokemon Series

BW2 best game 100%

Same, I spent over 300 hours, the vibe of it is just too good

Black 2 was the first main series game I ever played, back in middle school. I still play it to this day. Based opinions.

We just wanna see the tiger list bro sheesh

Really like the list! For me I'd only swap XY and BDSP, and HGSS and SwSh. But for the rest completely agree.

I think it's exactly because Emerald, Platinum, and B2W2 when I was 7, 11, and 15 respectively has a lot to do with why the recent generations are so disappointing. A lot of people who grew up with these games like me got to grow up with really fantastic games, and we were unfortunately spoiled for it. If we could play and love these games as children, then why did the formula change to make the newer games so hand-holdy? are this generation's children really so inept, or have they just decided to stop giving them a chance? You don't have to be an adult to appreciate complexity and good content in games. It's like the quote of why there's no ORAS Battle Frontier said, they thought kids wouldn't play the game long enough for it to matter. Such a depressing direction for game design, when we just assume our games aren't good enough to keep people hooked so there's no need to add content. But not having content in enhanced/remake games like USUM,ORAS,BDSP, feels like there's just no heart and soul in the games anymore. They didn't make this from scratch, the game was already there that should cut down so much on the work you need to do, and leave room for more content and love put in. But alas, we get what we get.

Gen V B/W2 is my favourite! They have Join Avenue where you can invite visitors to open shops which makes EV training/resetting much easier, though it takes quite some time to level up them to make them useful. TM don't break which is a god damn good feature that allow me to try so many different builds! The endgame has so much content like battle subway, PWT, B/W towers and battle institute. Unfortunately we still have to keep track of EV training progress in an old school way like on a excel doc or notebook. IV check still needs help from online calculator. These problems keep it from being perfect but still it's a nitpicking. My only wish now is making Hidden Ability more accessible for All Pokemon available in the game not limit the feature to hidden grottoes after they shut down dream world (Yeah I grind weeks to get a multiscale Dragonite even with the help of Pass Power...)

Honestly a good list! I’d personally rank Diamond/Pearl way lower, and HG/SS higher. But in my opinion a lot of it seemed pretty similar to what I’d say!

I guess it depends... if u played gold/silver before HGSS it might lessen the fun because it's still just a remake. The opposite for ORAS, people played Ruby/Sapphire first and most of them prefer the originals but if u played ORAS first... U might feel the remakes are much better.

@Maxie It's not a bait. HGSS is overrated.

@Adam Morin I also just find HGSS story pretty bland and boring to be honest. I just fail to see how they get rated so high with some people. Team Rocket never really feels like a threat in it and just gets defeated way too easily/soon. Although I was also kinda done with them at that point just because of how uninteresting they were. I also agree about most of the gym leaders just being meh and forgettable

Based. 100% agree

@Average Lisp Enjoyer I played hgss when i was younger and then recently 2 times to see if they hold up. I don’t like the mechanics I’m sorry to say the gym leaders are bland and johto/kanto is still small and linear. Kanto isn’t anything special only a boss gauntlet just to fight red at the end. Not even to get gen 1 pokemon because you can catch gen 1 pokemon in johto. The new type chart is by far the best we have had in any gen except fairy being op but it still feels balanced. There was lack of story which i did like. I personally think they were good games but not as good as people think they were. Only reederming quality it has is the arceus unknown event. I’m not saying im ranking anything above or below gen 8 but i rank hgss below gen 8.. i do miss the battle frontier though

I'm glad we share the same favorite Pokemon games. White 2 was the first Pokemon game I played and honestly I'm glad that for my first Pokemon game I got to play such a good game compared to some of the other games.

I think both of the BW games are super overrated

I actually have a lot of respect for the let’s go games. They were my first Pokémon games and if I hadn’t played them I’m not sure if I would have played any of the other games in the franchise

X was my first Pokémon game, so it will always hold a very special place in my heart. If I didn’t get that game for Christmas one year, who knows if I’d ever have become interested in RPGs in the first place. Sword and Shield are probably the games I’ve replayed the most (3 completed playthroughs plus some ongoing gimmicky ones) and, hot take, I honestly really like Hop as a character. After losing to Bede, he starts to doubt his purpose and skills and that’s honestly super relatable. …Okay, that sounds sad, but I’m fine.😅 Anyways, those are probably the Pokémon games I’ve enjoyed the most and that are the most memorable to me personally. Oh! Also Legends Arceus even tho I’m hopelessly bad at the controls. 😅 I can’t wait for Scarlet and Violet. Who knows! Maybe they’ll end up topping my list. :)

Putting actual people teams in the games is so sick, I love that about gen 5, also Alola is very cute, it deserves a higher spot

@mepphy99 And here we have someone who can't accept a different opinion and calls Wolfe baised. Class act

Gen 5 part 2 are the only Pokémon games I haven’t played but I’m going to nuzlocke them soon with a friend. I’m looking forward to battling Wolfey’s team and other players in White 2 now! :3

The 3d games are all cute

Yeah I loved Alolas aesthetic and then the ultra beasts. It was just the cut scenes that knocked it down a bit for me

@mepphy99 Why should he be objective

I'm still so behind on pokemon games. I played all the games up till black and white 2. I need to get the other bazillion games left. Hahah

I personally just like the ultra games. In my opinion it didn't take anything away from pokemon sun and moon, and add more to it. Cutscenes are a problem though lol, and it has a slow beginning. Pokemon moon was my second game (my first being diamond but 5 yr me didn't beat it cause I got lost) so it also has a lot more nostalgia for me, and ultra just adding more to it lol.

sun was my first game as a 10 year old, and when i got my hands on ultra sun, i fell in love with it. to this day i'll still pick it up from time to time and relive the memories i had with it, i have 110 hours and counting into ultra sun rn. i fucking love those games, they will always be special to me

Glad to gen5 getting the love it deserves. I just started replying bw2 for a nuzlocke and wow!

I'm glad that Wolfey talked about the aesthetic aspect of gen3. This is, in my opinion, one of the most fundamental aspects of the game with the exceptional fluidity allowed by the 60FPS. Conversely, the writing font and squares in gen4 attacks menu... 😐

another thing you didn't mention about B2W2 is the key system. it's a bit weird to use but it allows you to change black city and white forrest, change what regi you get, and most importantly adds in more difficulty options. the key system also allows you to link to a BW game and gives you cool things like your entire dress up case from that save file, new dialogue, and N's pokemon.

@remiel egis I played black 2. You have to send it from a different black 2. It won’t save if you restart the game.

@Dratini The Dagon And also made it available for both version :( Hard mode is such a cool feature. If I knew from the start it is only available if you complete black 2 I would have probably played that game instead of White 2. Maybe I will speedrun Black 2 at some point just to get it but yea.. Should have made it available for both from the start

@Grunkle G. according to bulbapedia, both easy and hard mode calc stats using normal mode, so this may have been intentional. Maybe. Given GF's record, it being an oversight is still a strong possibility.

Here’s the thing with the difficulty. You have to have it sent from specifically black 2. White 2 gives you easy mode. If you don’t have a completed black 2 like me, you can’t play challenge mode. It was a cool idea, but they should’ve made it available from the start

The difficulty options, at least Hard Mode, aren't coded properly. Enemy Pokemon may have higher levels, but they actually have the stats of if they were at lower levels

Wolfey, I know it's so minor, but you brought so much nostalgia back to me including a video clip from PurpleRodri, I used to watch his videos in my teens around when X and Y came out, but faded out after a few years, you just brough back so much nostalgia and his iconic intro to my memory all at once. Great video btw!

Let’s Go is amazing and is probably my favorite. Yes I miss battling the wild Pokémon but otherwise wow is it amazing in every way.

I grew up on a beach town so that's one of the biggest nostalgia factors for RSE for me. I would play Ruby on the beach to my parents' detriment, all the time.

The thing with sword and shield for me is, that playing through these games for the first time (basically blind, not looking up any leaks) was one of the best experiences i've ever had in pokemon. But the 2nd time i played through them the experience was way worse, realizing, that it wasn't the actual game that was so good, but the experience of exploring the new region end pokemon. However i also had the most fun in sw/sh competitive

My favorite pokemon game was ultra moon, my favorite playthrough was moon because even though I obviously think ultra moon improved on some things, the first time through was obviously going to be more special

I totally agree on cutscenes and dialogue. I'm doing a nuzlocke on violet right now and the worst part of losing on an attempt is knowing I have to get through 2 hours of dialogue/cutscenes in the beginning before I'm let loose on the game

bdsp is still better than the originals. platinum is still better but bdsp is just an upgraded version

I gotta say, my opinions of some games really change when I replay them. Up until last week, ultra moon / sun were the only main series game I never finished, but since it had been a few years, I tried them again, and man, I had a blast. The rainbow rocket episode was especially fun for me. My opinion of black and white also changed drastically as a replayed them after a few years. I didn't like the games when they first came out, but replayed them almost ten years later definitely was a new experience and totally changed my mind on them. But man, do I agree that BDSP was a complete miss. I hope one day we get a proper remake of a lot of people's favorite generation, me included, cause boy oh boy was that not it.

I agree that USUM soured Gen 7 as a whole (although they have their good points. their difficulty and Rainbow Rocket were amazing), but I personally LOVE Sun and Moon. The characters, the story, the region, the ultra beasts, everything about it is so good. I agree the first island is kind of unbearable with it's pacing, but after that, I don't really mind the cutscenes at all. Really wish there was a way to skip or speed up cutscenes in this game though.

There’s an action replay code for increased walking speed pretty sure there one for screen change speed too but if you enable the walking speed code gen IV is easily the best for content, length, and variety

You just earned a sub lol 😂 you’re hilarious even tho you put hgss so low you made up for it with PLA and B2W2

I've never played a single round of competitive pokemon. You reference the competitive scene a lot. I think that accounts for how different our rankings are

It's funny to me that you cna double your catches in let's go by adding two joycons and putting them in the joycon holder. You'll always get the fuse ball in my experience.

Emerald's Battle Frontier truly was the best set of battle facilities in all of Pokémon.

I only liked it for pyramid, the rest doesn't really hold more over what gen 4's frontier has to offer.

God I love this list, it's so charming... reminds me of a game with limited 3D.. so charming

Im gonna keep defending the Strong and Agile style. They might've been unsuccessful in their debut. But I don't actually want it gone. I want to see the mechanic improved and better implemented, because I find it mechanically interesting and thematically cool!

Rse had the best legendaries and hidden things in it too, I remember needing the game guide to find the regis

I love pokemon X and Y, it was a refreshing generation with amazing new pokemon and the fairy type, and incredible music, i disagree with your ranking for that.The soul of this game i can't explain.

My top three are B2W2, Platinum, and Emerald. I haven't played Legends yet, but seeing how similar your ranking is makes me even more excited to give it a try!

It's really good n interesting The tutorial is actually somewhat necessary to understand the mechanics because they are very different

I'm very glad to see the Unova region games placed so high. It was a start for Pokémon to start to breeze past its time, and have its flower bloom. It was a step into what could possibly be described as "it's released a long time ago, but it's like it was created 10 years later from now." Finding a shiny Cobalion infected with Pokérus was genuinely a blessing, it felt like a one in a million. After that, my luck plummeted until I eventually was able to get my hands on a shiny Zangoose. These sound irrelevant, but I like to think this feats wouldn't have been possible without the release of gen 5 so long ago.

Gen 6 was my first pokemon games, and I love them very much, that being said, they weren't very good. A sort of "Don't talk trash about my garbage" sort of connection.

I really enjoyed watching this! I grew up playing Red, FireRed and Sapphire and I stopped playing after Diamond, until Sword and Shield came out. To me, BDSP weren't that bad because of that, neither were Sword/Shield because it was such an upgrade for me. I looove Kanto, Johto and Hoenn because of my nostalgia haha. I watched this hoping to add another pokemon game to my to-play-list, and I was able to add Black2/White2 and Emerald. Thanks!