I’m gonna do something a
little different for this round -up, my overall thoughts on this gen are easily
summarized and i’ve go through them a few times by now anyway: the entirely new
Pokedex was a good idea squandered by the use of ‘eqvivalentmons’ to just give
us very similar substitutes for a lot of the Pokémon that Game Freak always
used to fill different location is the game BUT despite that the new Pokémon
were primarily very consistent in how strong they were as designs.
HOWEVER it was while
writing a more conventional version of this round-up I wrote ‘I could have cut
the Pokedex down…’, stopped and changed my mind about what we’re gonna do
here. Here is my cut-down Gen V Pokedex:
My thinking was this: keep
all of the standard ‘mons that a region needs (Starters, Legendaries,
pseudo-Legendaries, com mons, cats, fish, bugs, pikaclone, Fossil Pokémon), cut
out most of the Equivalentmons (but not all, you always seem to get a couple of
ideas repeated in later ‘Dexes, so ones I liked a lot I kept), cut out all the
extraneous Legendaries, then just keep all the lines I like plus a couple of
popular ones I don’t mind because there’s always gonna be one or two lines
you’re not crazy on in every generation. And I still ended up with over 80 cartoon aminals which should, I think, prove that this generaiton is pretty consistently good (and had way to many equivalentmons), both of which you're probably fed up with me saying by now. I tell you what it also kinda proves, at least to me, is that this generation had a really god set of 'standards' - becasue other than Dewott and the cats I'd've still left all of those in this 'dex even if they weren't kept solely for the reason that they 'have to be there each generation, even the fossils - as dissapointing as the turtles are they're still nice turtles.
My Gen 5 Favourites
A whopping 8 Gold Sixers for this generation and the first time in 5 gens that two Pokemon from the same evolutionary line have made this list, that's how much I like the Trubbish line, haters to the fucking left, PLEASE.
My Overall Favourites
It’s worth pointing out here that not all Gold Six
scores are equal and while everyone who got the Gold Six score utterly deserved
it, most of the Gold 6ers in this generation are on the lower end of the Gold
Six spectrum
My Gen 4 Least Favourites
Despite being a pretty consistently good generation
there was seven 0 scores, Klinklang being the 7th
My Overall Least Favourites
The Cutest
God. Damn. What a cute generation! This list could easy
be treble its length
The Most Badass
This list could be at least double in length too…
The Most Creative
Victini? Hell yes, Victini! All those V-things
combined? That’s some Alan Moore level shit
Most in Need of Evolutions
I just want the Woobat and Minccino lines to perfectly
match their equivalents and that means they need to be three stages,
undiagnosed OCD for the win!
Most in Need of Mega Evolutions
Because Gen 5 was so horrendously ignored for Megas, I
just picked Pokémon from this generation the way Game Freak did for the others; popular ‘mons and the odd ringer, and Garbodor.
Gen 4 Pokémon I’d Most Like to Own
I’d like to point out again that I know that owning
Chandelure is very impractical but it just goes with all my décor
God that went on didn't it? Sorry about that.
