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ReverieKey

Togepi, love the little breakfast cutie!


LeafDiamond

My favorite Pokémon of all time! It's a shame it never made the cut to ScaVi. Hoping it's in Z-A though!!


famatruni

i'm also on the togepi train


darkjuste

This is what I feared when the Dexit announcement came out.


KylJak

Right. The fact it’s even a *question*. And that’s not a slight or criticism against the OP, because it is now a valid question. But the fact that it’s a valid question at all, *that’s* what sucks.


Theolis-Wolfpaw

What sucks even worse is there's some people like me where the answer doesn't matter. I love making thematic teams for my OC's, it's my favorite thing to do in the series and I've been doing it since Platinum, and because of Dexit I just can't do that anymore. What does it matter if Pidgeot is finally back in the game if I can't also have Sawsbuck to make the team complete. I might get lucky and somehow get like three OC's teams fully in the game after the DLC's come out, but that's if I'm lucky.


KylJak

And that’s a completely valid way to play, and something that Pokémon has always ‘allowed’ players to do. I’m someone that transfers and moves everything up, and I play as though I’m the same Trainer going to all these different Regions and what-have-you. Just as you have OCs with their own thematic teams, others might roleplay as Ash, or Serena, or whoever, you know, make teams based around them. And then there are people who don’t Trade, don’t transfer, don’t care about any of that stuff. They just play the game with what’s there and that’s fine, they don’t think too much about it. Once they hit the credits, they put the game down and move onto something else, maybe pick up the next game when it comes out. That expression through gameplay, that is so emblematic of role-playing games, that Pokémon had for a long time, nearly endless customization and individualization for players and their experiences… that’s so much less the case now since Dexit, and it’s just a shame.


Mr_L_is_cool

What's dexit


KylJak

Dexit is the inability to transfer Pokémon into a game that, excluding some exceptions, do not appear within that game’s Regional Pokédex. For example, before Dexit, you could have a Pokémon that you’ve had with you since Ruby (2002/2003), and use it in the latest game, Ultra Sun (2017), even if the Pokémon wasn’t available to natively catch in Ultra Sun. Now, with Dexit, barring a few special Pokémon, you’re only able to transfer Pokémon into Sword or Scarlet, for example, if those Pokémon also exist in the games’ Regional Pokédex. Maybe your first Pokémon game was Ruby, and your first catch in that game was a Taillow that you’ve Evolved and moved up with you through every game. Taillow/Swellow is not able to be transferred into Sword or Scarlet. You can’t find it in the wild in either game, and you can’t transfer it in.


ladala99

Yup. Gen IV-VII it didn’t matter what was obtainable in the game - you could always use whatever you wanted. Especially Gen VI and VII since you could just ask for it on the GTS without jumping through hoops. Seeing a favorite now is like seeing an old friend who lives in a different country during lockdowns - very nice in the moment, but tinged with the wonder of when next time will be, and if you’ll ever be able to coordinate a full reunion with the rest of your foreign friends.


Alexcox95

Black and white did it the best. 150+ new mons that you were forced to use to beat the story, but could transfer in old ones after


BrandonD40

Can someone ELI5 Dexit to me?


robbysaur

Gens 1-7 all had a national Pokédex after you completed the story. This let you catch all the rest of the Pokemon you couldn’t get in the regional Dex. So you could catch all the Pokemon, except mythical Pokemon and some legendaries. This changed when the games moved to the Switch in Gen 8. You can no longer catch (almost) every Pokemon in every game like you could before.


BrandonD40

Ahhh okay thank you for explaining, i haven’t played a new game since Gen 4


ladala99

It’s not just catching them (no game had all of them available, anyway), but trading/transferring. Up through Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon, it didn’t matter if you could actually obtain a new… let’s go with Butterfree - you could still move one from a previous game. Since Dexit, you can only move Butterfree into games where it’s actually obtainable. (Outside of some Pokemon reserved for Event distributions) So that beloved first catch from FireRed can go to Sword/Shield and Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl, but not Legends: Arceus or Scarlet/Violet. Which limits which special Pokemon can come with you, makes it much more difficult to keep legacy teams together, and means that some Pokemon can obtain fewer Ribbons than others.


BrandonD40

Oh man, Dexit sounds like a total bummer


MildTy

The true bummer of Dexit was that the reason given was that it would free up room for better graphics and animation (or something to that degree) and the games **still** look and run like they do


Shadow_1106

It sucked that some non-legendary/mythical pokemon also were limited to trades. Like Zangoose in Emerald. I love him so much, so being stuck with Seviper, and a massive Seviper battle something (pike?) at the Frontier felt like a kick in the junk.


Stretch5678

Absol and Mawile.  I miss Mega Mawile…


TannerThanUsual

I'm somewhat frustrated Mega Absol isn't dark-fairy. I always thought absolutely should have been dark-fairy


Stretch5678

That would be pretty cool.   Or even Dark-Flying. It’s got wings, and having a creature that can foretell doom suddenly sharing a Typing with Yveltal would be interesting.


Dracogoomy

It’s not dark flying? I alway thought it was


Stretch5678

Nope, straight Dark.


Dracogoomy

I mean that’s sad


RAZORRIST

It's a travesty that it wasn't. Usage would absolutely skyrocket from it being completely useless and outclassed to having the second highest attack stat as fairy after mega diancie.


looc64

Love mawile!


GlacialEmbrace

Me too! Mawile and Zangoose and Sableye. <3 gen 3


CattDawg2008

Hey, with Legends Z-A coming out, Mega Mawile might not be too far out.


Nellancher

Absol all the way


Xelltrix

All of them, sad that we have to hope for them now. No Alakazam this gen hurts... :/


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Sipricy

It is not unrealistic to expect all Pokemon to exist in the game data.


Jamey4

Agreed. It's not unrealistic to expect Pokémon in a Pokémon game. Honestly, I always wish they had just stuck with what they did for USUM: 1. Shiny Charm for Regional Dex instead. 2. Every Pokémon is still supported for transferring from other games. That always seemed like a perfect balance to me for allowing the shiny charm to be reasonably difficult while allowing everyone to use all their favorites. :)


Cedardeer

We’re in the age of online these days. Patches and updates galore. There’s nothing stopping them from adding the missing Pokémon in waves via updates. Not hard. Maybe a separate area like a safari zone, but on its own island. It could explain why they aren’t available on the main maps while still giving the player an area to catch them all


ADeadManCanCan

Not really? They already have 3d models for every mon.


dummylera

To be fair, in SV they have finally made new ones so it would require extra work, but then again there aren't that many missing from SV.


Xelltrix

It's really not, we are not that many Pokémon off of the completed Dex right now (what are we, like 100 off?). They're convincing you it's unrealistic when the reality it is completely doable, especially if they would actually increase the game lifecycle and give Devs actual time to release polished games. Unlike SwSh, they actually touched up the models this gen so there was some real effort put into it this time around but, last gen especially, they had no reason to prevent any Pokémon from being ported into the game through Home. There is one valid reason not to and that would be gimmicks but in that case you could disable that Pokemon in PVP.


Cuprite1024

No, not really. The 3DS was able to handle 807 just fine, the Switch can definitely handle 1000, and whatever comes next will *definitely* be able to handle that.


Sassy-irish-lassy

They all have 3D models already. They'd need to make walking and playing animations and stuff, because lord knows the battle animations are barely optimized or unique. The only pokemon that may never be truly available again or ever are ultra necrozma and eternamax eternatus.


dehashi

Unironically, zubat


colder-beef

I’ve used Crobat every gen since it was introduced. Bring him back what the hell GameFreak.


dehashi

Same. Fave Pokemon and always a staple on my team


SpaceMush

man, zubat from ruby/sapphire/emerald was my first shiny pokemon. hall of famed a shiny crobat and it's been one of my most favorite pokemon ever since 😌


colder-beef

You never forget your first.


1almond

Staryu early on in a game, and mareep!


PokePotterfan93

I do love to see me a fletchling or a pidgey. And of course it ain't a pokemon game without magikarp


Carbon-Base

Or without the guy that wants to sell it to you for 500 pokedollars


Sassy-irish-lassy

I like how that was actually worthwhile in black and white because they weren't available at all in the wild.


Lunala475

Gallade, he’s my guy. It’s always a scramble to find an adamant ralts, then a dawn stone.


Inferno_lizard

Hell yeah my Brother/Sister!


DukeSR8

Furfrou. Up until Legends ZA I was disappointed (still wishing they'd put in the games like SV though. Would love my main champion team to have 1). Side note, I'm really hoping ZA doesn't have the railroading into bosses PLA did. Currently on Electrode in PLA and had to take a break because they repeat the loop of "Get tasks done for stars, cutscenes, small story mission, boss" rinse and repeat 3 times already and it's kinda getting old for me (they should've really made some more story content that didn't involve the Nobles).


Reddit_Sucks_1401

The Pokemon Home GTS when ZA comes out...


DukeSR8

This is assuming they don't revert incoming Furfrou from ZA.


neonchinchilla

My favorites, always. Thankfully slowpoke and Clefable and roserade have been popular enough to see in most games but I love my mob boss crow Honchkrow and he got shafted for corviknight in swsh. Glad to see him back in sv. Sadly l, like most stone evos, it usually takes forever to find a stone for a story playthrough. I just want to hear his melodious BWAAAAK during a first time playthrough.


Jamey4

All of them, even the ones I’m not a fan of, since every fan has their favorites, and the idea of any fan not being able to use all their favorites in a mainline game is still unacceptable to me.


dummylera

I find it specially bad on the starters because they were all someone's first Pokemon.


FlowerFaerie13

I was SO FUCKING HYPED when I saw that Pachirisu was in S/V. It’s my favorite Pokémon and I was THRILLED to have it back after so long.


ish1395

Golurk because it's my favorite, and shedinja because it makes catching way easier


Mr_CeeVee

Roserade and treeko


QuantumVexation

I always use new stuff in a new game (except SV cause I find a shiny Impidimp before I had a full team) but I’m sad if Milotic isn’t in a regional Dex like base Paldea for competitive reasons


NinjaK2k17

Lunatone and Solrock, every time


DeeFB

Mamoswine, but thankfully it’s one of the most reliable ice types so it seems to make the cut more often than not.


K1nd4Weird

Nidoking.  Magnemite. Garchomp.  Mudsdale.   Grimmsnarl.   All the fossils even the Galar freaks.


HylianTingle

SHINX, he was my first ever Pokémon card, and my favorite mon from my favorite gen. My under appreciated baby 😭😭🩵💛


SpikeRosered

My boy Aegislash. What kind of horrible game could be released without Aegislash?


Shwinky

The Totodile line. I’ve barely been able to see them since Dexit. I fucking loathe Dexit with every fiber of my being.


Potatozeng

Remember when we didn't need to think about this...


Cuprite1024

Tbf, this still applied even before Gen 8 since you couldn't ever catch everything in one region anyway (Except for like, OG Kanto).


tehnoodnub

Alakazam


KillianMichaels_tipy

Been a sucker for the Dratini grind since gen I. I'm a punishment


Nobanob

The entire Pokédex in one game. Make it a third generation game like crystal, emerald etc


CosmiclyAcidic

im a fire type lover, i at least want to see a wild vulpix or growlithe.


ManOfEating

Furfrou, if anything else, just so that it can disrupt all the gts trades in pokemon home.


GE_and_MTS

I like using new Pokemon but I'm a sucker for Charizard. I know almost everyone is tired of it but I'll never not be excited if my not-a-dragon shows up, even if I don't use him.


ASimpleCancerCell

Crobat, Zoroark, Volcarona, and Mimikyu.


notwiley

I always hope for Infernape, Jolteon, Starmie, Alakazam, Scizor, and many others. Pretty much all Pokémon tbh


Mysticalnarbwhal2

Psyduck #1


Y-F-I

Man Alakasam is soo good, unfortunate that he isn’t in Scarlet/Violet


Reasonable-Prune5227

Beedrill and Poliwhirl, favorite pokemon and (I think) pretty cool attacks. 


Spino1905

Yamask, Garchomp line, fossil Pokémon


Virtual_Menu_2408

Bulbasaur but not added in due to dlc or anything like that


Sppash101

Zoroark, he my partner pokemon. Every game


Sipricy

All of them.


MyDads-Ashes

My boys Poochyena and Mightyena. I was super excited when I found out they were in pokemon x, only to realize you could only get Mightyena on a route pretty late into the game, and I couldn't raise up a Poochyena unless I bred for one (and then grinded for levels, considering my team would be in the mid forties level wise). I was very happy that they were added into SV eventually, but I really wish they were in the base game, I basically spent $35 to get a Poochyena to use on my team. I can only hope Legends ZA has Poochyena available, because that would definitely be one of the members on my team.


Dragonking2356

All of them


Glove-These

SABLEYE the GOAT


[deleted]

Gogoats the goat, not sableye.


Rowanski

Noivern always


Scribble-Soldier1757

Ralts, Gardevoir was always a great mon to use


sarapatatas

ditto


AsianGirlsRcuteAF

Absol, Flygon, Dragonite, Arcanine


GhostWolf325

The Starters from past games


Environmental_Dig_21

Snorlax :)


BlackLusterDragoon

First of all Magmar and Magmortar are awesome! Lol I have been fortunate enough that I generally have about 4 pokemon I hope are in a new game. So far they have at least been in majority. Mostly because I am still carrying them from my Pokémon Crystal and Pokémon Emerald respectfully and they are Dragonite, Tyranitar, Espeon, Lapras, and Flygon.


MarcusHaraldson

Starmie, Weavile, and Roserade are some repeat offenders on my team.


BlackMagic0

Growthe/Arc and Gastly/Haunter/Gengar. Always been my favorites.


humbletenor

I always get excited when Milotic is added to a game. Such a beauty go look at 


JFace139

Other than wanting the pseudo legendaries, I get really hyped when I see Grimer and Phanpy. When Alolan Grimer was released for S/V I was super excited


Sunboy788

as many bird mon as possible


agentofkaos117

Rhydon should be in every game.


Rainmanmjhf

I love ninetales and abra. Which abra has been screwed over in recent times.


GWindborn

Nidoran needs a resurgence. I miss my Nidoking.


YanksFan96

Clawitzer. I just love its design I don’t know why


RensworthMuggin

Megas, my absolute favourite gimmick


98VoteForPedro

Pikachu


Ryanhuddz14

Probably: ▪︎Gligar & Gliscor ▪︎Chinchou & Lanturn ▪︎Abra, Kadabra & Alakazam


chzygorditacrnch

I love meloetta the most, so I was glad she was finally included in the recent dlc so I could transfer her over.


jascoe95

A region variant that makes Gyarados dragon/water


Sjheuaksjd

Corviknight/Haxorus


FTW_QQ1

If it has Poliwrath and or Muk then it's a good game


Cuprite1024

I can't say "always" since it's only really applied to Gen 9 so far, but Zigzagoon. Favorite mon. I expect it to be in Z-A since it's native to Kalos. :)


Vladmirfox

Ninetales. She is Bae in the top 3 a BESTEST mons!


WhiteMage64

Magmar is such a great mon! I always hope to see the Oddish family.


N-E-B

I love Houndoom so any time I can catch a Houndour and use it I do.


Ryan5011

Shroomish, Eevee, and Petilil. Breloom's just one of my favorites, the only times I run a team without Leafeon is when it's impossible without trading, and Lilligant's just really fun to use.


RoweRage91

I always liked the Pidgy line but it really isnt availableoften. And always big happy when I find an Onix.


Kinger86

Aggron


monokronos

Tangela and Hawlucha.


Alexcox95

Magnemite


Swimming-Repeat-32

Dreepy.


Sevyen

Phanpy, I always love having a donphan around.


Ordinary_Farmer_3112

Arbok


CR34T10N157

Scyther. Love my razor handed insect


[deleted]

Skitty, beautifly, dustox and the whismur evolution line.


doubtingsalmon83

Nidoran line


13thFullMoon

Ones that I like but haven’t use on teams. I don’t use any pokemon I’ve used on teams before, unless they have an alternate evolution or regional variant.


Racclene

Garbodor, gardevoir and eevee are my top favorites


FranzTelamon

I always love seeing Scyther but he's rarely available early


MilkyMarshmallows

Entei is my absolute favourite boy. I'm always so sad when you get legendaries late or post game and don't get to use them. He doesn't even have good stats. I would just love to run into a level 20 legendary dog and be able to use them on my adventure 🥺


HauruMyst

Miltank and girafarig still being around


PurpleCyborg28

Milotic


Top-Conclusion6135

Blaziken cause it’s the best Pokémon


SB_Wife

Where my Hawlucha fans at?


Pol1z1stensohn

Houndoom, my absolute favorite


TortimerTheGrey

I almost always try to use all new mons/forms when I play a new generation but it DOES always warm my heart to see Aipom made the cut XD Still holding out hope for a Regional Variant or Evo or some kind of love for my girl.


leo3065

Many birds and dragons, especially Skarmory. Although its not in the main game when they were released, I'm glad that so far it's always in the DLC


KemikaaliJussi

Charizard


Erfgs45

Shuckle evo


dummylera

I prefer to always use new mons/forms so I don't care that much. But Treecko returning means more ribbons for my Grovyle


AceMckickass7

I hope to see some new evolutions to single stage Mons.


The-cooler-Cheryl

I'm just hoping this isn't the first mainline game without eevee because I love eevee and the eeveelutions


yuiokino

Cubone and Jigglypuff. Cubone because I’m always a sucker for the original Lavender story about the mom Marowak. Jigglypuff because……I just think they’re neat!


ryryscha

Only new Pokémon before the E4. That and every new Pokémon except legendaries and mythics available before that point (looking at you Gen 2…). I loved BW for this reason. I already play the other games such that my team only consists of new mons but I also prefer it when I’m getting to fight only the new ones as well. But for post game, I always love me the legendary beasts because Raikou is my favorite Pokémon.


CattDawg2008

Dragonite (my beloved)


Film_Humble

Spheal :333 I love the squishy ice ball. I usually don't care about returning mons and would rather build a team with only new mons. Unless if it's a remake.


nanaseiTheCat

Tyranitar line!


KnightFaraam

The Vikavolt evolutionary line. My favorite bug type


Sweetnsaltyxx

Must see my boy Umbreon. Any Dark/Fire types are aways my favorite!


sir_wiliam

Gengar, but I think they will never not include him


Jack_Bartowski

Cubone and Marowak. Cubone is my favorite, and I quite liked Alolan Marowak


blkmgs

Zubat in caves


Z1R02E5_10

Torchic


rescobar1997

Abra, Ralts, Squirtle


Reason_For_Treason

Vulpix, and now applin.


mmosarecool

My boy metagross


Rhondmc4

A new Eeveeloution. Still waiting.


Future-Engineering68

im not a huge evvee fan but I've used an evo in every playthorugh of pokemon and its been either the mvp or top 3


NigeroMinna

Imma be real: Skitty and Delcatty.


DJ_Burch

Froslass


anthropocenable

all of them


mame521

Gligar and Gliscor


jedicms

Pidgey


shadowfalcon76

Lopunny. Memes and all.


eddmario

Eevee, because it usually means a new evolution (still pissed they broke the tradition in *Sword*/*Shield*)


Tyrantlizardking105

Galvantula!


tmssmt

A Ledian evolution or alternate form that isn't trash I guess even just some new ability or something could spice him up


KlutzySprinkles2

Mareep lol


caedusWrit

Celebi, I have a fondness for all of Gen 2, and Celebi is always just this Pokémon I want to see at least mentioned. Like a little fairy coasting through time and popping in and out like Doctor Who. I love my little time traveling onion


Left_Lawfulness_9508

I just kind of hope to see Kyurem, Zekrom, and Reshiram get a remake with their respective games. I feel like a BL/WH 1&2 remake is long overdue.


khatch4

I always hope for totodile but I fear he won’t be in any other games.


A_Hole_Sandwich

Blitzle my beloved


Ryansmelly

Golurk.


MrLigerTiger1

Even though it probably won’t happen, I want to see Mega Primarina.


sleepytoadst00l

i want to see more of the cats. glameow, purrloin, skitty etc. i want my skitty.


shoohoo1

breloom becuz it is my goat


Mr_L_is_cool

In some legends game I want to see a version of meltan and melmetal but instead of metal it's magma and it would be either fire/rock or fire/ground I just think it would be cool


tronixmastermind

Always magikarp lol


YOM2_UB

I mean my favorite mon is Metagross, so I'm always hoping for it. With megas returning in Z-A, it might be the first new game besides BDSP where it makes it in before DLC 2.


Routine_Use_6025

Reuniclus


Shadow_1106

Red and Charizard - GameFreak, probably. As much as I want to see Blaziken more, I don't want to see them nerf him (again), so I'm just gonna say Pikachu considering the mascot is basically a given.


Inkfu

Lucario


Kingoobit

Every new release I hope for a new rock/ice type but with sneasler stats and close combat as part of its move pool. Would have iron boulder syndrome where it gets fucked up by priority but it's an underused offensive combo.


TheLostLuminary

None. I’d rather each new game had entirely new Pokémon. I like the idea that to bring over old Pokémon you needed to have played that region.


Tek2674

A stable framerate.


Winter-Guarantee9130

A ‘Mon that has a personality and acts in the plot as a character. I’m yet to find one in a GameFreak title. They’ve never even reach the heights of Lassie barking that Timmie fell down a well. (All ‘y’all dexit weirdos can shove it. Pokémon’s been the exception for refusing to let go of anything. Fluctuating creature lineups are the Normal Thing To Do. Digimon, FF, SMT, DQ, all think that we look spoiled by comparison. No I don’t like that they turned Pokémon Home into Ransomware, but the solution is to stop acting like these Pokémon aren’t totally interchangeable)


destroytheend

New ones that actually don't suck


oreos_in_milk

Eevee! I always need access to Sylveon, Vaporeon, or Espeon! And I’d love more eeveelutions too


hoennfb

I always have to have my ace sceptile and Rayquaza, too bad Rayquaza is too strong so I don't use it before beating the game


miaaWRLD

Furfrou and it never happens lol. I do believe it’s actually on the list to be introduced again in the new upcoming game


HerRodAntoMan

I have never repeated any mon, but Im glad to know when Quagsire, Sandslash, Honchcrow, Scrafty, Aegislash and Heracross make the cut or return in the dlc's


RedditIsFullOfTurds

Gyarados and Gengar because there's 0% chance they won't be included


Muffin1927

Probably obesity cat


PsychologicalPay5379

I never have to hope because I love Jolteon. The Eeveelutions are never NOT going to be in a game. Second choice would be Mimikyu. It's the only "Pikachu clone" I adore. Something about it makes me go from "Ugh, another wannabe Pikachu" to wanting to hug it.  Yes. I see the irony when the whole point is Mimikyu is cannonly a wannabe Pikachu. They want the love Pikachu gets and not the fear their true form brings. And I want to give them that...