During Nintendo’s E3 conference and Pokemon Tree House special, the Pokemon company dropped a devastating bombshell on longtime Pokemon players. Unfortunately, due to the sheer number of Pokémon in existence and the time it takes to reanimate them for the new game engine properly, certain Pokémon will be completely cut for the game. This will mark the first Pokemon game since Pokemon bank was introduced that all Pokemon won’t be available in the game in any capacity.
This is undoubtedly disheartening news for all players who have been “catching them all” for over two decades only to be told not all of their Pokemon will be allowed in the brand new HD Pokemon games being released this fall.
At this time the Pokemon Company ‘hasn’t released a list of the Pokemon that did make the cut or how many will be available in the game. There is also discussion among players if the rest of the Pokemon will (eventually) be patched into the game. At this time, the Pokemon company has given no indication that this is their plan. For better or worse this is the reality we live in, and we can only hope our favorites make it into the game.
While I don’t speak for the Pokemon company or Game Freak, I do however have (MY OWN) opinions of which Pokemon should be in the game based on (MY OWN) preferences. Below I will prepare a list of all the Pokémon I am ok with being cut and a short reason why for some. (I for obvious reason won’t be including any Pokémon that have been confirmed to be in the game via trailers and officially released content)
1) Beedrill Line
2)Pidgeeot Line
3) Fearrow Line
4) Wigglytuff line
5) Parasect line
6) Dugtrio Line
7) Primape Line
8) Muk Line
9) Electrode Line
10) Blissey Line
11) Furret Line
12) Ledian (Does anyone use this Pokemon???)
13) Jumpluff Line
14) Unown (All of them Are Useless)
15) Forretress Line
16) Dunsparce (Unless it gets an evolution)
17) GranBull Line
18) Quillfish
19) Corsola
20) Delibird (Why dies this Pokémon exist)
21) Swellow Line
22) Exploud Line
23) Hariyama Line
24) Volbeat
25) Illumise
26) Chimeecho
27) Luvdisc
28) Bibarel Line
29) Kricketune Line
30) Wormadam Line and variants
31) Patchirisu
32) Chingling
33) Chatot
34) Drapion
35) Carnivine ( Just a poor design)
36) Rotom (As a playable Pokémon)
37) Phione
38) Manaphy
39) Shaymin Both forms
40) Victini
41) Swoobat Line
42) Audino Line
43) Darmanitan
44) Maractus
45) Garbodor line (its literally trash)
46) Emolga
47) Amoonguss Line
48) Cobalion
49) Terakion
50) Virizion
51) Meloetta forms
52) Talonflame line
53) Furfrou
54) Slurpuff line
55) Dedenne
56) Carbink (Unless it gets an evolution)
57) Gourgiest Line and all variants
58) Oricorio variants (They only make sense in the Alolan Region)
59) Ribombee Line
60) Lurantis Line
61) Silvally Line
62) Minior (literally forgot this Pokemon exists)
63) All Tapu Forms
64) Cosmoem Line (For a company worried about scalability I wonder why they literally created a useless Pokémon)
65) The Ultra Beasts will likely be cut
While I would ideally like all Pokemon to be in the game or at some point be patched in, I do challenge all of you to go through the Pokedex and pick out the Pokemon you personally dislike, don’t use or have entirely forgotten about. I was truly surprised by the sheer number of Pokemon that I was ok with potentially not being in the game. I figure at least some people will have a significant number of Pokemon they honestly wouldn’t miss if they were cut from the game. I personally found this experiment helpful with coping with the changes coming to the new Pokemon games.
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