Top Ten Ways Pokemon Games Got Better Over Time

Let's see how many Genwunners hate me for making this list.
The Top Ten
1 Better Pokemon

Let's face it the gen-1 mons have some issues overall with many things. I even made a list on some mons that had terrible default movepools and newer ones at this point have been getting better overall

2 Better Moves

The newer moves in each generation give more diverse movepools to many mons, even the older ones have gotten better because of better moves.

3 More Unique Settings

Only if the game can save by itself, I would love Pokemon a lot more.

4 Better Enemy Teams

Let's face it, Team Rocket is fairly rote, they are the traditional "steal from others" kind of team and such. Teams later on are better. Both Aqua and Magma want either the sea or the land to rule, then Team Galactic and its enigmatic boss are great, then Team Plasma, etc.

5 Less Reliance on HMs

I think this is a major one, since HMs are kinda annoying and prevent progress overall, but by gen-7 or so they stopped with using them. And that's not a bad thing.

6 Better Methods of Communication

Gen-4 gave us Wi-fi trading opportunities, then there are multiple other forms of communcation with other players where competitions are done and such.

7 Better Methods of Catching Pokemon

This is a bit debatable because there's a number of mons that are available in annoying ways (anyone remembering the honey trees in Sinnoh knows what I'm talking about) but it's generally become a little better to catch mons.

8 More Fun Ways of Battling

Gen-3 introduces double battles, gen-5 triple battles, then there's all the battle facilities that each game tends to have

9 More Minigames
10 Better Types

We got Dark and Steel in Gen-2 (plus fixes to the Psychic type in Gen-1), then Fairy in Gen-6, plus changes to Steel's resistances (Ghost and Dark no longer are resisted by Steel). Add this to the newer mons and we get more diverse ones. Even better are newer type combinations.

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