I find the whole situation strange, but we will see how it goes. It might be a good decision.
Magnalian said:
That.. was very unexpected. Color me intrigued. Black and White may have had the worst pokémon designs of the series (so far), but the story was better than those of the other Pokémon games and it seemed more.. streamlined than the other titles. I'll be cautiously looking forward to this. Unless they add another Stunfisk. Or another Patrat. Or.. I'm gonna need a pen.
I really don't get the bad design thing that people harp on Gen 5 for; I really think in that department it is on par with the amount of bad looking ones that each Gen has.
The whole harping on designs thing, and the outrage from people that were mad because they wouldn't be able to train their past favorites for their main story run through, got me to really look at the designs of the new Pokemon and test to see if how they work in look and in team groupings.
I did this by seeing how many teams of only Gen 5 Pokemon, I could train and feel good about them and their designs. To make it so that the test wouldn't take forever to complete, I put the stop level at 75, for when I would then move on and work on another team. So far I have three teams at level 75, and I'm working on a fourth, and I believe I could make at least one more. That's 5 teams, 30 different Pokemon that I actually like in look and how they work as a team.
My favorite part of Gen 5 though, has to be all the new and varied bugs that have been added. This is the first Gen that I actually feel confident that I could construct an all bug team that would actually work. My favorite has to be Volcarona, that thing is a powerful beast. Galvantula is a close second. In my study, I actually fielded them on the same team; they work great together.