*Tactically switches out Pokemon in your path*

*Tactically switches out Pokemon in your path*

This is literally the first fight you can do that feels like a proper full blown main series trainer battle besides maybe Ingo, and the AI is the best it's ever been in a main series game. What the fuck?

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>thinly vieled "PLA is main series" cope thread
Gen 9 is going to destroy you fags

>*Tactically switches out Pokemon in your path*
A juggler in koga's gym for gen fucking 1 switched pokemon. Stop being such a shill

>>thinly vieled "PLA is main series"
It's the first main series game since ORAS not counting LGPE.

>Compcucks literally seething in every thread on the board
PLA is outpacing your precious skinnerbox and now you're going into Stadium App containment :^)

What made-up bullshit definition of mainline even fits a literal time-travel spin-off of this gen's remake?

They're going to start implementing changes in Gen 10, if not sooner. Screencap this.

mainline = made by gamefreak

Gamefreak went out of its way to call it Legends so peoppe wouldn't think of it as mainline. We'll get other mainline games and other legends games but thinking one would replace the other is retard logic

>What made-up bullshit definition of mainline even fits a literal time-travel spin-off of this gen's remake?
Holds up the core elements of the main series, of which the line has been blurred after Sun and Moon removed most of the staple features like the national dex and completely switched up the gameplay formula of exploration, catching, and strategy.
Legends is more of a mainline game than SM/USUM/SWSH will ever be. Cope.

With the reduced movepool they can probably afford to add a bit more complexity to the AI because turns are more predictable.

The games aren't NOT mainline because they're shit. If that was the case then Gen 6 and base DP would also not be considered "mainline" Pokemon.
Also go back to your discord retard, we can all tell its you because you're the only ones pushing this ridiculous idea that Gen 7 removing the physical natdex is at all comparable to Gen 8 not allowing certain Pokemon in at all.

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>Sun and Moon removed most of the staple features like the national dex
Stop posting retard, the core features have always been gyms, catching, battling, and becoming the champion. PLA is so far from the core experience that even Let's Go got right. Its a fucking time-travel spin off that doesn't fit the mainline pokemon formula at all, and you will never see the same kind if game until Legends: Celebi or some shit

That's the discord, unfortunately they won't stop but you can ignore them since they'll never post any support for their claims when they throw gen 7 under the bus.

Vp said LGPE weren't core genes either until GF confirmed it was. How many times do you guys need your headcanon and comfortability to be debunked??

>pic is from Pokémon itself

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>Seething at PLA being main series
It's not a side game, those would be the TCG, Mystery Dungeon, Stadium, Snap and Colosseum.
But you can stay mad that you don't have to buy 2 or 3 of the same game because muh different mascots.

i want her to break my jaw and kiss it better

>Colosseum
Literally uses the main game combat system.

If Lets GO and Legends are mainline (and they are) the gamecube games are too.

>Developed by Genius Sonority
>Pokémon Official stated many times what's "Mainline" and what's "Side-series"
Any Pokémon game developed by GameFreak is considered a mainline game, regardless of any changes to the game mechanics. What's hard to understand?

>What's hard to understand?
Gamefreaks inferiority complex

>they'll never post any support for their claims when they throw gen 7 under the bus.
Because the discord shills Gen 7 and 8.

Then why would they say its mainline

If that's the criteria being used to denote mainline vs non-mainline then the distinction isn't relevant. If gamefeak made a card game it would be mainline by your logic, and so why bother insiting that a time-travel game with totally different gameplay is somehow equal to the core games that have been the same for decades

>totally different gameplay
it's not totally different though
you have 5 raging nobles instead of 8 gyms
there's a bare bones battle facility because they will be releasing Pokemon Battle Frontier as a send off to legacy style battles.
They have wild battles, trainer battles
they've merely introduced a long time QoL that the games have needed, and that's being able to just throw a ball at a pokemon without actively engaging it but for stronger pokemon an active engagement is still more effective and reliable.
Moving away from barebones corridors is a good thing. Hoping they really have fun in creating a map with imoactful routes between these PLA wild areas and add dungeons. Adding secret bases back would also be incredibly cool and I see no reason why hidden grottoes couldn't make a return.
Hell retcon dynmax and makr them field events like the time-space distortions so I can see kaiju size pokemon waddle around their designated area from the other side of the map
also bring back megas so I can easter egg hunt for stones again

>they will be releasing Pokemon Battle Frontier as a send off to legacy style battles.
Pffft, gen 9 is going to be the same old formula, 2024 will have Legends 2 electric boogaloo