Gen 1 had the worst Pokémon, in my opinion

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friendlyfamine said:

Gen 6 and Gen 7 had such good Pokemon...because there were less and there was more emphasis on quality rather than quantity. It shouldn't come to surprise at all that the Pokemon felt more memorable as a result. They could afford to go this route since there was already 500+ Pokemon in the dex, so adding another 100 Pokemon wasn't exactly necessary, and they could be more careful and clever with design. Gen 1 couldn't, it needed the quantity as the first title in the series.

There are about as many good Pokemon in Gen 7 as Gen 1, because Gen 1 had so many. And I'd say at least 40 of the Gen 1 Pokemon had good design.

It's kind of unfair to make these comparisons unless you condense the sample size of Gen 1...and you can't.

Couldn't agree more. The last couple of gens have been about quality over quantity. It would take too much time to go over all of the inspired designs of 6 and 7. I could find a previous post where I did just that before.

Gen 7 EASILY takes the cake for the for the gen with the most Pokemon that actually tie into its location and world. Just about all of the Pokemon based on animals are either based on real world animals from the Hawaiian islands, or some aspect of Hawaiian culture.