The cuts for the Sw/Sh dex were worse than even the most pessimistic predictions

[Rick1331]

Barkley said:

Rick1331 said:

I'm surprised how much this has upset people, I clearly remember playing Ruby/Sapphire for the first time and realising a large number of the original Pokedex had been cut (but I don't remember people being angry about it). This was later changed by FireRed/LeafGreen and Pokemon Colosseum/XD, there's no reason this couldn't happen again.

Pokemon weren't cut out of Ruby/Sapphire. There just wasn't any way to get them because you couldn't trade from GB/GBC to GBA. They became available in Ruby/Sapphire when Fire Red and Leaf Green came out. Now-a-days with the internet you can pay a subscription to store all your pokemon, but they won't let you use them in Sword/Shield. They have a subscription service to store your pokemon and then they won't even let you use them in the new game, it's a bit much.

The actual number isn't a massive deal to me, the actual pokemon missing are. You'd think the starters would have at least been saved from the cut.

No bulbasaur? Squirtle? Cyndaquil? Totodile? Mudkip? Piplup? And some of my favorite pokemon: Shinx, Lickitung, Psyduck, Apalm, Poliwag... there are some substantial gaps here.

We've got this loser:                    But not this legend:

Yes, as I said cut from Ruby & Sapphire (initially), it was 2 years until FR/LG.

They were accessible later but just like now people played through Hoenn without quite a number of Pokemon. It's even less of an issue now as additional content can be easily added... also I like Chandelure.