Contrary to what some fans believe, the Pokémonfranchise has never seen a decline in the quality of its creature designs. Since the beginning, every region has been home to both Pokémon with amazing ...

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, deemed as the worst mainline Pokémon games based on their Metacritic scores, have several issues, but they’re not all bad, and I’m here to defend them. The first Generation ...

Best: The fairy type. Pokémon’s type chart is the mechanical backbone of the series, but it remained stagnant for more than a decade; the biggest previous shakeup of its formula came back during Gold ...

There are so many things wrong with modern Pokémon that it’s hard to argue any one of them is totally at fault for the series’ rather unexpected and disappointing fall from grace. However, I’d argue ...

Best: Double battles. People often poke fun at Pokémon games for being “glorified rock-paper-scissors,” and for a while there, you could broadly see how that case was made. Pokémon are each affiliated ...