Dawn was terrible in the anime. Everyone else before her had something defining about their personality, but Dawn is kind of like a dumbed down version of May. And more annoying, too.
Well until Serena in XY, Dawn was the mostly "girly-girl" of Ash's female companions. In addition to that a lot of her character is based in her backstory, she's a daughter of a famous Coordinator so she's sort of living in her mother's shadow trying to become a Coordinator herself. While May never questioned about being a Coordinator, there was several times Dawn wondered if she actually wanted to be a Coordinator or was just doing it because it was what her mother wanted. And while Gym battling wasn't her thing, she does have a sense for fashion which lead to interactions with Pokemon Stylists, a type of coordinator who designed clothes and accessories for Pokemon and trainers. While Dawn at the moment is still a Coordinator, the anime has hinted several times she could become a Stylist.
Charizard and Mewtwo. Both get two mega evolutions. Only their Y mega evolutions are cool and their X mega evolutions make no sense (seriously, Mewtwo turns into a fighting type?? And Charizard is now blue/black??)
Also now there are rumors that they’ll be getting a Sword/Shield form in the new games. Why so spoiled?
Money. That said, it does feel strange only they get two Mega Evolutions. And while Mewtwo I could buy getting two, I do agree Charizard getting too is a bit pandering (not impressed with MCX myself, I rather they made MCY Dragon-type).
That said, remember the Armor Evolution thing is just a rumor.
The fairy type is under appreciated, because not only are there good mons (Xerneas, Florges, Tapu Lele, etc) but they also calmed down all the insanely powerful dragon types and have an immunity to Draco Meteor and a locked-in Outrage.
They are? I though Fairy-type was well received and some feel that, in trying to nerf Dragons, they made Fairy-types OP.
BTW, the Dragon-type wasn't really all that OP. The Type was rather scarce in Type match-ups. What made Dragon-types very powerful was because it had a lot of powerful Pokemon that just so happened to be Dragon-type, notably many Legendaries and pseudo-Legendaries. And whenever they just a random Dragon-type (Druddigon, Axew family, Noibat family) they're not all that great as they don't have the stats to make up for the lack of Types match-ups.
Dragonite is stupid and I hate him. He’s so under designed and both of his pre evolutions look much better and are more original. Also, how does a beautiful little serpent queen evolve into an obese Charizard??
Actually Dragonite is more like an obese Dragonair that grew arms and legs. Remove the arms and legs and Dragonite keeps the serpent body. It feels like they may have wanted to mix the two most popular dragon concepts (the sea serpent and winged reptile) because, well, the Dratini family was the first Dragon-types.
I'm not saying we move back to sprites; I specified XY's models and poses which continue to be used. There's nothing wrong with like the entire concept of doing stuff in 3D; thinking so would just be dumb.
It's just that the XY models and poses which continue to be used are just terrible. Typhlosion, Swellow, Xatu, Hitmontop, Lucario; I could go on and on.
The problem is many Pokemon are just standing there/hovering in place (notable for winged Pokemon who are somehow flying without flapping their wings). Why aren't they in a more dynamic, "ready-for-battle" pose? That's how the sprites were, many Pokemon look to be in an in-between action pose. We don't want to see the Pokemon just standing there, we want to see them looking cool/cute/funny (depending on the Pokemon, obviously)!
There are several allusions for why Palkia is a Water Type:
Palkia might be Water-type because the most common element in the universe is hydrogen. The most recognizable form of hydrogen? H
20, water.
It takes a lot of effort to model, rig, light, texture, then animate: Imagine doing it for 600 + characters. So that's why I can excuse them.
For XY it was excusable... but they didn't have that excuse in Gen VII. With now most of the Pokemon models made, why not go back to at least the ones in the National Dex and touch up their animations? Hoping they maybe do this for Gen VIII and the first trailer is just from the early days when they've been mostly focusing on building the region.
I think the issue with Mega Audino is that it takes up a Mega Slot...
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So I'm gonna talk about Z-Moves instead. My qualm with Z-Moves is that they only help Pokemon who were good before hand adjust to the powercreep. In a VGC sense, that means Landorus-T, Volcarona, Incineroar- Pokemon who were already good before Z-Moves. The reason I find it a problem is that despite GF's attempt to make all Pokemon usable is via Z-Moves, it still leaves Pokemon horribly outclassed. An example would be Ledian- Z-Moves aren't going to make it the top of VGC, but a Mega might.
I think the main problem with Megas and Z-Moves are the same: you can only use one of each. They can give each fully evolved Pokemon a Mega Evolution, however the ones people are going to use are most likely the ones who were already good in their base form. Same issue with Z-Move, why give it to any other Pokemon besides the one that can hit the strongest?
Now am I suggesting they should allow multiple Pokemon to Mega Evolve or use Z-Moves? Actually yes... but with a catch. While I myself have thought how it could work, it's all wishlisting so I'll keep my thoughts simple: you can Mega Evolve as many Pokemon as you want but only one of your Pokemon can be Mega Evolved at a time and each Mega Evolution has diminishing value (until the only change would be any Type and Ability changes with nothing changed about the stats). Same with Z-Moves, the more of them you use the weaker they become.
I also think maybe they should find a way to combine Mega Evolution and Z-Moves but once again that's going into wishlisting territory so I'll just stop right here.