let's see the usual suspects defend this

>>58001287 (OP)
>different games have different level curves
The real dunk is how far you are at those levels

BW is really interesting because it sort of has a GSC-style second ending. Yeah you could just quit when you beat Ghetsis, but you're not even the champion at that point. These levels feel like it was meant to be intended design as well, although I can never be sure. Also, interesting that you picked half early game Pokemon and also the pseudo that you can't even get until you beat the game instead of the one that evolves at level 50 that you actually can catch. But I get it, Hoenn doesn't really have many end-game Pokemon really, discounting legendaries Shoal Cave and diving is about the most variety you get while Unova is introducing new Pokemon in Victory Road for fuck's sake. But that just makes the Bagon line an even stronger parallel to BW with extremely similar availability.

i love rufflet, larvesta and mienfoo so much, bros

>>58001309
>BW is really interesting because it sort of has a GSC-style second ending.
i like that way of looking at it

>>58001287 (OP)
Aren't they different lengths?

>>58001287 (OP)
>unova pokemon stay cute shotas all the way until the very end of the game
who could ask for more

>>58001287 (OP)
non linear game vs linear game

>>58001287 (OP)
Hoenn is the ez mode region

>>58001288
So most Unova mons are completely unusable in future campaigns, what a great idea

>>58001287 (OP)
Eviolite exists e.e

>>58001902
So are most trade evos which have been around since the beginning

Gen 5 is such a shame. pleasant graphics, snappy gameplay, nice artstyle. But the new mons are either ugly or do-overs from older mons

>>58001960
Uhm have you tried trading? Even if you have no friends you're not a poorfag as well right?

>>58001960
>not using the universal pokemon randomizer to fix trade evos
what are you even doing man

>>58001999
>Gen 5
>pleasant graphics
>nice artstyle
I don't think we played the same game

>>58002452
True, you played gen 6, unfortunately.

>>58001309
Spbp. Unova has more postgame areas than Hoenn, so the lategame mons are designed around the player still having content after the credits.

>>58001287 (OP)
They knew how to handle late game evolution reasonably as far back as GS and arguably in RB. Just have the pokemon show up at a low level for the route. Larvitar in GS and arguably dratini in RB did this and their future proofed just fine. All you had to do was put some extra time catching them up to your team level wise. I don’t know why they reinvented the wheel in the dumbest way possible for Gen 5 in this regard. Now vullaby will be stuck in a diaper longer than it takes for a cosmog to become a solgaleo/ lunala.

>>58001287 (OP)
Rufflet is first encountered at ~lvl 40 and so is Mienfoo
Larvesta's a weird one because it's a giftmon but you can also catch a Volcarona
Deino is the regional psuedo

>>58002496
>Unova is more linear than Hoenn, so the lategame mons are designed around the player literally not being able to access them until the very end of the game because the game is retardedly railroaded
ftfy

I can defend all of them except Larvesta. It should have been a friendship or Fire Stone evolution

>another hourly gen 5 bad genwar thread
you've been doing this for TEN FUCKING YEARS

>>58002521
the price paid for bug type 550 bst

>>58002531
This thread is full of gen 5 cocksuckers you blind faggot

>>58002512
Hoenn is incredibly linear, the only non-linear parts are where you get to choose how to backtrack to certain areas, most notably reaching Mauville after surf which is about the only time you can visit a new area (which doesn't contain many if any new Pokemon and only a few battles and items, but lots of atmosphere). Hoenn does have a few optional areas, much like Unova, such as the aforementioned Abandoned Ship or the later Shoal Cave, but the most non-linear part of the game is also the worst in terms of encounter and map design with the exploration not being super great. Hell, the best thing you can do in that segment of the game is on the straight line part that literally forces you to go in one direction, something which is far less effective in the Unova version. If you like Hoenn's encounter tables going to shit at the end of the game that's fine, the rest of the game mostly makes up for how bad the end of the game can be. But Unova is more consistent, which does lead to weird stuff like the high evolution levels which you'll mostly surpass by the time you hit the two final battles anyway (except Deino because I dunno they wanted Ghetsis to be a big cheater or something).
>>58002563
Maybe it's because the OP is wrong and retarded, like most people who insult any given generation?

>>58001288
>it's fine when Unova does it
Nah, fuck off.

>>58001772
>>58001309
By this logic, the level curve isn't an issue in GSC/HGSS. It's just part of intended design because the E4 isn't the "true ending".

>>58002571
The correct response would've been: "what does linearity have to do with encountering unevolved Pokemon at the endgame?"

You can't address these trolls' premises at face value, they're usually false.

>>58002605
>what does linearity have to do with encountering unevolved Pokemon at the endgame?
Tell us anon, what makes those Pokemon endgame?