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EvilMegas posted...

You're missing the point entirely. The meta will change regardless. Why take out people favorites for no reason?

The same reason people's favourite levels from SMB aren't in SMB2: Because it's a different game. You want to see your favourites from an older game, you can play that game or enjoy the occasional nostalgia-plucking cameo in a new one (like including Whomp's Fortress in SMG2, which was a beautifully executed piece of nostalgia). The only reason anyone expects all of their favourites to be accessible in every new Pokemon game is because that's how they've done it so far, which has always been a mistake because that approach simply isn't sustainable if they want to design a half-decent battling system around it.

EvilMegas posted...

It won't create this balance you are referring to. Pokemon will never have that

A separate issue, but one which is made considerably easier to solve by pruning the Dex down to more manageable levels. Will they ever solve it? Probably not, because there's more money to be made in churning out a few new critters for people to catch each year than putting serious effort into balancing a very complex PvP battle system. But simplifying that system by having a few hundred less Pokemon to worry about is a good design choice, whether they capitalize on that simplification or not.
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