chefpyro:

dorksofthecourt:

• it was the point in the franchise at which the characterisation actually started taking a turning point. the gym leaders began to appear outside of their gyms a lot more and generally had a bit more personality
  
• FIRST GAMES IN WHICH YOU COULD RUN INSIDE
• have you fuckin seen giratina they made an actual dEVIL POKEMON (or antimatter whatever we all know it’s the devil really)
• it introduced qUICK BALLS AND DUSK BALLS 
• barry is legit the funniest rival the franchise has ever seen
• BROUGHT BACK DAY AND NIGHT AND CHANGED THE MUSIC DEPENDING ON THE TIME OF DAY 
• cyrus was the first big bad with a more interesting and complex motive. I mean, giovanni’s just a mafia boss, and archie and maxie are environmentalists gone cuckoo, but cyrus actually starts lecturing you on genes and spirit and deep shit
• the underground!!!
• sinnoh is home to some of the coolest mythology. maybe they went a lil overboard on the legendaries but they still gave us the creation trio and the spirit trio and cresselia and darkrai and so much cool stuff
• LOOKER LOOKER LOOKER LOOKER LOOKER LOOKER
• first female champion
• you can whine about the extra evolutions all you want but roserade saved roselia’s bitch ass and actually made it worth raising 
• “you daft codger, your mask’s absurd!”
  
• Have You Seen The Distortion World
• it introduced the physical special split
• PHYSICAL SPECIAL SPLIT
• PHYSICAL
• SPECIAL
• SPLIT