Groudon looks like a spicy McRib

Probably Gen 2 because PKMN Soul Silver was my actual first game (I lated had a Gold GBA cartridge) and gen 4 because it has the best story (plus Giratina and Dialga are my favorites besides Lugia)

Generation three like you, except from the point of view of Pokémon Colosseum and its sequel. Those games were ahead of their time.

Five, because it was the only time the series innovated, and they got punished for it. Sequel games instead of re-releases of games I’ve already played, a brave story, and easily the series’ musical peak. It was the best Pokemon had ever looked, played and sounded.

We will never see it again.

Gen 1, because of nostalgia

I think two for me. In my opinion, it had the best animated sprites (later animated sprites were sometimes the entire sprite bouncing which felt lazy to me). I stopped playing after gen four though, so I’m definitely missing some.

Gen two; the games were so damn good. Thank you Iwata

I haven’t played every generation but imo generation V (Pokemon Black/White) were the most interesting to me. It’s the sweet spot between the older clunkier games and the more modern ones.

• Palworld and Temtem.

If I’m answering the question as given, Gen 2 because it was the first games I owned, so that’s certainly nostalgia speaking. However, over the years it’s just so obvious that Nintendo/Gamefreak refused to evolve the series and the variants of the genre are the better games.

Gen 1 is the only gen. The rest are bullshit. Get off my lawn

Gotta be Black/White. It was the first time the writing really took a step forward. The antagonist wasn’t just evil for no reason. They had a compelling story and their motivations made sense and you could sympathize with them.

I only played red. It kind of sucked but we had almost no other forms of entertainment back then

I want to say 4 because that’s the one I started with but, realistically, gen 5 was the best. It had so many features:

• Animated sprites (they look better than the 3d models and I’ll never get over it)
• An actual story
• Used only the new pokemon for the regional dex
• Very cool abilities like Zoroarks

The OG 150, with special shout out to the weed smoking cat from one of the newer gens.

Gen 1 had a lot of design issues: The special stat is overpowered, too many pokemon were poison type, move diversity was so poor that some types were just useless, and there were a lot of glitches.

Recent generations also have design issues: The story holds your hand every step of the way, characters are more detailed but less expressive, each generation has a gimmick that gets abandoned in the very next game, and there’s somehow a lot of glitches again!

Personally, my sweet spot is gen 4, but gens 3 and 5 are pretty solid too.