Gen 1, because of nostalgia

Gen 3 was my first, so it is the one I am most familiar with and have the most nostalgia for. I can’t remember anywhere near as much about any of the other generations than gen 3.

Pokémon Generation 1 and 2. They story, gameplay, and mechanics are concise and not hand-hold-y, the designs are the ones I grew up with, they can easily be played on a phone emulator and have so many rom hacks that I never will totally experience everything they have to offer

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

Gen 2 was best, because of that miltank that they nerfed in later versions.

Also nostalgia answer but i loved gen 6, Y was my first game. Mega evolution was rad as hell and getting mewtwo from the movie was awesome.

But the delta episode of Alpha Sapphire made AS my favourite, the idea of a whole nother timeline connecting it back to the older games blew my little mind. Then they didn’t do mega evolution in the next gen and I stopped playing

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

• 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.

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

Whichever generation was in the Pokémon game for the original Gameboy color. The one where there was a red, green, and yellow version of the same game.
That’s the only real relationship I have with pokemon, because it was such a great game. So great that I loved the game and played it on an emulator, as I didn’t have a Gameboy.

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