Realism Thread

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Come back down to earth. Your expectations for SM are far too high. All of your delusions and hopes are just going to end up hurting you.

There are only 7 trials and 4 kahunas. No more, no less. There is no elite four on top of the Kahunas.
Team Skull will have as much presence and depth as Team Flare. They do not have some deep backstory. They are not secretly the good guys fighting against the Aether Foundation. They are just generic grunts.
The differences between Sun and Moon will be as miniscule and insignificant as the version differences always are. The stories taking place during different times is overmarketted and overhyped.
None of the Alolan forms will be significantly better than their original forms.
Ribombee and Vikavolt will be trash, just like earlybugs always are.
Pyukumuku, Mimikyu, Minior, Comfey, Oricorio, and Komala will be gimmicky, useless shitmon.
Wishiwashi's ability is going to be just as crippling as Defeatist.
Crawbrawler evolves into the Yeti crab. They are not Hitmonlee/Hitmonchan counterparts.
Marshadow's """unique typing""" is pure Dark.
Literally a toucan will be Normal/Flying. Not steel, not grass, not fairy, not dark. Normal.
The sea urchin is going to be pure water type. Maybe water/poison is you're really lucky. It is not part steel or any other interesting type combination.
There are no Pokemon that the leakers missed. GF did not scrub the demo to trick us into thinking we had the full leaks. There are no more new Pokemon.
The game will have, at most, the same amount of content as XY.
The game will be even easier than XY.

XY is the new gold standard for Pokemon games. All games following it will be extremely similar in structure, content, and execution, for the rest of Pokemon's lifespan.