When Would You Say This Franchise Jumped the Shark?

>>33085025
Gen 3 according to the schoolyard the adding of abilities and limited ev investment killed it.

When did battles in the anime stop being monster cockfights and become full-on shonen explosion fests?

Around that time

Gen 6 seemed to do it but Gen 7 saved its ass.

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>>33085046
>anime

>>33085046
What are you talking about? The fight between Ash and Paul was the only good thing to come out of DP and XYZ was amazing.

>>33085072

As an advertisement, the anime is reflective of the franchise's current state.

>>33085084
So, it was horrible during Hoenn and Unova but fucking amazing during Kalos? Isn't it the other way around? The only part I agree with is in that Alola is pretty okay.

I'd say gen 3 with being able to control the weather was the start but the powers given to gen 4 legends is unarguably and objectively where they really went overboard.

>>33086433
Probably this. Mewtwo did something similar in the first movie with the weather but at least it and the weather trio weren't literal universe-destroyers or gods. That was a really crazy jump.

if you think pokemon has jumped the shark, you've seen nothing yet
wait until we get something retarded like pokemon+human fusions

>>33085025
Unova.

>>33086587
Unova is the gen where they tried to get the fucking train back on the rails.