What is it about Pokemon that make's it so good?

I think Pvp and trading really makes it different than others

>>33358354
There's a real sense of individuality in pokemon compared to your standard JRPG. Its not just the fact that you can create any team you want, but have that team interact with other people's team through trading and or battling.

The monsters. No matter who you are, there's one for everybody.

>>33358359
>having friends to play with

>>33358354
Unique design. Unique design breeds unique atmosphere. Unique atmosphere becomes iconic.

>>33358690
What do you mean unique design?

>>33358773
Not him, but the best example I can think of is the pokeball itself. That one little object and how it's designed sticks in your head, makes you wonder how it and the rest of the world works, etc. Pokeballs are now iconic

Imagine if Pokemon just joined you by some other means, it wouldn't have been nearly as interesting. The games are full of small design decisions like this that are not essential but make the world interesting.

Charizard, eevee and gengar no other rpgs have those