The Best and Worst of Pokemon Post Games

Sometimes a good post game can be just as important as the main story. How do Pokemon's compare to each other?

[JPRPokeTrainer]

What's your favorite post game in Pokemon?

[DaSheepKiller]

You actually don't have to beat Peony to explore the Crown Tundra. I know this because I first went in with an underleveled team, lost to him, and was able to progress anyway.

[dmtrsgrksrphl]

Post Game stuff is important. It's meant to keep you coming back to the game. You shouldn't be done just by beating the main story

[flaregamer]

I was sad when they removed Looker and Anabel from USUM. Well they are in it, but you can only see them once and you need to avoid doing an Ultra Beast capture to begin with.

[ZZ-expy]

HGSS post game:
- The entire Kanto region with every location and all 8 gym badges
- The Battle Frontier
- 12 legendaries (Most in the series at the time)
- The Safari Zone (Best in the series)
- The National Dex
- GBA Sounds
- Gym Leader Rematches
- Elite Four Rematches
- Mt. Silver and Red
- The Game Corner
- The Pokeanthalon
- Making Pokeballs with Kurt
- Events (Best in the series)
- Get a Kanto starter
- Get a Hoenn starter
- Ruins of Alph
- Swarm Pokemon

[wikiuser]

Seeing every Pokémon in the Sinnoh Dex was never an issue for me. You can easily get it done by the post-game if you just battle every Trainer, which I always do.

[thewhatness]

Not only do X & Y's base games feel incomplete in and of themselves, Kalos' postgame feels outright insulting for the sixth generation of a series like Pokémon. The Looker Missions can all be done within about an hour or so, there are parts of the map that are just sectioned off and never elaborated on, and for a region that aims to capitalize on a feeling of grandeur, it sure feels empty and with nothing to do, no one to see.

Oddly enough, I've clocked more hours in X Version than any other title simply on merit of having so much fun with the competitive meta at the time, but damn, if Kalos isn't starved for things to do and places to explore.

[MxMothra]

You don’t actually have to beat peony, if he beats you, the story just continues, but he gloats a little.

[rolandodr]

I miss the ORAS legendary hunt. The first few weeks was spent by having the community come together to try to figure out the specific requirements for the legendaries and you always know which legendary you are getting. This generic “every past legend and you get a random one in this vague dimensionless void” became tiresome when USUM did it, now it’s just annoying with SwSh

[Ikcatcher]

XY ‘post game’ is probably the most insulting thing I’ve ever experienced

[cumbrap]

Wait wait wait... there's a character in pokemon named "Sordward?"

[Kronos]

My top 3 Postgames are:
1. BW2
2. HGSS
3. Platinum

[albabimam]

Personally I prefer the B2W post-game over the HGSS. The exploration in that seems a lot better than in Kanto where all the routes are basically the same.

[MJ-syen]

"The only time you can fight yourself outside your brain." Dude that will never leave my thoughts.

Why you do this to me XD

[DeepWeeb]

I think what people want from a post-game isn't just "more content" but instead *the idea that the adventure isn't over*
Why post-games where you explore new areas as a sort of "second quest" (Johto, Unova) are at a higher place than all those where you do fetch quests on already-seen places (literally every single "Episodic" post-game since X & Y)

[paulitics]

I legit have 200 hours in yokai watch 3 and still havent cleared the entire post game. I wish pokemon focused more on the post game, too. I dont think we've had a good post game since gen 5

[PeterGriffin]

The 3 Pokémon games with the best post game is Black & White 2, Heartgold & SoulSilver & Ultra Sun & Moon.

[brunolinares]

Emma/Essentia was pretty wasted imo, she's a pretty interesting character and a potentially dangerous antagonist (she can double as anyone and steal their Pokemon teams) that would've brought some flare into the main story.

Heck, even the SWSH weirdos, for how goofy and dumb they were, they were miles better than freaking Team Yell and Macro Cosmos...

[nicholasnorthwood]

How ironic that HGSS, platinum, and black & white 2 are my favourite games because they had the best post games

[acan]

I really like the Looker missions from X and Y. Its not the most exiting postgame but has a really cool story and atmosphere doing detective work. Solving small cases, finding gang members, chasing unknown criminals and the like.

I also feel it does a great job avoiding the delta/UB mission problem of needing to fly everywhere because it all takes place in Lumiose city.