10 Problems With Pokémon Gold & Silver Nobody Wants To Admit

Like many things on this list, new Poké Balls were not a bad idea. Quite a good one in fact. Using the Poké Ball craftsman Kurt as a means to introduce these was equally not a bad idea. Expanding on the handful of offerings of original Poké Balls would lend players new and creative approaches to catching them all, and making them specialized in effect rather than straightforwardly more powerful than their predecessors was a smart play. The smarter play would have been to actually make them worth having to wait twenty four bloody hours to get our hands on just one of the damn things.

To be fair, the Lure Ball and Heavy Ball were at least usable on the array of Water type Pokemon and the waist band busting Legendary Pokémon, but the rest of Kurt's lineup reek of unholy Pokésin.

Let's break it down: the Moon Ball was good for about all of four Pokémon who would one day need the Moon Stone to evolve, the Love and Level Balls managed to marginalize themselves through their own effects so rapidly they were effectively pointless from the go, and the latter was even glitched out so it would never work any better than a standard Poké Ball. And then there's the Fast Ball.

Firstly, it was created to help promote the roaming mechanic by working at quadruple rate on the first turn only, for which alone it deserves to be thrown in to the ninth circle, but also to help catch the flighty hard to find new additions to the world of Pokémon such as Heracross and Delibird, who had a real tendency to flee when encountered for no logical reason. Except the damn thing didn't even work. A glitch meant this 4x catching bonus would only kick in if it was used on Magnemite, Grimer, or Tangela. Bloody Tangela! It was a sinful concept from the start, its debauchery exacerbated by its perpetuation of other flawed concepts and it's crowned off by its inability to even do its bloody job right and will forever sit in our bags, mocking us for our blind trust in it.