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Will the older Pokemon become obsolete in the future?

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As each new Generation of Pokemon comes and goes they leave us with even more stronger and faster Pokemon that the last. If this streak continues, will the First and Second Generation become obsolete?

At one point, Jynx, Lapras, Tauros and Electabuzz were Pokemon to be feared. Now, they are all severely outclassed and rarely see the light of day.

On the other hand, Blissey, Tyranitar, Skarmory, Jolteon and Mew are still used time and time again. Will they still be used next Generation, or even the one after?
 
Yes, I think so.
5th generation introduced way too many strong pokemon imo.
 
Maybe they will, maybe they won't. It's hard to tell because we can't guess what will be brought in each generation. However, as you pointed out, Pokemon such as Tyranitar and Jolteon are still going strong and they are from the first two generations. I doubt the Pokemon from the past will ever fully be forgotten and unused.
 
Actually, the generation with the most "obsolete" Pokémon is Generation III, which has the least critters with regular usage in the OU and UU tiers. As of right now, Generations II and IV are roughly on par in terms of the number of representatives in the aforementioned tiers, and the same goes for Generations I and V.
 
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Don't see why it wouldn't be possible to adjust some Pokemon's base stats in a future generation. If you transfer them forward, their IVs, EVs, moves etc. can be kept but reapplied to new Bases. Surely a system like that is possible.

Also new moves, abilities and evolutions are all possible solutions as well.
 
A stat analysis will show that at least type-wise, there are still a few pokemon that have endured all generations to remain on top. Even if you take the best overall stats, it has remained unchanged since the third generation, and two of them were from the second generation. I don't know enough about competitive circles to say what they use, but I don't think the older pokemon are in any danger of being forgotten. They may be outclassed, but surely not forgotten.
 
I don't think they'll become obsolete, people will come up with new strategies.
 
Scizor, Tyranitar, and Dragonite are among the top 5 most commonly used Pokemon in OU as of December 2011. Generation V actually brought a new lease on life for Pokemon like Ninetales, Politoed, Espeon, and Venusaur, all of whom are also currently OU (and in the case of the former two, I don't think they'll ever drop again.) Then you have your mainstays from last Generation like Starmie, Gyarados, Gengar, Blissey, Skarmory and Celebi as well as fun new stuff like Tentacruel that made it to OU this Generation.

I've only been looking at OU (and I know I missed a few) and look at the amount of Gen I & II POkemon I mentioned. In my opinion, I doubt they will become obsolete any time soon.
 
I don't see why they would. The Pokemon in every generation generally have the same base power, (Excluding Gen IV's Arceus) and many of the older Pokemon have gotten much better as they gained new moves and abilities. Poiltoed was merely an average Pokemon for three Generations; now with Drizzle, it's one of the most overused of all time.
 
I just think it depends on the player.. as long as they are programmed into the games, they will be used. Not everyone uses the same kind of older Pokemon. I think it would be ignorant of them to not have all of them programmed into all games. Why would they completely abandon their older creations for their newer ones?
 
If they don't receive new evolutions/moves/abilities to compete with the new kids on the block, then yeah they'll become obsolete, and it'll cause newcomers to believe they stink big time.
 
It would deppend on the pokemon in question, not on the generation it was introduced in.

Granted, a bunch of older pokémon do lose their exclusive niche, but they'll give them other things to differenciate them from the newer one, such as with Dragonite and Salamence.

And of course some specific popular pokémon may get it worse in a generation and other less used ones may rise in another generation and so on, so even if one DOES become obsolete it can always make a comeback.

I can easilly see many gen. V pokémon falling behind before say, Blissey of all things does. Regardless of what does Audino get.

it'll cause newcomers to believe they stink big time.
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This is one thing that bothers me. People say that "new players don't appreciate old pokemon", but that's just ridiculous, old pokémon are brought up constantly in the new generations, and more often than not (simply because there are more than introduced in the current gen) among them are the ones that are used the most.
 
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It depends solely on what every Generation brings. There is no guarantee that something will become completely obsolete at this point, especially with the surprises they had for us. Plus, there is always someone willing to use them, because every Pokémon has a fanbase of its own, for small it may be.

But if I had to see something going obsolete in the future should the trend of "no evolutions of previous generation Pokémon" continue, that'd be most likely the majority of the fully-evolved Gen III Pokémon, perhaps excepting the starters, Milotic, Salamence, Metagross and some legendaries. And even then, that'd not be definitive.
 
No matter what, there's still going to be trainers using Dragonite.

There's still going to be trainers using Aerodactyl

There's still going to be trainers using Tyranitar

There's still going to be trainers using Alakazam.
 
Probably not. Not only are there still a LOT of overused Gen I Pokemon (Blissey, Dragonite, etc.), but when games change, Pokemon that are weak can suddenly get say, a DW ability and be extremely powerful. Abilities make Pokemon a lot, just look at Wobbuffet.
 
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Not only are there still a LOT of overused Gen I Pokemon (Blissey, Dragonite, etc.), but when games change, Pokemon that are weak can suddenly get say, a DW ability and be extremely powerful.
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Blissey is a Gen. II Pokemon. But it is definitely overused.

I think people will always like certain Pokemon, even if they suck in battle. In that regard, I don't think any older Pokemon will become obsolete. Will you see less of them when you battle on Wifi or something? Yeah, probably. But every Pokemon seems to have some fans, and that will prevent them from becoming pointless to the series.
 
Did you see what they did to Ditto? They turned the king of gimmicks into a potential king of revenge killing.

Like people have said, many Pokemon from older gens are in the top tiers. Tyranitar for example, isn't going anywhere. If anything, its the new kids on the block that have to prove themselves, not the old dogs.

Seeing the rise of Politoad/Ninetails (Ditto eventually as well) shows that a simple change to an old Pokemon can have big results. So no, they won't become obsolete, they'll simply evolve with the times.
 
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