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What are the major changes or additions that occurred every generation?

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Here's the ones that came to mind immediately:

Gen I: Uh... Pokemon Battling
Gen II: The Special Defense Stat
Gen III: Abilities
Gen IV: The Physical/Special Split
Gen V: Hidden Abilities
Gen VI: Mega Evolution

Are there any other major changes between generations that I missed? Thanks!

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Update for Gen 8

Gen 1

  • Pokemon as a whole!
  • Kanto
  • 15 types
  • Evolutions
  • Evolution stones
  • General Pokemon stuff
  • First 151 Pokemon
  • 165 moves

Gen 2

  • Johto
  • Special Defense/Attack
  • Steel and Dark type
  • Real-time events
  • Other changes to the type chart; notably Bug and Poison are no longer super-effective against the other, Psychic lost it's immunity to Ghost, and Fire now resists Ice
  • 100 new Pokemon
  • 86 new moves
  • Gender
  • Breeding
  • Friendship
  • Held items
  • Pokerus
  • Shiny Pokemon
  • Seven new Pokeballs
  • Berries
  • Added Sun Stone
  • 2 additonal storage boxes

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Gen 3

  • Hoenn
  • 76 Abilities
  • Double Battles
  • Contests
  • Upgraded EV system
  • Weather
  • 135 new Pokemon
  • 103 new moves
  • Changes to determining shininess
  • Battle Frontier
  • 43 new berries
  • Seven new Pokeballs
  • 10 extra spaces in each storage box
  • Secret bases

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Gen 4

  • Sinnoh
  • Physical/Special split
  • Status class
  • New stone evolutions given to old Pokemon
  • Added Dawn, Dusk, and Shiny stone
  • Return of real-time events
  • 5 new Pokeballs
  • 107 new Pokemon
  • 113 new moves
  • 47 new abilities
  • Pokemon can now have multiple abilities
  • 4 new boxes in storage system
  • Pokemon following

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Gen 5

  • Unova
  • Hidden Abilities
  • Hidden Grottos
  • Upgraded sprites and move animations
  • 1 new Pokeball
  • 156 new Pokemon
  • 92 new moves
  • 41 new abilities
  • Triple battles
  • Rotation battles
  • Dark grass
  • Phenomena
  • Seasons
  • Pokemart and Pokecenter are located in the same building
  • Changes to battle music depending on what is happening
  • Infinite usage TMs
  • 6 new storage boxes added

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Gen 6

  • Switched from 2d to 3d
  • Fairy type
  • Upgraded type chart
  • 48 Mega Evolutions
  • Character customization
  • 72 new Pokemon
  • 62 new moves
  • 27 new abilities
  • 8 directional grid
  • PSS
  • Sky battles
  • Horde battles
  • Inverse battles
  • Super training
  • Chain fishing

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Gen 7

  • Alola
  • Rideable Pokemon and removal of HMs
  • 81 new Pokemon
  • 98 new moves
  • 41 new abilities
  • Regional forms
  • Rotom Pokedex
  • Seeing stat changes during battle
  • Island Challenge instead of Gyms
  • Battle Royal
  • SOS Calling/Chaining
  • Hyper Training
  • Ice stone
  • 1 new Pokeball
  • Return of music changes depending on the time of day

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Gen 8

  • Galar
  • Dynamaxing/Gigantamaxing
  • Changes to Pokemon breeding, such as transfering moves
  • Return of Pokemon following you
  • Pokemon camp and curry
  • 81 new Pokemon
  • 54 new moves
  • 25 new abilities
  • 19 new regional forms
  • Y-Comm

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Here is what I know.

Gen I: Pokemon Battling,evolution.

Gen II: The Special Defense and Special Attack Stat,experience bar shown in battle,pokemon eggs,evolution through happiness ,gender(thanks to relic castle king),breeding,day care.

Gen III: Abilities,Double battles.

Gen IV: The Physical/Special Split. Evolution through certain moves,pokemon following you.

Gen V: Hidden Abilities, triple battle,rotation battle,shaking grass,rippling water,dust spots,TMs can be used multiple times instead of once,moving Pokemon battle sprite.

Gen VI: Mega Evolution,sky battle,horde battle,inverse battle,soaring,wonder trade,supper training,pokemon amie,O power,dex nav,news nav,ridding on Pokemon.

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Would another thing for gen 3 be contests? :P
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Here's some things you missed and things you got wrong
- Gen 1 actually started Day Care
+ But you were right with the Gen II  starting the breeding
- The walking with the Pokemon business technically started in Gen 1 with Pokemon Yellow
+ In Gen IV, they started with the GTS as well
+ In Gen II, they aslo introduced Baby Pokemon into the games
+ And in again in Gen II, they maximized the space in the Bag compared to the Bag in Gen I
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Back then, before like Gen III, they didn't have items.
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Gen 2 held items
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MechSteelix, if you go back now and play Gen I and Gen II, they indeed had items you pick up on the roads and put into your bag like any other regular Pokemon game. TM's, Potions, Poke Balls, e.t.c.
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Each gen there are new Pokemon, gyms, new story/gameplay, newly introduced stuff (like mega evolution), new characters and more!

Each gen also introduced new legandarys.

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