The Hoenn Region was the butt end of one of “Those” IGN reviews that got scathed by fans of the games of Ruby and Sapphire. There are genuine points that the Hoenn region generally makes no sense, but many either feel great love for it or pure apathy.
Problems arise when you put deeper thought into the lore and the odd geographical choices in the region, especially when reading the Pokedex and applying it to situations. When conclusions are made from the information you’re given in the game, you realize it’s close to a hellish nightmare to live there. So here are 10 things that make no sense in the Hoenn Region.
10 Sky Dragon That Hates Planes
Seen as the guardian of the skies Rayquaza is known to attack anything in its air space. Meaning flying to Hoenn is an extremely dangerous experience if you happen to be flying at the same time Rayquaza passes by. It has to be wondered how many down planes happen in the Pokémon world when you have a literal all-powerful sky dragon that will attack one, unprovoked.
9 Random Hippy Forest Community
The little town of Fortree City is an oddity even for Pokémon villages to this day. Its community is made up of Tree Houses where the paths to get to one side of the town to another involves passing by every resident’s no-door house. The only thing that isn’t straight from Tarzan is the Pokémon Center and the gym, which is hidden in the center. This community screams of naturalism and makes one wonder if it is an established town or just a place where a bunch of people settled down and built treehouses with no electricity then all of the sudden got a gym.
8 Regis Spread Across Regions
How certain regions in the Pokémon world are not known to the player, so it’s not clear why there are different versions of the Regi quad locked up in between 2 different regions. They all must have been dangerous because they all were sealed up in mounds that seemed to be spellbound in an ancient language. The main 3 can be found in Hoenn while the big boss Regigigas can be found in Sinnoh requiring the other 3 to awaken it.
7 Having to Dive to Enter a City
If most of the towns in Hoenn weren’t isolated enough, the only way you can access Dewport City is by diving underwater in their underground car and popping up like a dolphin in the middle of their city water. No, you can’t access it by air, in mass, because Rayquaza will crash your plane if you attempt it though you can quickly fly by Pokémon if you know where the Pokémon center is. This might be one of the most isolated islands because it’s so inconvenient just to go there.
Imagine needing an item the local shop didn’t have and you didn’t have Fly. You’d either be out of luck, or you’d have to dive underwater, swim past the endless sea, get taken up by currents, then you’d end up at a larger town just to buy something.
You end up in the wrong town, then you’d be running around the whole region just to access the waters without the rapid currents just to have to aggressively swim the rest of the way there, then dive underwater again to get home.
6 No Action on Gang War
The POlice are essentially none existent in the Hoenn Region as there is essentially a doomsday cult war going on causing crime. It’s really as though they do not care that Pokémon are getting stolen or that the two groups are causing trouble to begin with.
5 A Pelipper Issue
You will without a doubt run into this 3-foot tall pelican that will try either to swallow something or randomly spit up, essentially wasting your time. Being Pelicans do eat meat, the reason they are so common in the water is that they are eating all the sea life to extinction.
The insane amount of Pelliper in Hoenn really brings into question what they are annihilating in order to eat. You surf any space in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire you will without a doubt run into this 3-foot tall pelican that will try either to swallow something or randomly spit up, essentially wasting your time. Being Pelicans do eat meat, the reason they are so common in the water is that they are eating all the sea life to extinction.
4 Double Battle Obsession
All games after Diamond/Pearl/Platinum severely backed off from double battles, making them something rare even though they are the official way some real-life pokemon leagues are contested. Double battles in Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald were nearly every third battle, meaning these people were just obsessed about battling together and not spending time to catch more than 1 Pokémon each.
3 Desert Ruins
With an island surrounded in so much ocean, it’s a wonder that there is a desert there considering coastal weather until you look at the Pokémon that are common there. At one point based on the ruins, you can see there was civilisation there, but one Pokémon move might have messed it all up and that move is Explosion. One of the most common Pokémon you will run into in the desert is Claydoll who will commonly just use explosion on the first turn upon seeing a trainer. It’s possible that the civilization and all the plant life was cratered by the sheer mass of Claydoll using Explosion to annihilate everything.
2 How the Moving Truck Got There
There are no roads in Hoenn, no highways, no car routes, no car paths. Those shocks in moving cargos are not known to be good, which means taking gravely roads and grass patches to get to Littleroot town was a living hell to be in the backseat for the main protagonist.
1 Aerospace Capitol
Being this is the only region known for space travel it’s really odd that Silph Co. would choose the only place where sending people into the sky is a severe gamble. With Rayquaza known to take down anything that comes into air space there’s always a 50/50 chance that it will just hyper beam the space ship.
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