History YMMV / PokemonX

* HilariousInHindsight: The name, considering ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY''. Recon Dye [[https://twitter.com/ReconDye/status/317081710628065280 is aware of this]].

* AssPull: Rocky's "Random Attack". The author has been better about that, either ignoring it completely or simply having it activate as a useless move. With a bonus of adding variety instead of just abusing one strategy over and over again on Rocky when it's not an over-powered move, but not useless either.

* TheScrappy: All three protagonists have major Scrappy points.
** Brendan is a sexist and selfish asshole who is incredibly stupid and treats his friends besides Rocky like shit.
** May is a bit of a bitch and set it up so that any money the guys make from trainer battles goes to her and she does nothing but act like a generic {{Tsundere}} to Brendan.
** Wally is the quirky {{Jerkass}} who outside of that and being obsessed with the color green, is a very bland and boring character.

* SeasonalRot: It's not a huge amount, but the quality of the writing has suffered in later arcs.

** Rocky has some shades of this due to the author's tendencies to make him an InvincibleHero in the earlier story arcs. Nowadays, not so much.
** Monty Zuma, but this seems to have been intentional since he's an annoying brat who was dumped years ago by May and still acts like they're a couple and used to harass Professor Birch endlessly. It turns out that he was a cruel bastard who tortured Pokemon.

* HilariousInHindsight: The name, considering ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY''.

** Rocky has some shades of this due to the author's tendencies to make him a BoringInvincibleHero in the earlier story arcs. Nowadays, not so much.

* JumpingTheShark:
** Some fans think that the Monty storyline involving his string of [[CurbstompBattle curbstompings]] coupled with unusually long intervals between updates may be the comic's shark-jumping moment.
** And in the final part of the storyline, we discover [[spoiler:Monty is an ALIEN!]]
** Mind you, the fact that Brendan decided to [[spoiler: punch Monty in the face instead of battling him]] was very well received indeed.

** Wally is the quirky {{Jerkass}} who outside of that, is a very bland and boring character.

* ArcFatigue: Due to how the battles can take weeks and the comic updates three days a week (Now at random), by the time a story arc's done, you just want the story to be done already.

* InvincibleHero: Rocky. Recon even points out when Rocky is defeated in comic number [[http://pokemonx.comicgenesis.com/d/20070420.html 596]] that it's the first time that this has ever happened. Yeah, 596. First time Rocky has ever lost. It's a little bit better in that Brendan does actually use strategy in his fights and not just "Rocky's gonna win this for me", and his loss is based on Brendan's mistakes. Also, #596 may seem extremely far into the story, but it isn't. In fact, Rocky's first loss was fairly early on into the journey, in a battle against the third gym leader, Wattson.