Eh. Online makes it easier to complete the Pokédex, but aside from that it really doesn’t add a whole lot.
@Magolor04726 If you don’t care about 100%ing the games gens 3 and 5 are definitely the best, if you do I’d go with ORAS, as it’s easily the best of the 3DS games.
Stay as far away from SwSh as humanly possible. It’s $90 for a game that has less content as the previous $40 games.
SwSh was an embarrassment to Pokémon. Any of the previous games are objectively better due to GameFreak actually putting effort in to them, and that’s coming from someone who...