I'm pretty sure you're talking about the robot fights because the main fights didn't have much hell the whole series didn't have much outside the zangyack, final wave, robot, and a few other scenes. Now for my gasp. * Gasp * Don't speak such blasphemy

I remember the monsters being pretty CGI-enhanced, and having a lot of CGI attacks and stuff. Then again, it was a while ago - I could have exaggerated it in my mind...

But I was mostly referring to the mech fights. Maybe one or two shots of suits mixed in with tons of CGI. They say it's cheaper to do CGI, so why even bother making the suits if you're not going to use them?

Well the suits are still needed because too much CGI is bad and the suit shots are still useful due to the monsters being in suit and everyone wants to see the suit fights with hints of CGI. Wow i'm only fifteen and I sound like a business man

Are you really letting Gokaiger's 2 minute mecha fights be the reason you stop watching it entirely? Because most of Gokaiger's action is about showing off the legacy suits, while the mecha fights are just "Current toy on the shelves final attack!" and then immediately end...

Well, yes, since the mecha fights are one of the big draws of Sentai for me. But while we're on the topic, I found the constant suit switching in Gokaiger grating, especially since I really love their standard suits and wanted to see more of them.

I'm all for the suits. Maybe a better question is "if they have the suits, why didn't they use them more?"

Because they want to give the illusion of these robots can do crazy flips and stuff and are boss

I mean, I get why they use CGI...but if it's so expensive to do practical effects, why don't they try to get their money's worth out of those suits and use them more? Or does even filming it in motion cost more?

Maybe if you watched more Gokaiger, you'd get to see more of those suits. Believe it or not, they use their normal suits a lot. Most suit switches kind of follow the same trend:
Marvelous: "Let's use -Blank-"
*Changes*
*Uses -Blank's- team finisher*
*Changes back*

While there are special occasions, a lot of the Gokai Changes are summed up like that.

I'm not pleading you to rewatch Gokaiger (I, personally, only found it average), but it just seems like you put too much emphasis on one problem to the point where you're judging entire series based on it.
*GaoKing does a CG backflip*
"Whelp, this series is shit. Someone recommend another."

How much of Gokaiger have you seen? Yes there is CGI, but every toku has that now, and Gokaiger I remember had some pretty awesome practical stuff. It's more modern toku, if just a tad of CGI is enough for you to think an entire show is shit, I don't know what to tell ya.

The whole reason I mentioned Gokaiger was because somebody else said they thought it was a great blend of CGI and practical. I thought it was still too much CGI. I know I didn't make it past the 10 episode mark, but 90% of the mech fights in those episodes were CGI, and the street-level fighting had tons of CGI enhancements too. Personally, I don't want to see them jumping around buildings and doing flips if it means that they're going to CG it, which makes it hard for me to get into the newer shows. Now, on top of this, I was fairly new to Sentai, so most of the tribute episodes meant a whole lot of nothing to me. Between that, the suit switching (which I found annoying, despite being a fan of the older suit designs), and the CGI, I didn't see a lot of reason to keep going with the series. I'll probably give it another shot sometime, when i've seen more Sentai and am more used to the newer, CGI-heavy stuff. As of right now, i'd probably have less of a problem with it, but it was still too much CGI for me.

Now, I feel like I've said all I have to say on the topic, so I'm going to let everybody else say what they like/dislike about CGI and practical effects.