>>46270808>Their general plans to make money by doing things such as selling Slowpoke tails or forcing Magikarp to evolve are separate operations from their goal to get Giovanni back.meaning there is no reason to believe they'd stop doing these things just because giovanni doesn't come back. if team rocket is essentially autonomous as it stands, which they clearly are because again, giant secret underground pokemon transforming facility, then 1: they shouldn't be so desperate to get giovanni back in the first place, and 2: the big boss of this operation shouldn't give up at the first sign of opposition. you literally fight him once. he also has, again, no presence, personality or intimidation factor as a result of this ultimately botched "waaaah, boss pretty please come back, waaaaah" motivation. the fucking bye-bye a-go-go and hyuck hyuck rocket grunts were more memorable than the final rocket boss. you can't say the same about the lift key guy and giovanni or the sweet honey guys and cyrus.
>Gyarados are big money makers according to one of themyou mean the gyarados they just leave to roam around, including the super rare and valuable one, and don't even use in fights? remember in gen 1 when rocket grunts started using cubone after lavender town because it lined up with their operations? that was nice.
>Also most of the encounters with them being incidental rather than some kind of personal quest of yours or feud with their team leader is a lot better.your encounters with pretty much every evil team are incidental, my point was how well they were contextualized with their ultimate goal. you really don't start having a feud with the leader until way later gens.
>>46270924>They just want money and power. That's grounded. None of that over the top, cringe world-ending shit teams like Galactic and Flare had going on.they tried and failed to have dramatic world saving stakes with the radio tower shit. also magic fish transforming radio signal. very grounded.
