>>55590057I miss the days when the games would encourage you to use whatever you wanted. Pre-gen 3 it felt like you could use anything (even Rattata and Sentret) and still do pretty well as long as you played it smart. Even gens 3 and 4 still favored most of the stuff you had access to in one way or another. Nowadays it feels like I'm basically handicapping myself if I don't use a Pokémon with at least 490 BST for its final form (it's not as bad for pic related because speed doesn't take up a lot of points). Thankfully Donphan barely clears that mark.
