>>48135066>The Level CurveIt's not a problem at all. Your Pokemon should be in their mid-30's by the time you get to the E4. The Kanto gym leaders all have Pokemon in their 30's and 40's with Blue having his in the 50's. The random trainers in Kanto have Pokemon in their upper 20's and low 30's, which is appropriate. Are you really complaining that dumb bug catchers and bikers in Kanto don't have E4-leveled Pokemon? If you think you're supposed to grind in order to beat gym leaders, you need to get better at the game.
>The lack of Dark-types during the gameYou already admitted that you can get Umbreon relatively early, but I'll humor you. Dark types were supposed to be newly-discovered and rare Pokemon. They were a reward for progressing through the game. Getting Houndour early on in the game would make it incredibly easy, since it could potentially shit all over half of the Johto gym leaders and E4 with just Ember and Bite initially at its disposal.
>>48135073>A lot of the Pokemon this gen are extremely weakEvery game is full of shitmon. Not an argument.
>Even the Gym leaders suffer from this issue.There are no "Johto Pokemon" in GSC. There are the original 150 Pokemon and "newly discovered" Pokemon. Weren't you just complaining that too many good Gen 2 Pokemon were in Kanto? That kind of precludes them from being Johto Pokemon. You are looking at GSC from the perspective of someone who started with RSE or later, which is telling.
>I had such a hard time building a team in Gold because the Pokemon are either weak or straight up unavailable.Nonsense. There is a better variety of Pokemon species early in GSC than there is in RBY and probably RSE as well. Are you going to complain about not being able to build teams in those games because Wigglytuff and Pelipper are weak too?
>the move pools are smaller than normal since you don't gain many levelsThis is why TMs exist. Play the game.
