>>56072568Gen2 starters had the excuse of Game Freak intentionally keeping them down to make their precious GenWun Starters look better. Game reak didn't want people to like the Gen 2 starters.
And yet, despite getting fuck all from Game Freak the Johto starters were mostly on par with Kanto’s or at least had some niche that allowed them to be used over their KANTOOOOOO counterpart depending on your team comp.
Note: Pic rel is a recent Nintendo Cup tier list, the meta Game Freak actually intended for Gen2 (Also tiers are ordered by dex number)
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/nintendo-cup-2000-resource-hub.3682691/The only outlier is Gatr being too outclassed to worth considering, which is pretty damn ironic considering it’s the only Johto starter Game Freak forgot to kneecap in recent years.
