>>38003777Why in the world would you want to discourage "special snowflake" teams? Pokemon is a franchise that thrives on the philosophy of "variety is the spice of life" and that design method is what makes the most revered entries so replayable.
Gen 2 introduced 100 pokemon but a third of them are either babies or low stat shitmons that even casuals know wouldn't be worth the time to raise, and a lot of the others were conditional evolutions. They were also spread too far apart and the low level curves for both wild encounters and trainers made experience gains too small which leads to lopsided parties. People ended up having teams that were too similar.
