>>45626329After Gen 2. Gen 3 is when the franchise started cutting features, adding pointless features that don't improve the core experience, working legendaries into the core plot (technically started with Crystal but RS started development first), and drastically increased the amount of Kanto repeats to pad out the pokedex. Its most meaningful improvement (doubles) is only relevant for a minority of competitive players. I have a soft spot for Gen 5 trying to be experimental again but the execution is pretty blundered and its kinda telling most of its diehard fans prefer BW2
Also the people who're like "top kek pokemon was always bad" are trying too hard and should go back to /b/
