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I always found it odd that people leaned into everyone running starter/Luxray/Staraptor/Floatzel/Lucario as a good thing and not definitive proof that D/P had some of the worst Pokemon distribution in series history.
>put 2 good Pokemon on the first route (and an HM slave)
>stuff the next several hours of gameplay with nothing but Kanto shitmons you've seen 40,000 times
>by the time you start running into less common Pokemon, your team is likely almost complete and there's no way you can replace the Luxio and Staravia on your team now
>if you don't want to run Shinx/Starly your pre first gym options are limited to Bidoof, Budew and Kriketot
It's completely different from Gen 2, where you can find rare Pokemon extremely early as long as you do a little bit of searching for them, like how you can get a Heracoss or Aipom as soon as you get Headbutt, or Teddiursa/Phanpy in G/S. The good Pokemon in Gen 4 are completely unavailable until the ~4th gym or later. Absolute dogshit region design.
