>>46876549>Johto fans weren't able to convince themselves was actually intentionalIt WAS intentional, Gamek Freak intentionally made the Johto Starters worse than Kanto Starters to make the Kanto starters look better.
Meganium was given no moves because Game Freak worships Venusaur and was afraid Meganium would overshadow it.
Typhlosion has a barren movepool so that everyone would use Charizard more, but as well but Typhlosion was allowed to have Eruption because even though they want to shill Charizard, they don't worship it as much a Venusaur.
Feraligatr actually gets to be usable because they don't really put Blastiose on a pedestal like the other Kanto starters. (Remember that the original Pokemon games were Red and Green, no Blue).
Ironically, the fact that Johto starters any fans despite being set up to fail, kind of proves that they're superior. Game Freak when out of their way to tell everyone to use KANTOOO starters, but Johtoddlers still cling to Flower, Eclair, and Gatorade. Literally every other starter trio has some fair-weather fans that only like them because of starter because of how strong they are, that can't apply to the Johto starters because of how weak they are as a group competitively.
