>>52660109>not at all, we went from a game that forced you into using new mons to a game that shilled old mons nonstop. His last games were Diamond/Pearl and Black/White, which have infamously unpopular pokedexes.
The size of the National Pokedex was also becoming an issue, as we now know.
So we got a variety of old mons and a modest number of new ones.