>>55249902Johto hasn't has a game in over ten years, not helping is that Game Freak and TPC put Kanto on a pedestal while Johto tends to get overlooked if not outright erased. Even worse, because the only Johto games also have Kanto in them, even when people are backed in a corner where they have to admit the merits of GSC/HGSS, they pull an reverse card and give all the credit to the Kanto part of the game as justification to continue to the "Johto bland" narrative.
Ironically most of the people who shit on Johto are nearly as quick to throw Kanto under the bus to make newer games look better, Kanto just avoids being the eternal scapegoat that Johto ends up being because of first installment privilege.
>I dare say it has way more cool and memorable stuff in it than KantoKanto did an excellent job at starting the series off, but Johto was when the Pokemon world really started feeling lived in.
>>55250175Pretty much my thoughts, Jasmine is by far my favorite and I agree with Whitney and Clair. As for Chuck his use for Mind Reader + Dynamic Punch earns him my respect. Even like how the Gen 1 Fighting types he used were ones that weren't used by Bruno. Just wish he had more than two Pokemon
Bugsy's Scyther was pretty memorable, only bogged down by the pathetic first impression he gave with the Metapod and Kakuna.
Morty gym puzzle is cool, simple but unique.
Pryce in game isn't much but his episode in the anime was pretty memorable, particularly how strong his Piloswine was and its backstory
Only true dud was Falkner, but his feud with Janine in the remakes redeems him a bit.