>>55628937Gen 2 made some new mons Kanto-exclusive because they were designed as “post-game rewards” for beating the Johto region. This ended up backfiring, because it made it impossible to use those mons in a normal run of the game, meaning the ONLY reason you’d catch shit like Houndour and Larvitar is to complete the dex and nothing more, never using those mons in an actual battle and thus never seeing their full potential.
God, Johto is SO dogshit. Half of the new mons are shitmons, and the other half of actually good mons either aren’t available until the postgame, require trade evos, or need to be caught/evolved through incredibly obtuse or grindy methods, like grinding friendship for Espeon/Umbreon, or making sure the ATK and DEF of a Tyrogue are EXACTLY equal to get a Hitmontop, or headbutting each random tree out of dozens to find the ONE that MAY give you a Heracross.
