>>44887488I don't really get the big deal?
It's not like fire is like water or flying where it's CRITICAL to a main game play through. A narrow choice between your fly or surf mons would be immediately obvious and painful for replays. Fire's just another type, it's not even like ground where it's the one single weakness to another type there is nothing that fire can do that other types can't.
I just did a cursory bit of research and there's only 6 electric Pokemon lines available in Hoenn which is comparable to Sinnoh's fire types. Then gen 1 obviously has insanely limited ghost, psychic, AND dragon types.
Unova has 9 fire types but 2 are legendary, 1 is a starter, 1 is the scorned elemental monkey, and 2 are insanely lategame/postgame. This leaves the viable choices for a grass or water starter playthrough as Chandelure and Darmanitan and nothing else. It's easily comparable to the situation in diamond and pearl let alone the situation in platinum and yet nobody complains about it because nobody has told anyone to complain about it yet.
It's really not that big of a deal in my eyes. If you're reasoning is "there's not a lot of fire mons and that sucks cause I like that type so Sinnoh scores low for me" that's fair but "there's not a lot of fire mons it's an irredeemable flaw in sinnoh and makes it shit" just seems like an absolutely silly take to me. How many of you are really affected by this? Honestly?