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Fishing just never had a good place in pokemon's gameplay.
>Interrupts explorations by forcing you to stop completely in one spot
>more tedious than running around in circles, especially in gen 1 with no set item or gen 3 with the stupid timing
>WOULD make sense for getting water types before surf, but the game always locks the good rods behind getting surf anyway
>pretty much have to go as far out of your way as possible to not just get Magikarps, but why would you bother when it's one of the best fish types in the entire series?
>1/3 players won't even need to go out of their way for a water type on their team
Fishing should have honestly just been reworked into some kind of minigame that doesn't actually have anything to do with catching pokemon. Either that or give you a rod that can catch anything at the start of the game and don't put fucking magikarps literally everywhere.
