>>36896321Gen 5 pokemon aged better in hindsight than any other gen past 1.
Liligant and Maractus for example stand out way more as pure grass types than shit like Carnivine, Gogoat, sunflora or fucking Cherrim, who even remembers these guys?
The homages turned out to be a good thing because gen 1 built up our idea of what a Pokemon should be to begin with.