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>start game, catch a Budew because want Roserade. Find out fucker is baby Pokemon, spend early game raising friendship against it's shit stats.
>Fucker finally evolves to Roselia.
>Roselia appear in the wild one gym later
>Pick Buizel because Floatzel has somewhat decent stats
>Floatzel pre-evo stats are near baby-Pokemon trash
>physical water and only learns shit 40 base aqua jet, don't get waterfall until 8th gym
>Drop the Floatzel and pick Shellos Gastrodon.
>Same shit, pre-evo has trash stats and is more tedious because is so slow it needs constant heal
>Fucker evolved and is still subpar
>A while later both Gastrodon and Floatzel appear in the wild
>Takes forever to save "a lot of data" for some retarded reason
>wild encounter rates feel twice as frequent
>game feels slow
>Broken Pokemon: Infernape naturally learns close combat, torterra earthquake, empoleon sword dance at lv11, you can get Gible and Earthquake tm in early routes, Staraptor learns close combat, brave bird and get tm return (100 STAB base with max happiness)
>Redundant Pokemon: Infernape, Lucario, Gallade = 3 frail close combaters fire, steel, psychic flavor
>Torterra, Garchomp, Mamoswine, Hippowdon. 4 physical earthquakers grass, dragon, ice, sand flavored
>You get super rod after the league
>The route to go is always blocked, need shitton of Hm
>Psyducks block the way lmao
>You have to spend hours digging fossils in the retarded minigame for Bastiodon and Rampardos
>Gyms are easy as fuck
>Gen introduced like 5 more damn useless baby Pokemon
>old gen evos are item trade evolution
>Leafeon learns leaf blade at lv71
>Safari zone is literal garbage swamp