>>56072568Gen2 starters had the excuse of Game Freak intentionally keeping them down to make their precious GenWun Starter
Despite getting fuck all from Game Freak the Johto starter were mostly on par with Kanto’s or at least had some niche that let them be used over their KANTOOOOOO counterpart.
Note: Pic rel is a recent Nintendo Cup teir list, the meta Game Freak actually intended for Gen2’s (Also tiers are ordered by dex number)
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/nintendo-cup-2000-resource-hub.3682691/The only outlier is Gatr being too outclassed to worth considering which is pretty damn ironic consider it’s the only Johto starter Game Freak forgot to kneecap in recent years.
