>>55514735Gen 4 isn't that slow to be honest, people say this by comparing specific move animations to gen 3 but some moves like leaf blade are faster in gen 4 for example. Gen 4 also has much faster battle intro animations, it plays like 2 animations while gen 3 only plays one and it still takes less time for the battle to start, so how exactly is it "slower"?
The sinnoh team meme is due to lots of very good options being available super early, people play Luxray and Staraptor even in rom hacks with off its meds fan service distribution. Lucario is also one of the most popular pokemon ever. If anything this meme proves gen 4 has a good and memorable dex. Meanwhile in Hoenn most of the stuff you will encounter are weak, single stage mons that will stop being useful in your playthrough eventually. Hoenn is the main reason why the SFMA meme exists
Gen 4 meta is objectively better than gen 3's and only a stallfag would disagree. PS split made the meta more offensive, and most of the good offensive items like lorb, focus sash or choice items other than band were introduced in gen 4. Gens 2 and 3 mostly had either defensive items like leftovers or rng bullshit items like choice band.
https://www.smogon.com/dex/rs/pokemon/alakazam/Why the fuck is Alakazam, a fast sweeper, running leftovers? Oh, it's because there's no item that fits its playstyle until gen 4.
