>>51181998Aggressively shilling specific Pokemon has always been a thing, its apparently okay with Eevee, Lucario and whatnot but Charizard is where you draw the line?
Pokemon has always been piss easy, the issue is they never made the steps to make it more engaging.
I can't even point to Sw/Sh as the game where it got truly bad, that would be ORAS, considering X/Y at least created all the models from scratch back when it was an actual novelty.