>>37954197>Because Gyarados is more common than new Pokemon. Which is why it was already in the originals. New Pokemon are rare and you're supposed to hunt them out yourself.It makes no goddamn sense why JOHTO pokemon are so hard to find in JOHTO. If anything the kanto pokemon should be the harder ones to find, considering, I don't know, they're from KANTO?
>But it is in actuality.99% of the time in a johto playthrough you're most likely going to be using a kanto pokemon against either a wild kanto pokemon or a trainer whos team at MOST has a single johto pokemon.
>Old enemies do this too. The level design matters more than anything else.Enemies are part of the level design. There's only so much shit you can do with the old enemies before they stop being interesting.
>That excitement would be lost of they made Hoothoot as common as Pidgey.Yes, I'm sure when you first received your starter in Gen 2 for the first time you went "NOOOOOOOO THIS IS BULLSHIT THIS SHOULD EITHER BE POSTGAME OR BE 30 LEVELS BELOW MY PARTY AND BE A 1% ENCOUNTER RATE" and aren't just spinning your thoughts to try to make the narrative of johto being perfect.
