>>28025980It's actually gone up and down over generations.
It was pretty great in generation 3, and saw significant usage, then the transition to generation 4, and the split hurt it significantly. It stayed pretty much the same in generation 5, then it got massively buffed and more popular in generation 6, which is really the only generation it ever got better. However it still isn't as valuable a team member as it was in generation 3.