>>28855313Let's be honest here, most of the johto pokemon are heavily outclassed by Kanto mons let's list the one who aren't.
Phanpy in Crystal can be caught before the first gym in the mornings, this is huge.
Snubull is actually a competent contender for normal type vs Dunsparce and stantler/miltank/Taurous thanks to its ability to learn the punches in the original and getting a good moveset in HGSS thanks to the split.
Quagsire is actually great, can compete with Slowbro for a team slot, I would actually pick Slowbro but Quagsire selling point is his early resistance to rock and electric.
Ampharos, this must have been on many teams, and it earns it spot.
Heracross, this guy is amazing, IF you are lucky enough to get him.
Xatu, this guy requires backtracking at the point of the game where experience starts to get to the shitter, it evolves quite early and can actually compete with slowbro and drowzee in utility.
Miltank has direct competence from Granbull and honestly Taurous does most of the stuff better.
Umbreon and Espeon, welp these guys are here, I honestly prefer Xatu and slowbro over the faster Espeon due to their quirks, but Espeon offensive psybeams are really good, umbreon is the sole representative of the dark type here, it's hard to pass him up.
Crobat is God thanks to updated Golbat wing attack.
And Piloswine competes vs Lapras and Jynx, Mamoswine is great in HGSS though.
Pretty much that's it, Bellosom feels like a downgrade from vileplume, Ariados is decent but has to compete with freaking Weezing, Heracross, Beedril, Pinsir and Schyter, the Normal types have to compete with Tauros, flying types outside of crobat have to face Fearow and Pidgeot, Slowbro is God and quagsire is good making other water types on gen 2 a joke, Hypno, Xatu and Slowbro are the holy trinity of psychics that don't come from eevee, Magmar is the second coming of Christ along Weezing and Magneton if you ignore Ampharos.
