>>31174907They seemed to get a pretty good balance in gen 6. It's not like you couldn't build a team out of old mons, but the new pokemon were everwhere. In SM it felt like they were pushing Alola forms even at the expense of actually new pokemon. It strikes me as odd that so many of them are either rare or hidden so they become post game only choices, realistically, considering the deliberate balance choices they made, like the low average speed and moveset limitations. During the game would have been a great place to show off stuff like Dhelmise, for example.
>>31174941I had a team entirely of new mons, but let's not pretend it didn't feel like the game was trying to avoid stuff like that. 5% encounter rates are more than a meme. If I'd ever seen a Stufful during my first play, I woulda caught it, but I didn't.
