>>37196893Yeah, Johto was a learning experience for them in that regard. They realized as they went that Ash keeping all of his team from the get go made writing parts more difficult. They also made it harder to spotlight his new Pokemon over the old ones because ones like Charizard and even Bulbasaur and Squirtle were so much stronger. Its why Charizard and Bulbasaur had bad cases of jobbing at times.
