>>38267276I understand that, but to me that's what makes them special. You could go for the E4 now, or grind up this little blue fella you found in a cave until he's a walking cannon and storm the E4 with him. Salamence was godly in gen 3. That's what I meant by feeling earned. You didn't have to take the time to explore every nook and cranny with waterfall, and you didn't have to take the time to level up something with such slow growth 15 times instead of going straight to the E4, but it was incredibly satisfying if you did. It's really just a matter of taste, and like i said I know that my opinion on this isn't popular.
I thought SM handled jangmo-o sort of as a midpoint of what each of us prefer; it's in the last dungeon, but level it up twice and you've got a kommo-o. Granted ingame kommo-o isn't anywhere comparable to the power of ingame salamence and garchomp, especially pre USM's tutors, but it was still cool.
