>>44760069Gen IV has good Pokemon but a bad Pokedex. It really doesn’t help that ~40% of the new Pokemon are early game nonsense, ~60% are very late game, and several Pokemon are just difficult to acquire or well hidden—Vespiquen, Garchomp, Hippowdon, fucking Buneary for some reason, Rotom (plus his five unnescesary forms that maybe should have just been more standard Pokemon), baby Pokemon not fully integrated into the early game, etc. And it doesn’t help that there’s so many legendaries and mythicals.
That being said I think Gen IV has some really good Pokemon designs and aside from their blunder with the fire types (Platinum didn’t fix it nearly as well as you might think it did) the dex isn’t awful—not like future games were.
Sinnih just needed four or five more origin Pokemon lines scattered across the midgame and it would have felt a lot more cohesive than what we got, which was: “Gen 1 + 2 and a handful of new mons”
