why is the early game pokemon distribution in black and white so shit?
don't get me wrong, i like early game shitmon, by the time i reach the first gym in most of the games i already have about half of my team caught, but black and white has the shittiest shitmon distribution i've ever seen. you don't even get pidove (a pokemon i actually want) until after the first gym. instead there seem to be 3 redundant variations on the rattata/furret/zigzagoon/bidoof archetype (do you want the cat, the dog, or the other one?) and nothing else. well, there's the bait of "pokemon you might actually care about appearing in rustling grass!" except... supposedly rustling grass doesn't appear before the first gym either!

by this stage in any other game my starter would be falling behind my early game shitmon in levels, instead i'm stuck with it, pointlessly grinding levels just to get past the first gym so i can catch some pokemon i might actually care about. would it have killed them to have put pidove on route 2 at the very least?