>most forgettable starters
>johto gym leaders don't use johto pokemon
>too many johtomons locked behind kanto
>besides a few mons, the most competitively unviable of all gens
>most available johtomons have unappealing stats/learnsets even for a normal playthrough
>awful wild pokemon distribution
>useless babymons to pad dex count
>pathetic level curve
>strongest wild encounter is mid lv 30
>encountering lv 3-5s on your way to the 16th badge
>gym leaders/champ need hacked mons
>uninspired, linear map
>only 4 branching paths in the johto map, the fewest of all games
>edgy fanfic tier rival
>routes are decorated hallways, only one route has a reason to revisit
>cringe tier team rocket plot
>killed pokemania
>gamefreak acknowledges that gen 2 was the final cash in on the early craze
>left tajiri in a state of depression
>created kanto pandering
>worst selling 3rd version in history
>by far the most insecure and schizophrenic fanbase here
>loved by reddit and shilled on /vp/ by discord group
>put quantity over quality to satiate toddlers at the time
>doesn't make use of the gbc's full color pallet
>needed kanto to keep genwunners buying in
>half of the game is an afterthought to gen 1
>other half of the game is copy-pasted gutted down gen 1
>neutered Mt. Moon
>neutered Rock Tunnel
>removed Cerulean Cave
>removed Silph
>removed Pokemon Tower
>removed Kanto Legendaries
>neutered Victory Road
>removed Seafoam Islands
>removed Power Plant
>neutered Viridian Forest
>neutered Cinnabar
>removed underground paths
>removed old rocket hideout
>gave up on level progression and plot halfway through
>one of the games only exists to shill a movie
>only appeal is revisiting gen 1
>failed its only appeal by neutering it which left genwunners disappointed
>poor implementations of new features
>completely invalidated by the remakes
>shallow attempt at open world
>only praise is buzzwords parroted by schizos that missed out on gen 1
>even gamefreak doesn't want to acknowledge its existence
