>>50688790hes somewhat right really when you think about it, as good as all of the johto mons (thats the round blobs with the simple smiley faces on them) are only available in FRLG sevii islands, a whole expansive post game region created just for johto encounters, while RSE got piss and shit in the shape of slugma and marill (please clap) and some other bullshit which you only get postgame in the safari zone, so not something youll have in your team, and the mons which return from kanto are... beyond questionable, you get EVERY SINGLE KANTO WATER TYPE (except vaporeon), but its not like it matters at all since you dont really want water mons in a region where most gym leaders, elite 4, and the champs (in both rs and e) resist water, and easily the most frustrating thing is eevee not being available, being the ONLY GAME OUT OF ALL THE POKEMON GAMES EVER without eeveelutions, its ridiculous really, open bulbapedia for eevee and youll see that RSE are the only ones without it. shit like that just kind of adds up, and worst of all is probably that like half of the hoenn-dex is gimmickmons, for example the gen 1 trade evolutions and clamperl for example, which are utterly useless shitmons unless you can trade for an actually useable gorebyss/huntail/machoke/golem/etc, and theres mons which are done completely dirty by their stats such as mawile or delcatty, or being entirely useless due to a moveset that may as well be empty, such as sandslash, flygon, shiftry, masquerain off of the top of my head, probably many more. there really arent a whole lot of evolutionary lines which can make a fun team in hoenn, i mean theres SOME room here and there, but it doesnt compare with other games, and a big part of that was simply that FRLG had to sell and its biggest gimmick was that all the good johto mons and eevee are only available there desu
