>>51038098I know, fanfic meta, but I like the power creep that gen 4 brought in. It seems like Gen 3 just has a ton of monsters that were not good enough for standard play, but were too good for UU. Power creep knocked a lot of Borderline monsters down and UU has this reputation where there are a lot of viable Pokemon and strategies there. I generally think Gen 4 is the best in a lot of ways. The competitive was at it’s most interesting, the Pokédex was at that pretty much perfect around that point, the mechanics were finally fleshed out with the physical/special split making most movepools make sense, the sprite art fixed a lot of the wonky sprites of Gen 3, and both HGSS and Platinum have long campaigns and long post games.
