>>51653542That’s true, However, Jasmine was the first Gym Leader to use them and even uses two, her bobbles invoking Magnemite, and Jasmine being chosen by the people to be Magnemite’s face-sitting queen.
> EVERY Electric and Steel Gym Leader, Elite Four, and Champion except for Elesa, Steven, and Wikstrom has used the Magnemite line at one pointThat’s not too surprising, Steel type and Electric types are fairly uncommon, especially in earlier games, even more so when you take into account leaders/elite 4 being limited to regional dexes. And due to Genwun privilege Magnemite is more likely to appear in regional dexes than most. Making a team of 6 Electric or Steel types without the Magnemite family is hard unless you actively avoid it (Unova using only Unova mons), or go for a different theme (Steven includes fossil mons on his team), or have a really dig regional dex to chose from (Wikstrom)
