if you had to find and catch these things instead of one being handed to you, i doubt people would be so hard on them. heck, having all three monkeys available and needing to choose the right one to cheese the gym would reward players for knowing their type matchups, which is the entire point of the first gym.
as pokemon, independent of everything else? they're alright. might be nostalgia, but they have a charm that makes it impossible for me to hate them. especially Panpour, but that's probably because it gets Scald by level up.
