>>53338283>Considering how Game Freak has had a consistent pattern of neglecting, skipping over, or actively belittling Johto to the point where casuals see Johto as nothing more than "shitmons" useless babies" and "kanto DLC", why hasn't a Gen 2 pokemon received something it should have had since the beginning you answered your own question
>>53339206Pretty much nothing until recently, with Cyndaquil being the Legends starter and the new evolutions/paradoxe/ etc in Paldea, and even then the Johto love made one Game Freak employee mald so much that they sabotaged H.Typhlosion by not giving it an ability and creating two broken Fire/Ghost shillmons out of no where for it to compete with.
