I just don't get why pokemon fans disregard any other monster series and praise Pokémon as it was a wholly original idea.

Believe it or not pokemon, digimon and many other popular media of that area were inspired by the previous generation

>how turtle pokemon spin when using hydropump
https://youtu.be/5QuHZgpIsjg?t=121
>butterfree,venomoth
both inspired by mothra

>Nidoking
is Bargon, it's poison ground because Bargon was a burrowing kaiju that ate uranium

>Jynx
is the Kaiju Woo who spoke to someone in their dream and was an ice kaiju,.

>Monsters as party members or tamable
A couple years earlier in Megaten and dragon quest V


>Digimony was made by bandai outright and many people who worked tokusatsu and mecha shows designed the monsters
>were tamagotchi but designed for boys
>SAINTgalgomon is literally giant robo, but a dog/rabbit instead
>justimon is a tokuhero
>raremon was literally the reused hedorah sprite in the digital pet
>dark tyrannomon a reused godzilla sprite in the digital pet
>omegashoutmon is a reference to Gai from gaogaigar


Arc the lad was released the same year as pokemon and had a much better battle system
https://youtu.be/iNDLmUPIrq0 in this tournament you could use your ingame party members as well as monsters you had tamed. It got to the USA late though.

If all media is considered Pokémon sucked in comparison
>main game in 96' was buggy
>the manga was a better adaptation then any other media
>shitty spin offs
m 49.99 for an 8 hour photography game, a microphone test game, and two 49.99 battle towers, no thanks.
>you all shit on johto, but had interesting atmosphere
>gen 3 had crappy music and sprite work, with tacked on mechanics
>colleseum resued N64 models on the gamecube, if anyone else did that they would be calling for heads on pikes
>another developer made a vastly superior pokemon world and product in mystery dungeon

Despite all of this you stay loyal