>>54367131With most aspects of Johto there’s at least some merit to the complaint “too much focus on Kanto, baby pokemon, much of Gen2’s roster not being allowed to be competitively viable” so there’s room to exaggerate those flaws and gaslight new fans into thinking Johto is far worse than it is.
They can’t really do that with Silver partly because Silver is just that good and because nearly every other rivals in the series is such complete nothing burger or annoying milquetoast lameass that it’s impossible to make Silver seem worse than them with out flat-out lying.