>>54462941It feels like the first forest is where they were able to spread their design chops a lot more.
A lot of good mons in there.
But it's clear they were trying to meet a "copy kanto's presedence" and "forced gimmick" mandate on a lot of other designs
The 3 monkeys being for rotation battles, the deers for the seasons being things the devs kinda forced.
Then stuff like the hitmonlee and top ripoffs and conkeldurr are kind of very forced in how they're aping Kanto mons, and were clearly more of a struggle for the designers.
