>>54700568>Why has no starter trio ever come close to matching these?Blaziken is the best designed of the Hoenn trio, but Sceptile was designed to be a cool mon and Swampert a monster mon, so their popularity balanced out
Empoleon is the weakest of the Sinnoh trio design wise because it breaks the mythological theming, but it got by on the Emperor penguin concept and incorporation of a trident
It's not so much that the Hoenn and Sinnoh trios succeeded / hit the ball out of the park, as it is that the other trios failed by being boring and shallow with no depth, and sometimes downright ugly and/or weak
