>>55724884>>55724930>>55724933seems like it was just a Gen 3 thing. it's the philosophy of "delay evolution to access moves earlier" that's been present since Gen 1, just taken to its extreme. Gen 3 had some weird quirks like this because they were trying to evolve the franchise and had to find their footing all over again. I feel like the devs just got carried away with their ideas. like, "what if there's a Pokemon that you can only catch by fishing on one specific tile that's randomized per game", or "what if we made the kids translate braille to unlock these legendaries". it was experimental, some of it worked, some of it didn't.
