>>56780862Because the anime team had no fucking idea how to handle the fact that Ash's Pokemon were becoming too powerful and rendered the new Pokemon they were supposed to be shilling irrelevant, and the only solutions were to either
>buff everything in Johto to scale with Ash's seasoned team that finally started reaching ideal performance in the Orange Islands>slowly swap out Ash's Kanto Pokemon with new catches so Johto can stay low-poweredAnd they opted for the latter because the former, their initial approach, was likely hinging on the scrapped Celebi Arc judging from how much tougher Falkner was compared to his game counterpart. And thus, without Celebi, they were free to lower the bar to something more true to the games.
