02-09-2012, 05:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-09-2012, 05:46 PM by Azure-Tranquility.)
Still, when Swampert was introduced in Gen 3, it was pretty crappy due to the way attacks worked. By Gen 4, Swampert's usefulness did shoot up, much like Feraligatr.
While he only has one weakness, it IS a 4x weakness which is pretty major. You can't for the life of it set it up against a grass type, it's a guaranteed rape. At least with Blaziken and Sceptile they stand a chance against their weaknesses, though for different reasons.
With that said, Gen 3 starters are probaly the most balanced. Swampert is defensive, Blaziken is offensive, and Sceptile is speedy. What more do you need?
Adding on to that, Gen 3 introduced quite a few new pokemon that were generally well received. Not nearly as much as Gen 1 obviously, but I can think of more "good" pokemon from Gen 3 than from Gen 2. Gen 2 was really just Mareep/Flaffy/Ampharos and Wooper/Quagsire, with a small helping of Houndour/Houndoom(And personally, I liked Sneasel but it didn't reach its full potential until Gen 4). Gen 3 had Swellow, Aggron, Ludicolo, Flygon, Breloom, Sharpedo, Camerupt, Cacturne... etc etc etc.
I think the reasoning for that is because, so far Pokemon gens have a pattern. Gen 1 introduced pokemon obviously, but Gen 2 was roughly 3/5 new pokemon and 2/5 new evolutions to existing pokemon: Steelix, Scizor, Bellossom, Crobat, Magby, Elekid, Cleffa, Igglybuff, Smoochum, Pichu, Slowking, Politoad, Kingdra, Espeon, Umbreon, etc.
Then Gen 3 came around and only introduced Wynaut and Azurill. Gen 4 proceeded to do what what Gen 2 did, albeit to a shittier degree: Adding a shitton of new evolutions and pre-evolutions, which Roselia being a prime example.
With that said, it's likely that Gen 6 will be another "evolution" gen, but it's still odd that Pokemon introduced in Gen 5 weren't considered evolutions(Like Alolomoa should have been the evolution of luvdisc).
While he only has one weakness, it IS a 4x weakness which is pretty major. You can't for the life of it set it up against a grass type, it's a guaranteed rape. At least with Blaziken and Sceptile they stand a chance against their weaknesses, though for different reasons.
With that said, Gen 3 starters are probaly the most balanced. Swampert is defensive, Blaziken is offensive, and Sceptile is speedy. What more do you need?
Adding on to that, Gen 3 introduced quite a few new pokemon that were generally well received. Not nearly as much as Gen 1 obviously, but I can think of more "good" pokemon from Gen 3 than from Gen 2. Gen 2 was really just Mareep/Flaffy/Ampharos and Wooper/Quagsire, with a small helping of Houndour/Houndoom(And personally, I liked Sneasel but it didn't reach its full potential until Gen 4). Gen 3 had Swellow, Aggron, Ludicolo, Flygon, Breloom, Sharpedo, Camerupt, Cacturne... etc etc etc.
I think the reasoning for that is because, so far Pokemon gens have a pattern. Gen 1 introduced pokemon obviously, but Gen 2 was roughly 3/5 new pokemon and 2/5 new evolutions to existing pokemon: Steelix, Scizor, Bellossom, Crobat, Magby, Elekid, Cleffa, Igglybuff, Smoochum, Pichu, Slowking, Politoad, Kingdra, Espeon, Umbreon, etc.
Then Gen 3 came around and only introduced Wynaut and Azurill. Gen 4 proceeded to do what what Gen 2 did, albeit to a shittier degree: Adding a shitton of new evolutions and pre-evolutions, which Roselia being a prime example.
With that said, it's likely that Gen 6 will be another "evolution" gen, but it's still odd that Pokemon introduced in Gen 5 weren't considered evolutions(Like Alolomoa should have been the evolution of luvdisc).