Pokémon Model Ripping Project

[gdkchan]

I don't understand this too maybe gamefreak was too lazy to make the other team leaders with the same quality

Optimization purposes, probably. When you're a game developer, chances are you're gonna make a few shortcuts in order to meet a budget and/or deadline.

The biggest shortcut would be to reuse the same model, which they didn't

I believe that those new models are also used on overworld scenes (with other characters and buildings n stuff), so a high poly model would be too much for the old 3ds gpu. They can afford using those high poly models in-battle because they only have a few models there.