Quote Originally Posted by Fynn View Post
And yet they overlook the mimes, magnets, and piles of sludge That's the thing. Nostalgia is the problem, not the designs themselves, because none of them are objectively better or worse.

BUT THAT'S A WHOLE 'NOTHER CAN OF WORMS THAT SHOULDN'T PROBABLY BE OPENED IN THIS THREAD
I think Generation I gets a grace period because it was the first one, and maybe the more they design pokemon the better they should be? And you are right, there is some nostalgia attached: the magnet pokemon was and still is one of the quintessential electric pokemon.