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I understand where they were coming from but yeah it wasn't a good idea. Just growing pains the series had to go through before they hammered down what a Pokémon game should be. Ruby and Sapphire corrected that mistake without resorting to having only new mons that they considered at one point.

>you can't get Vikavolt until fairly late game iirc
They fixed that in USUM at least.