>>57907781
Personally I'm not against the idea of making the box art mascot a main part of your team, but they need to tone down the power creep and stop making them "legendaries" and have that be reserved solely for the late game rewards instead of just handing the super gigacracked tools to you for free. If Kanto's mascots can be its starters, then we can have the past/future dragon bikes just be your starter partner instead of needing to do the stupid fucking Grass/Fire/Water chain again. We've gotten to a point where shillmons can only ever be your starter or the boxart/DLC legendary and fucking nothing else. Like they make the very first Baby Pokemon since Riolu in the last Gen and it evolves into a shitmon that got zero attention because of the heckin knight puppers

It's lopsided as fuck, why even make dex filler anymore if people only end up caring about the starters and legendaries?