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Yeah, I know. I want to discuss the Level Curve here too. Last time I played it was for Bulbagarden Fans of mine, 3 Years ago. The way I see it, there was an issue with the Chuck/Jasmine/Pryce block. Why the heck is Jasmine the highest level one of the three? They could have easily done a situation where if the player beat Pryce first or Chuck first, the level could have scaled differently. When I originally played Johto (when it first came out), I played Chuck/Jasmine/Pryce, in that order. These days, if I play Silver or HGSS, I do Pryce, Chuck, Jasmine. I think the games should have done a reward of some sort for changing it up or they could have asked the Player what order they beat those 3 Gyms in, then scaled as to the answer. Honestly, I hope they do that if/when we get a Johto remake, especially if it is mostly faithful.For me, its the inability of the games to fix the Gym Leaders and level curve. Their levels are still weird, having the final leader be in her very early 40s instead of atleast her mid-late 40s.
Their teams are also still a mixed bag. Clairs team is fine despite the low level, though the repeat Dragonair could've been replaced by a Lapras. But then there's people like Pryce who uses both Seel (not even an Ice type) AND Dewgong. There are 3 other Kanto Ice types and 2 other Johto ones. Their teams drive me crazy
Clair should have had a better team. After all, by the time you get to her, you have done the entire Johto Radio Tower thing, which helps with levels. They should have been stronger, I would say close to 50. Kanto...is an absolute joke. I love that you can revisit it, but my goodness. The Gyms are lackluster, and there is not much to do there, so you can easily (until maybe Blue), sweep through. I don't know how many times I had to rematch at the Dojo in HGSS to get my Levels for Red. That really was bad. Then, Red shows up at Level 81, when you are likely not ready for it, and you had to do some grind. That was dumb.
The games need to be better in a remake/remaster. Love you Johto, but you need help.