Johto Region Review

Hello everybody, welcome to another Region Review this time focusing on the Johto region!

Now the Johto region is very important to me, because it was the home to my first ever Pokemon game which was Silver Version. Johto region to me has always felt like a better Kanto region and had a better Pokemon pool. I ended up owning Gold and Crystal beside my Silver and I played each cartridge for hours upon hours and today I played Soul Silver for hours and i'm playing Soul Silver on my Youtube channel currently ( Soul Silver Randomlocke). I love the story in the games behind the burned tower and Ho-Oh and Lugia are some of the coolest legendary Pokemon I have seen.

The Johto region also has more visually to supply than the Kanto region, you have areas like the Ruins of Alph, Sprout Tower, and National Park. I feel Johto really offers way more than Kanto but of course, it's supposed to succeed it's previous installment right? Pokemon wise Johto did a good job supplying baby Pokemon, the dark and steel types, and requiring trading items with certain pokemon to evolve them. Johto definitely made the Pokemon universe more unique than it already was.

My favorite Pokemon from the Johto region, without a doubt would have to be Heracross. Yeah I know a lot of people love Heracross but who wouldn't? He is a fighting bug type with amazing power and a great arsenal of moves (well in later generations). Honestly though..I never used a Heracross in Gold, Silver, and Crystal. You didn't have moves like Brick Break in those games but my love for Heracross originally came from Ash's Heracross in the  TV Show, and a Heracross plush that I had as a child. Even though I never had one in a game till Pokemon Emerald, I really loved it regardless. That Heracross plush was my first of many and when I finally used one in the games I loved it then too.

My least favorite Pokemon from the Johto region would have to be given to..Hoppip/Skiploom/Jumpluff. It is very difficult to argue that these Pokemon were good in 2nd generation. I now in current time these Pokemon are much more usable than they were about 11 years ago but come one as a kid I expected so much from a Hoppip only to be disappointed. If you don't have good TM's for a Hoppip..you're going to have a bad time. It's moveset is so horrible through out all of it's evolutions in 2nd generation and it does not improve much today. If you have TM's like Aerial Ace, Giga Drain, and Energy Ball, then you can make good use of it.

Overall i'd have to rate Johto 9.5/10. Personally it is my favorite region and Pokemon options are really good and even better when Heartgold and Soulsilver came around a few years ago. Someday I’ll use a Hoppip though, I’ll find a way to make it deadly. Till then I’m sticking with my Heracross.