H ow many years has it been since Pokemon fans began to decry Game Freak's slavish devotion to Gen 1? At least a dozen, by my reckoning. The Kanto callout has been happening since ...

This isn’t true in Pokémon, or at least it wasn’t in Gen 1, as Ditto’s shapeshifting ability wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. It's one example of how Red & Blue aged poorly.