Note: To be honest, I'm not really bother by it, but when I keep an opinion to myself over a while, I can get pretty wordy on it.
In the case of Ash it's perfectly understandable. He has a higher amount of captures for each region (5-6 Pokemon altogether).
But with Jessie and James, they have a much lower capture rate and would actually have more room on their team for most of their older Pokemon, and the market relevent ones for the current region. But for recap, here's a list of all of the Pokemon they've had for a while (Not counting ones that they had for a short while or ones they don't use regularly like James' Growlithe or Jessie's Shellder):
James
- Weezing
- Victreebel
- Cacnea
- Chimeco
- Mime Jr.
- Carnivine
Jessie
- Arbok
- Lickitung
- Wobbuffet
- Seviper
- Dustox
- Yanmega
Heck:
- With Fire Red and Leaf Green coming out after R/S, having Weezing and Arbok a little while longer would be appropriate considering the plugins to that game. Besides which, Koffing is catchable in R/S, thus allowing you to have Weezing without trading.
- For that matter, Cacnea and Dustox are obtainable in Diamond and Pearl.
- Team Rocket battles would have been a bit more exciting with the number of Pokemon in their line up.
Like I said, I'm not bother with these decisions, just curious. Heck, I found Cacnea and Dustox's depature episodes to be well done.
In the case of Ash it's perfectly understandable. He has a higher amount of captures for each region (5-6 Pokemon altogether).
But with Jessie and James, they have a much lower capture rate and would actually have more room on their team for most of their older Pokemon, and the market relevent ones for the current region. But for recap, here's a list of all of the Pokemon they've had for a while (Not counting ones that they had for a short while or ones they don't use regularly like James' Growlithe or Jessie's Shellder):
James
- Weezing
- Victreebel
- Cacnea
- Chimeco
- Mime Jr.
- Carnivine
Jessie
- Arbok
- Lickitung
- Wobbuffet
- Seviper
- Dustox
- Yanmega
Heck:
- With Fire Red and Leaf Green coming out after R/S, having Weezing and Arbok a little while longer would be appropriate considering the plugins to that game. Besides which, Koffing is catchable in R/S, thus allowing you to have Weezing without trading.
- For that matter, Cacnea and Dustox are obtainable in Diamond and Pearl.
- Team Rocket battles would have been a bit more exciting with the number of Pokemon in their line up.
Like I said, I'm not bother with these decisions, just curious. Heck, I found Cacnea and Dustox's depature episodes to be well done.