I don't know who made the decision to put Growlithe and Vulpix on Route 36 just North of Goldenrod City instead of Houndour and Murkrow, but it was a dumb decision. Why would you make two Johto Pokemon, Houndour and Murkrow, unavailable until the post game in Kanto, while putting the two Kanto fire types in Johto instead when Growlithe is right there??? Especially right before the Ghost gym where Dark types would actually be useful?? Not only that, but then they also made it so that you couldn't even get a Fire Stone to evolve Growlithe or Vulpix until Cerulean City in Kanto in Gold/Silver?!!
I don't know whose decision this was, but it was probably one of the worst decisions in any Pokemon game to date…
by Hsiang7