True. Basics are easier to stomach than all the finer points of types, evolution, and strategy.

[Maybe it's the fact that he's been around so long-- it's made it harder to put himself in the shoes of the newcomers. By Pokéworld standards, he's practically a fossil.]

True. I mean, there is the ferry, but most people seem to cut straight through Cherrygrove. Guess I can't blame them, since most people do stick around in Johto.

Heck, the amount of people who settle down in Goldenrod's pretty telling, too.