Yeah, I'd agree with that statement. Also really really really slow. Have you looked at speed stats? They are gross. There are about a million walling pokemon, and then all of them have 20-40 speed. Yeah, I guess they're tanking--because they have to with that fuck up of a movement speed. You aren't ever going first, and moreover, the TMs don't include trick room or something to fuck around, so then you really need to take hits to have any chance to murder anything. It's a saaaaaaad story. But really, some of them are really cool, so I guess I'm okay.
My bigger complaint is how many pokemon need trade evolutions and stone evolutions. I don't have pokemon black, so it isn't as though I can just go buy those later, so it's sorta shitty. I don't wanna use my few fire/leaf/thunderstones just to fill a dex spot, but the completionist in me demands me to do so at some point soon. So it's either waste the stone, trade for it, or fucking breed for the perfect one.