They really do different things. F-22 is meant to fight other planes and has much less flexibility of attacking ground targets and supporting the army. It also

They really do different things. F-22 is meant to fight other planes and has much less flexibility of attacking ground targets and supporting the army. It also can't even land on a full sized carrier, much less a smaller Marine one. F-35 is a jack of all trades, has a better sensor suite for ground attack, can be dispatched somewhere from a deck of even small carriers and is much cheaper to manufacture. It is also worse at fighting other planes (although not bad really). In any kind of real fight you'll probably see both because they're complementing each other, but the 22 is much less flexible and more specialized at its role. So the 22 is more of a successor to F-15 and F-35 is a successor to the F-18 or F-16.