>slow >fire-type >not even good defenses Why did they

Same with Slugma/Magcargo, but I'm more bothered by Torkoal and useless single-forms in general. They almost never give them great stats since the idea is that Pokemon get crazy power ups via evolution.

I love Torkoal, but without a proper ability he'll never be worth a team slot.

Because there has to be some bad pokemon out there.

>>28099330

A Pokemon should never be designed to be specifically BAD unless the plan is to ultimately subvert that awfulness in some way with an evolution or something. Sadly, Game Freak does not agree with that. Not all Pokemon should be equal, but an attempt should at least always be made to give all Pokemon some niche they can fill.

>>28099253

Because. They wanted too.

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>>28099253

>140 defense not good

>>28100729
Sure it's good cover against physical attacks like eathquake and stoneedge, but the primary threats to fire types have always been special water attacks like surf and scald.

It's a nice Pokemon that isn't really meant to compete. "Shitmons" add a touch of realism to it all.