What's the point of having two forms of the Poison status,

>>29150444
The worse one is a proc and AOE with poison gas

If you're talking about toxic vs normal poison, it probably has to do with moves like poison fang toxicing on hit would be dumb.

For the first question, making the status ailment less toxic *Pun* earlier in the game with a less serious version.
For the second, most status ailment TMs go to a lot of pokemon. It's about as weird as so many Pokemon being able to learn thunderwave.
For the third? Iunno, the same sense of game balance that made Mega Fug.

>>29150486
Yeah this. Toxic can only be inflicted by itself or 2 layers of tspikes. Poison is less severe so they can make it a secondary effect of other moves.

>>29150444
Because toxic and poison were designed when the game was the end goal and multiplayer was secondary.

Toxic doesn't show up in the early game, so when it does you know how to deal with poison (items or switching).

>>29150486
But anon, Poison Fang does badly poison.

>>29150543
TIL

Play through. You start out with the softer version then only reach Toxic in the last stages of the game.

>>29150444
Because pokemon are ninjas.
Almost all of them can learn shadow divide too.

>>29150589
But why is it the only status that does this? Why doesn't Burn have a weaker version? Or Paralysis? What makes Poison so special?

>>29150710
probably because toxic is by far the deadliest.