itt: bad, seemingly arbitrary decisions made by gf

>>33049423
>fairy resists bug
but anon, that's fantastic

>>33049423
The existence of Incineroar

>>33049423
fairy type as a whole

>Inb4 git gud
>inb4 stay mad dragonfag

>surskit has a unique water/bug typing and evolves into a bug/flying type

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>Make a Pokemon that is all about punches
>give it all the elemental punches
>all of them are special attacks

>>33049461
>tfw alakazam is better at punching that hitmonpunchan
Gens before the phy/spc split were one hell of a ride

>>33049455
Nincada has a similar problem, though at least there's shedinja to make up for it.

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>>33049423
>Rampardos doesn't have Rock Head

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>>33049516
>Aerodactyl have Rock Head but not Head Smash or Brave Bird

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>13 poison pokémon lines in gen 1
>1 dragon line and 1 ghost line

>>33049549
>the only ghost line is also part poison

>>33049455
it used to be unique, but now the wimpod and dewpider lines exist

>until gen 4 heracross was the only bug type with decent STAB

fucking x-scissor was a miracle when it happened. and its still not even that great of a move.

Ledian's stats. It has boxing gloves for hands and can learn almost every punching move but has 35 attack.

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>>33049423
>splitting physical and special moves
>splitting the special stat
>limitting the amount of EVs for each stat
>adding abilities

>>33049746
die

>>33049728
I still find it funny how the go-to STAB option for most Bug mons (putside of U-Turn) is now outclassed by a move that for 6 gens up until now had just base 20 power.

>>33049423
>>kommo-o's strongest fighting stab is sky uppercut
technically it's reversal. but I understand what you mean. It makes it very set up dependant and priority subsceptical. The low base power of most of its moves were most likley because of the whole Shell Smash Kommo-o they forgot to remove before they patched it, but I guess they though Shell Smash would make it too OP.

>>33049423
>almost all ice types are slow and bulky despite ice being a terrible defensive type

This isn't arbitrary, it's just unfortunate.

>>33049428
No it isn't. Fuck Fairy type.

GF needs to add stronger poison and steel moves that more Pokemon outside of those types can learn.

Morty having an entire gym of Gastly, Haunter, and Genga, with no variety whatsoever, despite Misdreavus being introduced, which ends up completely unseen until Mt Silver. And then not fixing the Ghost gym in the remake - they did at least put Misdreavus in Cliff Cave.

>Give Rotom new and exciting forms in Platinum
>lock them away with an event item that no one will ever have access to

The only thing ruining Platinum.

>>33050074
Just inject the wondercards for the event items...

>zoroak in BW
>azure flute still not released

>half of gen 2's pokemon being late-game or even post game in GSC

The special stat.
What was the point of it? Was GF legitimately unable to code 6 stats so they had to merge them in one? If so they why not go all the way and make a "physical" stat? I just don't get it.

>>33049746
>splitting physical and special moves
why do people dislike this so much? i know this post is bait, but do people actually think this is a problem? the split only provided good

>>33049431
This
>notice dragons are too strong
>rather than buffing the old supposed dragon killers they make an entirely new, busted type
>the new type also subsequently breaks Steel-types as a result
nice

>>33050136
Maybe there is a reason it only worked like that for one gen.

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>>33049549
>22% of the Kanto Pokedex is Poison-type
>Another 22% of the Pokedex is Water-type
>Meaning almost half the fucking Pokedex is one or both of the two types

>>33050170
It redeemed a lot of mons but also fucked some over. One of the most prominent mons that got fucked was Sceptile.

The real question is why didn't they add it in gen 3?

>Making Pokemon with wide Special Movepool, but give it poor Sp. Atk stat and vice versa

>>33049423
>The constant kanto pandering
>Ice constantly being nerfed and neutered
>Creating mega evolution
>Those fucking ice puzzles
>Kalos and alola having the smallest dexes to date
>UB's
>Removal of battle frontier in ORAS

>>33050214
>add it in gen 3
They should have add it in gen II, together with the special split, it could have balanced tons of pokemon

>>33050182
>subsequently breaks Steel-type
Yes, because heavens forbid it hits a total of three types super effectively.

>>33050074
I remember having that event and I felt like hot shit. I also had the jirachi in soul silver and proceeded to trade it away

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>>33050182
Also

>Make granbull a fucking fairy
>Not jirachi and celebi

>>33050269
Yeah, it's not like Steel is already a very good, primarily defensive type and making it a Fairy killer totally didn't push it over the edge. You fucking retard.

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>giving a pokemon with 35 attack Iron Fist

>>33050263
>>Kalos and alola having the smallest dexes to date

That isn't really a problem. We are approaching 1000 Pokemon, we don't really need many new ones. The problem, at least in Gen VII so far is it was almost like they trying to hide the new mons. Well that and they were all slow pieces of garbage with weak defense.

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>>33050347
I mean, that too. I like a large choice to choose from because it gives me variety in my lineup. Instead, I have to use older mons because the newer ones are either too slow or have pathetic stats. I would have used dhelmise if it weren't put late in the game or toxapex if it had a bit more speed, but instead I was relegated to mons everyone used in their playthrough, like mudsdale

>>33050214
>The real question is why didn't they add it in gen 3?
Physical Special split was gen 4

>>33050269
>>33050182
>Fairy directly buffs steel offensively and defensively
>fairy kicks fighting types out of higher tiers
>steel effectively loses one of its weaknesses because fighting types are gone
>fairy checks dark types
>one of the types that could hit steel for neutral is now more scarce because of fairy.
>in-spite of fairy being weak to steel, its still one of the most dominant types, after water and steel, flying and ground
nice balance attempt gf

>>33050294
>baka anon never looked at Granbull's pokedex entry

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>>33050404
Literally I've had to start putting poison types instead of dragons in my teams. Even if they're overpowered, you could have balanced them out in a much easier manner, but instead it released the worst thing in the meta. Now, shit like sylveon and gardevoir are ubers and hydreigon and garchomp have been neutered immensely.

>>33050416
Pokedex entires are bullshit

>>33050447
And that's why you're confused by Granbull being fairy type

>>33050438
What? Gardevoir is still in Ubers?

>>33050464
I don't even give a shit about competitive, but people spam the shit out of her in most online battle I've played

>braviary is male only despite being just a big colorful eagle

It would be better if Braviary was a secondary early route bird and Mandibuzz's male counterpart was a bearded vulture with a very manly beard.

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>>33050438
>sylveon and gardevoir are ubers

>>33050607
Well, I don't know shit on the meta anyway

>>33050468
>her

>>33049423
Inceniroar

>>33049423
encenerour

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>>33049549
>13 poison lines from Kanto
>Kanto has THE most poison types introduced
>Koga's gym uses psychic types

>>33050468
It already was a good mon on gen III, giving it Fairy type only gave it a small boost, waifufags spam it all the time
>>33050693
Yes, her, 99% of the time it's female, you can blame waifufags for that

>>33050170
It's not bait. Basically the strong pokemon became even stronger, while the weaker pokemon got just a small boost

Not to mention how it fucked weaker types such as ice, psychic and normal even further

>>33050756
>juggler withdrew hypno
>juggler sent out kadabra
>juggler withdrew kadabra
>juggler sent out hypno
>juggler withdrew hypno
>...

>>33050170
It's stallfags. So many Pokemon were utterly useless because they had no STAB that matched their typing meaning you could run gay defensive shit more safely.

>>33050388
>reading comprehension

>dark was special before split
>all current special dark moves did not exist before generation 4
explain this meme

>>33051051
Funny you say this when back then there was no crap such as Choice Scarf to save you from a +1 Tyranitar

>>33051079
Were there any dark type special attackers other than Houndoom prior to Darkrai?

fuck. Even sneasel had 95 base attack and it was dark/ice.

>>33049423
>>fairy resists bug
This is a good thing though. U-turn is too OP.

>>33049423
larvesta evolving at level 59 is cool though, since volcarona is such a powerful pokémon

>>33051229
End your life.

>>33050643
Then you shouldn't be complaining about Fairy types.

>>33051172
Dugtrio Flygon and Heracross would check the average TTar.
Bulky shit like Suicune and Skarm would also phaze it.

>>33051212
ttar can sort of do special attacking

>>33049455
>surskit has a unique water/bug typing
>what is Wimpod
>what is Golispod

>>33051266
Heracross couldn't survive a +1 HP Rock

>>33051306
+1 200+ Atk Tyranitar Rock Slide vs. 4 HP / 0 Def Heracross: 253-298 (83.7 - 98.6%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

>>33051273
A lot of Dark types had decent Attack and Special attack, but Houdoom and Darkrai were the only one with an excelling special attack as of the Physical/Special split in gen 4.

>Absol, Skuntank, Drapion, Mightyena were physical only
>Caturne, Murkrow and Spiritomb were mixed
>Shiftry, Crawdaunt, Sharpedo, Tyranitar, Honchkrow were mixed but had higher attack
>Houndoom and Darkrai were mixed but had higher special attack
>Umbreon has no business attacking

>>33051320
Good luck having a clear field in gen 3

>>33049423
>A majority of Alolan Pokémon are either very slow or have really awkward stat distributions.
>Type: Null and Silvally have nearly the same stats, apart from Speed. Type: Null's power should be noticeably lower to comply with it's mask holding back it's true strengths.
>Before Gen IV, Ghost Type moves are classified as physical, while a majority of Ghost Types are specially inclined.
>Unown can only learn Hidden Power and nothing else
>A lot of items in Sun & Moon are either missing or insanely hard to find, like Macho Brace and Razor Claw. You could also count Mega Stones for Pokémon not in the Alola Dex.
>There are several loose ends in Generation VI that haven't been tied up properly, like Malva's connections with Team Flare, and Zygarde's role as the guardian of Kalos.
>Volcanion is the only Mythical Pokémon that hasn't been distributed online for free.
>So many new moves introduced in Sun/Moon are only exclusive to certain Pokémon, with some not even being obtainable outside of PokéBank.
>You don't get to save the game right after beating Kukui for the first time.
>Ice and Fire Types have a one-sided matchup, while both elementals are weak to each other offensively in fiction, for the most part.
>Corrosion does not enable Poison Type attacks to damage Steel Types.
>The AI in Alola's battle facilities is a total bitch with no gradual build-up, unlike previous generations.

>>33049746
For typing, Gengar was physical.

>>33049423
>ice types are weak to fighting, rock, and steel
Why? With that logic, every type, excluding Ghost, Fairy, and Dragon (because normies don't believe in them xD) should be super effective on Normal types.

>>33051348
Fun fact: Charizard and Moltres were weak to Ice in Generation 1, since Fire did not resist Ice.

>>33051369
You can break ice with punch, you can break ice with rocks, you can break ice with steel.

>>33051348
>Corrosion does not enable Poison Type attacks to damage Steel Types.
>yfw salazzle could btfo ferrothorn, mawile and klefki

>>33051395
I can break your skull with rocks too, but that doesn't mean Normal should be weak to Rock.

>>33049488
Elemental punches were special atk in Gen 3

>>33052244
No shit, Sherlock.

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>>33050074
>the only thing ruining platinum