>>50643170>You just posted a Pokemon that got improved because of reasons other than the split.Because of reasons other than the split, and ALSO because of the split itself. See
>>50643113>The split gave it an immense coverage from Hidden Power>The split gave it a stronger STAB to its highest attacking stat in Sludge Bomb>The split made it able to run Calm nature without compromising its other offensive STAB (as they're respectively physical and special in gen 3)>The split let its Sludge Bomb set go DUAL STABS to break mons that wall either of themBy the way, I meant Sword Dance for that last one. In RS, the Sword Dance set was stuck with a single SD-boosted STAB. The physical/special split is ENTIRELY responsible for fixing that.
At +2, Waterfall's 240 BP worth of damage, so a pretty appreciable buff.
