>>48231968It's specifically to avoid Koga and SS Leaf on off region battles with a tank and a healer to stall without much efforts unless boss spams 4 bar attacks costantly with eventual debuffs.
If you look at Poison types they obviously all have innate damage bonus related to it too, usually sync multipliers but also stronger poison dot and toxic power for normal attacks
(jessie's poison jab did more since arcanine has higher sp.def but someone had to sync anyway)
