>>41895148I don't think Gamefreak was trying to balance anything. At least not until later gens as they were more focused on making the movepools realistic.
>>41895181>This idea of "certain types should never be usable, let alone powerful" is why we have so many bad Ice-typesIt's obvious Ice-was created for some sort of glass cannon design, but if they wanted the mons to be good, all they needed to do was make nore faster ice types like Weavile and Mamoswine.
>Psychic, on the other hand, was only as overpowered as it was in Gen 1 due to an oversight making it immune to a type it was meant to be weak against and the three other damaging moves the type was weak to being multihit moves and thus being too weak to do shit worth fuckCould be, but it doesn't explain why they made so many psychic type legendaries specifically while waiting till gen 5 to do something for bug
