>>40268008well not just the E4, movesets in general were just poor - look at pic related, that's Blaine's squad in R/B (he got beefed up level wise in Yellow, but moveset remained same)
TMs - yeah, I guess - some TMs were available to repeatedly buy like Thunder Blizzard etc and the Punches, but you only get one Dig, one Earthquake, one Rock Slide, and Rhydon (the first pokemon ever designed, and theres statues of him everywhere; Gary uses one and it's the final Gym's final Pokemon); and rhydon gets Leer at level 55, i mean come the fuck on, levelling up a Rhydon to level 55 should yield something better than fucking Leer.
in fact, all Rhydon gets is normal moves.
https://pokemondb.net/pokedex/rhydon/moves/1there's a few examples of this happening in gen 1.
I remember the Nintendo Official Magazine tournaments, it was all Mewtwos and Articunos. These roadshow things where you got to download Mew. There were battles going on and it was all Mewtwo, mewtwo, mewtwo.
that's unbalanced if one monster has no weaknesses and the only thing that can fight it, really, is itself. that is a broken game mechanic and it's proven by the fact that they introduced Dark in gen 2 which nerfed Psychic.
