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Anonymous Sat 15 Oct 2016 14:20:38 No.29150444 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>29150465 >>29150528 >>29150695

What's the point of having two forms of the Poison status, and then giving the better of the two to almost everything? What's the logic here?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 15 Oct 2016 14:22:05 No.29150465 Report

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>>29150444
The worse one is a proc and AOE with poison gas

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 15 Oct 2016 14:23:23 No.29150486 Report

Quoted By: >>29150514 >>29150543

If you're talking about toxic vs normal poison, it probably has to do with moves like poison fang toxicing on hit would be dumb.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 15 Oct 2016 14:23:49 No.29150496 Report

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For the first question, making the status ailment less toxic *Pun* earlier in the game with a less serious version.
For the second, most status ailment TMs go to a lot of pokemon. It's about as weird as so many Pokemon being able to learn thunderwave.
For the third? Iunno, the same sense of game balance that made Mega Fug.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 15 Oct 2016 14:24:51 No.29150514 Report

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>>29150486
Yeah this. Toxic can only be inflicted by itself or 2 layers of tspikes. Poison is less severe so they can make it a secondary effect of other moves.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 15 Oct 2016 14:25:38 No.29150528 Report

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>>29150444
Because toxic and poison were designed when the game was the end goal and multiplayer was secondary.

Toxic doesn't show up in the early game, so when it does you know how to deal with poison (items or switching).

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 15 Oct 2016 14:26:37 No.29150543 Report

Quoted By: >>29150569

>>29150486
But anon, Poison Fang does badly poison.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 15 Oct 2016 14:27:39 No.29150569 Report

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>>29150543
TIL

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 15 Oct 2016 14:28:49 No.29150589 Report

Quoted By: >>29150710

Play through. You start out with the softer version then only reach Toxic in the last stages of the game.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 15 Oct 2016 14:34:13 No.29150695 Report

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>>29150444
Because pokemon are ninjas.
Almost all of them can learn shadow divide too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 15 Oct 2016 14:34:59 No.29150710 Report

Quoted By: >>29150741

>>29150589
But why is it the only status that does this? Why doesn't Burn have a weaker version? Or Paralysis? What makes Poison so special?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 15 Oct 2016 14:36:38 No.29150741 Report

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>>29150710
probably because toxic is by far the deadliest.

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