>>40826233My major gripe with pre-physical/special split was that the assignment of types felt wrong. Dark type attacks were Bite, Crunch, Pursuit, Thief, etc, but were SPECIAL, and given to physical attacker Pokemon. In fact none of the Dark type attacks that existed before Gen IV became special attacks, they all were sorted into physical. Ghost had a similar issue but reversed, being mostly for special attackers while being a physical type and its main move being Shadow Ball, which should by all rights be special.
Sneasel feels like a case study in designers not knowing their own game.
