>>42114322Basic video game design, really, yeah.
>>42114317Pokemon is so full of these kind of design decisions, that it always makes me question if the designers are stoned while making them. Even in Generation 1, you had stuff like "Freeze can only be cured by your opponent", "Dragon type is weak to Dragon, but the only Dragon move inflicts set amount of damage", and many other such things. Or then they do stuff such as "Let's make the regional Dex of Sinnoh only have two families of Fire type pokemon, but also have a Fire type Elite Four member", or "Let's make a Physical Electric pokemon in Luxray, but let's not introduce any good Physical Electric moves it could use"... Really, most (if not all) of these design problems are something that should never happen, since they are so easily fixed, if you'd just think them over a bit.
