>>44700445In early gens, Normal-types needed to be distinguished from "literally my mom's animal. So they got extremely wide movepools, and that was their niche. The "jack of all trades" type.
In current gens, Normal types ARE "literally my mom's animal".
Compare Tauros and Bouffalant.
Tauros has shit like Blizzard, Fire Blast, Flamethrower, Ice Beam, Icy Wind, Shock Wave, Solarbeam, Thunder, Thunder Bolt, Water Pulse, and Zap Cannon. A normal bull can't do that shit.
Now look at Bouffalant. It has coverage, but it all comes from stuff a bull could do. High Horsepower, Iron Head, Megahorn, Outrage, Poison Jab, Zen Headbutt. There's not a lot of "magic" going on. It can't even learn Hyper Beam.
Normal types became shit competitively as soon as they became shit thematically.
