>>44911076? I'm just describing how the game wants me to think it's moves work.
>>44911089>Do you really not understand that with dark being special the best dark special attacker sets a bench mark whenever it's introduced that deprecates everything beneath itOh, so Houndoom automatically invalidated Tyranitar, Shiftry, Cacturne, and Umbreon? Weird, I remember differently.
>You always bring up power creepMmmmmm, no, you were the one who brought it up first. And the biggest jumps in power creep have been, whaddaya know, after the split.
>This is a dishonest argument and you know itAn argument you don't like isn't 'dishonest'. You claimed the pre-split system would lead to Pokemon getting naturally outclassed. I'm showing that there were indeed Pokemon after the split introduced that were naturally outclassed.
And Phione isn't a 'baby' Manaphy as far as the meta's concerned, it's still it's own line and it's still a Pokemon of it's own. I'm not comparing Happiny to its later evos, I'm comparing 2 Pokemon lines together.