>>46504276>>46503874Gen 1 was before they thought the game would be competitive and it was designed as a single player rpg and even then blastoise's numbers are pretty competitive.
all 3 have a stat spread of 425 which was around that of the other player mons, above the NPC mons but not as high as some of the other coolmons like the legendaries or the eeveelutions or safarizone mons or snorlax or gyarados
the idea was that all of the starters got one 100 stat, Venusaur got special. Blastoise defense, and Charizard speed. That makes Venusaur tied for 19th in special, Blastoise 14 for defense and charizard 15th for speed. So high, but not like eevee or legendary status. Charizard and blastoise both got 85 for their special which was their 2nd highest stat which was tied for 40th, which is still like the top 1/3rd. The other stats are within points of each other to be balanced and add up to 425, the HPs are 80, 79, 78. The attacks are 84, 83, 82. And defense and speed were just the points that were left. They wanted to make the staters viable and about even for kids, but also make it so things like Eevee, Lapras, Snorlax, the legendaries, the fossiles, the pseudo legendaries, and the safari zone/ cerulean cave/ generic rares were all really good so kids would be forced into having 3 or 4 good pokemon with those who explored or tried to catch them all or did trade evolutions would have some broken mons
