>>48322199>There are still a giant variety of stat/type/move combinations you can use.No there aren't, you always want the Pokemon with higher stats, every single time, and in this situation you're always going to wind up with a set of maybe ~10 or so Pokemon worth using with the rest being gutter trash. Even if Azumarill has a better type combination than Feraligatr, Azumarill's stats are so low, and its movepool is so similar, that with no abilities its outclassed every single time due to it being too slow and tool weak to get any use out of that fairy typing. Abilites leveled the playing field, but since they're gone, so is any use for Azumarill.
>Then buff the Pokemon with the lower BST and limited movepool. But GF doesn't buff for shit, shitmons like early route bugs get maybe 10 points added to their BST,. And "Buffing" them just shows the root of the issue, that without abilities, everything centers ENTIRELY around base stats. Pokemon with low BSTs HAVE been buffed, its called abilities.
>What if Sceptile isn't in the game?What if it is?
>What if I need a Pokemon that's bulkier? Then use the heaps and heaps of other bulky grass Pokemon.
>What if I need a Pokemon that can use Glare or Coil?You trying to boil it down to create a specific imaginary instance in which you need Serperior shows how weak your argument is.
How come, in Gen 1, no one needed Poliwrath's unique type combination and access to Hypnosis? It was the only Pokemon who had all those traits, so people would wanna use it right? Well the answer is that its stats fucking sucked, and its typing wasn't good either. As it turns out, even if Pokemon do things differently, some Pokemon are still better than others, wow!
>Just design them around not their abilitiesAnd yet they've continued doing this since they introduced abilities.
Abilities "need" to be in the game just about as much as types. You shills will argue that type effectiveness doesn't matter either when they get rid of that next.
