>>52888131older gen pokemon were clearly not designed around competitive play
it's actually pretty charming to look at gen one/two pokemon and how shit their stat distributions usually are, how shallow and unfocused the movepools are, remember they didn't even originally have abilities, and remember the developers seemed to actively 'balance' around giving pokemon with high stats low damage power moves. the games could really benefit from taking a generation and just doing a massive balance pass on all the hundreds of old forgotten shitmons
