>>53015387Because they wanted to make a mushroom mon with Tentacruel's stats, but even GF realized that Spore with 100 base speed is too broken.
But Toedscruel isn't so strong that it needs an objectively bad ability like Truant or whatever, so there needed to be some kind of tradeoff.
The tradeoff just wasn't nearly enough to make up for always going last with status moves.
