>>53736973>Burn and Paralysis aren't nearly as powerful as Freeze.But which of these ststuses have actual practical uses when building a team? If you genuinely think frozen is better strstegically than burn or paralyze you are braindead. Reliability is one of the most important aspects of strategy in general, not only in pokemon, you can not trust randomness.
>If gimmicks still win me games then what difference does it make?Do you really go into every battle and hit ice-beam until you freeze something?
>You don't need to build a team around it.It's a strategy game, what's the point of a status move if you simply can't reliably build strategy for and against it? It's just a rng machine not worth taking into account when making a team. It's completely luck based.
>Why do you think special moves are even a separate category in the game to begin with, dumbassio?Tell me, o wise anon. Why did GF make the special stat in gen 1? Could it be that they, in their vast wisdom, could foretell the intricate mechanics of contemporary pokemon battles?
>Doing the same thing as another type of move doesn't give it a distinct place on the team.Except it doesn't do the same thing as another status, do you also think poison and burn do the same thing and have the same place on strategy? Plus you just entirely ignored how this would give a niche to icetype special attackers
