>>54478264It’s original purpose was to make Gen1 pokemon look stronger. Many pokemon from gens 2-3 suffer from “kneecapped to make GenWun look stronger syndrome”. Many of them have gotten or are due to get apologies via evolutions, super saiyan forms, and even direct buffs. However Game Freak seems reluctant to give Delibird anything to actually buff it. Likely because if they saved every Gen2 pokemon then the Johto shitmon stereotype would die, so they have to keep some of them as unusable shitmons so that KANTOOO looks better in comparision.