>>58551603Sleep and para are exactly the same in PLA, they are clearly different in all other pokemon games, same with freeze.
Poison is a worse version of burn or freeze
The only difference betweenxydpk burn and freeze is which stat they debuff
They probably thought it was fine because all buffs universally affect both physical and special in that game granting no effective difference or opportunity cost between special and physical.
In other words even game freak knows how to design status ailments better than you as they brought back proper ones for ZA.