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Srk700 posted...

I really dont get what they were thinking when they designed Psychic types in Gen 1. You make them weak to Bug and Ghost, but all you give for attacks is a 15 BP Leech Life, 30 BP Lick, 25 BP Twin Needle (which only Beedrill, who is half poison and generally one of the weakest Pokemon in general, learns), and 25 BP Pin Missile (which only Jolteon, with its whopping 65 ATK stat, and Beedrill get).

Like did they really expect you to use half poison Pokemon with weak SE moves to counter Psychic types when designing them?

And to top it off they screwed it up by messing it up and making ghost ineffective against psychic so psychic effectively had zero weaknesses since Bug moves suck

Gen 1 was really so glitchy and yet it was still the talk of the school in spite of that, which is quite impressive. The worst thing is you had no idea what a move did until you learned it so you wouldn't even know if it was a good idea for your pokemon to learn a move. Then you'd learn it and find out that move sucked or did nothing