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5/30/2025, 1:32:10 PM
>>11768817
This is what I hate about people who ONLY play Pokemon. It's like they're incapable of anything beyond basic pattern recognition, and expecting them to engage with mechanics on any level that isn't "round peg goes in round hole" is asking too much. They're given a tool that's arguably way too good, but it doesn't conform to the one (1) strategy that was spoonfed to them, and so it's unusable.
Gengar not having strong STAB options was not an error or an oversight. It exists to be a sleep setter with access to some of the best offensive spells in the game and inherent immunity to the most common physical attacks. A job it does so well that it consistently places in the upper tiers for competitive play in generations without PSS.
If this were any other RPG, and you tried to argue that a character with a toolkit as varied and powerful as Gengar's was unusable and needed to be fixed, nobody would think twice about calling you a fucking retard. And they would be right.
This is what I hate about people who ONLY play Pokemon. It's like they're incapable of anything beyond basic pattern recognition, and expecting them to engage with mechanics on any level that isn't "round peg goes in round hole" is asking too much. They're given a tool that's arguably way too good, but it doesn't conform to the one (1) strategy that was spoonfed to them, and so it's unusable.
Gengar not having strong STAB options was not an error or an oversight. It exists to be a sleep setter with access to some of the best offensive spells in the game and inherent immunity to the most common physical attacks. A job it does so well that it consistently places in the upper tiers for competitive play in generations without PSS.
If this were any other RPG, and you tried to argue that a character with a toolkit as varied and powerful as Gengar's was unusable and needed to be fixed, nobody would think twice about calling you a fucking retard. And they would be right.
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