>You were free to use it any way you wanted, it was just only good at one thing. This is the same reason the retard from before claimed Gengar was unusable. He was using it wrong and couldn't comprehend different monsters having different use cases.
>And now it's good at more than just one thing which makes it more useful and can fit on more team builds, which is good.
Short of shit like Street Fighter and Counter-Strike (and the GOOD games of those series that were made to be fun competitive games, not the shitty ones later that were made to look good on a livestream), competitive gaming is completely and totally retarded. You know what the point of pokemon is? To use the pokemon you like because they're cute/cool and the type advantages are just to mix it up a bit. If you think that's incredibly shallow that's because it is, the heart and appeal of the first two pokemon games come in the overall design and charm of them.
The only thing the later games are good for are the fap bait and maybe a couple of small thematic things like the Arceus and creation stuff.