>>713200960>It’S lIkE tHaT bY dEsIgN!And it’s shitty design.
For one, it’s on Ice type MOVES, not Pokemon, so Water type with better defensive typing and bulk can spam it Ice Beam and with how dice rolls work get Freezes more often than Ice types.
Second, it’s “balance” (being able to attack while rending 1/6th of your opponent’s team as unusable is not balance) by RNG which is terrible way to balance things. It very often makes it either useless or overpowered and you can’t actually tell since its the computer deciding it behind the scenes.
Third, stun mechanics and instant KOs are dogshit mechanics, even without RNG. Surprisingly, people actually want to play a fucking game. They don’t want to have the game suddenly take control out of their hands or to have matches/engagements decided in milliseconds or 1 turn. Other games at least have the common courtesy to give actual viable counterplay or make said mechanics terrible, which even then people still despise stuns and instant KOs.
Pokemon doesn’t. If you want to actually play the fucking game by preventing Freeze, you either need an Ice type (shitty defensively likely to be KOd early on), Sun to be up, an extremely rare ability, or some shitty common ability or shitty item.
There is a reason why Smogon, who are all about being cart accurate, still has Freeze Clause even in Gen 2 where you can thaw out.
>Erm fanfic meta!And people in VGC hate RNG bullshit too. Everyone despises Fissure Ting-Lu and Snow Cloak Articuno spamming Freeze moves and Moody Smeargle or Minimize Chansey. If VGC players could, this shit would be banned or altered so that this shit wouldn’t exist.