How Pokemon Ruined the Psychic Type

When I was a kid, everyone knew that the best

type

was

psychic

because the strongest and coolest Pokémon of all time was Mewtwo, a

psychic

type

, if you needed more proof, Mew was the only mythical Pokémon, such a rare classification that you could only get one going to a store. that no longer exists, but somewhere between my bright childhood and the grim reality of today's wind, something changed and psychic fell from the best type in the game to maybe not the worst, but pretty close to it. Today I'm going to analyze how Pokémon

ruined

the psychic type in each generation we get new Pokémon of each type, while the way the real types interact with each other remains the same or that's how it worked in the last three generations, but to fully understand what happened with the psychic type we can't start with Generation 7. we have to return to the kto region in Pokémon Red and Blue, the year is 1996 and Pokémon has just been released with 151 unique creatures, launching the series with unprecedented success, since Pokémon fever infects everyone except this guy, so Pokémon is a game that teaches children how to enter the world of witchcraft how to cast spells how to use psychic phenomena your children need to know that there is a devil and he hates and wants to ruin his life, naturally the developers started doing what's good The game company could do with working on a sequel, which means an opportunity not only to expand the game with new Pokémon locations and new mechanics , but also to correct anything that was out of place in the first games and there is one problem that is so blatantly innovative. that even the developers who continue to ignore incinerate couldn't leave it intact the psychic type is completely overpowered this has to do with more than just Mewtwo the strength of a type is determined by two things the strength of the Pokémon that type has and how the actual types They interact with each other in generation one.

The psychic type Pokémon were, as the kids say, Amaze Balls. Alakazam was one of the strongest Pokémon in the game and Pokémon like Star me Jinx, slow brother, even Mr Mime were so good that they would make Reloom look, ah. Rel shouted: If you want my jokes to get better, you should subscribe. This is a threat. There are some quirks from the first generation that make these Pokémon even more fearsome, such as the presence of a combined special stat instead of a split special attack and special defense stat. but besides the Pokémon themselves being strong psychics, they had pretty crazy relationships with the other types, they were only resisted by other psychic types, meaning that if you had one of your fast and strong psychic types in position, the only option to your opponent was to change his. psychic type or take a large amount of damage, also the only weaknesses of the psychic were insects and ghosts, the only Ghost type Pokémon being Gengar, which is weak to psychic and the only Ghost type attack was lick gen one.

Psychic-types weren't especially superstitious and even if there had been more Ghost-type moves, it wouldn't have mattered, since due to a bug, Psychic-types were accidentally immune to Ghost-type attacks instead of weak to them. Speaking of the other weakness of psychics, the bugs weren't much scarier than the types of bugs in the first generation. Incredibly weak Pokémon and they also had no real moves at the time. Pincer didn't even learn a bug type attack for crying out loud. Looking back it's easy to see how the psychic types were left completely unchecked, it's now clear that moving into Generation 2 the game is still a monster. wanted the Psychic to be Grandma's most specialized type, introducing Lugia as a Psychic and Flying type even though all signs pointed to it making more sense as a Water and Flying type since you know he's canonically the Guardian of the seas, it only emphasized that Psychic was destined to sit at the top of the throne and that's not to mention that the only new Mythical Pokémon was this Psychic Onion-type, but something had to change or else this new batch of mental monstrosities would pass another generation more intact than a Charizard PSA 10 and You probably know the solution that Game Freak came up with with the introduction of two new types: steel and dark steel types resist psychic attacks and dark types were not only completely immune to psychic attacks, but they could deal super effective damage in return, added to these phantom attacks.

I know it really works and it seemed like psychic types might be manageable at least from a type relationship point of view. However, a big question would be how the new Dark Steel Ghost-type and Bug-type Pokémon would compare to the defending champions. Now not all the new Pokémon were good. but Generation 2 introduced several Pokémon that would eventually become competitive mainstays, such as Scizor and Tyranitar. Added to this is the splitting of the special stat into special attack and special defense, offering a significant Nerf for Pokémon like Alakazam Jinx Starmy and, indeed, most other psychic types. and things have changed dramatically since the previous generation.

I didn't play Pokémon competitively in generation 2, as far as I know, there weren't even official tournaments back then, so at this point it's a little hard to say. how dominant the Psychic types actually were, but what I can say is that by introducing two new types for the sole purpose of brain freezing Alakazam and his friends and updating the stat system to allow for counterplay by special attacking Pokémon, the building blocks were in place to make sure the psychic was, if not weakened, at least manageable or that's how it was supposed to be, but somehow between these changes introduced in generation 2 and our current game in the generation 9, psychic types went off the rails and ended up as one of the worst types. in the game, so what happened?

They added incinerate. Wait, no, that can't be true. That didn't happen until the sun and the moon. Okay, let's look a little deeper. Part of the answer has to do with the two new types introduced in generation 2. See. While these types were designed to help make psychic types more manageable, generation 2 only introduced 100 new Pokémon and obviously only a handful of them could be steel or dark with only five lines of Pokémon to choose from each and more than half of the steel and dark type. Pokémon have stats that make spies look good, not good but not that bad.

The Psychic was still able to shine despite the great Pikachu's efforts because there simply weren't enough good Pokémon to stop them, it wasn't really that the Dark types countered the Psychic types. It was more like Tyranitar countered Psychic types and just one Pokémon is pretty easy to deal with, but the further the series went on, the more Steel and Dark type Pokémon were introduced. Generation 3, for example, more than doubled the number of dark types starting at five lines. to 12, as well as adding five new Steel-type Pokémon, including Metagross, an incredible stat ball that resists Psychic with both types and M, while a Pokémon that can bark twice as efficiently and, if you want to hear me out, bark twice more efficiently, then. you're going to love today's raycon video sponsor with gel tips optimized for a perfect in-ear fit these headphones are very comfortable and will really stay in your ears whether you're going for a run or listening to a bearded man complain about Incinerate, the most important thing is that you get amazing quality audio at half the price of other premium audios.

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Thanks again to raycon for sponsoring this video. I haven't mentioned it yet, but Ghost and Bug are probably the two worst guys in the game at the beginning of the franchise would also get buffs the longer the series lasted. Ghost-type moves could be both physical and special. The beginning of generation 4 was a big advantage for special attacking ghosts like Gengar and the like. steel and darkness the longer the series went on, the more good Ghost-type Pokémon there were to choose from, in stark contrast to the first two generations, where your literal only options were Gengar and Mous.

Wait, why does that look so weird? Ah, that's better, same. It should be said of bug types as well that the introduction of better bug type moves was a big deal for Pokémon that previously had to use as a 20 life base power belt and many bug type Pokémon benefited from the addition of abilities in Generation 3, such as Shinja with his Wonder guard scissor with technician and Parasect with dry skin at the same time, the game's monster seems to have been very cautious about making the new psychic types too strong, excluding the legendary. The psychic types of Generation 2 were relatively weak and the same was true for Generation 3 excluding Metagross.

Now, to be fair, that excludes legendary Pokémon like Latios and Latios are exceptional Pokémon, but there definitely seems to be a restraint shown when designing new Pokémon that was suspiciously lacking in Generation 1, so looking at just the first handful of generations we're beginning to See a vague image of our murder mystery. New types were introduced that had a very good combination with psychic types and the more new Pokémon were introduced, the more types that could handle psychics were developed at the same time, new and strong psychic type Pokémon. They were few and far between, often limited to powerful and rare legendary Pokémon, but this is not the whole picture, it's just one piece of the puzzle, there is more at play here than just the introduction of new Pokémon, let's take a step back and let's see what it does The psychic types, well, the psychic type Pokémon from generation 2 had the following relationships, they deal super effective damage against fighting and poison types, they deal damage resistant to steel and psychic types and psychic moves can't hurt dark types on the defensive side of things.

They resist psychic and fighting attacks and are weak to dark ghost and bug-type moves. I want to focus on a few things in particular here, but let's start with the psychic offensive. Psychic types only hit two other types for super effective damage and neither are a type, you're excited to see your starter Pokémon evolve into poison for a long time it was seen as a bottom three type and fighting H is fine , but it's not great now, this wasn't a big problem in Generation 1 when psychic types were dominant because even though there weren't as many fighting and poison types, nothing stood up to psychics except psychics, but with psychic types With steel and dark ones showing up more and more, not being able to hit the majority of the cast for super effective damage is a much bigger problem with more types.

Psychics that resist it but are weak cannot serve as the offensive Powerhouse type it once was, which is a problem, especially since it also can't function very well as a defensive type, while Psychics only have three weaknesses and two Of them have never been extremely common types, he also doesn't have many resistances and by not has many resistances what I mean is that his resistances are practically useless fighting a guy who is never at the top of the food chain and psychic yippe in certain sense, the relationships of the psychics with the other types are very similar to those of the normals, offensively, the psychics hit two types to be super super effective, while the normal does not hit any and each one struggles to damage three types, while the psychic has three weaknesses, the normal only has one and the psychic's two resistances.

For mediocre types they are comparable to the immunity of normal types to the ghost of a great offensive type, the difference is that to compensate for the clear disadvantage of being a normal type due to the type table, normal type Pokémon receive a series of other wide-ranging benefits. move groups to above-average base stat buffs that are suspiciously absent in most psychic types. Now, this didn't stop psychic types from being strong in generation 2 or remaining a good type for generations to come, but their success was based on Unsteady Foot The more Pokémon were released, the moreNew moves were introduced More neglected types were sped up More pressure was put on the Psychic type and in Generation 4 another big blow was dealt, a huge mechanic completely changed warping how every Pokémon game would work.

From then on, I see that the way the game used to work is that all of a type's moves were either physical or special, if the type was dragon or the same type as any of Eevee's evolutions, it was special; otherwise, it was physical, meaning it moves like a physical fire strike. The move today was a special move just like all other fire type attacks. This really helped some Pokémon and really hurt others. Many psychic-type Pokémon benefited from this system. You could activate the quick claw and then have the Flint. What did I say?

Braden What did I say? Alakazam. for example, it was able to use moves like fire strike and ice strike for cover as they were special moves at the time, other Pokémon like Gengar were severely held back as Gengar's stats wanted to be a special attacker, but all of the Ghost and Poison type moves at the time were physical, but since basically every psychic type preferred to be a special attacker, this only helped psychic type Pokémon until Hill's Generation 4, when the special physical split happened and suddenly Pokémon that had never been relevant before could be used, we're talking about Gengar, but Other Pokémon like cradon and Sharpedo that couldn't be used before could actually play the game, in addition to this new dark type Pokémon like weile Spiritum honchkrow and drapion that could take advantage of the new dark type physical moves and the fact that almost no psychic types benefit. of this change and you can probably see that this was another major nail in the wheeze, of course, not everything about Generation 4 was disastrous for psychic types, other than adding bronzong, a strong Pokémon that I personally have a fondness for, without any particular reason.

Diamond and Pearl introduced a new Pokémon that would continue to prove itself. as possibly the best Psychic-type Pokémon of all time Cresselia Cresselia is a Legendary Pokémon with absolutely absurd stats, while it's not strong offensively, its incredible defensive stats allow it to use Psychic as a defensive type because it's so tanky that it can afford it. not having as many resistances, especially with his ability that makes him immune to ground-type moves and with only three weaknesses it is difficult to hit him for super effective damage. Now I want to make it clear that for the most part Cresselia is successful despite her psychic type, not because If she were a water, electric, fire, or steel type, she would probably be just as good, if not better, with one exception.

Cresselia's move pool is phenomenal, and that's largely because being a psychic type gives her access to some very valuable support. Moves Cresselia can control the speed of battle with moves like Freezing Wind Thunder Wave and Trick Room. You can increase your partner's damage by helping him. You can take control of the weather on a sunny day. It can interrupt the battle with the Swap and Swagger I skills. I even tried out a Psycho Shift Flame Orb once, though there's a reason this is the first time you're hearing about it with such a versatile move pool and incredible stats. .

Cresselia would win the World Championship three times by feat, no. other Pokémon have still surpassed it, but Cresselia is just one Pokémon and while it is great, it doesn't redeem the entire type, since as of generation 4, the psychic was no longer in the competition for the best type in the game , bat mantle had relapsed into dragon and let me tell you that the psychic was not in the discussion for second place, this is disgusting, he is a psychic in every way, but despite being knocked off the mountain, the psychic was still a respectable guy, he's like an athlete past his prime who occasionally shows moments. of greatness and when you see them you can remember how good they were at their peak and although they are not working as hard as before, at least they are still in the game, entering the psychic types of generation 5.

They did not make a great recovery, no They received no major upgrades and the best new Psychic-type Pokémon introduced were good, but not great, Goth was the standout, although it didn't receive the Shadow tag until late in the Generation 5 lifespan, as it seemed at this point. . The psychic had finally fallen out of favor with the gambling fan. Grandma had forgotten the most specialized type of her for the first time since the Inception series. There were no new psychic-type legendary Pokémon. Instead, they gave us the Genies, yes, but the fan of the game had a new problem.

Dragons. Dragon it was. the spiritual successor to Psychic and with the introduction of so many powerful Dragon-type Pokémon over the years, the game was once again in a state where fast and powerful attackers found themselves with only one type that could withstand them. , this time steel, but many types of dragon. Pokémon learn Fire or Ground-type attacks, making Steel an unreliable counterattack, and the powerful new Gems introduced in Generation 5 made it so that even Steel-type Pokémon couldn't safely switch in against moves like Draco. Meteor, so once again it was clear that something had happened.

For a change and Game Freak's solution was the same as it had been a decade before the introduction of a new type, what was not clear is that this final addition to the type table would be the death of Nell for the once great Psychic Type Bar Pokémon. They were introduced in Generation 6 with a handful of new Pokémon that received the type, as well as some old Pokémon that were changed retroactively, and by some definitions of the word, this change worked. Dragon-type Pokémon no longer dominated the game. Great job of course, the reason they weren't dominant anymore is because grandma had a new more specialized type and wow, it's very clear that fairy type Pokémon weren't designed with much counterplay in mind despite the relatively small number. of Fairy-type Pokémon, the type was so blatantly overpowered. that almost all fairy type Pokémon with even decent stats succeeded aeral gavor ma Sylveon kfy capricious Togekiss even the tough Wiggly or Regional tough Wiggly your kids KN need to know that there is a devil and he hates them and wants to ruin their lives and not Ni I don't even want to start with xerus.

I'm serious, I don't want to talk about what that Pokémon put me through, but what does fairy type have to do with psychic fairy type? It's like the platonic ideal of Psychic-type Fairy-type Pokémon, they are weak to just poison and steal compared to Dark Ghost and Bug psychics, they resist Dark and Bug and are immune to Dragon compared to psychic resistances. just fighting and offensive fairy-type psychic moves hit dark types and dragons for super effective damage compared to just fighting and Poison for psychic attacks and lastly, fairies are resisted by firesteel and poison in comparison to psychic steel and the darkness of psychic attacks.

It should be apparent pretty quickly that Ferry is just a strict upgrade compared to psychics, one of the two types of psychics having a strictly positive psychic effect. Fighting is an advantage that Fairy offers as well, but you get a lot more out of Fairy-type Pokémon and honestly, of all the changes made to Psychic over the years, I personally think this is the most devastating Pokémon, no. it is. a game about objective strength, while there are Pokémon that are clearly better than others and will be used more than others, there are often opportunities for weak Pokémon that fill a specific niche or do a specific thing, the most famous example being pisu of course , although there are many other Pokémon.

Over the years they have thrived despite not seeming as powerful as the Pokémon around them, but there are some Pokémon that can almost never succeed and they are Pokémon that do the same thing as other more powerful Pokémon, which is why that we rarely see kto Arcanine or hitmontop. when incinerate is close and the reason why no one would use masara instead of C Celia and in a sense the addition of the fairy type made the vast majority of psychic type Pokémon obsolete, that doesn't mean there aren't good Pokémon In fact, a psychic-type Pokémon has won the World Championship five of the eight years since the fairy type was introduced, but the Pokémon that have one are Cresselia Ceric Shadow and Lunala Pokémon that are exceptionally powerful despite their type, that's not necessarily why they seem to be psychic today.

Type Pokémon can't rely on their type to carry them, they have to have something else as a selling point. That being said, it seems like Game Freak is no longer opposed to creating powerful Psychic-type Pokémon now that the type is more in vogue. Recent generations have introduced several strong psychic types with interesting mechanics attached. Oranguru became the first Pokémon to be able to make a partner attack twice in a row thanks to its unique move instruction and in the same generation there were plenty of The powerful psychic-type Legendary Tapele was a mainstay in competitive play with its ability. of psychic terrain that not only removed priority but also increased the power of all psychic-type attacks.

The Choice Specs and MZ Psyche Tapele could deal massive damage, while the Choice Scarf could be used to clear opponents. before they attacked, not to mention that each legendary box art was for the first time psychic type solal lunala necros necros dusm necrozma Dawn Wings and Ultra necros were at least partly psychic type SOA was more of a niche choice, although it had some use. in the necros-like competitive game Dawn Wings, but nightfall made Necros take second place in the world championship in 2019 partly due to the power of ultra acrma and lunala they actually won worlds that year, of course these Pokémon were successful largely due to its absurdity. secondary writing stats, amazing abilities, and impressive move pools, but hey, they were all psychic types.

Generation 8 introduced Hatteri and Indi who would form the backbone of trick room teams from the start with Hatteri's strength as a Dynamax attacker and indeed their usefulness as support Pokémon follow me while hatteri has fallen since The early days of sword and shield, in fact, is still a strong Pokémon even in the current format. Sword and Shield also did something similar to what Ultra Sun and Moon did with Necros and introduced another Fusion style Pokémon, Cerx, Ice Rider, and Ker. Shadow Rider are both Psychic-type Pokémon, but what makes them stand out is how good their stats are, their completely unfair ability, which is literally just two abilities rolled into one, and their signature moves that I still can't believe are real. .

CER Shadow won the world. Championships in 2022 with Ker's Ice finishing in the semi-finals, which brings us to generation 9 and the last installment of The Saga of Psychic-type Pokémon so far, Scarlet and Violet introduced many psychic types and although some of them were repulsive, many of them became Armar turned out to be quite strong and saw a lot of play this year, as the spiritual successor to Hatteri and Espo saw some niche uses and some of my favorite Pokémon this year were psychic types, in particular Scream Tail and Furra, with whom I won the Biggest Tournament of All Time, although not at the same time, the final part of the DLC was recently released and introduced new Psychic-type Paradox Pokémon that also seemed to be good, although we'll have to see if they can keep up. the rhythm now that incinerate is. back oh man incinerate is back they also added this monkey but I don't think it's very good anyway now you know the whole story of how the psychic went from king of the world to a door popper but you also know that It's a Pokémon type. doesn't define it Psychic type Pokémon continue to thrive despite all of their type's shortcomings and I think that's cool and maybe just a little mental.