Why? if it wasn't Physical/Special split, Pokemon like Gengar would still be useless.
it ruined some pokemon. vaporeon learns bite, which is a dark type move. dark types were special prior to the p/s split. vaporeon's second best stat is sp. attack, while physical attack was its second worst. this also went for jolteon.
No offense but that has to be the stupidiest reason to hate P/S split. First of all before the P/S split the move category made no sense, second Bite is a really crappy move for Vaporeon and Jolteon and they can also learn Shadow Ball wich is a special move and more powerful than Bite, so that reason to hate P/S split makes no sense. And last the P/S split didn't hurt any pokemon, it helped hundred of them, Gengar before the P/S split was useless and now it's a monster.
personally, i found it hilarious when people were trying to find out how ampharos did a hell of a lot of damage with fire/thunder punch. i found it hilarious when lance's gyarados barely scratched the surface for damage. also, Koffing and Weezing were wrecking balls with poison attacks, cos poison was physical. now, like gyarados pre-P/S, they're hopeless. why can't people just give me points for trying? i loved the non-P/S split days! from Bulbasaur to Deoxys, gens 1-3 ruled. they introduced all my favourite pokemon, including my favourite legendary (Zapdos) and you only needed to look at one screen.
Weezing Attack and Special Attack is nearly the same so he's not hopeless, Fire/Thunder Punch are really shitty moves for Ampharos when it can have Thunderbolt wich is more powerful, another example of a pokemon helped by the P/S split : Gyarados, he was useless before because Waterfall was special and he's Physical oriented. Just give it up, P/S split was a godsend.
Those two aren't good examples, since Gengar has been overused since Generation I (due to its stats and versatility) and so has Gyarados since Generation III (due to Dragon Dance and Earthquake). They appreciated getting usable STAB moves, but they obviously didn't hinge on them.
Yeah but they weren't nearly as good as they are now.
How is that?
How does this counts as "not making sense" besides like Shiny Celebi said, it was nice change of pace from the typical beat the champion then watch the credits that most games in the series had.
So let me get this straight, Your saying dimensional travel in in a game about mystical creatures who are capable of mass destruction yet peacefully co-exist with humans in a world where things such as teleportation pads and 3 inch orbs capable of holding creatures over 23 feet long exist doesn't make sense?
