Some random questions that some people might know the answer to

[Kyo]

Because I am either too lazy to look them or up or have tried and failed to come up with anything. Also I should be doing work but my brain refuses to focus on pertinent things.

- Why was "Special" a single stat in Gen I? Has anyone ever come out and explained this one?

- Does anyone know why Ghost type moves were physical all the way up until the physical/special split in Gen IV? Dark types being special was weird too (as Dark types on average had much higher Atk than Sp. Atk), but Ghost in particular was very weird due to Shadow Ball lowering Sp. Def instead of Def all the way back in Gen II, which convinces me that this was an error that just went unfixed for three generations.

- Where is the Underground T_T

 

[Warmmedown]

Game Boy Colour cartridges were only 1MB and Pokemon Blue was just about 1MB I believe, so that could explain the Special being one stat thing.

edit: Gen I had a lot of errors like missingno and associated things and the moves that changed stats in the wrong direction.

edit: are you Call(ium) now

 

[Papasmurf]

for the same reasons that ghost type was weak to psychic types despite saying otherwise in the instruction manual

 

[Southern Gothic]

for the same reasons that ghost type was weak to psychic types despite saying otherwise in the instruction manual

Yeah, I was gonna put down this same thing. I remember bringing Gengar to fight Sabrina after watching the anime...and found myself no better for it.

 

[Warmmedown]

animu>gami

 

[Papasmurf]

fku

 

[Kyo]

Well, the Ghost/Psychic thing was a bug that was already fixed by the next gen, so I don't really find that weird.

 

[Uchiha]

I wonder if they made Gengar & co poison to feel less dumb about it

 

[Symbiote]

Pretty sure they did it to give them another weakness besides Ghost.