Why are psychic types so weak now? They used to be the strongest type of all. What the fuck happened?
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>>59407006Dark types and their pursuiting, sucker punching, foulplaying shenanigans
>>59407006>Why are psychic types so weak now? They got actual competition instead of gengar and beedrill lol
>>59407006>Psychic’s advantage over Ghost got reversed (even though logically Psychic should be one of the only types strong against Ghost)>Bug eventually got actual moves>Steel is a great defensive type, therefore it’s commonly used>Dark and Ghost got good STAB options come gen 4, turns out they’re both very spammable types with not many resistances>U-turn>Fairy does basically everything Psychic does with far less downsidesI’d say Psychic never really became a bad type until gen 4, but currently it’s never been more Psychover
>>59407011How is Psychic doing in Champions outside of Mega Delphox being sorta viable in an extra-hostile meta?
>>59407006Now post the real image.
>>59407293>even though logically Psychic should be one of the only types strong against GhostThe type chart has never been logical in that way so weird complaint.
>>59408198>>59407293It's a coding error. Gen 1 had massive ones like that, like not Focus Energy actually lowering crit chance and the text display for dual type Pokemon only registering for its second type effectiveness. There is a trainer in Sabrina's gym who tells you Psychic is only weak to Bug and Ghost, you're intended to fight Sabrina's gym shortly after clearing out the Pokemon Tower with its many Gastly to catch, official stragety guides at the time stated Ghost was super effective, and of course the anime.
>>59408793Why did official strategy guides state ghost was super effective when it wasn’t, are they stupid?
>>59408803For trusting GameFreak to code their games without major bugs? Maybe. Most Strategy Guides back then (when the market for them was much bigger) were developed at the same time as the games themselves. They're not made after the fact by the writers testing things out firsthand. Many guides included content altered or cut before the master copy of the game is made. I remember having an Animal Crossing: Wild World guide that used what was ultimately a beta asset for the spaceship gears.
>>59407006>people already forgot when tera espathra was dominating the meta
>>59407341I haven't fought a single Mega Dephox in the 400+ battles I've had so far.
>>59408834The fact that Espathra was actively changing away from its psychic typing for other types just proves the point that they type is shit
>>59409186To be fair that was mostly for Tera Blast coverage
>>59407006>They used to be the strongest type of all.Normal says hiTo answer the actual question though, dark type immunity to psychic and super effective damage against was released to nerf them directly.More bug and dark attacks introduced over the yearsMore pokemon in general introduced High special defense started to be given to more things than just snorlaxThey buffed psychics massively in gen 4's dpp and they were a core part of the meta again
>SE against Poison>Running a Ground Type is damn near mandatory anyway>SE against Fighting>Running a Flying Type is damn near mandatory anyway>One of the best types is immune to itPsychic is actually so underrated guise...
It's time to finally admit that the fairy type was a net negative.
>>59407015>>59407293Dark's effectiveness should be reversed.A telepath cannot be sucker punched, but that is the only way for a cheater to gain advantage over a stronger Fighting type. A ghost cannot be spooked, IT IS THE SPOOKER. A vicious beast is not scared or creeped out by bugs, quite the opposite, in fact it doesn't even care neither for the cute facade of fairies nor their life draining abilities as dark types attack in a berserker state (or alternatively they use underhanded tricks which don't need any life force)
