How Pokemon Ruined the Psychic Type

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Psychic type paid for Mewtwo’s sins.

"Even though back in gen one when there weren't as many fighting or poison types-" Gen 1's 33 poison types: "Say that again. I dare you."

Another minor point to add - in Gen 1, there was a LOT of poison types. It was actually the most common type for that generation. So at the time, Psychic hit super effective damage against the most common type.

I’m actually a bit surprised that Knock Off wasn’t mentioned. I feel like that also had a major role in Fairy’s rise to success since Fairy-types resist the move while Psychic-types are weak to it. Gen 6 really was not a kind one to Psychics.

Don't let Wolfey trick you. He's definitely running an expanding force team

Everywhere they show people/pokemon with psychic powers bending spoons, cars, etc. But apparently STEEL RESISTS PSYCHIC

As I see it, Gamefreak has always wanted Dragon type to be the strongest "type", a type that is hard to raise, but rewards your effort with pure destruction. Meanwhile, Psychic type was meant to be more of a rare, mysterious, second strongest type, which you have difficult finding Pokemon of. Both of these followed the same pattern: The one major battle with a Type master of that type would happen only slightly after reaching an area full of the types countering them (Pokemon Tower for Psychic, Seafoam Islands for Dragon). Furthermore, Dragon was the type of the champion, and has since always been the type of either the final Gym Leader or one of the Elite Four, while Psychic has always been in a close follow-up, but never quite the Champion. However, Psychic turned out to be stronger due to ghost not actually successfully countering them, and their ability to hit everything without worry for type matchup. Meanwhile, Dragon only had one representative in Dragonite, and they had no STAB to spam, given the only Dragon move dealt fixed damage. In generation 2, they saw these issues and nerfed Psychic with the new types, and buffed Dragon with actual offensive moves, notably Outrage. It still wasn't enough though, given they still only had Dragonite and Kingdra as representative. Then starting in gen 3, they really tried to restore Dragon as the strongest type, with the addition of a new Dragon Pseudo-legendary and actual Dragon legendaries. And they have kept doing this for every generation since then. They went a little overboard in gen 5 though as they had mostly become what Psychic was in gen 1: monsters that can just destroy everything with their STAB alone, including the type that's actually supposed to counter them, Ice. So they felt they needed a real counter, and therefore they added Fairy. But unlike Psychic, Fairy was never intended to be a second strongest type. Gamefreak continues to release strong, mysterious Psychic legendaries, but due to how every other type has kept evolving, Psychic types can no longer keep up with the metagame. Meanwhile, Fairy was a little too overtuned, and despite barely having any Legendary, it has been making weaker Pokemon very powerful.

1:12 I’m a Christian, and I simply CAN NOT see why some people think the game is evil or demonic or teaches witchcraft. Ah yes, I used thunderbolt with my electric rat and I suddenly feel like worshiping Satan. The game was creating because the creator liked collecting bugs and wanted to make a game similar to that. The idea that it’s evil is so stupid

5:05 One small correction. Jynx actually had her special attack increased during the special split, being 95 special in gen 1, and 115 special attack and 95 special defense in gen 2.

13:32 He will never escape this clip

I’ve been subscribed for years… the jokes don’t get better, you just appreciate them more.

The fact that Kieran uses an Incineroar is hilarious. This is self-awareness at the highest level. Game Freak knows which Pokemon they choose

I have gen 1 brain, to me, a single kadabra (unevolved because no link cable) can beat any pokemon

Petition to give psychic type a resistance to fairy type attacks

I think an important addition would've been that some of the most easily spammable moves of all time all hit Psychic for super effective damage: U-Turn, Knock Off, Shadow Ball, Pursuit

Changing cresselia’s type to fairy in gen 6 would have gone crazy.

I got you guys. U-Turn, the Dark Type and consistent fragility of Psy-Mons! Edit: my first 1k comment, thank you all!!

My biggest problem using especially pure psychic types is so many pokemon get coverage moves that are super effective against psychic.

5:05 small detail but Jynx's base stats were actually buffed in the transition from Gen 1 to Gen 2. It previously had a 95 special stat in Gen 1, but In Gen 2 it was given an extra 20 points in special attack, while its special defense remained at 95. Compare that to Alakazam and Exeggutor, who had their Gen 1 special stats converted into their special attack stat, but they each lost 50 points of special defense.