Pidgeot, Fearow, Dodrio, Ditto are the same
Farfetch'd, Scyther, Pinsir, Onix kept it as Sp A and got a higher SpDef
Dugtrio, Sandslash has a lower SpA and keeps it as Sp Def
Hitmonlee also kept it as Sp A and got an obscene Special Defense out of it.
Being none got the combination of "kept as SpD; got better SpA", it would very much seem to confirm the theory it was indeed a dump stat for the Pokemon seen to be mostly physical just so they could have a defense against Special moves.
But now I'm curious how they came up with the other "Special" number: Did they decide on it from having to come up with another number or did they first decide the Pokemon's new BST and used the increase amount as the other Special stat number (and gave the one that was higher to the Special Defense stat). Probably a mix of both, though I'm leaning toward the latter.
Though even then we have some oddball cases like Farfetch'd BST no longer ending in a 0 or 5 but a 2 cause its Special Defense was given 2 extra points. Don't know why they didn't give it 5 or 10 extra points if they felt the Special Defense was still too low (compared with the Special Attack).
Then I don't know if feeling old, dumb, or both at same time.
I'd say jaded (which is a mix of old, though not dumb, maybe a bit of naivete). Gen I was long ago and its easy to take things it did for granted. A new hit game by a relatively unknown developer which quickly became a massive franchise nearly overnight. It's only naturally to assume in the early days that GF would be tripping themselves over as they got used to their new position and had to just start pivoting the game to have a balance focus from its seemingly JRPG setup. However, while many Pokemon have their stats set up to align with a JRPG scaling, in truth there was a balance in trying to make most Pokemon feel unique (even if they didn't fit their role well). The game came with a PvP feature after all, and would also likely impact the trading aspect.
Has anyone a list of moves removed from Paradoxes out of those that come from the lost type?
So I looked at Volcarona/Slither Wing/Iron Moth (the other Pokemon aside from Donphan to get both a Past & Future version, though each version replaces one of its Types), Jigglypuff/Scream Tail (only basic stage to get a Paradox form, specifically a Past version), and Gardevoir/Gallade/Iron Valiant (only Pokemon to be a combination of two, specifically as a Future version). My conclusion: A headache. Like, obviously they took inspiration from the original Pokemon, but what they stripped away and if they replaced it with something feels individually decided (along with if they mixed some moves around). It's not a simple case of them just replacing all of Volcarona's Fire moves with Fighting ones for Slither Wing and Bug moves with Poison for Iron Moth, they personalized the movesets based on the concept of it being a more savage/robotic Pokemon.
Fling has been discussed in this thread a couple times before IIRC and its distribution is essentially full random.
So what you're saying that, to decide what Pokemon got fling, they wildly flung darts at a wall of names and whatever Pokemon got a dart in their name got Fling. I guess that's on way to decide things...
Psyshock is a move that's been discussed here before. (...)
Gen IX kept this up, limiting the move once again to stuff like Psychics, Fairies, and Ghosts. Armarouge, Scream Tail, Gholdengo,
and Great Tusk.
Well it's Japanese name is "Psycho Shock" and it did gore a member of the expedition team, I'd certainly call that psycho.
Jokes aside, um, let's see, well a lot of changes done to it has to do with its head area. Greater tusks, red spikes on its tread trunk, intense eyes, even its ears become frilled. Psyshock's description says the user materializes an odd psychic wave to physically attack the target. Now had it been a normal Pokemon it would still seem odd to five it Psyshock, but being a Paradox Pokemon I would give it the benefit of the doubt of having some odd power. Great Tusks' #1 goal is wanting to hurt you, and with the power that brought it into existence, it can now do this just by thinking of how much it wants to hurt you.