tyranitar of these murkrow and sneasel were the most underwhelming but they would go on to get evolutions later tyranitar was obviously the strongest being a pseudo-legendary and all but umbreon was also a pretty useful competitive pokemon the dark specialist added was karen the elite four member and i've said this before and i'll say it again she is the only karen that i would let speak to my manager cause my manager is me i should know though that because she was an elite four member and not a gym leader that meant that the dark type was the last remaining type to not have a gym leader since the other NUMBER_TOKEN types of the time were covered by the kanto and johto gym leaders so gen NUMBER_TOKEN effectively nerfed the psychic type primarily through the introduction of the dark type then gen NUMBER_TOKEN came along and mainly focused on expanding the dark types number of moves and its pokemon roster first let's talk about the moves gen NUMBER_TOKEN had no dark type status moves so gen NUMBER_TOKEN was like alright here's a whole pile of them fake tears flatter memento snatch taunt and torment all dark type status moves of these taunt is by far the most important it is widely used to this day to prevent enemy pokemon from setting up healing or doing anything else with status moves that you do not want them to do only one new damaging attack was added that being knockoff which was complete garbage only being NUMBER_TOKEN base power it has been through some changes though in gen NUMBER_TOKEN it was changed to actually removing the item rather than leaving it there and removing its effects and in gen NUMBER_TOKEN it was boosted to NUMBER_TOKEN power and getting a NUMBER_TOKEN power boost when it successfully knocks an item off that was a huge buff for the move it went from never being used to being widely used there were also quite a lot of new dark type pokemon added the new fully evolved ones were mighty anna shift tree cebli sharpedo cacturne crawdant and absol none of these pokemon end up being exceptionally impressive pokemon but sablai is notable because it had the quirk of not having any weaknesses since dark and ghosts resist each other's weaknesses this didn't matter a whole lot for sable though since its base stat total is so very bad the new dark type specialist is the elite four member sydney don't know gym later though then came gen NUMBER_TOKEN bringing along with it the physical special split and the dark type had something very weird happen most types had at least one attack changed from physical to special or from special to physical then there were two types fighting in psychic that had none of their moves change every fighting attack was physical and stayed physical and every psychic attack was special and stayed special but then the dark type and is the only type to do this had it literally every attack switch fight crunch faint attack pursuit thief and knockoff were all special attacks before the split then all of them became physical attacks after the split and i say this makes so much more sense all of those moves have to do with physical contact like how was bite ever a special move actually fun fact about bite it is the only attack to ever change categories twice it was a physical normal move in gen NUMBER_TOKEN a special dark move in gens NUMBER_TOKEN and NUMBER_TOKEN and then a physical dark move from gen NUMBER_TOKEN onward this crazy switch meant that overnight
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