5th February 2003, 2:04 PM
Hey big guy, you should actually get around to playing Pokémon some time if you want important status effects. Playing the main game isn't challenging at all, since all you need is strength for pretty much every foe, but when it comes to competing in multiplayer, you BETTER have some monsters with some decent status altering moves! Paralysis is VERY important in many movesets, for it slows the enemy down by a large amount, and of course randomly causes them to freeze up for a turn. Poisoning is also a very important thing in many movesets. Ones that boost your own stats are also super important, like whole parties of monsters with baton pass on each one and some stat boosting abilities, resulting (if the first few survive enough to baton pass) in a super strong monster at the end of the chain with all sorts of attack moves.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)