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Psychic-type Pokémon were at the center of a balance issue in the [[Generation I]] games.<ref> Sugimori, Ken ''"Psychic Pokémon seemed to dominate in the previous Pokémon game, so we needed to come up with new Pokémon and types to make Gold and Silver more balanced."'' Nintendo Power 134 (July 2000) p. 79 (retrieved August 16, 2010) </ref> The issue arose from the lack of an effective countermeasure against Psychic types caused by the absence of any powerful {{type|Bug}} moves (at the time the only weaknesses of Psychic types). Strengthening the gap was the fact that {{p|Beedrill|the only actual Bug-type Pokémon}} to know {{m|Pin Missile|the only potentially good Bug move}} was also part Poison-type, creating a vulnerability to Psychic moves, and that in the first-generation games, Ghost-type moves were not only ineffective against Psychic Pokémon, the only Ghost Pokémon at the time were part-Poison, also creating a vulnerability. | Psychic-type Pokémon were at the center of a balance issue in the [[Generation I]] games.<ref> Sugimori, Ken ''"Psychic Pokémon seemed to dominate in the previous Pokémon game, so we needed to come up with new Pokémon and types to make Gold and Silver more balanced."'' Nintendo Power 134 (July 2000) p. 79 (retrieved August 16, 2010) </ref> The issue arose from the lack of an effective countermeasure against Psychic types caused by the absence of any powerful {{type|Bug}} moves (at the time the only weaknesses of Psychic types). Strengthening the gap was the fact that {{p|Beedrill|the only actual Bug-type Pokémon}} to know {{m|Pin Missile|the only potentially good Bug move}} was also part Poison-type, creating a vulnerability to Psychic moves, and that in the first-generation games, Ghost-type moves were not only ineffective against Psychic Pokémon, the only Ghost Pokémon at the time were part-Poison, also creating a vulnerability, not to mention the fact that the {{m|Lick|only Ghost-type move}} that would be affected by type matchups at the time was exceedingly weak. | ||
The issue was rectified in later generations with the addition of {{t|Steel}} and {{t|Dark}} types, an added weakness to {{type|Ghost}} moves, and more powerful Bug- and Ghost-type moves. | The issue was rectified in later generations with the addition of {{t|Steel}} and {{t|Dark}} types, an added weakness to {{type|Ghost}} moves, and more powerful Bug- and Ghost-type moves. | ||