The game was never intended to be balanced (or at the very least they didn't try very hard)
Mewtwo was designed to be all powerful and psychics weren't OP (they were the best though)
Poison type really did limit a lot of pokemon, guys like Gengar and Venusaur would've seen a lot more usage.
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