What Pokemon gets drastically changed if you return to the way moves worked in 3rd gen

[PsyKiss]

Which Pokemon would change the most if you changed all the moves to how they worked in Gen III, with there being a Physical and Special divide based on types and not the individual move.

Leafeon is kind of ruined as far as stab goes, as well as any of the special ice types introduced. Your thoughts?

 

[Pendraflare]

Some of the Dragon-types that are really strong and used stuff like Dragon Dance and Outrage would have been affected pretty badly like this, like Garchomp and Dragonite. Although at the same time, Hydreigon could be one to fire off Outrage running off that same stat.

 

[Bounsweet]

Absol stands out, I think. Dark was purely Special so gg physically-oriented Absol. Plus, Absol has a much more broad movepool than it did way back when.

 

[Nah]

First one I can think of is Alakazam. Fire Punch, Ice Punch, and Thunder Punch were all special moves under the old physical/special split. Having those gave it a lot of extra coverage.

Then there's Zekrom. Electric and Dragon were both special types before gen 4, but Zekrom is a physically inclined poke. And with its shallow movepool, the old physical/special split would've really sucked for it.

 

[Hiatus]

I believe Garchomp would have been affected negatively here if the split hadn't occurred.

Garchomp's move-pool seems to be filled with physical-based attacks, such as Earthquake, Stone Edge (it does have this move, doesn't it?), Dragon Claw, and so forth; since its typing is special-based, things likely would not have worked to its advantage. Currently, this Pokémon seems to be utilized a lot in terms of competitive and whatnot; it probably wouldn't have been as popular if gen-three mechanics were still active.

Due to similar reasons, I also wouldn't imagine Flygon to be as successful, either, and various other dragon-types such as Charizard X, Dragonite (this could be played specially, but its physical side would likely have been nonexistent), and so forth.

 

[elife]

Normal, Water and Fairy types would be the most benefitted,as the weaknesses would fall only in Physical and Special types. Pokemon like Snorlax, Sylveon or Kyogre would be more difficult to defeat. There are exceptions to this, being Swampert and Porygon Z the first ones that I can think of.

The other one would be Rayquaza. In its Mega form it would be invincible, literally

 

[FSNW5yiFrXVXqv]

Could only think of one Pokemon: Flareon

"Embracing the suck since the 90's"

 

[Bellsprout]

lol I was thinking Flareon too.

Honestly it got shafted way back then and pretty much is still shafted now. So not much of a difference for it.

Every physical water type ever would be missing out

 

[Pendraflare]

lol I was thinking Flareon too.

Honestly it got shafted way back then and pretty much is still shafted now. So not much of a difference for it.

Every physical water type ever would be missing out

Wow, that's one I didn't think to mention *cough Gyarados cough*.

For that matter, Metagross would be without a physical Psychic-type STAB, as well as Pursuit and the punches not getting the buff as well. As well as that, Lucario wouldn't be able to use its good Special Attack as well without Aura Sphere (even though special Lucario isn't as prominent as physical).

 

[PsyKiss]

The sad part is that half of these Pokemon that are getting mentioned are from gen 3 and below. At least some of them had decent special attack so you could give them surf or something and it wouldnt be the worse (in game at least)