I HATE Poison, with a freaking passion. Burns don't prevent attacking, and don't do all that much damage. I mean there's no "[insert Pokemon name] was badly burned", at least I don't think there is? Maybe I'm just lucky, but I can almost always attack when my Pokemon are Paralyzed, it stops me from attacking so little that I don't even consider it an annoyance. Confusion is pretty annoying because it prevents attacks from connecting and makes my Pokemon take damage, but it doesn't happen enough for me to hate it. Poison though, its different. You can still attack while poisoned, so there's that hope that you can still win the battle despite the fact that your Pokemon are loosing HP. There's Toxic Poison too, which gives you that same hope, then takes it away because your Pokemon start loosing lots of HP. Finally, Poison just seems so messed up. I mean it sounds worse then "[insert Pokemon name] was Burned/Confused" and the screen does that little flicker thing, which is like the game basically saying "hurry, hurry! You're Pokemon will faint soon, hurry!"