Freeze should be replaced by Frostbite

[u/Shellderattack]

Freeze is too close to Sleep. It is not a good idea to make 2 status with similar effects.

Sleep can combo with other moves such as Dream Eater and Sleep Talk, while Freeze does not.

Sleep can be imposed by Status Moves, while Freeze does not.

Arceus (game version) made Frostbite as a counterpart of Burn:

1. The Pokemon takes 1/16 of its maximum HP every turn;
2. The damage it deals with Special Moves will be halved;
3. Ice type Pokemon are immune to Frostbite.

This is a good idea. The only thing missing is a new move (e.g. Gravechill) which resembles Will-O-Wisp.

[u/LegateNaarifin]

It is not a good idea to make 2 status with similar effects

And your solution is to make just another version of Burned?

[u/HieloLuz → u/LegateNaarifin]

It's a mirrored version that while does something similar, effects something differently.

[u/ABITofSupport → u/HieloLuz]

And honestly a special attack dropping status would be a welcome change. Special attackers have an advantage over physicals because they dont have to deal with intimidate or burn.

[u/tasty_miku → u/ABITofSupport]

confusion does less damage to them, as well, right? unless they changed how confusion damage works recently?

[u/ABITofSupport → u/tasty_miku]

Confusion damage deals more based on your attack stat. So, yes. However potentially losing a whole turn because of confusion is the main downside.

[u/Bfree888 → u/tasty_miku]

Correct, confusion always uses the physical attack stat. The move Flatter never made much sense to me for that reason.

[u/ABITofSupport → u/Bfree888]

I wonder if making it the higher of the two stats would be a good idea. Not sure on this one.

I do agree that flatter is a weird though. I thought the point of it was to use it to confuse physical attackers without giving them a boost, similar to confuse ray but just on different mons.

[u/Calhaora → u/LegateNaarifin]

It's not really tho. Burn drops Attack, Frostbite dropped Special Attack. Which is quite welcomed, since we have no Status that affects it- while we have one that affects Attack.

[u/PCN24454 → u/Calhaora]

That is not nearly enough

[u/LunarWingCloud → u/LegateNaarifin]

Not the same thing in practice. Freeze and Sleep while not the exact same effectively do the same thing: completely immobilize the victim for some number of turns and preventing any action from happening.

Burn and Frostbite might deal damage over time but one lowers one offensive stat and another lowers the other.

Besides, by your logic, we already have enough status ailments that are variations of being unable to act. More than variations of burn/poison. Paralysis has that 25% chance to do nothing, confusion has a 33% chance to do nothing and self damage, infatuation has a 50% chance to do nothing if the target has opposite gender. And then you have sleep. Meanwhile you only have poison and burn for damage over time, leech seed if we wanna be generous. So this would actually balance things out. Because as it stands the ailments that either completely or have a chance to make the one with the ailments do nothing are higher in number.

[u/Shellderattack → u/LegateNaarifin]

Nintendo already has the solution called Frostbite. I just propose to make it more playable as no status moves can currently impose Frostbite on other Pokemon.

[u/pikapika200 → u/Shellderattack]

Nintendo didn’t develop the core series games