Why does Magby's better attacking stat change upon evolving?

Magby starts out with 75/70 attacking stats. Magmar has 95/100. Magmortar has 95/125. Why does the line start out with a larger Attack stat, then swap to Special Attack?

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I don’t know about magmar but it could be cause magmortar has a cannon which it shoots things outta so it makes more sense I guesscommented 5 hours ago by ~BulbaBruh™~

Maybe as a Magby, out of it’s five egg moves, four of them are Physical moves. But because Magmortar’s movepool itself has more Special than Physical moves, it switches to Special.Also, Magmar came out in gen 1, which happens that all Fire type moves will be special.Magby came out in gen 2, with a contrast of a physical mon(or is it just me). Magmortar came out in gen 4 with a contrast of a special mon. Also, since Magmar at first, had higher special attack, Game Freak made it that it would be easy to trade over your old Magmar from gen 1 or 2 to gen 4 and evolve it without changing it’s Physical > Special or Special > Physical setsMagby learns more Physical moves than Special moves by transfer from another generationcommented 2 hours ago by ★~ProfDelldell~★

A box packed with a tremendous amount of magma energy. It’s loved by a certain Pokémon.

The box seems to have a hole on it. Like how Magmortar’s blaster is like.Magmortar’s Pokédex entry also says:

It blasts fireballs of over 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit out of its arms. Its breath also sears and sizzles.

That means it also inherited the lava from the Magmarizer so now it is special.Or it could just beGame Freak logicI’ve hoped I’ve helped!