Gaiaknight
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Gengar doesnt need anymore buffs Mega Gengar is already a wreaking ball to make him even more powerful would be insane.
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Pokemon that are the wrong type
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Gengar doesnt need anymore buffs Mega Gengar is already a wreaking ball to make him even more powerful would be insane.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Yeah but it's not like you can't belong in two egg groups. They're the only breedable Dragon types who aren't in Dragon egg groups.
Hilariously enough Gardevoir is Amorphous (i.e. egg group of slimes and ghosts) than human-shape.
Gonzo The Great
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Gardevoir X Muk is canon OTP
Entryhazard
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iN1njaCPFC
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Gyarados is water flying because of its lore.
Its based on the japanese folktale where a koi carp (Magikarp) is strong enough to swim up waterfalls to a dragon gate (I think) It will transform into a flying dragon.
Its based on the japanese folktale where a koi carp (Magikarp) is strong enough to swim up waterfalls to a dragon gate (I think) It will transform into a flying dragon.
Boss Doggie
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Which is referenced by the carp flyers which Gyarados is based on.
SerTapTap
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Yeah Gengar is a bit weird, I think a lot of gen 1 pokemon kinda got the shaft due to weird decisions, but Gengar's typing is one of the few issues that remain (other issues such as Psychic being OP, bug being complete and utter garbage and Dragon not even having attacks are fixed).
I always thought Giraffarig should be half Dark type though. I mean look at it's butt. And it knows Crunch. Please give me STAB for Crunch. At least we finally got psychic/dark through Inkay's line.
I'm sure this has been said but screw the Fairy Type retconning. Nerfing dragon was a laudable goal but I really don't agree with any other aspect of how Fairy was handled and I don't think Dark type needed another weakness either. They could at least be mutually supereffective.
I always thought Giraffarig should be half Dark type though. I mean look at it's butt. And it knows Crunch. Please give me STAB for Crunch. At least we finally got psychic/dark through Inkay's line.
I'm sure this has been said but screw the Fairy Type retconning. Nerfing dragon was a laudable goal but I really don't agree with any other aspect of how Fairy was handled and I don't think Dark type needed another weakness either. They could at least be mutually supereffective.
AlexMeloche
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I always thought Lapras was Ice/Psychic. That's what it should be goddamnit.
Junahu
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Azurill was a Normal pokemon in an evolutionary line of Water pokemon.
Then Gen 6 happened and they had the good sense to change its typing....
.... by tacking on Fairy.
In-game, I'm always stumbling over myself when I encounter Chimecho and assume it's a Psychic/Steel type. It's that metallic 'ching' cry that throws me off.
Then Gen 6 happened and they had the good sense to change its typing....
.... by tacking on Fairy.
In-game, I'm always stumbling over myself when I encounter Chimecho and assume it's a Psychic/Steel type. It's that metallic 'ching' cry that throws me off.
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Gyarados is water flying because of its lore.
Its based on the japanese folktale where a koi carp (Magikarp) is strong enough to swim up waterfalls to a dragon gate (I think) It will transform into a flying dragon.
This is a cool reference and all, but Gyarados can't actually fly or use any flying moves. The fact the story it is loosely based on features a flying dragon is meaningless at the point Gyarados can't fly. I mean, if the flying dragon backstory is so important, why is Gyarados not Dragon/Flying to begin with? Really, it was a pretty blatant mis-typing, Gen 1 has a lot of them.
Hot Coldman
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I think you're misinterpreting what Girafarig's design is meant to be. It's not a light/dark contrast, it's a normal/weird contrast. The front half is a mostly normal animal-like Pokemon, and the back half with the sentient tail gives away that it's got something else going on.
Besides, Normal/X typings are great. Glad we've been getting more of those lately.
Agreed, Bug type also got screwed as fairy resist them... for some reason.
Azurill being Normal/Fairy fits as its an odd little Pokémon that not only changes typing but also gender upon evolving.
Regulus Tera
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Gengar is op as fuck already.
Well it can learn Bounce
I never really got Shiftry being Grass/Dark, he always screamed Grass/Fighting to me
Shiftry is based on a tengu, and in earlier stories about them tengu were pretty evil.
Normal/Dragon sounds like an awesome Type
Funnily enough that Type would have STAB on a Majority of heavy-hitting Attacks
Boss Doggie
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Azurill is a moon rabbit.
Beyonce Beytwice
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Hoopa Unbound, too.
So how many of those origin stories on Bulbapedia are actually true? Because I've always been fascinated by them.
The Shadow Knight
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Balancing was likely a factor here, Fairy type Chansey and Blissey would be ridiculously strong.
Beyonce Beytwice
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Balancing is never a factor with Game Freak
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Depends. But that site is outdated as hell and some misinformation (i.e. Hawlucha's gender in the anime).
Like I said, moon rabbit.
SenorArdilla
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I know, right? Where's my plague doctor Pokemon, Game Freak?
Boss Doggie
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It is still a plague doctor. It still has the medical/support stuff plus being related to aromas. I never understood why people insist in part Poison - they're doctors! Medieval era sure but they do not harm even then. It's as dumb as Luxray being part Dark because it has dark fur.
It is a plague doctor PLUS a can can dancer pun! (Pink Flamingos)
See the semblance?
SenorArdilla
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That's because of the attractiveness of the typing. It trades 2x Poison weakness for 2x Psychic weakness and 2x Ground weakness. But you also get 2x resistance to Grass & Fairy as well as 4x resistance to Bug & Fighting.
Boss Doggie
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But let's save it for another mon, not Aromatisse. I honestly can't think of a fairy motif fitting in that.
We need an offensive variant of Steel/Fairy, but then again Steel/Fairy is essentially THE best defensive combo and Klefki is enjoying it.
Beyonce Beytwice
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Mega Mawile
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Wait, are people seriously miffed over Gengar being part Poison? The Poison sub-typing is like... more important than ever, haha. It givesGengart a resistance to Fairy (which is a big, big, big deal) and the ability to murder Fairy-types with Sludge Wave, along with a resistance to Grass and a quadruple resistance to Poison and Bug (the latter of which made it handy at taking powerful U-turns in a pinch). The only downside to having that poison subtyping is a weakness to Psychic, which... doesn''t even matter in practice. Gengar destroys most Psychic-types, and would have ordinarily lost to faster Psychic-types anyway (since they almost always carry Shadow Ball).
Ghost / Dark Gengar would be way, way, way worse.
Ghost / Dark Gengar would be way, way, way worse.