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Kim62

Hello
I had a thread before where I asked these questions but they were with a bunch of other questions in a small paragraph so most people didn't read it. So here they are again:

Why is there a pokemon that is a grass/psychic type while there are other pokemon who are psychic/grass types? Why is one pokemon have first type grass and second type psychic while other pokemon have it the other way around? I know it doesn't make much of a difference but if it doesn't make a difference then why did they do that?
Maybe a attack uses it to it's advantage. Although, I've never seen a attack that depends on what the first or second type is.

And one more thing, why does no one ever listen to my theories? Ok that was a bad one, because technically your listening to it right now (er, reading). But still, every one keep coming up with the same theories that have been come up with before time and time again and they have such obvious flaws.

In any case that's all I wanted to say. Boy, I hope that wasn't too long for yeah ;).

What kind of person comes up with the idea to make the whole world water? I mean who gets that crazy. I mean waters good and all but the whole world covered in water? Then, another person some how comes up with a even more crazy idea to make whole world land! That's a even more insane idea then the water idea! I mean how could we live in ether conditions?
If the world was all land there would be no water and every one would probabley die with in a year (at the maximum) and the world was all water wouldn't that mean all the fresh water would become salt water since there is nothing dividing the two bodies? Do you know how many plants, animals and pokemon would die if that happened? About as many would die if the world was all land.

What's worse is that they actually got people to follow them in this quest. Was this just about groudon and kyogre? Did they both do all of them for mythical pokemon that they never meet before? If so, that's a pretty dumb idea. I mean what if some one wanted to destroy all the land and water because of rayquaza? That would be pretty styupid on so many levels.

One more thing to add, they both had a goal to ether make the world all land or all water right? Well, why then did get so shocked when they released the pokemon? I mean, YOU GO THROUGH ALL THAT TROUBLE AND THEN YOU DECIDE THAT IT WAS A BAD IDEA!!!!! JUST THEN! THEN! WHEN YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING TO STOP IT YOU DECIDE IT WAS A BAD IDEA!!!
In any case both goals were stupid because even if the covered the world in water the core would still be rock because I'm pretty sure a world can't have a water core, and the world already is mostly has land any how because under the water there's ground.

So basically what I'm asking is, what was nintendo (or gamefreak or who ever came up with this idea) thinking?!!!
 
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Don't worry. Anyone who thinks thats too long must have ADD ;)

I honestly don't think theres a reason they do that with the typing. It's just like that.

Also, I'm not sure what you mean about listening to your theories, cuz ya didn't actually list any 0_o
 
I assume you're talking about Celebi and the Exeggcute line? Well, first of all, the Pokemon's first type is usually it's most characteristic one.

We'll use Corsola and Kabutops for example. All fossil Pokemon are part Rock-type (since they're usually revived from rocks, or maybe they're just really old), and that's characteristic of all of them. Fossil Pokemon always have Rock type as their first type. So Kabutops is a Rock/Water type. When you think Corsola, you think Water-type. It's also a Rock-type, but it's not a fossil Pokemon, it's based on coral instead. So Rock-type goes second there.

The Exeggcute line is mostly based on Plants (and...eggs) that have psychic abilities, thus, Grass/Psychic. Celebi is some sort of weird pixie thing, so its Psychic thing comes first, and for some reason it has Grass-type characteristics, so that comes second instead.

Meh, those are bad examples, but hopefully you get the gist. There's no other purpose besides that.

Also, at least you don't have "theoris." And it's also good that you're not begging and pleading for attention. A lot of people are just quick to see flaws in theories or really just don't care, I guess.

EDIT: Thanks to you, I realized that Relicanth is part Rock-type as well. So, hooray.
 
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-BJ- said:
I assume you're talking about Celebi and the Exeggcute line? Well, first of all, the Pokemon's first type is usually it's most characteristic one.

We'll use Corsola and Kabutops for example. All fossil Pokemon are part Rock-type (since they're usually revived from rocks, or maybe they're just really old), and that's characteristic of all of them. Fossil Pokemon always have Rock type as their first type. So Kabutops is a Rock/Water type. When you think Corsola, you think Water-type. It's also a Rock-type, but it's not a fossil Pokemon, it's based on coral instead. So Rock-type goes second there.

The Exeggcute line is mostly based on Plants (and...eggs) that have psychic abilities, thus, Grass/Psychic. Celebi is some sort of weird pixie thing, so its Psychic thing comes first, and for some reason it has Grass-type characteristics, so that comes second instead.

Meh, those are bad examples, but hopefully you get the gist. There's no other purpose besides that.

Also, at least you don't have "theoris." And it's also good that you're not begging and pleading for attention. A lot of people are just quick to see flaws in theories or really just don't care, I guess.

EDIT: Thanks to you, I realized that Relicanth is part Rock-type as well. So, hooray.
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thats exactly the way i would describe it but it doesnt make any difference that i know of as far as attacks go
 
BJ described it best. I always thought that in those instances the first type was the most dominant element in the Pokemon's powerhouse. But characteristics makes more sense. I used to dismiss the ordering as interchangeable arrangements. Guess it really matters, now.
 
i dont really know i think the first one is the one the pokemons characteristics are most like.
 
-BJ- said:
I assume you're talking about Celebi and the Exeggcute line? Well, first of all, the Pokemon's first type is usually it's most characteristic one.

We'll use Corsola and Kabutops for example. All fossil Pokemon are part Rock-type (since they're usually revived from rocks, or maybe they're just really old), and that's characteristic of all of them. Fossil Pokemon always have Rock type as their first type. So Kabutops is a Rock/Water type. When you think Corsola, you think Water-type. It's also a Rock-type, but it's not a fossil Pokemon, it's based on coral instead. So Rock-type goes second there.

The Exeggcute line is mostly based on Plants (and...eggs) that have psychic abilities, thus, Grass/Psychic. Celebi is some sort of weird pixie thing, so its Psychic thing comes first, and for some reason it has Grass-type characteristics, so that comes second instead.

Meh, those are bad examples, but hopefully you get the gist. There's no other purpose besides that.

Also, at least you don't have "theoris." And it's also good that you're not begging and pleading for attention. A lot of people are just quick to see flaws in theories or really just don't care, I guess.

EDIT: Thanks to you, I realized that Relicanth is part Rock-type as well. So, hooray.
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But then there are those less obvious ones (and rather contradictory as well).

Take Golem and Rhyperior for example. Golem is Rock/Ground, and Rhyperior is Ground/Rock. How is Rhyperior more Ground than Rock?
 
Does the first type even mater though in a dual type? If so then you would have an arguement. But from my understanding it doesnt matter what order the types are in. Sorry if i am being a bit pessemistic :-)
 
The dual type things is just down to which is the primary type, and which is the secondary type. The most common example is the Golem/Rhydon one, which had been around for more than a decade. Rhydon's first type is Ground, because it's more of a Ground-type than a Rock-type, and Golem is more of a Rock-type, so it's Rock/Ground.

It makes no difference in battles though.
 
I think the type that comes first is the type its mostly based on if you know what I mean. Eg. Bulbasaur is a grass/poison because its mostly grass more than it is poison. Okay bad way of explaining it...
 
Or maybe based on their looks? It doesnt explain why zubat line's first type is poison though.
 
^And my question is (sorry if I kinda ruin this thread), why cant flying be pure type?
 
^Oh. I dunno actually. Maybe the designers see the Flying-type as an extra to a Pokemon. As in, maybe, in their mind, the Flying-type is nothing on it's own, or maybe when they design a Pokemon, they design it, then randomly choose 10 to give wings to.

To be fair though, I can't imagine what a pure Flying-type Pokemon would look like. Maybe a pair of wings?
 
Cutty Flam said:
^And my question is (sorry if I kinda ruin this thread), why cant flying be pure type?
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I think a better way to say it is that there are no first type flying pokemon but whatever floats your boat.

I think it's like one of those unwriting rules like no second type normal pokemon, no pokemon can be ??? typed or why the starter only pokemon (meaning excluding pikachu and such) are always grass, fire and water.
 

To be fair though, I can't imagine what a pure Flying-type Pokemon would look like. Maybe a pair of wings?
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^Would look like a bird of course (ppl will associate it like that directly). Pure flying type cant be that harder to imagine/create than other pure type pokemons, normal type for instance.

Why normal-type can stand of its own while flying cant?

The game designers are a bit unfair.
 
SHUCKLE MAN said:
^Oh. I dunno actually. Maybe the designers see the Flying-type as an extra to a Pokemon. As in, maybe, in their mind, the Flying-type is nothing on it's own, or maybe when they design a Pokemon, they design it, then randomly choose 10 to give wings to.

To be fair though, I can't imagine what a pure Flying-type Pokemon would look like. Maybe a pair of wings?
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Simple. A bird that is in no way normal. Perhaps not simple...

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^Would look like a bird of course (ppl will associate it like that directly). Pure flying type cant be that harder to imagine/create than other pure type pokemons, normal type for instance.

Why normal-type can stand of its own while flying cant?

The game designers are a bit unfair.
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Maybe it is. Castform is an excellent example on what could have been a Flying-type, but they gave it Normal-type anyway for some unknown reason. In fact, perhaps Castform should be changed to Flying-type but I guess its a little too late.
 
Cutty Flam said:
^Would look like a bird of course (ppl will associate it like that directly). Pure flying type cant be that harder to imagine/create than other pure type pokemons, normal type for instance.

Why normal-type can stand of its own while flying cant?

The game designers are a bit unfair.
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Well, pure normal-types are either pink round things (Blissey, Clefable, Wigglytuff, Ditto) or closely related to wild-life animals (Raticate, Linoone, Kangaskhan, Eevee, Furret, Tauros, Miltank, etc.) Part normal-types, like Pidgeot, Girafarig and Bibarel are also closely related to wild-life animals. Therefore, if we had a simple bird Pokemon, it would be closely related to a wild-life animal, and would therefore be Normal-type too.

And remember the Bird-type from RBY? I'm guessing if they kept that in (it was programmed into the game, but no non-glitch Pokemon had that type) we could have pure Bird-types, if they were literally basically birds (of course, it would look stupid for the likes of Gyarados to be part Bird-type, and degrading for Salamence).

To be honest, a couple of years ago, when Chatot (known then as Perap or Perrappu I think) was supposedly confirmed to be pure Flying-type, I found it easy to believe. http://serebii.net/archive/March-2006.shtml Check the entry for Monday 13th March.
 
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and again no one is listening to me, what a shock -_-

In any case I think it's stupid to think that there is no pure flying type because it would just be a pair of wings.
It's not called Wing Type it's called FLYING TYPE!!!

Plus you are all, GETTING OFF TOPIC!!!!!
 
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Okay, back to Earth...

The first type is the Pokemon's main type, and the second type is the Pokemon's secondary type EXCEPT for Normal, which, if one of the types, always has to be the first type, and Flying, which, if one of the types, always has to be the secondary type. This has no effect on a Pokemon's battling capabilities.
 
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