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Hopefully, we could see a change in Lugia's abilities and movesets in Soul Silver...

Lapras isn't, and it used telepathy during one of the Santa episodes.
Generally speaking, Pokémons who uses telpepathy are Phychic Pokémons.
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Well, I agree that Lugia should be part Water and Flying type and I really don't understand why did they make Lugia into a part Psychic and Flying type and besides Water is the opposite of Fire and Ho-Oh is a Fire/Flying type. So, I really think that Lugia should be part Water and Flying type.


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Well, I agree that Lugia should be part Water and Flying type and I really don't understand why did they make Lugia into a part Psychic and Flying type and besides Water is the opposite of Fire and Ho-Oh is a Fire/Flying type. So, I really think that Lugia should be part Water and Flying type.
If Lugia was Water/Flying, it would probably be one-sided. Water/Flying > Fire/Flying.

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For everyone who commented that the birds and Kyogre and Groudon are also able to control the weather without being psychic-types (that would be a LOT of quoting if I quoted, so I'll make this general. XD), I have to say this.


Groudon and Kyogre control weather that corresponds with their typings. Groudon creates a drought and Kyogre makes it rain.

The legendary birds are the same. Zapdos controls electricity and thunderstorms, Articuno controls blizzards, and Moltres seems to bring about spring.


(Citations: The Pokédex, Source)

Spoiler:
Zapdos DPPt:

A legendary Pokémon that is said to live inside thunder clouds. It can freely control thunder.


Articuno DPPt:

A legendary bird Pokémon. It can create blizzards by freezing moisture in the air.


Moltres DPPt:

One of the legendary bird Pokémon. It is said that spring will soon arrive if Moltres shows itself.


Thusly, they don't NEED to be psychic. Why? Because they only control weather that corresponds with their type.

Lugia seems to be able to control unspecific types of weather. Also, since Kyogre was created, there's no need for Lugia to be a Water-type.
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I agree with flash.
When I first saw ralts and it's evos I thought they were grass types because they were green.
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You guys do realise he didn't always live around water right?
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Lugia mostly lives around water. It's very rare to see a Lugia out of the water due to its destructive powers:

Lugia is so powerful even a light fluttering of its wings can blow apart houses. As a result, it chooses to live out of sight deep under the sea.
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Before he lived underwater he lived in the brass tower.
You really need to read storylines.
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Ho-oh lived in the Tin Tower.
Lugia lived in the Brass Tower.
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He just made a point on your side, actually. Lugia wasn't always the guardian of the sea. Heck, it didn't even live anywhere near the water until the Brass Tower burned down, so why would it be a Water-type? I doubt anyone would be saying that Lugia should be part Water if it still lived on the Brass Tower.
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But I never said it should be a Water-type. . O.o I was all for it being a Psychic-type.

EDIT: Or is that what ya meant? XD If so, what's the point of bringing that up?
I wasn't arguing against you in my last post, I was arguing on your side, XD. And that's exactly what coolkatkim22 was saying--both of us were making points against Lugia being part Water-type, which is what you've been doing all along, isn't it?

Err. . Moltres has a double weakness to Rock-types. . So, yeah.
Not to mention Ho-oh itself. Oh, and Celebi has a x4 weakness to Bug, although that's a little less likely to be taken advantage of.

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i'm gonna go out on a whim here and say.

Lugia was made psychic/flying to give ho-oh a chance.

I mean if it was Water/flying that would give its water moves stab. meaning ho-oh would be useless against it.

Then attach rain dance and mystic water? and what do you have. an almost unstoppable lugia? Exactly
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You realize that if Lugia was truly the POLAR opposite of Ho-oh, then he should be Ice/Flying?

Although I see your reasoning, I believe Lugia was a Psychic/Flying is sensible enough.

LIke the above poster, Lugia's typing was most likely made because of the fact that he/she would be near unstoppable if made differently. Its like gyarados. He would be overpowered if he was Dragon/Water. The main and pretty much only weakness of Gyarados competitively is Electric attacks, but if he were made Dragon, that weakness would disappear, thus making him ridiculously powerful.

And I end my arguement.
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