My theory on why Pokemon types are weak to each other Page 2

Started by Futachimaru November 29th, 2010 12:44 PM
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Most of them are commonsense...

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That is true,, I was trying to explain it all...
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I've always thought the same thing. When explaining Pokemon types to my girlfriend, I had to explain what some types are weak to others. For the most part, she understood them with some mnemonics I made:

Fire burn grass, bugs, and melts ice
Grass catches water, rock, is above the ground
Water puts out fire, dampens ground, and erodes rock
Rock crushes bug Pokemon, puts out fire, knocks birds (flying) out of the sky, and shatters ice
Electric zaps through water and clips birds out of the sky, but CAN'T go into the ground
Ice, in the colder months, freezes the grass and ground. Birds' (flying) wings become stiff when too cold, and if we think of Dragons as cold-blooded creatures (reptiles?), then the ice is definitely not their friend.
Fighting types (I may be biased because I'm a Martial Artist), crush 'normal' Pokemon, like how trained fighters defeat non-trained (normal) people. We train to crush ice and rock for breaking demonstrations and conditioning, and we don't rely on our eyes only, as we can easily see in the dark. I don't know why fighters are good against steel though. Beats the hell outta me.
Poison essentially is bad for grass, as it results in dead grass quick
Ground puts out fire, and electricity can't go through the earth. There's nothing to travel through for poison, and rocks are constantly covered up deep under ground. But why steel again?
Flying is easy. Grass and bug are closely related: they both involve life that birds feed on. Fighting types generally like to stay close to the Earth, their 'zone' if you will, and the sky is not always their friend.
Psychic is an interesting one. A psychic fighter relies on the limitless power of their mind, not their body. Thus, they defeat fighters. Through mind over matter, they eliminate poison. Now here's an interesting thing: Psychic refers to the mind, and Psychic Pokemon are weak against three somewhat random things: Ghost, Dark, and BUG. However, these are the three biggest phobia.
Bugs eat grass, scare psychics, and aren't afraid of the dark :P
Ghost Pokemon scare Psychics AND other Ghost
Dragons are so strong that, aside from Ice, only dragons hurt dragons.

Dark and Steel are weird, they don't even really fit into something that would fit an Animal, in my opinion.

Ah well.
Exactly what I was going post.

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There are actually a few exceptions to the rule, as not all Pokémon of the same type share the same characteristics.

Unlike most normal types, Regigigas and the Porygon line have traits on them much similar to minerals then they do to organic substances, yet as neither of them are particularly rock-like or metallic, they are given a normal typing so they are still effected by Fighting attacks the same way a conventional mineral based Pokémon, such as Magnemite would be. The later can also change its type (and abilities) at will, as Porygon are made out of a relatively simplistic enough programing to change the texture and shape of their bodies in order to mimic other Pokémon and their types, yet are still rigid enough in structure that they cannot completely change their coding in order to assume the form of a separate Pokémon on a molecular scale the way Mew or Ditto could.

Cohagrigus, who is stated in the Pokédex to be made out of a combination of gold (a metal) and "spirit" is not considered a Steel type because gold does not have the same properties that the metals most steel types are made up of do, Desukan is simply stated to be ghost type, but is still referred to as being mineral based (though, as gold is an extremely conductive metal in real life, one would think that Electric attacks would be super-effective to it in the same way they are to water).

Lucario, a Pokémon who contains very little metal relative to most steel types is considered such because it presumably has incredibly dense skin compared to other fighting Pokémon, which makes it resistant to conventional attacks, yet also leaves it on the brittle side, allowing Fighting attacks to beat it in much the same way they could a normal type.
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I have a theory on why Dark is super effective to Ghost.

Dark= Darkness(obviously)=Death
Ghost=The undead or living dead, whatever they're all DEAD.
Ghosts are scared of death, reason being, death brings them back to the netherworld therefore Dark is super effective against ghosts, cos if you think about it, if you're a Ghost, you wouldn't wanna go back to where you came from, which is if you haven't guessed, Hell. -.-

Theory for Ground super-effective to Steel:

Steel came from the ground as an ore that was polished. Think of the earth as a human body and the steel is the human heart. Steel is a separate body from the earth, same with the heart from the other organs. Steel came from the earth, like the heart is connected to the body. So if you cut/slash/crush/batter etc your own heart, it will obviously die. Same thing for when earth rumbles or quakes, steel is affected.

I think, IMO, it's really common sense that Normal and Ghost are ineffective. Ignore whatever you have heard from ghost stories and horror movies. Remember and understand this:HUMANS, no matter how clever, powerful and stupid they are, can NEVER ever come into physical contact with GHOSTS or any paranormal beings. That's why Normal and Ghost are ineffective opposites.