What are the causes or ideas of certain Types to be weak to each other? Some are obvious such as:
Fire<<<Water Water naturally takes out fire
And some take a little bit of thinking such as:
Fighting<<<Psyhcic Power of thinking over physicall movements...
And some are guesses:
Flying<<<Rock Throwing rocks at birds(?)
Perhaps we could compile a list of some kind on this?
Psychic vs. Fighting was something along the brain over brawn reasons, I guess. Rocks are generally too heavy for the flying Pokemon to fly with, so they'd stay grounded, thus having a weakness to them.
Well, Fire beats Grass because it burns it...and I guess Grass beats Water because it absorbs the water or something?
Water beats Rock probably based on erosion in real life.
Flying probably beats Fighting because Fighting types need to be close to their opponent but Flying can...fly out of the way?!? :(
Grass and most plants need water to grow, so it would actually be beneficial for them to take water in. And that's exactly why Rock is weak against water and why fighting is weak against flying.
the ones that puzzle me most are the various relationships of bug pokemon. weak to flying and fire i can understand, but why rock? and why some of the resistances/effectivenesses? what makes bugs so special that they can own psychic pokemon?
Because rocks can squish bugs?
One that I don't get is how steel beats ice. How is ice special against steel?
Guessing at the moment, but I guess its somewhere along the lines of how steel is a hard solid while ice is easily broken. Steel is harder than ice so it can crack it, I guess?
Why does grass beat rock? 10 years and I still don't know why, I just accepted it.
I'm also slightly lost on everything Ice does.
Grass grows out of the ground, where as rocks are made out of hardened dirt. And Grass would be supereffective because it uses dirt to its advantage to grow, I guess. :|
Similar to water, plants can erode through rock in many different ways, i.e, breaking them with their roots, or eroding them with acids they produce. /geology lesson.
I've always thought that if water is weak to electric, than surely steel should be weak to electric as well. I have no idea why Dark > Psychic, why Bug is > Psychic, why Ice > Dragon, or why Ground > Steel. There are others, but I can't think of them right now.
Psychic weak against dark was plainly to patch up the Psychic type domination before the GSC series. Realistically, I guess dark possess some sort of mysterious power that psychic cannot interpret or something?
Bug is strong agaisnt psychic because... well... I'm guessing psychic types are just afraid or something. I don't know. XD
Dragon is weak against ice because of the same reason that flying is weak against ice. They can't fly or do any other things that they need to do when they're frozen.
Ground is strong against Steel because for the reason that Steel, rock, and others were formed out of earth. Rock and steel are just dirt that have gone under some transformation, and I guess the theory that they're weak to what they formed out of comes into effect here.
