Frostweaver
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*brings this back on topic*
Blah... forgot all those space junk... x.x; *arguments shattered*
Anything that I forgot to mention... just what are the "dark" type moves? They aren't "dark" or "evil", just "cheap." Imagine two guys fighting each other and one guy started to suddenly bite the other person... not the most honorable thing to do. Faint attack (I can go on and on about that one, how it's suppose to be feint attack like the TCG but another day) is either a sneak attack, or if it's suppose to be feint attack, then faking out a move and then suddenly attack the opponent with another attack to catch someone off guard... again, not the most honorable thing to do and some considers such action as "cheap." Chasing a lost fighter is also not very heroic, if you compare that to bushido and those japanese stuff... I never studied japanese culture in detail, but I do know that chasing a combattent who already forfeited is not the best thing to do ever... Dark moves are more like "cheap" moves, so... why are we drawing a parallel to "light?" You can say "well if dark moves are actually suppose to be 'cheap,' let's make a 'not-cheap' type!" No... that doesn't work either... because all the other attacks aren't "cheap" in the sense already... well maybe except water spouting Kyogres.
And after thinking about this a little further, I think that rock type should be kept now. A type should be created not because "sounds cool enough to me!" A type is created because...
a) you need something to start with
b) balance of metagame (ex: creation of dark types, to kill psychics)
c) there's too much things in a type already... you need to creat a new type to seperate them so it's not too crowded (ex: ice and water... they're the same thing just in different form: one is solid and the other is liquid. Originally, they should be the same type going under a unified title of either water or ice... however, there's tons of moves for water/ice type then, and there will be too many Pokemon with that element. With so many Pokemon with the same type, then even more Pokemon will become a NU member because someone with the exact same properties/elements will do the job better... so that's why they split up water/ice into 2 different elements... this way, some trainers will consider using Pokemon like Lapras even if Vaporeon is created, because Lapras has the extra ice element while Vaporeon is pure water. The different elements may affect the team.)
Sound type is really the only good suggestions so far... there is already an overflow of normal type Pokemon, and there's tons of moves in the normal type... the new element will create some much needed diversity so that some formerly normal type Pokemon won't be ignored anymore (there's tons of normal type Pokemon overshadowing one another... like how Wigglytuff is barely any different than Clefable... however, with the creation of sound element and changing Wigglytuff to a sound type, then both of those Pokemon maybe used, instead of just "either one or the other"). That's why sound type is a good suggestion...
and btw, I'm only mod over Pokemon RS and Pokemon strategy, so I can't close stuff here even if I want to.
*hoped the above made sense*
Blah... forgot all those space junk... x.x; *arguments shattered*
Anything that I forgot to mention... just what are the "dark" type moves? They aren't "dark" or "evil", just "cheap." Imagine two guys fighting each other and one guy started to suddenly bite the other person... not the most honorable thing to do. Faint attack (I can go on and on about that one, how it's suppose to be feint attack like the TCG but another day) is either a sneak attack, or if it's suppose to be feint attack, then faking out a move and then suddenly attack the opponent with another attack to catch someone off guard... again, not the most honorable thing to do and some considers such action as "cheap." Chasing a lost fighter is also not very heroic, if you compare that to bushido and those japanese stuff... I never studied japanese culture in detail, but I do know that chasing a combattent who already forfeited is not the best thing to do ever... Dark moves are more like "cheap" moves, so... why are we drawing a parallel to "light?" You can say "well if dark moves are actually suppose to be 'cheap,' let's make a 'not-cheap' type!" No... that doesn't work either... because all the other attacks aren't "cheap" in the sense already... well maybe except water spouting Kyogres.
And after thinking about this a little further, I think that rock type should be kept now. A type should be created not because "sounds cool enough to me!" A type is created because...
a) you need something to start with
b) balance of metagame (ex: creation of dark types, to kill psychics)
c) there's too much things in a type already... you need to creat a new type to seperate them so it's not too crowded (ex: ice and water... they're the same thing just in different form: one is solid and the other is liquid. Originally, they should be the same type going under a unified title of either water or ice... however, there's tons of moves for water/ice type then, and there will be too many Pokemon with that element. With so many Pokemon with the same type, then even more Pokemon will become a NU member because someone with the exact same properties/elements will do the job better... so that's why they split up water/ice into 2 different elements... this way, some trainers will consider using Pokemon like Lapras even if Vaporeon is created, because Lapras has the extra ice element while Vaporeon is pure water. The different elements may affect the team.)
Sound type is really the only good suggestions so far... there is already an overflow of normal type Pokemon, and there's tons of moves in the normal type... the new element will create some much needed diversity so that some formerly normal type Pokemon won't be ignored anymore (there's tons of normal type Pokemon overshadowing one another... like how Wigglytuff is barely any different than Clefable... however, with the creation of sound element and changing Wigglytuff to a sound type, then both of those Pokemon maybe used, instead of just "either one or the other"). That's why sound type is a good suggestion...
and btw, I'm only mod over Pokemon RS and Pokemon strategy, so I can't close stuff here even if I want to.
*hoped the above made sense*
