"Pokémon Types Make Perfect Sense; You All Just Don’t Understand Them"

It must be at least twice a week that I’m greeted with the same posts by the Pokémon community:“These Pokémon types make NO SENSE!” with an accompanying image of Grapploct and/or Crabrawler.I’m here to put on my best nerd glasses, push them up, and say, UM, ACTUALLY, Pokémon types for the most part make perfect sense if you actually give them some thought.Let’s start with Crabrawler.People always say it’s a crab, and it’s blue, so it should be a Water-type. It even learns some Water-type moves. But they’re wrong.Crabrawler is a crab—a coconut crab, to be precise. Coconut crabs live on land, can’t breathe underwater, and actually drown if placed in water. GameFreak did their research, and this Pokémon makes perfect sense.While we’re on the Sun and Moon train, let’s make a stop with Fomantis and Lurantis.“Why is it not a Bug-type?”Maybe, that’s the entire point of the design. Praying mantises are bugs that look like plants. The entire gimmick of FOMANTIS (read: FAUX-MANTIS) is that it’s that same idea but flipped on its head. It’s a plant pretending to be a bug. The Bug-type makes no sense here because that’s the entire point.Still in Alola, let’s look at Nihilego, everyone’s favorite glass jellyfish.Rock/Poison and not Water-type. But it’s made of GLASS, which is heated up SAND, which is just TINY ROCKS. It’s made of rock and the entire story of Sun and Moon is about this glass jellyfish and it’s crazy neurotoxins, hence the Poison-type.Now let’s head on over to Galar. You think you’ve got me here with Grapploct, don’t you? It’s an octopus that lives in the water, and it learns several Water-type moves. Well, you’re still wrong.If Grapploct should be a Water-type, then Pikachu should be a Grass-type. Pikachu lives in the forest and eats berries after all. Maybe Pyroar should be a Ground or Flying-type because it breathes air and touches the ground and lives on land. I don’t think that every Pokémon that lives in water is also necessarily a water elemental.A Pokémon’s habitat usually informs its type, but if you start drawing lines like this, then most Pokémon types are wrong.Why does Lugia live in the sea if it’s a Psychic/Flying-type? Easy. It’s not from the sea. According to the Pokédex, its wings are so powerful that it lives in the sea where it can’t harm anyone. Notice that the lore and its signature move both inform you of the Flying-type.I’m not gonna get up here and say that every type combination makes sense. Stunfisk lives in the water despite that same water causing it immense pain when I use Hydro Pump on it.But GameFreak USUALLY knows what they’re doing.So to every ROM hack creator and content creator that thinks they’re “fixing” GameFreak’s mistakes by making something like Sudowoodo a Grass-type, maybe it’s not a mistake and you’re just missing the forest for the fake trees.Edit: Okay, everyone. Let me clarify because I’m replying to dozens of the same point being made.I’m not saying Lugia and Grapploct can’t be Water-type. I’m not saying those types wouldn’t work on them. That was never my point.There are plenty of Pokémon that could benefit from other types. Charizard could be a Dragon-type, but I’m okay with that because Fire/Flying still works.My issue with Stunfisk is that its typing directly contradicts its ability to breathe water and mud—things that hurt it and make it die.So, yes. Lugia could be Water. Psychic/Flying still WORKS, though.That’s on me for how I explained, I guess. via /r/pokemon https://ift.tt/xAXNJvL