WTF Pokemon. I mean, really?

[DarkRyter]

Bug being super effective against Psychic. Just why?

Psychics weaknesses are based around common fears. Ghosts, the Dark, Bugs.

Then why does Steel resist psychic?

Take some aluminum foil, right?

Now try to defeat it in an intellectual argument.

 

[chif-ii]

Y'know what the real mind f**k moment of Pokemon is? BUG BEATS PSYCHIC! Still can't wrap my head around it. I guess...maybe a mosquito could distract a telekinetic, but it seems really random. And how come Flying beats Fighting? Also, fighting verses steel. Yeah, you try punching a steel beam, see how that works out for you.

How is it that throwing a rock at a wild bull makes it easier to catch, rather than make it ram a horn in your chest?

You forget, it also makes that wild bull want to run away as well

The only thing that bothered me about the games was why people didn't flip out when you walked in their house in the middle of the night.

This happens in every RPG, it's not really exclusive to Pokemon.

The real question is why can't pokemon who should be able to naturally fly or swim unable to do so without an HM?

No, they can still fly and swim and stuff, but they don't know how to, say, fly up and then swoop down, or dive beneath an opponent and surprise them from below (speaking of which, how does Dive work if you're not near water?), or...send a wall of water towards your opponent by swimming? Yeah. Point is, they still can flap or splash around, they just haven't learned how to channel that instinct into something constructive.

 

[Atticus89]

Throughout the entire series, I've never seen one hospital for humans.
Where are all the hospitals? Sure Pokemon do all the fighting and heavy lifting, but surely humans eventually get hurt or sick somehow, where do they go?
Do the Centers treat humans too, or are they just shit outta luck whenever they get a broken arm?

There was a real hospital in an early episode of the show. Apparently only one doctor worked at that hospital in that city and had to request the help of the protagonists.

 

[Dragonpit]

Well, for starters, water not only causes erosion and weathering, it can cause moss and other plant-life to grow and maybe weaken rocks. (a bit of a stretch here, but it's true)

Have you ever seen a bug get lost or confused in the dark? Since they generally don't rely on their eyesight, but on other, more highly developed senses, they are capable of 'defeating' darkness.

I think it's called surf because it causes a wave. That's pretty self-explanatory after that.

You think a Hoot-Hoot is confusing? I'm still trying to figure out how a Dodrio can Fly, despite being described as a flightless bird. But then, this is where we get to suspend our disbelief, I think.

 

[TeeBs]

Shouldn't A fire attack on a Ice pokemon turn that pokemon into a water type, and shouldn't a Ice attack on a fire type pokemon turn into water, and why does Brock close his eyes.

 

[Double A]

Bug being super effective against Psychic. Just why?

Psychics weaknesses are based around common fears. Ghosts, the Dark, Bugs.

Then why does Steel resist psychic?

Take some aluminum foil, right?

Now try to defeat it in an intellectual argument.

Hahaha, fair enough.

 

[Weaver]

There are actually rock cutters that use highly pressured jets of water to cut through them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJYSn9yDSzg

 

[ilspooner]

the thing that doesn't make sense is ground is good against ghost, lol.

It isn't. Its good against poision. So, against Gengar, Haunter and Gastly, gorund is super effective against them before abilities were rolled out.
OT: Well, erosion for water against rock, if it was swim it would useless in combat, and thing about how they could breathe underwater bugged me as well. Also, you could for some reason send out a fire type under water. D:<

 

[Zyr]

The real question is why can't pokemon who should be able to naturally fly or swim unable to do so without an HM?

And how the hell does Pidgey manage to fly me around anyway?

Reminded me of this:

Spoiler

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

The real question is why can't pokemon who should be able to naturally fly or swim unable to do so without an HM?

And how the hell does Pidgey manage to fly me around anyway?

Reminded me of this:

Spoiler

That is hilariously true. Surprised Super Effective hasn't done something like it.

 

[InnerRebellion]

NINTENDO LOGIC

Do I sense a Chuggaaconroy fan?

OT: I gave up on trying to understand Pokemon's logic, and became deeply obsessed with EV training.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

My Nidoking learned Surf. Now that didn't make sense.

This is a game about people enslaving animals that can control things like fire and electricity, then battle one another for prestige. The entire economy is based around this fighting system and very little in the way of government seems to be in place and yet somehow the poke-mafia hasn't taken over power yet.

WHEN DID POKEMON EVER MAKE SENSE?

 

[Geekosaurus]

Bulbasaur line, Charizard, Butterfree, Beedrill, Nidoqueen and Nidoking, Odish line, Paris line Venomoth, Bellsprout line, Tentacool line, Slowpoke line, Dewgong, Cloyster, Haunter line, Exeggcutor, Starmie, Scyther, Jinx, Gyarados, and Lapris. And let's not forget every flying or rock Pokemon.
How does adding two types which actually add depth make it worse?
Nidoran, Machop, Psyduck, Abra, Magikarp, Electrode, and Magnemite are just a few examples.
Bug pokemon are whatever the hell anyway.
Why?

But at least there was logic. Oh, its a dragon but it can also fly - dragon type and flying type. But now you can get things that are both water and electric. ...What?! And the colours thing is more of a juvenile observation, rather than cold, hard fact.

Pokemon just got retarded when they started giving pokemon two different types, and when they added more types. Also, the pokemon's colour used to relate directly to it's type. Generally, if they were blue they were water type, red for fire, and green for grass. Now it's just anything goes. And yes, that annoys me.

Uh, bulbasaur, Pokemon #1, is grass/poison.

Yes, now it's grass/poison, but back in 1996 it was just grass.

 

[zehydra]

the thing that doesn't make sense is ground is good against ghost, lol.

*sigh*

Ghastly is also part Poison. Ground does regular damage to pure ghosts. However, most ghost types have Levitate, so Ground does nothing.

damnit, I thought maybe I was wrong with that. Yeah it's ground x poison, which doesn't make much sense either. You're right too, in the later games they're pretty much like flying types. I didn't play any of the games past ruby though, so I'm used to playing without levitation.

 

[zehydra]

the thing that doesn't make sense is ground is good against ghost, lol.

It isn't. Its good against poision. So, against Gengar, Haunter and Gastly, gorund is super effective against them before abilities were rolled out.
OT: Well, erosion for water against rock, if it was swim it would useless in combat, and thing about how they could breathe underwater bugged me as well. Also, you could for some reason send out a fire type under water. D:<

lol you're not the only one to correct me. *bangs head against wall*

 

[mocruz1200]

Bug being super effective against Psychic. Just why?

Because they had to make Parasect good for something, lol.

you sir, win the internet of the day.

Shoot a high pressure water cannon at a boulder or another rock and see what happens.

I always wondered why water wasn't super effective on steel.

srsly, because there are companies that use super high pressure water to cut steel plates. i just had brackets made for my car's brakes like this.....

 

[higgs20]

I did not know that erosion formed the grand canyon over the course of several seconds.

it would have if there had been a small army of blue turtles to blast water at the rocks.

 

[Twilight_guy]

TO be fair, since there's no light type what do you think would be effect against dark? I think they just had to make something up and bug was underpowered so they choose it.

 

[Arizona Kyle]

I did not know that erosion formed the grand canyon over the course of several seconds.

It was chuck norris..... everyone knows that

 

[Mittens The Kitten]

Water erodes rock, surf refers to the giant wave, the "surf," that the move summons in battle.

So the battle move summons a raging torrent of water that the pokemon slams into the opponent, and the out-of-battle move swims across the surface of calm standing water? Those two actions seem unrelated other than the fact that they both involve water,