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- Thread starter antemortem
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If it was poison it will lost this uniqueness of don't have any weakness
But it would move from PU to RU or even UU. And there are too many mono electric already.
Plus there's already mold breaker/neutralizing gas etc
What kind of elaboration do u want?
Levitate gives it immunity to it's 4x weakness to ground. 8 resistances. Design wise it looks an electric/poison type.
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What aspects of its design particularly incline its appearance to adding that type, be it in Lore/Dex, Movepool, or Appearance.
For instance: Eelektross's name alludes to Eels, its line specifically alluding to Electric Eels by typing and the natural access to Discharge in particular over any STAB option. Eelektross's movepool is extremely varied, with the inclusion of a few natural Poison moves (though I exclude Coil since it's more about a body shape than any use of Poison). If anything, the Dex entries make me curious why this Eel Pokemon is pure Electric, rather than also bearing a Water typing and some moves.
The Pokedex said:
The Dex clearly alludes to it living in the Ocean and dragging prey there to consume it. Yet despite this it doesn't learn any Water moves beyond Rain Dance. The lack of Thunder Fang (among any biting themed moves past Crunch) is also noticeable in light of this.
Sandshrew/sandslash shouldn't have gotten a alolan form. Instead they should have gotten a cross gen evolution where it would have turned into a ground/ice type.
Ice/Steel is such a horrible typing.
Something like a name Sandolian with BST of 500 with ability Slush rush and Sand rush.
HP : 75
Attack : 120
Defense : 90
Sp. Att : 50
Sp. Def : 75
Speed : 90
Sandslash moved from deserts to mountains and to survive it evolved into a part ice type Sandolian.
Ice/Steel is such a horrible typing.
Something like a name Sandolian with BST of 500 with ability Slush rush and Sand rush.
HP : 75
Attack : 120
Defense : 90
Sp. Att : 50
Sp. Def : 75
Speed : 90
Sandslash moved from deserts to mountains and to survive it evolved into a part ice type Sandolian.
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Because Eels are poisonous.
I should think eels being aquatic animals would be a more prominent aspect of their biology...
By that logic pokemon like Tauros who are based on terrestrial animals should be ground types.
A Pokemon being mono-<x type> is only a bad thing if it's boring and too similar to the other Pokemon with the same monotype. Eelektross has a fairly unique movepool and playstyle compared to most other mono-Electric Pokemon.
Fun fact, Pokemon don't exist purely for competitive reasons. The thematic background for Alolan Sandslash being Ice/Steel is the fact that metal spikes are used to climb icy mountains, there's no good argument for it to be Ground. And it's effectively RU with Slush Rush, which is above average.
It still sucks. Both concept and competitive wise.
Yeah but Sandshrew line deserves to be good competitive wise. They are such cool pokemon but they such so much competetivelly meanwhile an ugly mon like Lando-T is dominating the entire competitive scene
That is an unpopular opinion I can get behind.
Resisting Ice, Fire, and U-turn is useful. Also, the immunity to burn is amazing, especially for the several Physical Fire-type attackers.
And it's also a decent in-game type, where you don't have to worry about Stealth Rocks.
Therian Landorus is far from my favorite Legendary Pokémon or Ground-type Pokémon, but I have to say: T-Landorus is overhated. No OU or VGC-dominant Pokémon except I guess Toxapex and Incineroar got as much flak overall as T-Lando.
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Legit this is one of the things about the Pokemon fandom I find the most annoying.
Me: It'd be really cool if we got a Poison/Fire Pokemon.*
Someone else: Ugh no, it'd be doubly weak to Ground!
Me: ...every Pokemon is weak to something. What's your point?
*I remember saying specifically this before Salazzle existed.
I get why though. That stupid tiger is competitive's daddy since 10 years. Never fell off in OU or VGC. Pex and Incineroar are worse in my eyes but they exist since a bit more than half of Lando's reign
Resisting Fairy is also huge, as is Heavy-Duty Boots fixing one of the biggest weaknesses that many defensive Fire-types had. I'm not going to call Fire one of the best defensive types in the game or anything but I think it definitely has legitimate merit as a defensive type now.
Lando-T is underhated. Pex and Incineroar are way cooler than him.
He is uglier than Rhyperior and Magmortar.
Thanks for proving my point
Ferrothorn is way more min-maxxed than Pex and has a better typing. Pex is mostly good because of regenerator.
Ferrothorn is less min maxed, what are you on!?
it also has a quad weakness to Fire, and worse special bulk
Yes the resists and decent attack are great (Body press is a Godsend) , same with iron barbs, but Toxapex is honestly a better wall given recovery
Either way, both are distinct for their own role
it also has a quad weakness to Fire, and worse special bulk
Yes the resists and decent attack are great (Body press is a Godsend) , same with iron barbs, but Toxapex is honestly a better wall given recovery
Either way, both are distinct for their own role
Someone already sent you this, but I guess I have to emphasize the relevant part:
Wikipedia said:
The most annoying part is that a 4x weakness isn't even a necessarily a huge detriment, especially on frailer offensive Pokemon which are often easily OHKO'd by 2x supereffective moves anyways.
(I couldn't find Gen VI+ icons in the repertory.)
Ironically I'm thinking that Poison/Fire actually has the potential to be a fairly decent defensive typing should we ever get something bulkier than Salazzle. Yes it has its weaknesses but resisting eight types ain't bad at all. But that's by the by.
Many Pokemon manage to transcend their bad typings. Bug/Fighting isn't all that good on the face of it but all the Pokemon of that type manage to be pretty decent.
Anyways to go off on a complete tangent my unpopular opinion of the day is this: though I'm not fond of the Galar starters, I appreciate Game Freak being ballsy enough to give us another trio with no secondary types/ Johto's starter trio being the only pure-typed trio was a fun niche while it lasted and I love that for them (though Hisuian Typhlosion is lovely) but starter typings in recent gens have gotten crazy.
If Paldea's starter set do turn out to have secondary types it'd be nice to get a similar situation to Sinnoh, where each starter's secondary typing helps it against the starter it's weak to. Namely:
Torterra's Ground-type has an advantage over Infernape
Infernape's Fighting-type has an advantage over Empoleon
Empoleon's Steel-type hampers the effectiveness of Torterra's Grass-type attacks
As you can see, it's not a perfect match (because there are very few other trios that have the relationship Grass, Water, and Fire do) but it works well enough. Dark-Psychic-Fighting isn't a perfect trio (and obviously has already been done in Kalos) but there are some other combinations that do work:
Ground-Steel-Ice
Flying-Fighting-Ice
Fairy-Fighting-Steel
I'd be happy with that. Just as long as the Fighting segment of that trio didn't go to the Fire-type.