Thursday 27 June 2013

Undervalued types

Poison-Now, this may be surprising. It's not all that rare, in fact it ranks 8th in that respect, well ahead of types such as dragon, ice, steel, ghost, electric, dark, rock and even fighting. In fact, in Gen I it topped the table by a huge margin, with over 20% of pokemon being poison-types. But it's very unappreciated, and when I say that I'm primarily talking about Gamefreak. They haven't really made that many useable poison-type pokemon. Frankly, I'm surprised they allowed Arceus to be poison type, because the creator is on record as saying poison was his least-favourite type. Its beautifully balanced stats and a decent movepool containing some relatively powerful moves allow it to do a lot, but I like it as a staller. Of course, the status condition poison is its best asset, but most poison-type pokemon can pick and choose between several options including sleep and paralysis. Koga, leader of Fuchsia gym and later elite 4 member puts it best when he describes the poison type as "confusion, sleep, poison." Offensively its battle properties aren't great, but that can be fixed in a few ways. So yeah, 3 things I want that would make poison less of a laughing stock. One, more powerful poison-type pokemon. Two, more pairings of poison with other types, because bug and grass really don't help much. Poison/dragon maybe. And three, finally a poison type legendary! Because why should it be the only type without one? And lets stop having poison types only used by the villain team. That and dark are always the favourites, and I understand that they're associated with evil, but seriously! Oh, also, fairy type. I think poison should be super-effective against it. I don't have a clue what its battle properties will be, but that would make sense to me. Wait.....
Is Yvetal a poison/dragon?
Ghost-Because I've had an idea. Also, I'm quite liking the purple. There are very few ghosts, in part because it's very hard to come up with decent ghost designs. But what about the ghosts of pokemon? Like Shedinja. I'm fully in favour of them only coming out in one place, like Lavender Town, but they should have things like ghost Blissey with normal/ghost typing. Problem is, it only works with single-type pokemon. Also, are they new pokemon or new formes? They also haven't finished with the ghost stories yet. There is so much they can do there, especially if they go to Russia. The dead pokemon thing is the germ of an idea, but they need to do something with ghost, because it's a bit like dark's younger brother at the moment, which is a bad place to be.

 
Fire-yes, people love fire, and the fire type is one of the most used pokemon types for competitive battle. It's also received 5 legendaries (Moltres, Ho-oh, Heatran, Victini and Reshiram)  up to Gen V, several of which make excellent sweepers.But there aren't enough of them. Fire must be hard to design for, but that abstract, dangerous and powerful nature means surely more fire-type legendaries make sense. And anyway, they usually just shove a flame on an animal. More of that, please.


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