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>it's based on an electrical object!
So is the fucking pokedex, including most the other steel types. No, Klinklang is not solid steel, it's electrical.
>he attacks with electricity!
Like any other normal type. Nonspecific electricty does not define electric type. Electrics actually turn INTO electricity and shit, which is not in its description.
>orbs are associated with electricty sometimes!
Every fucking object has some energetic interpretation in some culture. You don't just make a generic object and call it electrical, its design actually has to actually convey its electricalness or energy. There is nothing electrical about it, it's a generic orb in vibrant pokeball cosplay.
>it's a mimic, mimics are known as "shocking" it's a pun!
>Gamefreak designing Pokemon based on English puns
>its signature move is electric type!
No it isn't you dumb fuck explosion is normal.
>I guess [pokemon] should be [type] then, since it looks like [type]!
That's not the argument. Most Pokemon could be visually justified as a different type. The important thing is that their actual type has a reasonable connection to their design. Orb could be Normal, Steel, Dark, maybe even Ghost. But electric is not one of the types that works on it.
>Gamefreak is just expanding the definition of electrics!
i.e. Gamefreak is too lazy/incompetent to meet their own design standards, so they stop trying, and you're defending that. If a type can't be reasonably connected to its design, that's a failure of the design. Yes, it's happened before, on things like Jynx, Lucario, Palkia... and those are not models for good design. If you have to liken Voltorb to Jynx, that should already tell you that something is wrong.
