>>29487599Closer to just a venomous spider, though it could arguably seen as Dark with its "two-faced" motif, but this seems pretty interesting and can justify its Poison-typing a bit further.
>It will attach silk to its prey and set it free. It attaches silk to its prey and sets it free. Later, it tracks the silk to the prey and its friends.Might just be me, but it sounds pretty similar to how a disease you thought you were safe from might creep back up on you and spread to those around you. Anyhow, apart from having two faces/asses to suggest a deceptive motif associated with Dark, Ariados just leans more to the Poison side to fill in that archetypal venomous spider niche that is usually constant in RPGs, with the unique aspect just to set it apart a bit from being just literally my mom's spider. No incentive to shake up the player's expectations on what type a spider Pokemon might be back then, while there was incentive to get crazy with playing around with expectations and designs this time around for the 20th anniversary, according to Masuda. A wrestler Pokemon is Dark instead of Fighting because it's themed after a heel. A crab Pokemon isn't Water because it's themed after a coconut crab, which are land crustaceans.
So it should stand to reason that an owl Pokemon does not have to be Flying when there's a plethora of folklore and mythology around the world, especially in Hawaii, supporting a connection between owls and the underworld, and tying it closer with an assassin motif. Assassins can be seen as underhanded (Greninja being Dark) and ghostly, so they rolled with the more ghostly aspects of an assassin through stealth and silence to further justify the Ghost-typing. I don't know why retards like the OP can't fucking see that and just sees it as wings = Flying-type
