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Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2018 17:47:43 No.34695097 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>34695103 >>34695165 >>34697376 >>34697439 >>34699205

>Those are all normal animals that fly. To be pure flying it has to be made of flight.
pure fire doesn't have to be made of fire
pure water doesn't have to be made of water
pure electric doesn't have to be made of electric
pure grass doesn't have to be made of grass
pure ground doesn't have to be made of ground
etc.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2018 17:49:59 No.34695103 Report

Quoted By: >>34695113

>>34695097
Each type kind of has its own design going for it. These birds fit the "normal" design is all, so it gets tagged on.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2018 17:51:21 No.34695113 Report

Quoted By: >>34695138

>>34695103
This has a lot to do with the normal white/brown color scheme desu>>34695103

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2018 17:56:44 No.34695138 Report

Quoted By: >>34695249

>>34695113
>normal white/brown color scheme
Ah yes, like a normal animal that rocks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2018 18:02:20 No.34695163 Report

Quoted By: >>34696126 >>34697420

>come up with arbitrary reasoning for a specific type combination
>make garbage thread about it

Seek help my dude

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2018 18:02:34 No.34695165 Report

Quoted By: >>34696126

>>34695097
When has anyone ever made that argument? The reason why those pokemon are normal/flying and not just pure flying is because they're designs are as abstract as animals that we see in nature; from the color scheme, to the physiology. When you look at other pokemon that are dual type normal/X like Pyroar, Girafarig, or Diggersby, they clearly look like a lion, giraffe, and rabbit, respectively, with only a few minor physiological change and color schemes to match their typing.

Tornadus (T) is the only pure flying type, and it doesn't have a "normal" type stapled on to it because it doesn't resemble any sort of flying animal. It's design outside of being a genie, is entirely based around, tornadoes, air, and clouds, with Tornadus-T loosely taking on the physiology of a flying animal.

To be pure flying it has to purely have an influence based around flying, flight, air, or aetherium

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Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2018 18:15:51 No.34695249 Report

Quoted By: >>34696126

>>34695138
Rockruff is an odd exception because earth related things are generally brown. On top of that, rockruff's design is an amalgamation of different canine like animals, which is why it's not rock/normal. It's the same reason why growlithe and arcanine aren't normal/fire, because their influence is an amalgamation of different canine and feline species.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2018 20:31:40 No.34696126 Report

Quoted By: >>34696421

>>34695163
>come up with arbitrary reasoning
>>34691365
>>34695165
>When has anyone ever made that argument?
>>34691365
>it doesn't have a "normal" type stapled on to it because it doesn't resemble any sort of flying animal.
So a pokémon that clearly had bird wings and bird legs, but wasn't based on any specific bird and slightly humanoid, like a harpy, would be pure Flying type? No, we both know it would have a nonsensical second type like Fighting or Fairy stapled on instead.
>>34695249
>rockruff's design is an amalgamation of different canine like animals
So a pokémon that was an amalgamation of different bird species would not be Normal type? I believe that's been done before.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2018 21:18:28 No.34696421 Report

Quoted By: >>34696653 >>34696694 >>34697040

>>34696126
>No, we both know it would have a nonsensical second type like Fighting or Fairy stapled on instead
>it would have

The fucking pokemon exists you autist! Why are you talking like Tornadus isnt a pure flying pokemon in current existence? It's existence proves you wrong, but you want to act like Tornadus should have some other typing added on to it for "reasons".

>I believe that's been done before
Name a normal/flying pokemon that doesn't have a blatant resemblance to a singular real bird?
Fun fact: you can't

The names giveaway what bird they're based off of.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2018 21:51:20 No.34696653 Report

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>>34696421
>you want to act like Tornadus should have some other typing added on to it for "reasons".
Wrong.

Brett !!TORtoOQMEfy

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Brett !!TORtoOQMEfy Mon 15 Jan 2018 21:56:32 No.34696694 Report

Quoted By: >>34697040 >>34697126

>>34696421
>Name a normal/flying pokemon that doesn't have a blatant resemblance to a singular real bird?
This cutie.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2018 22:51:28 No.34697040 Report

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Any cloud or wind based pokemon should be pure flying

>>34696421
I'm pretty sure they were talking about the hypothetical harpy pokemon. Which i agree would be given a fighting or fairy typing. More likely dark/flying though.

>>34696694
This should have been pure flying. Shame it would have lost it when evolving.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2018 23:07:10 No.34697126 Report

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>>34696694
>birds of paradise aren't a thing

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2018 23:42:24 No.34697376 Report

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>>34695097
That reasoning would only ~almost~ make sense if the type wasn't named "Flying", but "Air" or "Wind". I still think that should be it's name, tho.

In my head all those were Normal purely for gameplay reasons, to buff their Normal moves, maybe, and because losing the resistance to Fighting was pretty much irrelevant back in Gen 1. And then, on the following Gens they just sticked to the trend.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2018 23:43:58 No.34697387 Report

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They're all normal so they get normal stab moves and can stand half a chance. They'd all be terrible with just flying type.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2018 23:47:53 No.34697420 Report

Quoted By: >>34697995

>>34695163
>come up with arbitrary reasoning for a specific type combination

But that's the exact opposite of what OP did. In fact that's the very fucking thing he's arguing against you illiterate fuckwit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Jan 2018 23:49:56 No.34697439 Report

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>>34695097
It's because Flying is more like a trait than a true type. A proto-ability of sorts (specifically Levitate). I imagine that's also why it's rarely a primary type (only Tornadus, Noibat, and Noivern).

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2018 01:06:07 No.34697995 Report

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>>34697420
OP's given explanation was never valid to begin with you idiot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2018 04:05:26 No.34699141 Report

Quoted By: >>34699196

This thread literally only exists because OP desperately wants somebody to say "GameFreak is lazy, untalented, uncreative and can't make a Flying type without tacking on another type to it".
Which is, you know, true, but we don't need another thread about it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2018 04:13:27 No.34699196 Report

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>>34699141
Literally a cloud Pokemon could be pure flying but they insist on giving us Pikachu and Lucario rehashes each gen

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 16 Jan 2018 04:14:40 No.34699205 Report

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>>34695097
Which of the birds would you retcon to be pure Flying?

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