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Type advantages you never understood

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 05:52:48 No.36369525 View View Reply Original Report

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Why is GRASS based against ICE? Have Japs never heard of frost killing plants?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 05:59:50 No.36369556 Report

Quoted By: >>36369606 >>36371576 >>36374074

Because GameFreak is so obsessed with the idea of Dragons being endgame gods that they basically created Ice types to be glass cannon hard counters to them even when that actually makes no sense for both what most Ice types are (bulky and defensive) or how their stats and resistances should work out.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 06:04:26 No.36369570 Report

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>>36369525
>based
Please, please, fucking please do not try to meme using based in regard to type advantages. I can't handle anymore /pol/ shit on this board. Just fuck off with your alt right reddit lingo. Do NOT use this term in reference to Pokemon. Grass is strong to Ice, not """"""BASED"""""

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Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 06:10:38 No.36369593 Report

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>>36369570
Based post

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 06:17:24 No.36369606 Report

Quoted By: >>36370786

>>36369556
Ice being based against Dragon is dumb too. The idea that Dragons = cold blooded reptiles makes sense, but in that case just call them reptiles. Dragons ultimately aren't reptiles, and most don't really look reptilian. Like Flygon for instance.

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Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 06:20:47 No.36369614 Report

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>>36369525
>Have Japs never heard of frost killing plants?
But that's exactly what happens when you attack Grass with Ice.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 06:23:00 No.36369621 Report

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>>36369570
Based and redpilled

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 07:00:54 No.36369724 Report

Quoted By: >>36370786 >>36374074

Ice is SE against Grass and Grass is neutral against Ice, what are you talking about?

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Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 07:02:40 No.36369728 Report

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>>36369525
>Grass move used against an Ice-type: 1x damage
>Ice move used against a Grass-type: 2x damage

???

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Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 07:03:54 No.36369731 Report

Quoted By: >>36372459

>Grass based against ice

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 07:04:42 No.36369737 Report

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>>36369570
What exactly based means? I tried but can't understand.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 07:08:49 No.36369746 Report

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>>36369525
It’s not. Ice is strong against Grass. Are you old enough to post here?

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Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 07:10:20 No.36369749 Report

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>>36369525

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Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 10:16:24 No.36370297 Report

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>>36369525
I think the concept, conflicting combinations can be interesting.
it's just that grass and ice both suck defensively, it's objectively the type combination with the most weaknesses (I think).

>>36369728
the only resistance Ice has is itself, it couldn't be more cucked
I would also say that a resistance to poison and fairy would also make sense.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 10:40:54 No.36370406 Report

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>>36369737
Alpha/badass/cool

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 10:43:35 No.36370414 Report

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>>36369525
Hail should be 1/8 damage instead of 1/16

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 11:00:51 No.36370515 Report

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>>36369525
>Why is GRASS based against ICE?
It’s not.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 12:34:52 No.36370786 Report

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>>36369606
>dragons aren't reptiles
Wut?
>>36369724
This, is everyone retarded?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 12:37:52 No.36370791 Report

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>>36369525
i had to reread this 3 times, what do you mean by "based against ice"? you do know ice is super effective against grass

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 13:31:07 No.36371024 Report

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>>36369525
This isn't even good bait

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 13:39:18 No.36371070 Report

Quoted By: >>36371519 >>36372479 >>36372519

>>36369728
I'm still trying to figure out how Rock isn't resistant to Bug or itself, Bug isn't resistant to itself but Rock is allowed to be effective against Bug.

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Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 15:32:34 No.36371519 Report

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>>36371070
>Rock is allowed to be effective against Bug
You mean "Rock is allowed to be based against Bug"

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 15:37:16 No.36371535 Report

Quoted By: >>36371542 >>36372031 >>36372209

Why is bug super effective against dark? Are bugs just as heroic as fighters when taking on the "evil" type?

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Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 15:38:32 No.36371542 Report

Quoted By: >>36371563 >>36372031

>>36371535
>bug super effective against dark
Fuck off, you mean why is bug based against dark.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 15:39:57 No.36371555 Report

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>>36369525
BASED TRUMP HAIL KEK XD

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 15:41:07 No.36371563 Report

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>>36371542
Why is bug based against dark?
Now answer me fucko

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 15:42:34 No.36371576 Report

Quoted By: >>36375737

>>36369556
Actualy Ice types are thought out very well. They are fragile but strong- just like ice is.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 15:43:22 No.36371581 Report

Quoted By: >>36372031

>>36371563
I think it's because a lot of bugs live in dark and thrive in it. Like roaches n shit

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 15:44:27 No.36371590 Report

Quoted By: >>36372031

>>36371563
Bugs infest machines used by villians and ruin their evil plans.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 16:09:09 No.36371715 Report

Quoted By: >>36371852

Why are Ghosts only based to Normal/Fighting attacks?
If the idea is that they're intangible, then how are things like rock attacks able to hurt them?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 16:25:45 No.36371852 Report

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>>36371715
Ghost is very poorly thought out. No excuses. Dark being based to Ghost is pure retardation too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 16:53:11 No.36372031 Report

Quoted By: >>36372399

>>36371535
>>36371542
>>36371563
>>36371581
>>36371581
>>36371590

My idea is that bug's minds work differently, their thoughts are very simple, almost instinct exclusively. Bugs do live in swarms allowing many simple minds to create collective intelligence - hive mind that is inconceivable. This is why you can't inflict their minds by tricks (Dark-type) or mind control (Psychic-type) and thus nothing boundaries them to fight with these tricksters and deal better damage. Also, many bugs have more than two eyes or even compound eyes letting them see more.

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Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 17:16:55 No.36372177 Report

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>>36371563
Bug is it strong too dark because, I shit you not, the Japanese believe that insects have a power over evil.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 17:24:01 No.36372209 Report

Quoted By: >>36372399

>>36371535
kamen rider

bug beats evil

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 17:53:32 No.36372399 Report

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>>36372031
Well, it was a great theory until >>36372177 and >>36372209 came around.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 18:01:20 No.36372459 Report

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>>36369731
That's a great image.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 18:03:29 No.36372472 Report

Quoted By: >>36373284 >>36374136

>>36369570
What does "based" means anyways?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 18:03:33 No.36372475 Report

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>>36369570
Tf? Grass is weak to ice

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 18:04:13 No.36372479 Report

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>>36371070

I've been saying this for months. Make rock resist bug, but then make bug neutral to either or all: ghost/fairy/fighting. It would be a much needed buff to both types and make much more sense

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 18:09:54 No.36372519 Report

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>>36371070
>Rock not resistant to Rock
I think its because harder rocks will scratch softer rocks

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 18:11:57 No.36372537 Report

Quoted By: >>36373905

Hey yo this thread sucks it's dumb as fuck don't post in it for the love of god it's off the rails hella stupid it's taking me to page 10 with it save yourselves

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 19:57:56 No.36373269 Report

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>>36369525
The fuck? Ice is strong against Grass, not the other way around.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 19:59:56 No.36373284 Report

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>>36372472
It means great/awesome.

As in 'this soundtrack is so based'.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 21:39:24 No.36373905 Report

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>>36372537
Oops you're powerless :)

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 21:50:02 No.36373960 Report

Quoted By: >>36373967 >>36373973 >>36374074

What’s up with dragon being based against itself? Shouldn’t they be evenly based?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 21:50:57 No.36373967 Report

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>>36373960
I think the idea is only a dargon is powerful enough to hurt a dargon

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Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 21:52:24 No.36373973 Report

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>>36373960
you think that's fucked? what about Fairy being COMPLETELY DESAB TO DRAGON, that's the real travesty.

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Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 22:01:00 No.36374038 Report

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>>36369570
>based in alt right reddit lingo

Haha what??? I know Pokemon has a young target audience but you straight up sound 12. Based has been a thing since the late/mid 2000's. It's older than that even, but Lil B aka the Based God made it popular.

Now its sadly used ironically to mock /pol/-esque opinions, but that's still anti-/pol/ so I'm not sure what on Earth you're talking about.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 22:07:01 No.36374074 Report

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>>36369525
Grass is not effective against Ice, it's the other way around, OP.
See>>36369724
>>36373960
Only dragons have the physical ability to hurt other dragons, because in mythology they have impenetrable skin.
>>36369556
Well, I agree on Ice-pokemon stats.
I have to say though that it makes sense that dragons receive 2x damage from Ice, because well they are cold-blooded reptiles, use fire and flying (the actual types of which were irresistant against Ice in Gen 1) and have been combated by Ice giants in Northern European mythology.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 22:09:33 No.36374094 Report

Quoted By: >>36374123

what the fuck is this thread

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Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 22:11:00 No.36374108 Report

Quoted By: >>36374183 >>36374267 >>36375796

>>36369570
>I can't handle anymore /pol/ shit on this board. Just fuck off with your alt right reddit lingo.
/pol/ actually would imrpve this board if it had influence in here, though I don't know if you're a faggot that likes to have japshit, porn, drawfags, go-fags, gen-warriors, starter-warriors, contrarians and other degenerates around.

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Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 22:13:30 No.36374123 Report

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>>36374094
Your worst nightmare.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 22:14:34 No.36374136 Report

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>>36372472
What the other anon said. Just don't use it when you're around normalfags so you can keep your power level hidden.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 22:22:40 No.36374183 Report

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>>36374108
>/pol/ actually would imrpve this board if it had influence in here

based

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Aug 2018 22:36:56 No.36374267 Report

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>>36369525
What the fuck are you saying? Grass is weak to ice.
>>36374108
>/pol/ actually would imrpve this board if it had influence in here
Not having politics at all would greatly improve this website.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 24 Aug 2018 01:44:18 No.36375276 Report

Quoted By: >>36375308

I think Flying might have the most nonsensical basedness.

First we have fighting. Birds aren't fucking resistant to being kicked, but I guess the logic is that they're hard to hit.
But what can birds do that are super effective against them?

Then there's rock against flying. Is it because humans once used slingshots to hunt them?

Grass. Woodpeckers? Or because plants mostly grow on the ground?
Probably not because they eat seeds, or herbivores like Miltank would destroy them.

Electric. Its probably because they're in the air, but they're usually found the ground.
And the electric types don't seem like they're any more resistant to pecks than anything else.

Finally, Ice against flying. I don't even know. Its not like they're the only ones that gets wrekt by winter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 24 Aug 2018 01:51:17 No.36375308 Report

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>>36375276
Plus there are plenty of birds that thrive in cold climates like penguins or just don't give af like cardinals. Birds do fine in winter. I guess some migrate, but not very many.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 24 Aug 2018 01:52:11 No.36375312 Report

Quoted By: >>36375316

This entire thread is full of morons and ESLs

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 24 Aug 2018 01:53:00 No.36375316 Report

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>>36375312
Not based

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 24 Aug 2018 03:08:39 No.36375737 Report

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>>36371576
Except a majority of ice types have high defensive stats and low attacking stats
And most that do have good attacking stats are too slow and fragile to be able to get in a hit (i.e. beartic, crabominable)
And ice isn't even the best offensive type. It gets resisted by literally the most common type in the game, water. Steel resisting it doesn't help it either. Even a type like ground, which has a larger amount of super effective hits (and good ones at that) can be good defensively.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 24 Aug 2018 03:11:25 No.36375749 Report

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>>36369570
T. Far left fag

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Anonymous Fri 24 Aug 2018 03:20:58 No.36375790 Report

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>>36369737
It used to mean something like "genuine", usually used to describe people that just didn't give a fuck and did cool or bold shit.
Then the 14 year olds on /v/ and /pol/ that came in during the summer saw it used, though it just meant "cool" and started using it and now it's turned into a shitty upvote

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 24 Aug 2018 03:22:43 No.36375796 Report

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>>36374108
>implying most of us aren't low-key /pol/ crossboarders.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 24 Aug 2018 03:41:58 No.36375918 Report

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>>36369525
what? Grass is weak to Ice, retard

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 24 Aug 2018 12:40:06 No.36377974 Report

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>>36369570
BASED

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