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Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 17:47:58 No.43847861 View View Reply Original Report

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Why are Psychic Pokemon weak against Bugs?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 17:48:28 No.43847865 Report

Quoted By: >>43847873 >>43847879 >>43849868

Insects are a common phobia, just like the dark and ghosts

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 17:50:55 No.43847872 Report

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Try to meditate with a mosquito flying around

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 17:50:59 No.43847873 Report

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>>43847865
then why aren't normal type pokemon weak against them?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 17:51:34 No.43847879 Report

Quoted By: >>43847907 >>43850048

>>43847865
Phobias of water and heights are more common, why isn't it weak to water and flying?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 17:51:37 No.43847881 Report

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>>43847861
can't meditate with a fly buzzing into your ear

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 17:53:04 No.43847888 Report

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>>43847873
Phobias are a flaw of the mind, not everyone is afraid of the dark or believe in ghosts, which is probably why normal is immune to ghost. If normal was weak to bug too I think it would be the most kek’d type in the game.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 17:56:27 No.43847907 Report

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>>43847879
It’s more than just phobia obviously, dark bug and ghost types are all more privy to be creepy or strange compared to flying and water, so the most predictable fears make the cut, despite the most common ones being heights and drowning.
Clown type confirmed for gen 9

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 18:07:39 No.43847972 Report

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Why are ghosts weak to ghost? Why are fairies immune to dragons? Why isn’t steel weak to water? Don’t ask questions

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 18:13:36 No.43848018 Report

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>>43847972
Ghost is weak to ghost because incorporeal objects are normally interact with each other better then stuff in the psychical world. Fairy is immune to dragons because dragon is more of a "raw magic" type. That's why alteria is a dragon and charizard isn't. (most the time) Fairies, as beings of magic, aren't effected by it. Steel isn't weak to water because most water attacks aren't high enough pressure to cut it.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 21:09:58 No.43849319 Report

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buzzing noise breaks your concentration

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Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 22:15:13 No.43849797 Report

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>>43847972
>Why are fairies immune to dragons?
Dragons are slayed in fairy tales, frequently by some knight having enchanted equipment such as armor or a shield that allows the knight to not instantly be incinerated into ash while having some magical weapon that is fatal to dragons when struck.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 22:21:49 No.43849868 Report

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>>43847865
Dark is evil not actual darkness, retard

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Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 22:23:04 No.43849877 Report

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>>43848018
Rust, retard

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Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 22:30:24 No.43849944 Report

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>>43849877
Rust takes too long to impact a pokemon battle. Get a water gun and a steel plate then tell me how long it takes before it starts to rust.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 22:41:23 No.43850048 Report

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>>43847879
>Phobias of water
da fuck? Who'd be scared of a glass of water

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Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 22:46:28 No.43850088 Report

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>>43850048
There are lots of fears that stem from water. Fear of drowning, fear of dark or murky water, fear of the ocean.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 22:54:31 No.43850161 Report

Quoted By: >>43850413 >>43855425

>>43849868
>Night Daze
>Black Hole Eclipse
>Max Darkness
It's both, you super retard

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 23:13:12 No.43850343 Report

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>>43847861
Bugs can irritate the human mind. That’s how I look at it.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 23:16:49 No.43850385 Report

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>>43849944
Erosion takes too long to impact a pokemon battle. Get a water gun and a boulder then tell me how long it takes before it starts to erode.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 23:19:08 No.43850413 Report

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>>43850161
Ah, yes, all those moves introduced in GS that justify the newly added Dark type being super effective against Psychic

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 23:36:52 No.43850570 Report

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>>43847861
Bugs operate on instinct, the mind is worthless against them

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 23:51:34 No.43850724 Report

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>>43850385
unironically that. Make water weak to poison and rock neutral to water. Also make ice strong against water too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 23:54:07 No.43850746 Report

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>>43847861
It's a common trope for psychics to be scared of bugs

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Jun 2020 23:56:28 No.43850763 Report

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>>43847861
Bugs are too simple-minded for psychic attacks to harm them, or their swarming hive minds are too vast for psychic powers. Pick your fanfiction

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Jun 2020 01:25:33 No.43851525 Report

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>>43850088
this is so cringe, no woman would support that much pressure

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Jun 2020 01:28:03 No.43851543 Report

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Ever tried to hypnotize a bug?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Jun 2020 02:14:56 No.43851886 Report

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>>43851525
Maybe it's not that deep, just evening?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Jun 2020 02:36:31 No.43852020 Report

Quoted By: >>43852066 >>43852787

>>43847861
A few reasons

>insects are wildly alien lifeforms compared to most other animals. Their brains are both simpler and work completely differently. Psychics would not be able to understand them or read them at all, really
>with it being the type of the big bad mewtwo as well as psychic's dominance in gen i, it's basically playing a trope inversion. the weakest type is what you use to beat the strongest one
>because psychic is an esoteric concept that is a bit difficult to think of type interactions for. the bug weakness is somewhat because they just needed another weakness as well as just being a whimsical decision
>because insects are ANNOYING. their primary note is to infest. you can't concentrate when a fly is buzzing in your ear or when there's a fucking 5 foot spider attacking you

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Anonymous Sat 13 Jun 2020 02:42:28 No.43852066 Report

Quoted By: >>43852086 >>43852125

>>43852020
>it's basically playing a trope inversion. the weakest type is what you use to beat the strongest one
Unironically this.
Never forget that gen 1 was designed and balanced as an RPG first, that's why stuff like Onix's bizarre stat spread exists. The final boss being weak to the starting slime is a thing games like this love. It's just Gamefreak then forgot to give bugs attacks.

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Anonymous Sat 13 Jun 2020 02:45:40 No.43852086 Report

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>>43852066
They also fucked up by making Psychic IMMUNE to ghost when the games say they're weak to them (not that it really matters when Ghost has, uh, Lick and that's it).

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Anonymous Sat 13 Jun 2020 02:49:29 No.43852112 Report

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>>43847861
>Zephon: Will, instinct, reflex action... the insect mind finds little difference

Psychic powers affect those with minds. The insect psyche is more alien and thus less affected.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Jun 2020 02:51:33 No.43852125 Report

Quoted By: >>43852157

>>43852066
That's why Dragon is the way it is too. It's hard to say whether Psychic or Dragon was intended to be the king of all types but regardless Dragon is treated that way in its interaction. Resists the 3 starter types + pikachu's type. weak only to itself and to ice, which back then was rather rare and ice types have always been difficult to use well

Ruined a little by water types getting ice beam/blizzard but hey whatever

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Jun 2020 02:57:29 No.43852157 Report

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>>43852125
Well the weakness to itself in Gen I didn't matter since the only Dragon type move back then was Dragon Rage so it was only really weak to Ice.

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Anonymous Sat 13 Jun 2020 03:04:23 No.43852197 Report

Quoted By: >>43852787

>>43847861
>>43850570
This. Psychic powers occur between mind to mind. The insect psyche is more alien. It works through pure instinct and is thus less affected by psychic power.

>RAZIEL: You've made the mistake of leaving me unbound, and it is you who must succumb to my will.
>ZEPHON: Will, instinct, reflex action... the insect mind finds little difference. I warn you, brother: as my stature has grown, so it is matched by my appetite. Step forward, morsel!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Jun 2020 04:37:02 No.43852787 Report

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>>43852197
>>43852020
Ebon, M. (1983). Psychic warfare. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company.
I mean, the Japanese name of the type is ESPer, not PKer. Fear leads to nervousness which leads to Psi-Missing.

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Anonymous Sat 13 Jun 2020 05:43:53 No.43853174 Report

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>>43849868
Espeon

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Anonymous Sat 13 Jun 2020 11:54:02 No.43854687 Report

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>>43847861
Bug thoughts are a magnitude of orders different from others. It's like having 8 frontal lobes all schizo talking against each other but with much more lateral thinking. Then the psychic realizes the bug is just acting on instinct and reacting to the environment; all while having to 'hear' the 8 schizos argue.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Jun 2020 14:11:34 No.43855400 Report

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>>43848018
> That's why alteria is a dragon and charizard isn't.
it's because charizard comes from generation I and giving one starter the most special/rarest type (what it was supposed to be) would be unfair

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Jun 2020 14:16:35 No.43855425 Report

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>>43850161
>Night Daze
signature move of Zoroark can't be used to explain every dark type

>Black Hole Eclipse
>Max Darkness
pure type energy moves without a theme whatsoever to fill the quota
also black holes aren't darkness

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