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A Sound/Music Type is something people have speculated about for years, and it's a move property already in the games. Some people have thought Sound might've been considered as a type back in Gen 3 thanks to the Whismur line, but aside from that there's not much else to support a Gen 3 Sound type until we get more leaks relating to its Source Code and development. However, looking into some things, and a recent observation made by that guy who reviews Pokemon Bogleech, I think there's a decent possibility that Sound was originally going to be a third new type to have come with Generation 2, either in the place of Dark or Steel, or alongside the two. The main reason for this belief is the large amount of scrapped/early with an odd Sound or Music theme to them. We have a Kokopelli mon, a fertility god who plays a flute, a literal musical note, a kookaburra with a megaphone, and a Xylophone sea monster. These are four Pokemon with explicit sound/music themes to them. If it was just a pure coincidence it's certainly an odd one. (And before you think that 4 mons is too low to justify a new type, remember when Steel was added, there were only 5 FE mons for it, and one was Magneton. And less Ghost and Dragon mons.) The blue circled mons are just other mons in this batch that POSSIBLY could've been this music/sound type, though I wouldn't say definitely so and they aren't the core mons that I believe support this theory. They're just interesting designs that might clue us in, Remoraid for example might've drawn from a Pistol Shrimp, the loudest animal in the world, Politoed's early design might've had this in mind to replace its fighting type (Politoed's dex entries to this day still talk about its singing), a hula dancer, the Mothman's wing/ears/limbs might've influenced sound, the weird plant mon could've been seen as a microphone, and the two cats have bells. With the more ambiguous mons that never even made it to Spaceworld it's hard to tell what was gone for here.
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>>44096726 That cat would have been so insanely popular. What were they thinking
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>>44096726 So, what does this all mean? Probably just that a Sound/Music type was considered, but it doesn't seem to have even made it to ever have been implemented in the games, at least from what's known. It seems that early on in development they wanted to add new types of Pokemon to the sequel games, as we see plenty of Pokemon in the Korean assets with obvious Steel and Dark aesthetics to them, but they weren't sure what types to add or for what purpose. By Spaceworld '97 they knew they wanted Steel and Dark, but they hadn't realized they wanted to nerf Psychics at that point (the only real nerf to Psychic was that wasn't very effective against Dark types. Not even immune).
The only other thing I'd wish to add was that Jigglypuff was very popular around this era, so it could've worked great as an ambassador Sound type mon, like Magnemite was. Also Sound fits in well with the idea of nerfing Psychics if that was somehow their idea from the beginning and they just didn't know how far to take it in Spaceworld, since Music distracts a thinking mind.
Anyways, that's all for my theory of a Sound/Music type. Any thoughts or opinions?
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This always been a favourite theory to hear but have never seen actual facts other that the sound mover, exploud etc.Now sound is considered a sub type?? i guess there are so many moves some abilitiesand many sound inspired pokemon they should just add the sound type.But i dont know if they will ever release a new type but anyway
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JANNIES IFFY UH
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Bird type 2.0, except it got completely scrapped for being a bad idea
Gen 8 Originally Planned a Sound Type
A Sound/Music Type is something people have speculated about for years, and it's a move property already in the games. Some people have thought Sound might've been considered as a type back in Gen 3 thanks to the Whismur line, but aside from that there's not much else to support a Gen 3 Sound type until we get more leaks relating to its Source Code and development. However, looking into some things, and a recent observation made by that guy who reviews Pokemon Bogleech, I think there's a decent possibility that Sound was originally going to be a third new type to have come with Generation 8, either in the place of Dark or Steel, or alongside the two. The main reason for this belief is the large amount of scrapped/early with an odd Sound or Music theme to them. We have a monkey mon, a primate who plays a drum, a plesiosaur with literal musical bars, a lizard with a guitar chest. These are six Pokemon with explicit sound/music themes to them. If it was just a pure coincidence it's certainly an odd one. (And before you think that 6 mons is too low to justify a new type, remember when Steel was added, there were only 5 FE mons for it, and one was Magneton. And less Ghost and Dragon mons.) The blue circled mons are just other mons in this batch that POSSIBLY could've been this music/sound type, though I wouldn't say definitely so and they aren't the core mons that I believe support this theory. They're just interesting designs that might clue us in, the Mr. Mime evolution for example might've drawn from a tap dancer, people who make rhythm with their feet, a baby frog looking mon that cries and would make a lot of sound just like frogs, and the weird badger mon could've been seen as a glam rock singer. With the more ambiguous mons that never even made it to Spaceworld it's hard to tell what was gone for here.
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>Whismur line >Chatot >Kricketune line >Noibat line >The ones from >>44096854 >Meloetta >Chingling line >Bronzong I could see it
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>>44096751 They can't all go in, they made the better choice
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>>44097211 Based Stantlerchad
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>>44096854 I'm going to hope this is sarcasm, because the original post seems like a huge stretch, but people are just going with it, which makes me feel like I'm missing something.
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>>44096726 Why the hell would an ankylosaur with flippers be a sound-type?
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>>44097451 It's a xylophone. Its back plates are keys, the tail is the mallet. The rest is weird ambiguous monster details.
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>>44096726 >Remoraid for example might've drawn from a Pistol Shrimp This is some bulbapedo-tier speculation and you're retarded. It was always a remora. That's why it evolves into an octopus; they're both sea creatures characterized by their suction cups.
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>>44097501 I didn't say Remoraid is a pistol shrimp. I was just saying that they could've shot the idea to make it a sound type because of that connection. I even put it in the category of stretches too.
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>>44096854 you are so childish
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>He bends! He stretches! It's the extraordinary Stretch Armstrong! In all seriousness though, the vast majority of these mons look to be pretty definitively other types. Black Rabbit was probably Dark, the birds were just Flying types, and the dinosaur Steel. The other group actually consists of either pokemon that were altered in terms of design (Politoad, Remoraid, and Bellossom) or were also petty clearly other types (Cats were dark, big ears was normal or bug, and cyclops seems to be either grass or poison) Just designs isn't proof they were going to add such a type. You should really be looking for evidence of an actual unused type in the code.
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>>44096751 They might've been worried about Sailor Moon trying to claim copyright. Evolution looks WAY too similar to the black cat from that.
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>>44096726 >soundfag Fuck off already!
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>>44096854 Hello? Based department?
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>>44096726 Sound would work as its own attack type, with specific weaknesses/resistances, but not available on any Pokemon.
The type list is already bloated as fuck. Types like Flying, Fighting or Dragon could all be moved to a moves-only list and give these mons actual types.