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Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 13:02:38 No.44288103 View View Reply Original Report

What is the logic behind psychic being super effective against poison?
I don't see any connection between mind powers and poison

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 13:03:56 No.44288109 Report

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>>44288103
>Kadabra controlling Nidorino's mind
now THIS is top notch artwork

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 13:05:23 No.44288114 Report

Quoted By: >>44289571

>>44288103
smart minds figuring out medicine to cure sickness? I dunno

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 13:07:03 No.44288124 Report

Quoted By: >>44288765 >>44292439

>>44288103
Gen 1 balancing

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 13:07:24 No.44288127 Report

Quoted By: >>44289362 >>44290273

Mind over matter, maybe? I alway thought it was using their powers to overcome poison.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 13:09:15 No.44288132 Report

Quoted By: >>44288765

to make gen 1 a bigger joke then it already was

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 13:10:11 No.44288135 Report

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>>44288103
Kadabra peenor

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 13:10:23 No.44288137 Report

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>>44288103
Strong minds defeat toxic minds

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 13:11:50 No.44288146 Report

Quoted By: >>44288154 >>44288728 >>44289726 >>44289791 >>44290677 >>44290865

>>44288103
You should be questioning why Ghost resists Bug, or why Fairy resists Bug.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 13:13:40 No.44288154 Report

Quoted By: >>44288173 >>44290686

>>44288146
Bugs aren’t that strong

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 13:18:01 No.44288166 Report

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>>44288103
Psychics fight at a distance which is advantageous over Poison which is meant to enter the body.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 13:20:09 No.44288172 Report

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>>44288103
Microwaves kill bacteria.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 13:20:13 No.44288173 Report

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>>44288154
That’s not a reasonable or logically sound answer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 14:03:05 No.44288383 Report

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>>44288173
Yes it is

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 14:51:58 No.44288728 Report

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>>44288146
My gay cousin has had aids for like a decade now and still goes partying, fairies know something about bugs

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 14:56:40 No.44288765 Report

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>>44288124
>>44288132
well they haven't changed it, so it was done intentionally.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 14:59:12 No.44288782 Report

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>>44288103
Many venomous animals aren't immune to their own venom, they just avoid injecting themselves. Maybe psychic power just tricks them into injecting themselves?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 15:03:51 No.44288808 Report

Quoted By: >>44288834

I like to imagine that psychics can manipulate and bend sludge with their mind. So it is easy for them to pick up and move poison around, especially since a lot of gen 1 poison types are literal representations of slime and gas.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 15:04:55 No.44288819 Report

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>>44288103
>power of medicine
you can heal yourself if you know how, even just avoid more serious illness

>good versus bad
psychic was the type of intelligence and power, like one of high class, while poison type, except literally being poisonous, was covering all shady, dark creatures

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 15:05:13 No.44288823 Report

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>>44288103
My only explanation is that most poisons require direct contact and a pokemon being psychic would avoid this, but it lacks logic as there are poisons that permeate the environment like gases, rain, even radiation poisoning. There are also poisons made up of neurotoxins that directly affect the brain.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 15:07:09 No.44288834 Report

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>>44288808
practically everything in gen 1 is a poison type. it took until something ridiculous like gen 5 or 6 before gen 1 contained less than 50% of all poison types

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 15:11:33 No.44288869 Report

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>>44288173
Yes it is, bugfags are insufferable

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 15:23:17 No.44288940 Report

Quoted By: >>44290556

>>44288103
Overcoming illness by sheer will.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 16:25:46 No.44289362 Report

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>>44288127
I feel like it should get resistance to poison but poison shouldn’t be punished for that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 16:28:44 No.44289382 Report

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psychics can predict whether something is poisoned or not

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 16:37:37 No.44289461 Report

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>>44288728
Your cousin sounds based as fuck

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 16:38:48 No.44289473 Report

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>>44288869
nah you are

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 16:45:10 No.44289522 Report

Quoted By: >>44289554 >>44289743

>>44288103
To not make the poison types (most of the dex) in gen 1 overpowered. They forgot to nerf that in later gens.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 16:47:10 No.44289537 Report

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>>44288103
>when you feel the Jewish brainwashing turn you gay

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 16:49:44 No.44289554 Report

Quoted By: >>44289626

>>44289522
how would poison be overpowered if it had no psychic weakness?
it barely had moves in Gen1 and there was no good poison types in Gen1 except Venusaur, Gengar and Exeggutor and all of them are dual typing

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 16:51:45 No.44289571 Report

Quoted By: >>44289637

>>44288114

Probably this, I guess, psychic meaning knowledge, meaning medicine which is used to find the cure for poison? and maybe also balancing, otherwise Psychic would only be SE vs. Fighting, so I guess out of all the other types, it made more sense?

Falls in line when you see that Ghost, Dark and Bug defeat Psychic which are common fears of the human mind.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 16:56:27 No.44289626 Report

Quoted By: >>44289713

>>44289554
>Exeggutor
>Poison
Anon...

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 16:57:23 No.44289637 Report

Quoted By: >>44291172 >>44292396

>>44289571
Esper is in no way implies knowledge in japanese. It's more like occult.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 16:58:23 No.44289645 Report

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Traditionally speaking, before medical doctors, healers would be something like a mystic or Onmyoji who are inherently connected to the Psychic type.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 17:00:02 No.44289672 Report

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Psychic powers break apart the chemical composition of the poison. Poisons aren't stable and are thus vulnerable to the psychic forces.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 17:03:56 No.44289705 Report

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>>44288103
I have decided to stop being poisoned, with my mind.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 17:04:56 No.44289713 Report

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>>44289626
wwops, I meant victreebell

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 17:06:26 No.44289726 Report

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>>44288146
Ghost resists bug because ghosts are scarier than bugs, fairy resists bug because “Forrest folk” wouldn’t be afraid of things that live in the forest like bugs

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 17:08:14 No.44289743 Report

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>>44289522
>most of the dex
actually they're only around 20% of the dex

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 17:12:59 No.44289791 Report

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>>44288146
>or why Fairy resists Bug.
Because Fairy is the most mary sure type possible

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 18:03:56 No.44290159 Report

Quoted By: >>44290223 >>44290832 >>44290849

>>44288103
If you have psychic powers, you can see the future. And if you see the future and know someone is gonna poison you, you can more easily avoid it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 18:04:39 No.44290166 Report

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>>44288103
Y'all are blind. He's clearly turning his mind to mush to get him ready for his poundings. He'll become a cock sleeve

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 18:10:06 No.44290223 Report

Quoted By: >>44290832

>>44290159
seems like the kind of logic that could apply to psychic resisting any type

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 18:14:38 No.44290257 Report

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Healing crystals and meditation to cure toxicity of the mind lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 18:15:32 No.44290268 Report

Quoted By: >>44290354

>>44288103
>smart people make antidotes and vaccines and cure illness
>psychic powers could extract venom from someone’s bloodstream

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 18:16:17 No.44290273 Report

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>>44288127
That should make psychics SE against ground or rock types.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 18:26:15 No.44290354 Report

Quoted By: >>44290370

>>44290268
You are talking as if psychics are doctors. Psychic is mind power, which is an intangible power it shouldn't be able to cure poison.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 18:27:58 No.44290370 Report

Quoted By: >>44290395

>>44290354
Why not? Also, long before the modern era, doctors and pharmacists were often compared to (if not accused of being) psychics/witches.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 18:31:00 No.44290395 Report

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>>44290370
medieval times used to call those who work with "dark magic" or "abnormal medic" as witching.
Psychics (or Espers) are something else.

Also, if that was the case, they could have made Psychic pokemon immune to poison

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 18:36:50 No.44290453 Report

Quoted By: >>44290471

>Strong Agaisnt: Fighting & Poison
Both rational and preventable fears if you're smart. A clear mind, untainted, is the opposite of poison.

>Ineffective: Steel
I like to think it was because of the lawsuits about spoonbending and not just a move to make something resistant to psychic to balance the game.

>Weak to: Dark, Bug, Ghost
Irrational fears are Dark/Monsters, Bugs/Insects, and Ghosts/Supernatural, all which play into the theme of the unknown.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 18:38:58 No.44290471 Report

Quoted By: >>44290493

>>44290453
>preventable
doesn't mean strong against.

you can avoid getting burned but that doesn't mean you are strong against fire

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 18:41:47 No.44290493 Report

Quoted By: >>44290539

>>44290471
You know not to get punched in the face or drink bleach, unlike half the retards thats shoot each-other in the streets and the hundreds of kids who die from drinking shit under the sink.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 18:49:13 No.44290539 Report

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>>44290493
likewise you know not to get burned or getting hit by stones thrown at you, etc..

if psychic is strong against poison because it can avoid, then it should be super effective against almost all types which doesn't make any sense.

Even the smartest people in the world can get poisoned if a snake or scorpion bit them in a battle and they can't do anything if they don't have anything to fight with or tools to cure poison

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 18:50:11 No.44290543 Report

Quoted By: >>44290561

>>44288103
I always interpreted as psychic types are smart and know how to cure to poison

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 18:51:58 No.44290556 Report

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>>44288940
this is the only smart reply in this whole shit thread

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 18:52:24 No.44290561 Report

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>>44290543
smart people can also extinguish fires, vaporize water, cut plants, break rocks, meld steel, melt ice, etc... and psychic aren't strong against fire, water, grass, rocks, steel or ice so it's not the reason

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 18:56:17 No.44290587 Report

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>>44288103
It's called placebo effect

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 18:57:06 No.44290596 Report

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>>44289791
>resisting bug is being a Mary Sue
It’s not really that special when over 1/3 of the type chart already resisted it

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 19:07:07 No.44290677 Report

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>>44288146
The reason why poison and bug are resisted by Ghost is because you can't poison what's already dead and bugs eat the corpse and not the soul, Ghost already had 2 immunities so adding anymore would make it broken.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 19:08:06 No.44290684 Report

Quoted By: >>44290743 >>44292439

>>44288103
Another day, another why aren't type effectiveness logical thread.
The answer is GF thought this would make game good.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 19:08:30 No.44290686 Report

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>>44288154
Then why isn't Bug resisted by Rock like how Normal is?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 19:11:15 No.44290711 Report

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>>44288103
witch doctors

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 19:14:20 No.44290743 Report

Quoted By: >>44290848

>>44290684
but they are

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 19:23:10 No.44290832 Report

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>>44290159
it's this
>>44290223
no you

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 19:25:06 No.44290848 Report

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>>44290743
Type effectiveness is logical? Why is electricity SE on water but not steel? Why is ground SE on rock but not ice?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 19:25:08 No.44290849 Report

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>>44290159
with your logic Psychic should be SE against every type

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 19:26:33 No.44290865 Report

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>>44288146
>>44289791
Would've made more sense for Grass and Fairy to both resist each other instead.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 19:57:49 No.44291160 Report

Quoted By: >>44291403

Big brains say no to drugs obv, it's all about abstinence smartos not needing the pleasure of drugs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 19:59:06 No.44291172 Report

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>>44289637

Then I have no fucking idea, but I do believe it has to do with the mind to a degree considering the thing it´s weak to.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 20:33:07 No.44291403 Report

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>>44291160
>ITT people are associating psychic with being smart while forgetting slowbro is a brainlet
you all are fucking stupid and gamefreak is retard they made psychic SE against poison out of their ass just to give poison an unnecessary weakness

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 22:20:55 No.44292396 Report

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>>44289637
Its both magic and human brain power. Occult is half psychic half ghost

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 22:24:25 No.44292439 Report

Quoted By: >>44292577 >>44292708

>>44288124
>>44290684
These anons are correct.
Why are there so many threads complaining about types? Clearly GF doesn’t give as much of a fuck about the logic as you all do

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 22:38:40 No.44292577 Report

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>>44292439
types are fun to think about

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 22:51:39 No.44292708 Report

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>>44292439
>Why are there so many threads complaining about types?
Because pokemon have a shitty and unbalanced typing chart

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 23:01:38 No.44292791 Report

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Which one of them looks like smart beings?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 23:05:04 No.44292822 Report

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>>44288103
Well, as others have pointed out, the Psychic type is called "Esper" in Japan, which is just sort of a catch-all term for any sort of "powers of the mind", including magic and spirituality. So I figure it's got to do with ancient practices involving meditation, controlled breathing, etc. to purge toxins and better control your body.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 22 Jul 2020 23:08:19 No.44292852 Report

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> Rest
> Heal Pulse
> Magic Coat
> Lunar Dance
> Psycho Shift
> Healing Wish
Psychic is a healing type, probably using cosmic energies to purge impuritites or something.

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