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Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 00:51:10 No.55682983 View View Reply Original Report

If you were forced to make one generation 1 Pokemon a Dark Type, which would you choose?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 00:52:27 No.55682988 Report

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>>55682983
Cloister and Arbok

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 00:52:33 No.55682989 Report

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>>55682983
Arbok. There are enough Poison types in the gen 1 dex.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 00:53:03 No.55682991 Report

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>>55682983
arbok and hypno

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 00:53:32 No.55682995 Report

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>>55682983
Persian because i hate it and i wanna use brick break on it

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 00:56:09 No.55683012 Report

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>>55682983
Fearow so he has something to set him apart from Pidgeot

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 01:09:58 No.55683059 Report

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>>55682983
gengar, why the fuck is the shadow pokemon not ghost/dark

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 01:22:18 No.55683098 Report

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>>55682983
Fearow, Arbok, Vileplume, Hypno and Cloyster would be my recommendations.

Also, Seadra should be part Dragon and Ninetales and Marowak part Ghost.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 01:26:10 No.55683120 Report

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>>55682983
Gengar

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 01:29:25 No.55683133 Report

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>>55682995
Anon they already made a dark Persian, and Brick Break is already supereffective on Normal Persian

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 01:31:24 No.55683145 Report

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Vileplume. It actually looks like a Dark type and has always been overshadowed at everything in its current typing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 01:41:52 No.55683199 Report

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>>55682983
Poison/Dark Arbok would be pretty cool

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 01:44:52 No.55683208 Report

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>>55682983
Zubat/Golbat. The Poison typing never made sense in the first place, it was clearly just being used as a placeholder for "evil type".

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 01:48:53 No.55683227 Report

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>>55683059
this, I don't really get why Gengar is poison anyway

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 01:52:35 No.55683242 Report

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>>55683227
No dark/evil in Gen 1 so poison was the "evil" type.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 02:07:05 No.55683315 Report

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>>55682983
Just Arbok and Hypno

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 02:07:56 No.55683319 Report

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>>55683315
Why Hypno over Gengar?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 02:20:31 No.55683365 Report

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>>55683059
As people love to remind us, Dark generally refers to intention rather than light levels.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 02:22:49 No.55683376 Report

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>>55683319
>>55683227
At the very least, Gastly does play into the "poison gas" think well enough. Haunter and Gengar being poison kind of just feels like them not wanting to drop the type even after the design element that inspired it vanished.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 02:43:59 No.55683463 Report

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>>55682983
hypno since it gets mogged by alakazam as a psychic

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 02:47:39 No.55683474 Report

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>>55683463
honestly I could see Dream Eater as a dark type move

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 03:45:50 No.55683615 Report

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>>55682983
i can only pick 1? arbok

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 03:49:24 No.55683626 Report

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fearow

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 04:05:28 No.55683677 Report

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>>55682983
Mewtwo could be an interesting psychic dark type. As the dark counterpart to Mew.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 04:10:34 No.55683700 Report

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Why's everyone saying Arbok? What's Dark about a purple snake?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 04:13:28 No.55683713 Report

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>>55683700
snakes are pretty commonly associated with evil/temptation, plus she's got a big scary face on her chest and is usually fodder for bad team members. she's obviously meant to be a bit more sinister than your average snake

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 04:18:33 No.55683731 Report

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>>55683700
Dark is literally evil type in Japan. It has nothing to do with darkness.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 04:25:26 No.55683750 Report

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>>55683700
fits in really well with later dark types like houndour and purrloin, aesthetically. trickery is also like textbook dark type and it has a giant scary face on its neck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 04:31:48 No.55683769 Report

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>>55683227
Leftover from old idea.

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Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 04:32:50 No.55683775 Report

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>>55683731

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Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 04:40:47 No.55683813 Report

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>>55683775
I don't know what this means. Arbok is supposed to be a sinister cobra.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 05:22:29 No.55683948 Report

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>>55682983
Chansey because your question is stupid.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 06:08:35 No.55684057 Report

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>Flying/Dark
Zubat & Golbat
>Poison/Dark or Solo Dark
Ekans & Arbok
>Psychic/Dark
Drowzee & Hypno
>Flying/Dark
Fearow

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 06:12:50 No.55684068 Report

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>>55683059
Because "dark type" being a thing is a retcon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 06:21:20 No.55684083 Report

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>>55682983
Electrode, for the sole purpose of BTFOing Mewtwo.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 06:26:12 No.55684096 Report

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>>55683227
I always think of it oozing ectoplasm by choice kinda like the fat slug ghost thing from ghost busters. It’s very similar in design. The gas also kinda makes sense, but I agree that the more I think about it the more it doesn’t fit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 06:31:58 No.55684112 Report

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>>55683227
Vestigial typing left over from gastly/haunter (who are literally just poisonous gas)
>>55683319
Gengar isn’t a /vp/ user unlike Hypno

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 13:00:29 No.55684776 Report

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>>55682983
Mewtwo and nobody else.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 14:15:57 No.55684929 Report

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>>55682989
So, you want to take away Arbok's poison type? Also, there's nothing wrong with the amount of poison types, it's like complaining about too many water types or normal types. Some are just meant to be more common than others.

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Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 14:17:06 No.55684934 Report

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Jynx

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Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 14:18:55 No.55684940 Report

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>>55683474
it also would have made hypno more creepy to reveal it was a dark type in gen 2. because dark types are deceiving so it would have been like hypno was disguising himself as a shitty psychic type in gen 1 then was revealed to be a dark type which seems creepy to me. like you really can't trust this pokemon.

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Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 14:37:00 No.55684986 Report

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You know what Pinser deserves the dark typing
How come syther got a brand new evo with a new type but pinser got nothing? its unfair

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 14:43:21 No.55685004 Report

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>>55683227
They didn't have types well defined so they thought ghosts are like poisonous gasses which they kinda are but that shouldn't be enough reason to give it poison type on top of ghost.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 14:48:31 No.55685016 Report

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>>55682983
Gengar. Ghost/Poison makes sense for Ghastly since its body is made out of gas, but it kind of loses that trait as it evolves. Gengar's more of a living shadow than gas so the poison-type doesn't particularly fit it, while its personality would definitely fit a dark-type.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 21:54:50 No.55686630 Report

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Tangela being Grass/Dark sounds pretty cool

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 22:00:08 No.55686661 Report

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>>55683365
Gengar is often depicted as a prankster or outright evil though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 22:03:45 No.55686679 Report

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>>55686630
Actually if we're considering it in the context of gen 1 where bug is a non factor that'd be really fun

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 22:09:09 No.55686712 Report

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>>55686679
Right? Like the ultimate weapon was this all powerful psychic type, and the only thing able to stand up to it is this odd little critter found on a remote island in a place no one would think to look.

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Anonymous Wed 03 Apr 2024 22:11:44 No.55686725 Report

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>>55684986
In the spaceworld demo he did but they axed it and turned it into Heracross instead. Which is gay, Pinsir deserves an evo.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Apr 2024 00:18:01 No.55687217 Report

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>>55682983
FEARow / Mew2

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Apr 2024 04:36:32 No.55687988 Report

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>>55682983
None of them. None of them make any sense at all as dark type. Maybe meowth/persian, or vulpix/ninetails? Maybe mankey/primeape? Maybe Jynx actually, since you said one, and it's a single stage. Or maybe tauros. Idk. Honestly none of them really fit as dark type. If you look at the gen 2 dark types, it's clear they were designed to be dark type. None of the gen 1 pokemon were designed to be dark type.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Apr 2024 07:31:01 No.55688316 Report

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>>55682983
Jigglypuff for sure. (Wigglytuff will retain typing).

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Apr 2024 08:46:19 No.55688448 Report

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>>55684057
I agree with this 100%, especially with Fearow, because it would let it be more than just an early route Dodrio.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Apr 2024 13:50:01 No.55689025 Report

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>>55683227
Back in gen 1, no Pokemon lost its typing after evolution (except Eevee, which was special for doing so).
Since Ghastly was poison due to it being a toxic cloud, both its evos needed to be poison aswell.

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