>>56508930And they do, in the way I meant, that's why quotes are there.
Let me give you an example. Imagine there was a pokemon based on pic, and it was a psychic type. By just looking at, idk, a bird with a white afro, you wouldn't be able to tell why it's a psychic/flying type, it certainly wouldn't look like one. But if you know its theme, or what is based on, you can tell it is a psychic type because you recognize the thing it is based on.
This is how the design philosophy for typing changed. The problem is with more recent gens, they have been failing to properly convey these themes visually as well, or are just picking dumb as fuck themes like a psychic fish that mentally fillets itself to become faster.
