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Nah he’s the cousin who wants to eat salted smurfs. Easy mistake tho.

Bro why do they keep doing the violet/scarlet dlc category it's so lame

@@uiron5755 if you are referring to "paldea + area zero dlc," that category includes anything gen 9, not just the dlc.

@SoggyWaffles. woops I misread it LUL

I played Pokemon religiously (showdown enjoyer) from gen 1-7 and I still get so fucked up on pokedoku

@@zankaa8031 Relatable, I skipped literally all of Gen 3-6, much later picked up Gen 1 and 7 ou, and then Gen 8 pre-DLC vgc and ou. I can tell you all about specific Toxapex sets but I’m never going to remember which generation Lucario debuted in.

They're toxic

That's cuz naga means snake, not poison.

Why would naga mean poison anyway, you don't eat the snake.

Naga in Malay means dragon

@@daniaaalbecause it comes from Hindi/Sanskrit in which Naga means snake/serpent

always remember that they made the mfer named Seel in GEN ONE

@@depalodor Seel *and* Dewgong literally two animals that actually exist just misspelled

He literally looks like donkey Kong

nerds have ruined pokemon......

Reminder that three magnets combining into a big magnet is DAY ONE Pokémon bullshit

To bad this time it was the English language who was wrong.

It at least evolves into one

Plenty of examples, like absol nd mightyena

Alolan Muk is literally only Dark for that reason.

Isn't that a bit like going "learns tackle=normal"? Nearly any pokemon with sharp teeth gets it

@@polocatfan Well that and the lack of weaknesses.

The Regitube in the back : : :

Opening my third eye to manifest Regibrain into becoming real

Sea dragons are also a thing, but that’s what Dragalge is based on

Ohhhh that makes a lot of sense. But why is Charizard not a dragon type?

@@videoguy640Because life is unfair and we mere made just to suffer. (In actuality it is due to the game play philosophy of Pokemon Red/Green, where Dragon type were made specifically to be better then other type but would be rarer and harder to obtain, thus why only 1 dragon type evolution line (Dratini/Dragonair/Dragonite) exists in the game. They lack many weaknesses on purpose because they were supposed to be a cool reward for finding it (Can only find it super rarely in the Safari Zone (a limited zone you have to use Pokedollars to walk though and you only get 300 steps before it boots you to the beginning)) and training it, Dragonite being the highest level evolution in the game. This comes around to Charizard where they would not want to give such a powerful type as a starter Pokemon. TL;DR Pokemon balance was wack in Gen 1, and giving you an intentionally broken Pokemon type as a starter was not part of their plan. Here is a bonus Pokemon Gen 1 fact, the starters of the game act as a difficulty select, Bulbasaur is easy, because the early gyms are weak to or not very effective against Grass, thus by the time you get to the Gyms you would need to swap, you could have either trained more Pokemon based on the larger pool you have access to at that point in the game, or try to just tank it with higher levels. Squirtle is medium where they can wipe out the first gym but then will struggle being the same type as the second and being weak to the third, you have to start training up a new Pokemon/Pokemon Team to tackle to game, and Charmander is immediately not good against the Rock type of the first gym so you have access to about 5 or 6 Pokemon total at that point and have to figure out how to really manage your types and using buff and debuff moves. So far as I know this was never really repeated and the reason is kind of obvious though never outright stated, kids were not going to restart the game because it was too hard or they couldn't advance, they just wanted to pick the coolest one or the cutest or whatever they liked and will just suffer smacking their heads against a gym until they win. So this soft difficulty select is inherently bad in a game about monster collecting that places emphasis on creating bonds with them and selecting the ones you relate to. Sorry for the long post, hopefully it was informative and enjoyable to read~

According to google: Water/Dragon type would have no weaknesses. The Flying type allows for a x4 weakness to Electric, which keeps Gyarados in check.

@@osterro This is why AI is cooked. Water/dragon is weak to dragon and fairy type

@@Ragnell123 Forgot to mention that I was talking about gen 1. There was no fairy type yet. And I don't know if dragon was weak to dragon yet.

@@Ragnell123 Fairy pokemon in gen 1? Dragon would be fair if gen 1 had other dragon moves than Dragon Rage, wich doesn't interact with types. So in gen 1 it wouldn't have any weaknesses.

@@juhoo2068 Oh, yea if we’re only talking about Gen 1 then yea. That’s why fairy type was conceived to begin with, cause dragon type was too strong

He'll play the first half and then dip because it gets half the views of any random SAP episode lol

I'd love to see this if they made one that wasn't shit, it's been so long

libarian

Tell that to the garydos on my first ever pokemon team (it had dragon rush)

@@matthiass._. In Gen 1 it had Dragon Rage and that's it which does 40 damage even so the type chart doesn't even matter

I thought it was because then it would be resistant to ice, the only thing that could combat dragon type in gen 1 as the only dragon type move was dragon rage

but now lil bro doesn't even have any physical flying type moves to use (unless that was changed in scarvi dlc)

​@@masonroper4817Gyarados can learn bounce iirc

nvm gruel and giblee destroyed me

What do you mean they are decisive?

Typings weren't even a part of the game until halfway through development

Gyarados will always be weird because of Lake of Rage. Kingdra makes a certain amount of sense but they put a ton of hallmarks for Gyarados to be a dragon but more importantly not flying. Lance the dragon trainer has a quest with Gyarados. The design is based on mythical sea serpents (similar to Dragonair) Dragons in most cultures have a trait associated with anger/rage Gyarados learns dragon rage. The Pokemon is also most likely based on a Japanese legend where a carp jumps out of a pool and flies away.

​@@grantduerst8060there's a continuation of this fable where the Koi acts evil and does rampages with his dragon power, thus he's sentence by the heavenly gods and lose his godhood (dragon power) but still keeps his new form. That's why Gyarados, being full of rage isn't dragon type, and even mega into dark type, because he's evil.

sadly not

I know for gyrados, it's that reason and also playing into the myth that inspired gyrados because once the carp jumped the waterfall and was blessed into becoming a dragon, it lost it's humility and it's ability to fly was taken away (why it's a flying type but doesn't learn many if any flying moves) so the flying secondary type is a reminder of it's past.

It makes sense from a game balance standpoint, but why not change it now? They’ve added Fairy type to a bunch of pokemon who didn’t have it. As well, Dragon isn’t nearly as powerful as it used to be, if balance is the concern.

Not Dragon Pulse, that's later. Twister, Dragonbreath and Outrage were the three Dragon type attacks in Gen 2.

I find it unlikely that this no weakness detail would have played a role in the decision process

@@jooko91 TY for the correction o7

personally, it's just wild to me that gyarados wouldn't be dragon type considering the evolution line looks like is referencing the fable where a koi climbs a waterfall and becomes a dragon

Isn't Gyarados literally built around a story where a carp swam up a waterfall to become a dragon?

@@MATCHLESS93 you know, Pokémon has this power to take real legends and do something alike, that is their very own lol Now this is a carp who becomes a sea monster, that's all 🤣

​@@quentincl2932 okay, and how does your little "there be dragons" story plays into this conversation? What I'm saying, that you're wrong and Gyarados has nothing to do with your proposed inspiration for it.

@MATCHLESS93 oh ? So Game Freak said, "It was a dragon." Do you have some proof of what you're saying? Weird enough, Gyarados has not the dragon type .. for a dragon that's just funny... maybe because it is a Leviathan 😉 I mean, even charizard got an alternate dragon type when mega evolving , they could have done the same for Gyarados, but they didn't, they gave it dark type .. because it is a sea monster. Case closed