I'm making a new move. "Fairy Punch" 70 Base Power 100 Accuracy Physical Dark Type

"When in doubt, Normal it out" SOMEBODY PUT THAT ON A T-SHIRT!!

New Move: Tsunami Type: W̶a̶t̶e̶r̶ Normal

Look on the bright side, Dragon Ascent can hit fairies.

In China and Japan, tornados(twisters) are literally called "Dragon Sweep Wind(竜巻/龙卷风)", since Japanese and Chinese legends say that tornados are brought by twisting dragons So I guess Twister being a dragon type kinda makes sense ._.

Dragon Ascent is Flying because Rayquaza needed a Viable Flying STAB

Me: *watches this video then begins playing Pokemon* Professor: Please choose a Pokemon Me: do you have a... normal type starter?

Twister‘s japanese kanji name is 竜巻，which means tornado but the first character means Dragon, thus it is a dragon type move.

Actually, U-Turn is a bug type move because its Japanese name is a pun that's lost in translation. The meaning of the word "tombogaeri" is indeed "round-trip" and is used for planes. However, the word is made up as a combination of the words "tombo" (dragonfly) and "kaeri" (return). So while the word means "round-trip", the literal meaning is "return of the dragonfly". Twister is the same. The Japanese word for tornado is "tatsumaki". However, "tatsumaki" can also work as a pun since it combines the words "tatsu" (traditional word for dragon) and "maki" (wrap). So "tatsumaki" becomes "dragon wrap".

DRAGON ASCENT IS SO BADASS THAT EVEN THOUGH ITS FLYING TYPE IT GETS TO HANG OUT WITH THE DRAGON MOVES! THEY BUY IT LUNCH EVERYDAY BECAUSE THEY RESPECT THE SHIT OUT OF IT!

Dual Chop.. hm, sounds like a fighting-type move, but judging by how this video went, I'm gonna guess and say.. Normal? Yeah, let's go with that. *Looks up Dual Chop* ... So apparently it's a frickin Dragon Type. Why, Pokemon, why must you do this.

0:47 in many mythologies, space is symbolised by a sea

"Oh F***k off it's called Dragon Ascent" - The Aura Guardian, 2K15

*Someone* "Normal Type Move." *Aura Guardian:* TRIGGERED

ONIX used EARTHQUAKE! It's super effective on the opposing MAGNEMITE! It doesn't affect the opposing DODRIO... MAGNEMITE fainted! #VideoGameLogic

electricity,fire,and ice together. sounds like something a dragon would use.

Well, the biggest reason in my eyes as to why "Rock Climb" is Normal, is mostly because it's an activity/sport any human can do. Sure, it's got Rock in the name, but it felt like an exception to the rule. Also, they could fix the name Dragon Ascent to "Dragon's Ascent" to make it grammatically fitting to what it really does.

I didn't even know mat block was a move...

I think Normal doubles as the "it doesn't really fit anything specific" typing. That's the main reason Tri-Attack actually kinda makes sense as Normal, plus the fact that it was kinda-sorta made for pokemon like Porygon and Dodrio. Lick is only ghost because of the Gastly line, that's literally it.

Lucario: *uses normal type move* TheAuraGuardian: HSHUUSBYEBCJCBWCNDKCBDU!!!!

Pokemon with flame body/magma armor should burn up sticky webs, pokemon with heavy metal should crush/smash stealth rocks. It would be cool if rock types could absorb stealth rocks and gain health, since almost no rock types have recovery.

Normal is the Mew of Pokemon moves

For the move Twister, its Japanese name can be translated to 竜巻(Tatsumaki) which is a tornado. It might sound like a flying type move, but the 竜 in Tatsumaki is actually meant dragon in Japanese and Chinese. Tornado in East Mythology was considered as the wind caused by the dragon.

Video: three states of matter Me, an intellectual who knows about plasma: There is another

Twister makes a LiTTLE sense because it was believed that tornadoes and other disasterous forms of weather were caused by the appearance of Dragons, whom possessed godlike powers that rended the world around and destroyed everything in its path just by traversing. ...Or something along those lines. I kinda recall hearing something like that once. Also Mat Block, "Tatamigaeshi", is a famous Ninjutsu technique to block projectiles by quickly flipping up a Tatami Mat, which you clearly show in your visual of a ninja flipping a mat to block shuriken. Fighting makes quite a bit of sense in that respect.

I guess Dragon Ascent could make sense if you look at as; something ascending by flying upwards to the sky to become a dragon. Hey, you know what would be cool? If Magikarp learned it to become a Gyarados. Because, you know, the whole back story of a carp ascending a waterfall to become a dragon. Because Gyarados is a dra... oh... Well Mega-Gyarados is part drag... WHAT?!

I feel like they made Dragon Ascent a flying type move so the Zinnia battle wouldn't be super easy even though it's on a mega rayquaza

Move: Swords dance Description: A frentic fighting dance to uplift the fighting spirit. It sharply raises the users attack. A fighting dance, Must be fighting type! No? Well... Maybe steel, because it is called "Swords" dance... No... Then what type is it? *NORMAL*

My mind blew up when i realized the solid, water, gas thing about dialga, palkia, and giratina

Needle shield. As in pine needles. From pine trees.

3:18 Twister being a dragon type might be a refference that in the days of old, in chinese and japanese myth, dragons are thought to be the creator of storms

I kinda think that an employee a Nintendo had trouble coming up with move types, and put all the types in a bowl and picked them out

I have one question........... WHY IS REST A PSYCHIC TYPE?!?!?!

The mat block fighting is pretty obvious cause its a mat from a dojo

Rock Climb (Me) Guess 1: Rock Guess 2:Normal How tf is that hard!

"When in doubt, Normal it out." My mood right there

back in the day we were the strong ones but everything change when the NORMAL TYPES attack

Dual chop is dragon type

I just love this video. Always come back to rewatch it. The story part of this is so good and the delivery of dialogues is so well done. I applaud you Alex for this piece of absolute brilliance.

Agility is a psychic type move... Ash’s Pikachu used to know Agility... The moment you realized that Ash’s Pikachu learned a psychic type move... Big news to me. 😂😂❤️🤣

Aside from the states of matter, having Palkia of the creation trio as Water makes sense. Many creation myths describe the primordial chaos of pre-existence as an endless sea of water. Until I learned the states of matter thing was the reason for their types, I was always more confused by Dialga being Steel. The kana for U-turn includes the characters for "dragonfly" in it, and is learned by both Yanma and Yanmega by level up. The Japanese absolutely love that sort of play on words, which is probably what got it into the Bug type. I'll just quote Bulbapedia on this: "The Japanese name of this move literally means "to paint a dragon and dot its eyes" and serves as a metaphor for the finishing touch in a piece of work that give it "the spark of life". The idiom originated from a legend where Zhang Sengyou, a Chinese painter, completes the dragons on a mural by dotting their eyes and thus literally bringing them to life; they spring out of the temple wall and fly off. The completed dragons immediately ascended to the heavens after the work was done." Context is more important than literal meaning in the Japanese language, so I'd say that the reason it isn't Dragon-type is probably because there's more emphasis on the sense of completion leading to flight, rather than the simpler fact that it's a dragon flying. Twister has the kana "tatsu" in it, which is one of several words for "dragon" in Japanese. Also, dragons in eastern mythology were known for their ability to control the weather. Head Smash? Uh... I got nothin'. Spikes... er... I'll get back to you one that (never). Spike Cannon: Overall, attacks with normal body parts that don't have immediate elemental implications (like wings, or cheating by biting) tend to lean towards Normal. Mat Flip refers to a known ninja trick of flipping up a tatami mat to block an incoming attack (although I'm not sure if that means RL shinobi, or movie shinobi...). Dark-type moves are typically about cheating, deception, dirty tricks, or outright cruelty (barely anything uses actual darkness); Mat Flip is fair, just unorthodox. Nothing on Wide Guard. Razor Wind is another instance of context being important. "Kamaitachi" literally translates to "sickle weasel", a mythological creature that would fly around on tiny tornadoes and cut people (for whatever reason, they made it into a move instead of a Pokemon). The Normal typing comes from the fact that it isn't the wind itself hurting you, but what's in it (not a literal wind weasel, but probably crap the wind picked up). Don't see the issue with Sweet Scent. A lot of things that aren't flowers smell nice. And smelling good is a pretty plain idea, and Normal type includes a lot of pretty plain stuff. As for Mega Punch... there's no skill behind it, like Fighting-type is supposed to have. It's just them hitting someone really hard. It not being Fighting makes sense. Don't really get Feint. Feint Attack being Dark makes sense, but it I'm not seeing the reason behind Feint being Normal. The whole set of Normal-type moves following that make sense (Comet Punch is the only one which doesn't initially appear to, but it's like Mega Punch--no skill, just flailing the arms around and trying to hit something. Sweet name, though). Ghosts in Japanese mythology tend to lick things a lot (I know, it's weird). There's also a Filipino ghost called a dila that will lick humans to death that Haunter is based on--and as Haunter was one of the only three original Ghost-types... Moonlight and Morning Sun as Normal make _some_ sense. Dark doesn't really have much to do with night or darkness--even Night Slash is actually named "Crossroad Killing" in Japanese. Although the light itself does come into play, Moonlight appeared to be as more a matter of the time. A number of nocturnal Pokemon have it, and I bet if a werewolf Pokemon existed he'd get it too (and unless they add more to the basic "werewolf" concept, a werewolf would probably be normal type). Well... if we didn't have the Fairy-Type, that is. He'd be a pretty cruel Fairy-type, but it, Ghost, and Psychic are pretty much the "magic" types now. There's already a move for directly drawing power from the sun--Synthesis, so I'd say that Morning Sun is more about just that--the morning, rising to meet the day, rather than just benefiting from the light. The morning just doesn't have the mystic connotations that the night does. Yeah, that one's a bit weak of an excuse, but I really don't see much wrong with these two. Sorry if that came off as offensive or snotty.

I thought flamethrower was grass type

I love how you're not even questioning them at the end.

"The final two moves are Morning Sun and Moonlight" Here we go again :)

You're so funny lol

Palkia is based on pearls, which are water stones.

When he finds out that dragon ascent is the signature move of raquaza a DRAGON type

U-turn as a steel type move? Like a car?

Agility is a physic type move. Wtf

I think they should introduce dual-type moves like blaze kick would be a fire fighting

i like how after he said " When in doubt, normal is out " that he was just so cheery when he kept saying normal type for moves

This video is brilliant lol I really love your series!

2:23 bug catches a bird. Logic

Wait play NICE is normal and play ROUGH is fairy!? fairies are always seen as nice Pokemon on the good side. When you play rough someone gets hurt so I would assume it being fighting or atleast normal. Did they mix up these two words and just leave it or like what bull is this

Huh. I never knew Steelix was a flying type!

the explanation is Pokemon never follows the rules of common sense

I always though spikes was normal, because it was just standard traps instead of poisoned ones

That Galvantula stealing the Pidove was amazing

6:46 true at the time of the video, but as of USUM, Swirlix can now learn the move by breeding. and in gen 8, Slurpuff learns it at level 42. fun fact:the Grubbin line couldn't learn the move in gen 7

Logic of 2k19: Dragon ascent: Flying Dual Chop: Dragon

8:56 - 9:12 defense is the best offense

I love it when you rant. It's funny.

Palkia has a lot to do with water. Palkia has pearls on its body, which it uses to open circles in space. The wings on Palkia's back are also common for many species of fast fish, and the neck is also similar to many fish species. Early ancestors of mammals were fish that also had similar feet and hands.

TheAuraGuardian's new trigger phrase:{move} is a Normal-type move.

There's a move called Mat block???

I just said normal for everything and got most right

Hey, Bite was Normal-type in Gen 1. Have fun. 😁

2:52 well, Rayquaza's secondary type is flying

Game Freak is _hiiiiiiiiiiigh_

Let me try to explain.... Twister: It's kind of weird because in Chinese, the natural phenomenon "Twister" is called "Dragon wind". It may be similar in Japanese, since some Japanese words does come from Chinese. Dragon Ascent: It's the signature move of the ruler of the sky, that's why it's flying The bone moves are ground because they are the signature move of Marowak, although if Marowak was originally fire ghost type, would that have changed the bone moves types? Morning Sun is normal because.... I don't get it. Btw, if it's typing is changed, it wouldn't be fire type, it would be steel type! Lick is ghost because ghosts make people uncomfortable, just like licking someone does? Bite and crunch are dark because it's unethical to bite someone. The spike moves have different types because they are different type of spikes. Spike is ground because it hurt everyone on the ground, spiky shield is grass because it's plant spike. Spike Cannon is normal because it's standard spike. Signal beam is quite weird, seems like GF mixed up insect signals and electrical signals. Why is Growth normal? Why is flash cannon steel? Apparently, attacking with a volcanic eruption is fire type, but attack with thermal heat is ground? And many more

On pokemon showdown I versed someone with a zoroark and a ferrethorn. When ferrothorn used flamethrower, i was certain it was a zoroark so I switched into my clefable but when I used moonblast it wasn’t very effective. It was sooo sus

Normal type is like Pikachu Pikachu learns almost every move Lots of moves are Normal type

Splash is NORMAL... No not water, normal

palkia is a water type because i think space is gigantic "ocean" wisdom man,wisdom

u-turn's japanese literal translation isnt round trip. Its dragon fly's return, which is why it is bug type

the "Will O Wisp" Move is a fire type. It creating 3 purple creepy flames around the opponent and the owner of the TM got scared of it

your vids are so funny

Lick being a ghost type actually makes sense if you look at Japanese mythology. I have heard about a Japanese creature coming into houses and licking people's feet. There might be more, but I know about that one.

Wait, is it all normal? Delcatty: always has been

I was confused that when i was playing pokemon my pokemon learned a powerful normal moves like take down multi attack giga impact mega kick and punch and tri attack and double edge at first i thought it was a fighting type move but its was normal type

You are the I Hate Everything (IHE) of Pokémon! I love your wit!

I honestly never questioned palkia's type since it came from Pokémon Pearl. I figured the pearl provided the water type.

I feel like coming back to these videos on stuff in pokemon that make no sense is to see the comments to learn the origins of these move names and why they have the types they do and learn new things that me and others didn't know about which then becomes like "ok so now this makes a bit more sense but still it is confusing"

I've become addicted to this channel

tri attack could be changed to a 3-hit move, one fire hit, one ice hit, one electric hit

We need a Wind type, all these wind attacks with various types are confusing.

U-turn is a bug type move because its Japanese name "とんぼかえり" (tonbo kaeri) literally means "dragonfly return". I don't know what would be a good English equivalent of the name that fits within the limited letter spaces of attack moves so I can see why they changed the name

Till this day I thought dragon ascent was a dragon type move

I luv your vids

You post some pretty hilarious/educational stuff, I like learning from you, gained +1 subscriber.

New move: Spirit spear The user creates a spear from souls, and throws it at the opponent. Type: Normal

0:38 But there's no Pokémon that represents the fourth one: plasma

I cringe whenever I see my team with normal type stuff. I have to force em to have different type sets through HM's Unless metronome is there because that shits amazingly fun.

my friend your videos are simply awesome. one of the best videos on pokemons. keep up the good work.

Dragon Breath is called „Feuerodem“ in German, which means Fire Breath... why?

9:36 Me: OH GET OUTTA HERE!!!!! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU NINTENDO?! RAZOR WIND SHOULD BE A FLYING TYPE!!!! My bro: ....SIS CALM DOWN

Moonlight. Morning Sun. Moon. Sun. FORESHADOWING?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Yeah probs not

Dual Chop is a Dragon Move

Well, lick makes sense in context. The original ghost type was the ghastly line. They were the only ghost type Pokemon in gen 1, so making a move specifically tailored to them made sense. In Haunter's lore, his lick is one of his most prominent and threatening features being able to paralyze its target. Lick makes sense, you just have to understand why.

WAIT WHAT TWISTER IS DRAGON BUT D R A G O N ASCENT IS NOT DRAGON *WHAT*