Dialga, palkia and giratina all represent solid, liquid and gas, that's why their typing is so confusing

Sudowoodo's name is a combination of 'pseudo', meaning fake, and wood, which means it's 'fake wood', like a petrified tree

“first stage starters should not be dual type” Rowlet: hahaha lol what did you say?

And in Sword and Shield, Ash and Goh ride Lugia surfing and diving undersea

Since Gyardos is primarily based on Chinese Water Dragons, many have a mystical power to fly.

"Hurr durr Sudowoodo looks like a tree it should be grass type" That's THE JOKE

It make sense for Gastly to be ghost/poison because the poison type comes from the fact that 95% of its body is comprised of poisonous gases.

1:56 Gyarados is based off the mythical fairy tale of a carp passing through a gate up a waterfall and if it does it. It will eventually turn into a dragon. But, what is less know is that the dragons who abuse of their power looses it's dragon status & becomes a flying lizard. And since most of the time in the Pokédex it is infamously stated that Gyarados abuses it's powers and destroys villages. And in all honesty it makes more sense to be a Dark type

Wasn’t sure if you were aware of this. But Sudowoodo is basically Pseudo Wood. It’s a play in saying fake wood. New subscriber. Loving the channel

Gastly is a Poison type, because it is literally called the "Poison Gas Pokemon", and it uses poisonous gases when attacking. When Gastly evolves, it still keeps the Poison type.

Imagine just going about ur day, just as usual, when suddenly u see a Gyrodos literally flying amongst the birds and planes and such. A GYRODOS

8:51 Palkia’s Water Type makes perfect sense. You know Dialga is Steel/Dragon. It is because of Pokémon Diamond. Diamonds are supposed to be hard as steel. And Palkia, being the mascot of Pokémon Pearl, you would most likely find pearls in water. So, there you go Alex.

Aura: Bulbasaur is the only starter that begins with two types Rowlet: HoLd My BoW aNd ArRoW

Well Gastly Is The Posion Gas Pokemon........So It Makes Sense For Him To Have The Typing.....But Haunter And Gengar Dont Really Deserve It.......They Deserve Dark Type

From Bulbapedia: Gyarados's Flying type may be a reference to koinobori, a carp-shaped windsock traditionally flown to celebrate Children's Day in Japan, formerly called Tango no Sekku (端午の節句). It could also be inspired by the South African cryptid Inkanyamba, a giant, winged eel that causes storms when angry, a trait Gyarados is famous for. In episode 53, The Purr-fect Hero, we see a flagpole with several wind cones modeled after a Gyarados, Goldeen, and Magikarp. Just like the koinobori, in real life.

Lucario's name is derived from a metal that is why it's steel (also the metal spikes it has)

of course sudowoodo isn't a grass type... his name literally means fake wood

Isn't Gastly called the Poison Gas Pokemon?

Solgaleo A Steel Psychic type So to defeat Solgaleo *SET FIRE TO THE SUN*

Lugia is not water type because back then a psychic type was known as a "strong" type, because you had pokemon like Alakazam, Mewtwo, Mew, and more. Palkia is part Water because it represents the liquid mater while dialga represents solids with the steel type and girantina represents gas with the ghost type. Hope this helped!

Ghastly is a ball of pollution. It builds off of that. It make sense

I thought Lugia was a water type at first too, but now I understand why it is a "PSYCHC" type. When it flaps its wings, it causes a disturbance in the air around it, so it decided to live underwater to not disturb humankind and Pokemon-kind.

GameFreak: (Uses confusing typings) *It'S sUpEr EfFeCtIvE!*

I think it makes sense for Sudowoodo to be rock type. The 'Sudo' part of Sudowoodo sounds like Psuedo which means false or fake. Combine that with the 'woodo' part and it means 'Fake Wood'

3:31 Oh! OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! **Literally just adds a longer neck and a flippin tail** *NOW IT'S A DRAGON TYPE!*

Lucario gets its steel typing from the fact that it and Riolu get their name from "orichalcum", which is a mythical metal from ancient times, said to be one of the building materials for the city of Atlantis. Great video though.

"No other starter starts with two types!" Me: *laughs in rowlet*

I do agree about Klefki. I originally thought it was ghost because the first time I ever encountered it was in Ultra Sun, during Acerola's trial... The ghost-type trial.

Well... Palkia's Typing makes more sense than it might seem, in my opinion. Let's think about the trio. All 3 pokemon are Dragon Types, and of course they are called "Dragon Trio" as well. But their secondary typing does actually make sense. Giratina is the lord of the Distortion World, and it has a Ghost Type: this makes sense, because it's capabe of traveling within the dimensions, change its form, gaining ghost wings and stuff. Dialga is the lord of Time, and it can travel over time. A Steel Type makes sense: the steel is a very durable alloy that can resist for years with no sign of deteriorations, so Dialga's steel body is necessary for him in order to stay unharmed after all those time travels. Now let's try to apply this concept to Palkia: Palkia is the lord of space, it can teleport and manipulate the space itself to his liking. Now: between all pokemon typings, which fits Palkia the best? Which material can assume any form without being destroyed, thanks to its nature? Water. Its Water Type helps Palkia to survive and stay completely unharmed when manipulating space, as steel does for Dialga when manipulating time. Also, since the trio represents the whole universe, it is possible that developers thought about let 'em represent the 3 stages of matter as well, with "Steel" representing "Solid", "Water" prepresenting "Liquid", and "Ghost" representing "Air" All this lucubration does actually have a certain logic, or not? Let me know!

Exeggcute stays together with psychic power. That's how it works

I always associated Palkia’s water typing with the idea of space commonly being referred to as the ‘cosmic ocean’. There’s also the motif of space being fluid and constantly shifting.

For some reason when I was a kid I thought Sudowoodo was a fighting type XD

I'm pretty sure Lugia used to be a water type but they changed it because "it had the advantage over Ho-Oh."

Not trying to be negative, and I definitely enjoyed the video! But... Gyarados - Based on a Chinese dragon which don't have wings or always breathe fire. Gastly line - Pokédex entry even states Gastly is a ball of toxic fumes. Sudowoodo - Looking like something for your own protection doesn't make you share its physical qualities. Lugia - Telepathy. Since there can't be 3 types, they had to chose from flying, water and psychic. Palkia - The legendary representing Pearl. Pearls are formed underwater in clams. Water is 100% logical.

GameFreak:Sees this OH NO HE'S GOT POINT

To add to the confusion, Lugia can learn Hydro Pump via level up

I have Lugia on my team and I forget what type it is constantly.

Well, Palkia is mascot of Pokémon Pearl, and natural pearls are mostly found in oysters that are underwater??? I don't know.

Lugia makes perfect sense to not be Water type, because it didn't originally live in the sea, and left to Whirl Islands because it was too powerful. It's also stated in it's Pokédex entry that it uses its Psychic-type powers to control the sea, so yeah, no surprise here.

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Well, I wonder who knows where Sudowoodo's name came from It's Psuedo wood. Get it?

Im pretty sure someone already said this, but Palkia is a water type since the trio (Dialga, Palkia and Giratina) base off the states or forms of matter. Palkia being liquid, makes it a water type. Giratina is ghost because its gas, and dialga is steel since it shows solid.

*3:56** It makes sence for Ghastly* *Also for **9:57** Lucario is a steal type since its strong and a badass*

The reason why psychc types were immune to ghost types in gen one was because they somehow messed it up (my brother told me about it and explained why psychc types were op)

dialga steel typing is solid palkia water typing is liquid garatina ghost typing is gas thats why palkia is a water type

Lugia is Psychic since it used to live in the Scorched tower, also being a water type would give an advantage over Ho-Oh, Lugia has telepatic powers and the hability to speak to humans, an hability shared by almost every psychic type. So Lugia is a representation of how humans cans missinterpret some legends since humans in the pokemon world assumed Lugia was a water type. Lucario is steel because mineral ores and crystals are used in spiritual energy rituals, psychic represents the mind so it wouldn't fit in the concept of aura, since Lucario uses spiritual powers, not mind powers, and if a counterargument is that there's a Lucario who can speak to humans using telepaty, movies are not canon. Palkia is water because it's a methaphor to the space, since time is not malleable represented by the sturdy nature of steel of Palkia, and space is vast and uncontrolable, just like the sea. Also the legendary trio it comes from also represents the 3 states of matter, Dialga being solid, Palkia liquid and Giratina is gaseous.

I think Jirachi is a steel type because it's based off a star/meteor and sometimes stars and meteors can have metal in them so it makes sense

I think Gastly being a poison type makes sense since it is kinda just a ball of gas and in the pokemon world gas is kinda always (and in the real world sometimes) poisonous.

Empoleon being water/steel instead of water/ice. It's a penguin. Why isn't it an ice type? It would also complete the whole type neutrality thing the Sinnoh starters have going on, with Empoleon's ice being able to counter Toterra's grass/ground. But NOPE. Even my friend, who's probably THE biggest Empoleon fan to ever grace this planet Earth, her only argument being "water/steel is a cool typing". That's it. MAKES NO SEEENSSSSEE

Is no one gonna mention Florges? It's a fricking grass mermaid!! I used flamethrower on it 3 times when I first played and it ended up killing my dragon team. Seriously! Fuck Florges xD

I don't know if anyone commented on this but Klefki makes sense, Klefki is based on the myths about little fairies stealing little objects like keys, and also in the old tradition of carrying steel amulets to stop fairies from stealing ^^ it's name also references this as it comes from kleptomaniac.

1:22 bulb based plants - a lot of them are poisonous when eaten by mammals... such as daffodils, ornamental onions, crocus, etc...

for everyone saying Palkia makes sense since he's the mascot for Pearl and pearls are underwater, i could use the same logic and technically say Kyogre should be a ground type since sapphire are found underground

Gyarados is a flying type cause its based on the chinese or japanese (one of the two) dragon, like Shenlong. Even he evolving from a fish makes sense, because its based on a legend that a salmon that is determined enough to climb a waterfall comes the other side of the mountain Transformed into a flying dragon, without wings, it really just floats.

4:10 Dark type wasn't a thing until gen 2. It can't be a dark type.

well palkia is representative the water state of matter, so it justifies the water typing

Now there is another starter Pokemon with 2 types

If types are based on color explained in the beginning... This means Nidoqueen is a water type!

I love lugia so freaking much it’s my favorite Pokémon but yes it NEEDS the water type

Imagine they kept the name bird type and people trying to explain Gyrados then

lucario is a steel type because in Japan or china it stands for mystic metal😰

When I saw soodowoodo for the first time I thought it was grass so I used a fire type move on it and it wasnt very effective.

I can name a few and I'll be ordering them based on the generation they debuted in. Farfetched is Normal Flying when it should've been Fighting Flying since it uses a stick to battle with that's also a hold item in later games (Obviously this is only talking about vanilla Farfetched. I really love how even Game Freak themselves thought it would make sense as a Fighting Type when they made its Galarian version pure Fighting) Ursaring is pure Normal when it would make sense as Normal Dark cause it can be ferocious in battle as seen in the anime. Glalie is pure ice when Ice Dark would make sense since it's another mon with a menacing aura that would fit for a type called the Evil Type in Japan.

The reason why klefki is fairy type is because there was a legend that the fairies used to take little objects like keys(I listened it in someplace,but not sure where).

Dedenne... is a F*cking fairy type pokemon!!!

I think Lugia was a Psychic/Flying type so it wouldn't have a type advantage over Ho-oh. But that makes no sense when we have Kyogre with a type advantage over Groudon, Dialga having a type advantage over Palkia (Steel resists Dragon and Dragon resists Water), and Xerneas having a type advantage over Yveltal, and Primal Kyogre having a even bigger type advantage over Primal Groudon, since it became a dual Ground/Fire type (just overwrite the Extremely Harsh Sunlight with another weather condition. Heavy Rain stops Fire-type moves from working, making Primal Groudon's new Fire type nothing but a disadvantage).

Wow I’ve been a Pokémon fan for a about a year and it just blew my mind that fairy type was introduced in gen 6 and people didn’t know about a fairy type all this time :0 And same goes for the other types that did not debut in gen 1

It's been five years, so someone has probably pointed this out already, but... Gyarados and its previous form, Magikarp, are based on a legend of a koi fish transforming into a dragon after proving its worth by climbing a waterfall. For Americans, that's a pretty obscure reference, but it is what it is.

My reaction to my first time catching a Lugia in Gen 2 THe god of water. Not a water type. Wow.

WTF HOW IN THE WORLD IS PALKIA A WATER TYPE AND LUGIA A PSYCHIC TYPE! IM GOING ON STRIKE NOW!

I can kinda see the psychic typing in Lugia, because Lugia has been shown controlling water in the anime, but I also think that Lugia should be a water type. This really confused me when I went to battle Lugia, because I thought it was a water/flying type, so I was pretty surprised when I caught Lugia and found out that Lugia was actually a psychic/flying type, but at least I finally understood why my umbreon kept accidentally knocking it out... At least I saved before battling, one thing I hadn’t learned when I battled legendaries in the previous games I had played...

I just realised that the “psychic bar” (for example, at 7:25 ) is spelled wrong, it’s supposed to be spelled Psychic... MY LIFE HAS BEEN A LIE

Maybe Lugia is Psychic type because if it’s Water and Flying type It would easily been beaten by Zapdos

1:23 *Generation VII comes and makes this outdated.*

The first time I saw a sudowoodo was in gold and the reason I caught it was because I thought I needed a grass type. When it got hit with a super effective water move right after that messed up my entire Pokémon type chart until I realized

I find sudowoodo funny because people might bring out fire types to fight it at first only to get destroyed by rock moves

5:33 I KNEW IT'S HEAD WAS AN ONION!!!

First one on bulbasaur... Now shiny hoothoot is out

Yea I pretty much agree with all of this. Lucario should definitely be psychic fighting too. That would be a cool combo

Aura Guardian: Why is Celebi Psychic? Me: TiMe TrAvEl!!!!!

Palkia has pearls on its shoulders i guess that gives out a bit of a water typing look? Bulbadaur is part poison type maybe because if you try to eat the bulb or even just touch or smell it,it could release toxic spores? Gengar and its pre-evolution are part poison maybe because they are made up of poisonous gases.... Gyarados is part flying because it's based on a dragon? Lucario is part steel stype maybe because its skeleton is made entirely of steel... Like wolverine from xmen... Just putting my 2 cents in...

Charizard is not dragon , Aerodactyl is not dragon , Luxray is not dark

Well the storm part in lugias dex entries make more sense if its caused by psychic powers instead of water powers afterall yes it could let it rain for maybe 2 days but 40 days is way to much plus rain is no storm on its own That intro where it gets surrounded by a huge pool of water makes sense too that its used its psychic powers for it Also i think there was a dex entry somwhere that lugia hid in the deep ocean to keep people away from its extreme powers

Lugia completely broke Aura. I know that feel. Watched the movie with it in it, then when I played the game I was very confused that it wasn't a water type

Talking about magnemite.... Magnemite already has the steel type,taking the second spot. I can see why someone can be confused with it. It floats because gravity’s pulse because it’s a MAGNET

klefki is based on fairies that steel shiny items like keys so fairy makes sense

"Gyarados can't even learn fly" -Game freak releases Arceus where Gyarados is flying in the air

In the creation trio's favour I will say that they represent the states of matter Giratina - gas (hence it is a ghost type) Palkia - liquid (hence it is a liquid type) Dialga - solid (hence it is steel type)

Probably the most confusing types for a new pokemon of Gen 7 is Dhelmise! It is Ghost/Grass when it is literally an anchor! *made of steel*

What about the lake trio? UXIE (Pixie) MeSPRIT (Sprite) AzELF (elf) shouldn't they be fairy on this too?

psyduck is only water I was confused when it used confusion

Actually there’s a very good reason why Palkia’s a water type. Allow me to explain. So, Giratina, Palkia, and Dialga’s primary types all represent the 3 stages of matter, being gas, liquid, and solid respectively. Edit: I also have a possible explanation as to why Lucario is part steel type. Now, I’m gonna start this out by saying Lucario has a strong resemblance to Wolverine, both of which have metal claws on their hands, and Lucario’s shiny bares a strong resemblance to Wolverines yellow and blue spandex. Therefore, I believe Lucario, like Wolverine, has metal bones. This could also explain it being able to learn Bone Rush, because it’s metal spikes would actually be it’s bones. Now I know that the canon explanation is that it creates aura bow staffs that looks like bones, but I like my little theory so let me be.

so... are you not gonna question why Jirachi is S T E E L T Y P E

I just saw bill nye say a curse word and I'm not sure if I'm happy about it or should be re-assessing the values of life.

Actually Gyrados was based off of a Japanese tale of some karp that couldn't go up the waterfall so there was one karp left after a while and he finally made it up the waterfall and that explains why it's a pain in the butt to train magikarp into Gyrados and that's why it's a flying type because it jumped so high it was counted flying

Palkia is for Perl pearls are In the SEA so I guess that is enough That's why I always knew that it was water

I'm glad they didn't mess up my favourite pokemon's type (Dragon and Ghost) for Giratina.

Well, Palkia is a water type because Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina represent the three stages of matter, Solid (Dialga- Steel Type), Liquid (Palkia-Water Type), and Gas (Giratina-Ghost Type)

Hard to believe this was 8 years ago

I think I understand Inkays typing from the anime. If you look back at one episode in the gen 6 series, theres an episode on Malamar that uses its psychic powers to take over the world for its leader.