Whats up with nidoking and muk and the like? Makes it difficult for my ocd to see these guys as grass types
Haha I actually preferred most of them that way!
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Ground and Rock types are called Fighting types in the TCG, too. Ice is Water, etc. It’s just how they condensed everything.
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Yeh it’s just really different. If you want to get pissed off have a look at all the different types of Zubats you can get in the TCG. Sometimes grass, sometimes psychic.
this guy is going to freak when he finds out about delta species
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Or nowadays meta changes after the last couple of years… I suppose just see every Arceus incarnation to take it in stride before the main event. Poisons were ideally better off with Grass as a symbol of what they are actually tied with for the most part in real life. Now if you were used to psychic types then becoming a type that’s on card super effective but actually really weak towards it’s ocd suicide fuel.
[EDIT] @hyruleguardian actually yeah, include Fairy and it gets more confusing then the lesser forward Dark/Psychic contradiction akin to that of Colorless with Fighting.
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They had to condense typing due to the role energy cards play in the Pokemon TCG. Decks wouldn’t be open to as many possibilities if poison, bug, ice, flying, rock, ground, dragon, and ghost types all needed their own energy type. Not to mention, in Generation 1 the Gengar evo line was the only ghost type and the Dragonite evo line was the only dragon type.
I am sure they originally the connection between grass and poison because in Generation 1 there were a lot of grass/poison type Pokemon (Bulbasaur, Oddish, and Bellsprout evo lines).
I thought that they split poison due to the fairy type in the TCG?
I always viewed energies the same way as mana, they’re more about where the pokemon can be found in nature rather than tied to a pokemon’s actual type. That’s why cards like COL lugia exist- water even though it’s not water type, because lugia’s the guardian of the seas.
Lol I know about delta species and I dont like them. But grass as poison dosnt make sense because they literally had that type made already. I could see if they didnt have psychic made up yet
What really differentiates pokemon in the WOTC era was the weaknesses and resistances. Despite the condensing of types, it allowed for pokemon to show their unique typings.
For instance, all fighting type pokemon were weak against psychic and all rock types were weak against grass typing. Both used the same energies though.
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I liked them that way. Having to catalog every pokemon in just 7 types sometimes end up making no sense, but I think they did a great job. Poison and grass was bounded maybe for venusaur line and on, who knows.
I know they said they’re representing poison as dark now with fairy being removed if that’s what you’re talking about.
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Though when they originally made the switch I believe it was because they were introducing fairy (due to dragon being introduced)
As a kid, seeing that Sandshrew and Machamp were both “fighting” type made me think that there must be something about Fighting type’s nature that applies to Sandshrew.
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I was irrationally mad that Nidoking was changed from Grass to Psychic type in the Evolutions/CP6 set.
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They actually got rid of fairy types all together in the TCG. Fairy types will now be psychic types. Also, they will probably no longer have dragon types so get ready to see Rayquaza as some random typing lol.
Short run for fairy type
lolau contraire, Nidokings type difference distinction was one of the chosen few justfied for me to grab from that.