Alduin attempts to find the rationale behind Pokemon type matchups

Alduin

Legend:

> is super effective

< is not very effective

=/= is no effect

• Ghost =/= Normal and vice versa

The mundane realm and the spirit realm cannot interact under normal circumstances.

• Fighting > Dark

Fair fighting trumps dirty tricks.

• Fire < Water but Fire > Ice

Fire melts ice, but is doused by its liquid form (water).

• Bug > Dark

Some...bugs...thrive in the dark?

• Steel > Fairy

Fairies are repelled by iron in folklore.

• Dark > Ghost

Evil thoughts (e.g. Dark Pulse) can repel ghosts in some stories.

• Grass < Steel

Grass can't...grow on steel.

• Poison < Ground

You can't...poison the ground? Even disregarding that you totally can...

• Fairy > Fighting

This one actually makes sense. In fairy tales, quick wit always trumps brute physical strength.

• Electric > Flying

Birds...don't like flying into power lines?

• Psychic > Poison

Psychic powers can lift poison?

• Bug < Fairy

Uh...

Tachyon

i always assumed electric > flying because lightning tends to strike high-up places

steel cuts grass, maybe

Tatterhood

Tachyon said:

steel cuts grass, maybe

But Steel isn't SE on Grass, it just resists it.

Klinotaxis

lightning strikes high up grounded places. a bird might get hit if it's flying through a thunderstorm but that's not much different from us ground things.

Yarrun XIX

Psychic types tend to emphasize a purity of mind that cannot be tainted, so poison has no effect. Or, psychic means that they can keep their bodies floating and away from the filthy, filthy poison

Yarrun XIX

Also,

Tachyon

in which tach fails science and video games in a single post

Tatterhood

I mean the real reason Steel resists Grass is that Steel resists fucking everything.

Tachyon

well that DOES make sense

steel is durable

Tatterhood

yeah but like

it resists psychic, ghost, dark, dragon

that goes a little beyond "durable"

Fossilmaiden

It is well known that Osie Donut Steel is the strongest material known to man.

Crystal

"Have you ever tried to punch a bird?"

Obā-san

the wind whips my hair back and forth as I gaze determinedly at Crystal

Klinotaxis

fire > steel, but fire < rock. water < grass. psychic > poison, but poison = psychic. steel > ice. electric = steel but steel < electric. this is off the rails

Alduin

Tatterhood said:

yeah but like

it resists psychic, ghost, dark, dragon

that goes a little beyond "durable"

Not anymore!

Crystal

Today is Tomorrow said:

the wind whips my hair back and forth as I gaze determinedly at Crystal

Maybe one day, but I'd still come out the victor. u_u

Tatterhood

Alduin said:

Tatterhood said:

yeah but like

it resists psychic, ghost, dark, dragon

that goes a little beyond "durable"

Not anymore!

oh right

shows how much gen 6 I actually played

Yarrun XIX

It is well known that Anonus can be stopped by a steel cage

glennmagusharvey

bug on poison but poison on bug, gen 1 best gen

Bee

• Poison < Ground

You can't...poison the ground? Even disregarding that you totally can...

Sand is chemically inert but highly absorbent.  You use it to clean up spills in the lab or on roads.

LOAD Cherry

I feel like psychic should be super effective against steel because of the whole "psychics bend spoons" trope that they were go fond of  in Gen I

Klinotaxis

yeah but then geller got mad at them.

LOAD Cherry

Geller had a point, though. They stole his trademark fiction and made it part of a more successful franchise that he stood nothing to profit from.

Tachyon

not really imo, at this point spoon-bending is an iconic ability associated with psychic powers

see also: the Matrix

i mean i guess he felt it was his act being stolen but like, it wasn't literally his act it was a representation of it in a video game

LOAD Cherry

I was making a joke at his expense saying that he made up his ability, hence the use of the word fiction.

But I could have delivered that better

glennmagusharvey

wreck intellectual property!
wreck intellectual property!
wreck intellectual property!
>:D