I've always loved that Psychic is weak to Dark because the image that pops into my brain is someone trying to transfer their mind to an evil person's but being horrified by what they see in there, basically their thoughts are so dark that they take damage instead.
@@mbomb1126 no idea man, as far as i could remember psychic are weak against bug types i only played fire red tho idk if changes were made or if i just remembered wrong
I think one of the funniest type matches is dark being weak to bug. Like I imagine Grimsley, Karen, and Nanu being all intimidating, but then are scared of a wurmple like lmao
I think it’s because, again, dark is about underhanded tactics like Biting or sucker punching, while bugs often work together. Working together > underhanded tactics just like fighting > dark because honorable people > scum bags.
@@neverbackdown1918 Actually, I've recently had the idea that bug is effective against dark because of "Kamen riders", Japanese superheroes. That makes so much sense!
You could punch a turkey but then it would rearrange your whole body. And don't even think of punching a ratite like an ostrich or cassowary; They have deadly kicking power and sharp claws.
I always pictured psychic’s weakness to bug being this In the mountains of Nepal, a wise old man sits, meditating. He is an ancient scholar, trained in the ways of the monks. As he sits, on the brink of finally attaining true enlightenment, a mosquito flies up to him. BZZZZZZZZ BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ BZBZBZBZBZBZBBZBZZZZZ Inner peace is lost.
Worth bringing up - in Japan, insects are culturally seen more positively than they are in the west, with insects like stag beetles being seen as strong, respectable warriors. This is likely a contributing factor to why they're strong against Dark, which is literally "Evil" in the original Japanese.
Hence why Kamen Rider exists. (We really need a Bug/Fighting grasshopper with High Jump Kick that evolves into a Bug/Steel type as a reference to THE BEST Kamen Rider series...)
@@caolanochearnaigh9804 Every time I hear about this people mention Kamen Rider. Is this actually the case or are people just thinking of Kamen Rider? Are there ANY other examples? At all?
5:13 Flying: It's over Fighting, I have the high ground! Fight: You are underestimating my power! Flying: Don't try it! Fighting use High Jump Kick! The atack missed. Flying use Air Slash! It's super efective! Fighting fainted.
actually, lightning goes for the quickest route to the ground, not the highest object, so birds are rarely struck by lightning, unless they are in trees or other tall objects.
@@melodicthings8833 You watched MatPat? Cause he talked about that in an episode about the legitimacy of electric attacks. Lighting go for taller objects since there's less resistance and distance to cover. The more the distance meaning the more resistance it has to break through which is why taller objects like trees or building are likely to get struck, because there's less distance to cover. This rationalise the notion that you shouldn't stay under a tree when there's heavy rain, when I was younger I always thought staying under a tree protected you from it with its covering branches. Turns out that isn't the case.
The actual reason is cus they resist all the starters in gen 1 lol. Charmander, squirtle, bulbasaut and pikachu. Therefore the champion resists the players most likely strongest pokemon (because of dragonite) increasing the challenge.
@@BlueoftheSilkWings Yeah, source is OP's thoughts haha! What a weird thing to ask for a source on something that says "I think". Like, that literally means it's something they're not certain is a fact, AKA don't have a source for, but that they perceive and believe to be the case.
In answer to your questioning the interaction between steel/water and electric, I think I have an answer. The water type isn't just water itself. Much like the flying type, it also represents the creatures living within it. If a body of water is electrified, most fish living within that body of water will die. So it's not just that water is an excellent conductor, it's that the fish inside the water are vulnerable to it as well
That or when an electrical current is passed through mineral-dense water, the water molecules break down into hydrogen and oxygen gas while the metal cables stay intact.
I have another idea of why rock is weak to ground: Sand (ground) blows up against rocks and slowly changes the shape, or in other words wearing them away (abrasion)
Something to add to Fighting types resisting Dark attacks: I remember someone saying that martial artists are often taught techniques that counter underhanded tricks.
There are some water move that are super effective against ice such as scald . and the other way around as well! therefore i think move such as ice shard should be not very effective and blizzard super effective
@@s_r-d2n How and mainly why the hell do you chuck golems at pidgeys? Clearly you should get an onix and karate chop it. The rock segment will break apart and you'll have more rocks to throw.
If psychic is the type of the mind, it makes intuitive sense to think that a common phobia, bugs, are a weakness of it. Not because psychics are afraid of bugs xd
Psychics are afraid of bugs because even with powerful intelligence, psychics cannot read the thinking of bugs so they cannot predict their actions and that makes bugs an exceptional fear to psychics.
Hence why I can't stand Fighting and Fairy types. Bug types are more of an annoyance. (They are the literal definition of the phrase, "useless insect".)
I think that electric type being super effective against water and not to steel makes sense because water type pokemon are made of flesh and they are just covered by water, so they would get hurt if an electric discharge hits them, while steel type pokemon are made of iron, they don't have flesh, so a discharge would only pass through their body without damaging them
Plus people working with electricity wear full-body mail suits. The electricity conducts through the metal better than flesh, and it’d rather go through the suit rather than the worker. Allen Pan has a video where he messes with a Tesla coil and he’s in full-body mail.
@@qykolas Well, Marill is a mammal, I don't know the exact inspiration but if Azumarill is a rabbit, Marill has to be a mammal as well, so he is an "animal" and his body is made of flesh like other water type pokemon
@@qykolas ok, but also human skin repels water but an electric strike would kill us. But even if Marill goes against my thesis I think it would be one of the few exceptions
TVTropes explained Fairy a bit better. Copypasting from their Fridge Logic page on the types: 'Dazzling Gleam'? 'Charm'? 'Play Rough'? 'Disarming Voice'? What is this nonsense? Well, Fairy-type attacks involve the Pokémon using its beauty, charm, and feminine wiles to throw the opponent off guard. It's about being able to attack the opponent while giving off the guise of being harmless and innocent. Hell, 'Play Rough' is essentially beating the crap out of the opponent under the facade of 'playing' with them. So when you think about it... the Fairy type and the Dark type are two sides of the same coin. Both use manipulative tactics to their advantage, but the Fairy type is more subtle about it. Fairy beating Dark isn't just a matter of light driving out darkness... it's a matter of using one's charisma and guile to beat the dirty thugs at their own game. This also explains why the Fairy type is strong against Fighting. Martial artists are often taught to only use their strength for self-defense, and not to victimize innocent people. Thus, they'd naturally be inclined to hold back against the seemingly innocent Fairy type.
@@hammerstix5791 An explanation for Moonblast: Certain Pokemon types can have multiple origins. In the case of Fairy type, some of its moves utilize light magic.
The water and steel interactions with electric make sense when you think about their attacks. Water attacks or maybe even water pokemon would leave the battlefield wet allowing for a more direct path to the water pokemon, steel attacks most likely wouldn't have this issue.
Ghost and Normal can't affect each other: In my mind, normal types are the pokemon which most closely resemble humans, which can't interact with ghosts. Therefore, Normal types too, cannot interact with ghosts. Dragon Ghost, because ghosts can touch each other, so a ghost slapping another ghost would hurt them. Rock > Flying. You can kill two birds with one stone. Dark > Ghost, good spirits can become evil spirits. Steel > Fairy. In many stories, metal can harm or even burn fairies at the touch. Dragon resists Fire, Water, Grass, and Electric, yet is weak to Ice because dragons are reptilian and cold-blooded. Poison is not very effective against ghost because spirits have no body to poison. Water drowns out Fire, Rock and even solid Ground. Fire can be extinguished by throwing water, sand or rocks on it. Water type weaknesses electric, grass. * Plants absorb water * Electricity flows through water and kills everything in it Grass's weaknesses: fire, ice, bug, flying, poison. * What are the things that can hurt a plant? Plants are weak to extreme weather conditions (fire, ice), bugs and birds eating them, and poison. Ice's weaknesses: fire, rock, steel, fighting. Fighting weaknesses: psychic, flying, fairy. * If you rely on pure strength only, you can be easily outsmarted (psychic) * A fighter can't throw punches at a flying target, while the bird can pick it's moment and strike (flying) * Fairy represents the forces of nature and ageing has the most detrimental effect on a fighter's abilities (fairy) Poison's weaknesses: Ground, Psychic. * The earth absorbs the poison. * While the body can be poisoned, the mind is something meta-physical and has the upper hand over poison. Ground's weaknesses: Grass, Water, Ice. Dragon's weaknesses: Dragon, Fairy, Ice.
By the ghost logic, everything should be super effective against themselves. Ghosts can hurt ghosts Bugs can eat other bugs Animals(normal types) can hurt/eat other animals Master martial artists can do serious damage to other martial artists Birds can hurt other birds And a lot other than that I see what you are trying to say but I don't think ghost should be super effective against ghosts. The moves doing neutral damage to eachother would make the most sense.
I think another reason bugs are strong against dark is because of the religious and folklore significance a lot of bugs have in Japanese culture and how they’re seen as protecting against evil and dark spirits. Especially given the whole dark type being evil type in Japan thing.
@@skyrrmish6207 Giratina is part-Ghost as part of its theming with Dialga and Palkia; Time is inflexible and immobile like Steel, space is expansive and ever-shifting like Water, and anti-matter (Hypothetically) exists throughout the universe, but cannot be perceived or touched, like a Ghost
When is someone going to tell him that the ground to ice weakness isn’t because it makes the ground slippery, but rather because ice formation within the ground can easily crack the soil?
alternative explanation for water being weak to electric: the process called "electrolysis" is a process consisting of passing an electrical current in water, breaking the bonds between the hydrogen and oxygen atoms, basically breaking the water molecules
You could use the actual darkness argument for both psychic and ghost weaknesses. A lot of people are actually scared of the darkness too and ghost are usually limited to only appearing at night so it has control over ghosts.
Darkness is actually represented by Ghost type. Since night and darkness is where ghosts can mainly appear and act, it makes no sense they’re weak to darkness. It’s more likely the explaination is the one said in the video
4:10 I think I have a better explanation for flying: Electricity is wild and unpredictable in movement, and is hard to avoid midair. In fact, in the air you are quit open to electric attack for its speeds could catch you off guard. Not my best explanation, but I think this also is an applicable reason
These explanations are so bad. Even the one for why ice beats flying "because frozen wings wouldn't work well" wtf. Birds literally migrate in winter, they can't handle the cold and flee from it. Bird eggs must be kept warm or the baby dies.
I always thought Psychic’s superiority to Poison as of our ability to learn of various poisons and toxins and how we can not only build a tolerance or immunity, like Michael said, but also how we have studied and learned from them so much to the point we created vaccines and medications/antibodies (like in antivenom) and treatment to diseases.
I myself thought it was because of famous mind games involving poisoned drinks, like that one scene from The Princess Bride where the main protagonist challenges an opponent to a battle of the wits: Two drinks, one is poisoned.
@@OhCrapI_He that the one when they were both actually poisoned but the protagonist lived only because he exposed himself to it to the point he built up a tolerance to it?
"Ice is weak to steel" Try telling that to the Titanic Edit after 6 months: holy crap, this is the most likes I've ever gotten on any comment. It means a lot, thank you!
Also for electric being super effective on flying types, birds when they fly are more elevated in the air and lightning likes to strike more elevated objects
Lightning wants to move to ground. A bird in the air is not a path to ground, but rather a freak accident. Taller objects get hit because air is actually not a great conductor relative to things sticking up out of the ground so the fastest and easiest path to ground is through those objects.
@@dominiquediva If they’re only touching one line, most of the electricity will flow through the line and bypass the bird as the resistance of the wires is much lower than that of the bird’s body. I’m not sure off hand if this small amount is ever enough to harm the birds or not. Now, if it touches two lines at once, it now becomes a path between those two and extra crispy.
@@lq7777 the ground has nothing to do with it, lightning is a flow of electrons and lightning doesn’t choose where it strikes, it is drawn to its striking point by positive charge, this can be any object, most often the ground but if there are any objects closer to the Lightning’s origin (closer to the sky) they can possibly have a stronger Coloumbian attraction, thus, the point of the type effectiveness being that birds are more prone to lightning strikes being higher in the air
Steel isn’t weak to Electric because while metal is a great conductor of electricity, it wouldn’t really get damaged by the electricity passing through it. Whereas, with Water type, if you were to use an Electro Ball on an animal that is almost always soaking wet, it’s gonna take some damage. If anything, Steel should be more likely to get paralyzed, since the electricity passes all around the body of the Pokémon. Similar to how Water types are more likely to get frozen
If anything steel should be immune to electric cause it's great conductor. Also lightning rods exist. Too bad it isn't.. And water is weak because electrolysis.. And lightning being very hot so water just evaporates if struck by one.
@@enoraltheoutcast I see what you mean, but Lighting Rod is already an ability, so clearly it’s been established that that logic only applies to *some* cases. Plus, lightning rods in real life only really work when grounded, which is why Ground is immune to Electric. The only things that make sense is to make Steel weak to Electric or be paralyzed more often from Electric, and having Steel be weak to Electric would be boring.
Then if possible, what do people think about when Hawlucha was added with the Flying/Fighting type combo plus the move Flying Press which does damage to Flying and fighting. ?
Ghost seems like a natural typing to add to the fairy type's weaknesses. negative energy against their positive, or even more precise, death taking away life.
And it works really well. Its only weaknesses are then Ghost and Steel, and the only Pokemon that can resist both are Normal types with a secondary type that resists Fairy, which is only Grafaiai and Pyroar.
Dark also represents literal darkness. It's weak to Bug and Fairy as both bugs and fairies glow... In the dark. It's also works better for Psychic's weakness to it as fear of the dark is far more common than fear of evil. Usually people just hate evil people. Dragon's resistances can all be reasoned that it is the end boss type. How do you make the end boss strong? Make it resist the 4 starter Pokemon.
Dark is called the Evil Type in Japan, where Pokémon originates from. It does not represent literal darkness, it represents what it was originally called, evilness.
@@abrahamlincoln9160 I think you're forgetting one of the key features of Pokemon: everything has multiple origins. Likewise, Grass isn't just mons that are grass. There are plants and fungi of all kinds. Also the same as Fairy being more than just fairies. It more represents nature magic and 'fairy' is the closest, catchiest way to describe it in one word. Dark and Evil both equate to the things that go bump in the night, which are revealed when Bugs and Fairies shed their light on them.
@@PieaterProducts But hardly any Dark types look like they'd hide in actual darkness. Most of them do however look evil or at the very least mischievous. And most Bug pokémon don't shed any light at all, there's only like a couple of them where that's part of their design. And for that matter, most Fairies don't naturally shed light either. I guess they could with a moonblast... But by that logic, both Fire and Electric should be super effective against Dark, too.
@@antoniomolinatorres3873 If we're bringing up everything that should be, but isn't, a type interaction, Ghost would be very weak. Ghosts should be weak to Water and Fire as those are well-known weaknesses of the undead. As for not all members of a type following the exact standard, I suppose Fire types are incredibly rare, seeing as very few are actually on fire.
Fun fact: Back in Gen 1, Bug and Poison were supereffective against each other. Poison beating Bug would make sense, insecticides are a common way to kill bugs after all. It's also odd that Poison doesn't beat Water, since pollution can be very toxic to fish and other sea creatures. Steel should be super effective against Dragon due to stories of knights in shining armor defeating Dragons with swords, lances, or arrows.
Water can dilute poison so that’s why it resists it. If you get a cut on your finger, you usually run water through it to wash away the poison/infect ants.
“Fairy is only weak to steel and poison” my umbreon: * Laughing in steel hidden power * Edit: my Umbreon is now crying, as hidden power has been removed in Sword and shield. Why, Nintendo, why.
Cathy King yes, that’s- that’s the point...? Steel is strong against fairy, so using that hidden power is super effecting against fairy types and other things weak to steel.
Fairy-type are more Dangerous than you think. Mischevious and decieving, not even Dark-type, know for their psychological trick, can escape their innocent.
This is probably Mikey's best informative video IMO, whenever I'm playing a main series game, this video helps me remember the type match-ups better thanks to the well explained and visual examples. Thanks Mikey.
I always considered Dark, not as an evil type, but misunderstood and unknown. And sometimes literal darkness. For example, Absol is Dark type, but they aren't actually evil. Just perceived as such, despite them trying to do good. Though some Dark types are evil. Just like how some Flying types are bird-related, and some are wind-related.
Ironically, it is literally called the Evil Type back in Japan. Not to mention most of the moves consist of underhanded tactics, doing cruel things, or bullying the opponent.
@@extremeboss5282 Or maybe it’s that Japanese is not a very well-rounded language. The only word that means “dark” in Japanese refers to the literal lack of light. “Dark” can be seen as more of a slang for “evil” in English, and not all English slang has slang Japanese translation, only literal.
@@milky3494 Salazzle can also have Oblivious as a hidden ability. Corrosion is her signature ability along with Salandit but it's not the only one she can have.
Fu Tiffany or it’s because apparently game freak likes to think of dragons as the dark side and negativity, and should be completely useless against good fairy’s even though fairy’s can be a corrupt fairy. At least make Dragon effective or not very effective.
That's because Dragons are seen as evil, corrupted creatures in mythology while Fairies were seen as semi-divine creatures. This also would explain why they're immune to dragon type attacks. Dragons were also seen as indestructible to anything other than magic for what I've seen, so Fairy being a magic type makes it strong against dragon types.
"Fairy is immune to dragon, because they are both magical creatures and it is clear that dragon magic is far outclassed by fairy magic" "Logical explanations for all of them" ...hmmm ok.
He could have done a better job explaining it but the logic does hold up. In classic mythology Fae creatures can be among the most powerful while dragons (at least in western myth) are just big brutes who wouldn't really effect a fairy much if at all.
Any DnD player that has fought an ancient dragon knows this is certainly not the case lol Dragon's in DnD can be smarter than the average human and they have the potential to outclass most wizards with their magical abilities :)
@@robertcales8544 DnD is just a game, the REAL history of dragons/fairies proves otherwise, although i respect your input they base the game not on DnD rules
I'm glad you revisited these videos; they're some of my favorites from back when I first found your channel. I must know, who did all the cute little stick figure drawings? And yeah, Steel not being weak to Electric bothers me, too.
I would say steel conducts electricity too well, too efficiently. Can easily redirect it away to the ground, and unlike most water types, doesn't have fleshy bits to be hurt.
steel: well steel can PROTECT YOU IN THUNDER STORMS cause it a great conductor because it never touches the skin of the Pokemon if it's covered or made out of steel SOOO that's why steel isn't weak to Electric. But it would hurt
I'm still stuck on the reason why fairy is resistant to bug. I guess maybe a bug couldn't do much to hurt a fairy, but that just doesn't seem like a good enough argument. Especially when there are already so many other types that resist bug.
There is no light type because Fairy already exists. Fairies are angels, angels are created by light. Fairies also represents shiny beautiness. You know bugs are attracted by light. They even fall in traps due to light. So I think Fairies should be super effective against Bugs.
In most fantasy stuff, fairies live among bugs and insects because they are small like fairies. Like for example you always see butterflies also associated with fairies. So since fey live in nature with lots of bugs it makes sense that they know how they work and to defend against them. Also another reason is because sometimes fairies are seen as half-bug and half-human like how fairies have butterfly wings for example
This is because faeries have a friendly relationship with bugs in nature and sometimes faeries have the features of bugs as far as their appearance. If you have seen the movie Tinkerbell this would make sense.
Also, the biggest fear of flying in airplanes is associated with thunderstorms. A lightning strike is the most common threat to an airplane. That's why commercial planes fly so high these days. At the altitude in which they fly, so I heard, air is far less dense, and rumors have it that gas in the air may begin to transcend into plasma. At that altitude, airplanes literally fly above all weather conditions.
If anything I think it should be neutral. Yes ice freezes water but it would take too long to completely freeze a massive body of water. When water freezes it's really only the top layer.
No, because on a normal temperature a cube of ice tge exact volume of a body of water would not be able to freeze the water, instead the ice would melt.
I feel like in certain cases water should be weak to ice because it converts into ice in cold enough temperatures but at the same time it's very true that ice would just float above many liquids and melt if left for a long enough time period
What do you think about a new Rubber type which is opposite of steel?? Its a electricity and heat insulator. Also its so flexible and cant be broken. So It will resist Electricity, Steel, Fighting, Rock, Fire and Ice. Rubber is also near to Sponge, Jelly, Spring, Foams. There are some rubberlike pokemons too like Woffbuffet, Grumpig, Jellicent, spoink, Ditto, Swalot etc. Rubberlike things are very common in our life. Rubber will be strong against Electricity, Ground and Sound. Electricity will finally get 2nd weakness. Ground becoz we clean dirts with rubberlike things.
6:46 He says, "If you can kill two birds with one stone, you could probably kill quite a few more with one." Edit: I meant when he was explaining flying weaknesses and resistances
Thinking of slightly changing some resistances for my own project. Truly, it's all in the name of balancing the types in general. These aren't even all my original ideas - I'm not that good - but here are the reasonings behind them. Tell me what you think? Giving Bug resistance to Fairy - implying the two are natural rivals Giving Bug resistance to Psychic - referring to the hivemind nature of bugs Giving Bug immunity to Confusion - same hivemind argument Taking Fairy's resistance to Bug - expounding on the two being rivals Giving Ice resistance to Water - cold can freeze water before it thaws ice Giving Ice resistance to Flying - expounds on ice's existing threat to flying Giving Ice immunity to Burning - ice can melt but ice does not burn Taking Fire's resistance to Ice - ice can douse a fire Giving Grass resistance to Fairy - fairy magic does not harm plants Taking Dragon's resistance to Grass - grass being the most physical of the elemental types Giving Dragon resistance to Normal - pretty self-explanatory Giving Dragon strength against Steel - makes dragon, steel and fairy a type triangle Giving Normal resistance to Dragon - less self-explanatory, idea is dragon magic does not harm regular animals
I had some ideas: Make bug and fairy and bug and grass resist each other (all friends, but bugs still eat grass) Make Ice and water neutral against each other (same reasoning as yours). Steel is weak to electric (conduction) Ice actually can burn. And if you want to be really wild, water's weak to fire (fire evaporates water, like it melts ice. You could also play with dark and fighting.
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I feel like Steel’s resistance to Psychic may be a reference to how aluminum tinfoil supposedly makes you immune to mind reading/control.
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Well, it does work for Magneto against Professor X, right?
Ok that's funny
@@tezminator *Magneton
On the serious note it is quiet funny XD
But shouldn't steel be weak to psychic because...bending spoons with your mind?
1:44 bug
2:16 dark
3:10 dragon
3:49 electric
4:18 fairy
5:06 fighting
5:44 fire
6:35 flying
7:14 ghost
7:52 grass
8:34 ground
9:05 ice
9:28 normal
9:45 poison
10:23 psychic
10:56 rock
11:42 steel
12:54 water
Hope this helps
It did thanks
@ツMilZxFn np! :))))
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Moments like these when I realise (Again) that there are a lot of pokemon types
Kick a ghost: No effect.
Lick a ghost: ITS SUPER EFFECTIVE!
~Licks~
Only a ghost can perform lick
@@Jellostyle Actually, Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar are the only ghost type pokemon that can learn lick. So that's not true at all.
@@flaaff6648 Yeah my greninja just learned to lick.
@@cleminx1600 He's agreeing with McFlaafster.
I've always loved that Psychic is weak to Dark because the image that pops into my brain is someone trying to transfer their mind to an evil person's but being horrified by what they see in there, basically their thoughts are so dark that they take damage instead.
also love the fact that insect types are immune to psychic as insects aren't intelligent enough to be affected by mind control
My head cannon is that psychic is weak against dark, ghost and bug because those are some of the three biggest fears
@@ConsumerOfDirtYumYumYum same, always thought it was cuz it was like scared of the dark or spiders n stuff lol
@@banalerta what are you talking about. Psych is 1x to bug
@@mbomb1126 no idea man, as far as i could remember psychic are weak against bug types i only played fire red tho idk if changes were made or if i just remembered wrong
I think one of the funniest type matches is dark being weak to bug. Like I imagine Grimsley, Karen, and Nanu being all intimidating, but then are scared of a wurmple like lmao
then like a butterfree flies over and they are like *O LORD SAVE ME SOULS*
XD
And psychic being weak to bug, there’s a comment on it
I think it’s because, again, dark is about underhanded tactics like Biting or sucker punching, while bugs often work together. Working together > underhanded tactics just like fighting > dark because honorable people > scum bags.
@@neverbackdown1918 Actually, I've recently had the idea that bug is effective against dark because of "Kamen riders", Japanese superheroes. That makes so much sense!
I remember one time I was playing Pokémon with a friend and questioned the flying/fighting matchup and he was like “bruh you ever try to punch a bird”
Lmaoo
no because they fly away before you can
Diego Glez Vazq that’s the joke 😂
@@thunderblain3051 Im just gonna leave
You could punch a turkey but then it would rearrange your whole body. And don't even think of punching a ratite like an ostrich or cassowary; They have deadly kicking power and sharp claws.
I always pictured psychic’s weakness to bug being this
In the mountains of Nepal, a wise old man sits, meditating. He is an ancient scholar, trained in the ways of the monks. As he sits, on the brink of finally attaining true enlightenment, a mosquito flies up to him.
BZZZZZZZZ
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
BZBZBZBZBZBZBBZBZZZZZ
Inner peace is lost.
Alright. That got a laugh out of me.
I’m from Nepal and I have no clue what you’re talking about
BTW which mountain there’s many mountains like mt. Everest
@@Dragonb1ad3546 it's not real dude
Tater_ Skater IK IT
Worth bringing up - in Japan, insects are culturally seen more positively than they are in the west, with insects like stag beetles being seen as strong, respectable warriors. This is likely a contributing factor to why they're strong against Dark, which is literally "Evil" in the original Japanese.
Hence why Kamen Rider exists.
(We really need a Bug/Fighting grasshopper with High Jump Kick that evolves into a Bug/Steel type as a reference to THE BEST Kamen Rider series...)
And then there is the roach.
@@emmausgamer The grasshopper is the most heroic.
(Kamen Rider 01, anyone...?)
No, Dark is basically Cheat in Jaoanese.
@@caolanochearnaigh9804 Every time I hear about this people mention Kamen Rider. Is this actually the case or are people just thinking of Kamen Rider? Are there ANY other examples? At all?
5:13
Flying: It's over Fighting, I have the high ground!
Fight: You are underestimating my power!
Flying: Don't try it!
Fighting use High Jump Kick! The atack missed.
Flying use Air Slash! It's super efective!
Fighting fainted.
Star Wars
Funny
air wars
The fighting type thought Skarmory was only Steel
Fighting evolved into Dark/Steel type
I always thought electricity was strong against flying cus lightning tends to strike the highest object
Same
actually, lightning goes for the quickest route to the ground, not the highest object, so birds are rarely struck by lightning, unless they are in trees or other tall objects.
Yeah, it tends to go via the route that contains less air or something (it’s hard to explain)
I always thought if u hit a bird with lightning it dies, so that's why its super effective
@@melodicthings8833 You watched MatPat? Cause he talked about that in an episode about the legitimacy of electric attacks. Lighting go for taller objects since there's less resistance and distance to cover. The more the distance meaning the more resistance it has to break through which is why taller objects like trees or building are likely to get struck, because there's less distance to cover. This rationalise the notion that you shouldn't stay under a tree when there's heavy rain, when I was younger I always thought staying under a tree protected you from it with its covering branches. Turns out that isn't the case.
"Poison resists poison because you...can't poison... poison."
Salazzle: "Hold my beer."
salazzle ability is for steel types not poison
I thought that too, until my Muk was on the receiving end of Totem Salazzle's Toxic.
Actually, Salazzle's ability states that it can poison Pokemon that normally can't be. Technically yes, from Salazzle's point poison can poison poison
@@rochindelacruz18 Which even for that ability feels like a oxymoron.
Actually salazzle with its ability can poison any type
Actually, I think that dragon resisting the elemental types is because raw arcane magic is seen as superior to refined elemental magic.
The actual reason is cus they resist all the starters in gen 1 lol. Charmander, squirtle, bulbasaut and pikachu. Therefore the champion resists the players most likely strongest pokemon (because of dragonite) increasing the challenge.
Source?
I think it can go either way
@@harrietr.5073 Key words "I *think*"
@@BlueoftheSilkWings Yeah, source is OP's thoughts haha! What a weird thing to ask for a source on something that says "I think". Like, that literally means it's something they're not certain is a fact, AKA don't have a source for, but that they perceive and believe to be the case.
Afraid of the dark..?
*PUNCH IT*
Mewmacree If you hit a bird with a rock, it’ll stop moving
Dark isn't about darkness its about evilness like ted bundy,how to deal with ted bundy?beat his ass
starboi klem it’s a reference to JelloApocolypse’s video “So this is basically Pokémon”
Cobalt Slasher mine was too
oh no its a tiny bush
0:00-1:40 Intro
1:40-2:15 Bug
2:15-3:08 Dark
3:08-3:46 Dragon
3:46-4:15 Electric
4:15-5:04 Fairy
5:04-5:42 Fighting
5:42-6:27 Fire
6:27-7:12 Flying
7:12-7:48 Ghost
7:48-8:33 Grass
8:33-9:03 Ground
9:03-9:26 Ice
9:26-9:43 Normal
9:43-10:20 Poison
10:20-10:55 Psychic
10:55-11:40 Rock
11:40-12:52 Steel
12:52-13:52 Water
13:52-14:36 Outro
Ty for the time stamps!
@@pineappleonpizza385 yeah i was gonna say that until i realized he already has time stamps
So if I work out weekly at a gym for a long time, the ghosts can suddenly touch me, but I can't touch them?
Flat_nobody he said weekly you dumb
Apparently?
basically yeah
Yeah but at least you can punch the dark
Think of it this way. You wind up to do a round house kick expecting to hit something then miss completely and hurt yourself
In answer to your questioning the interaction between steel/water and electric, I think I have an answer.
The water type isn't just water itself. Much like the flying type, it also represents the creatures living within it. If a body of water is electrified, most fish living within that body of water will die. So it's not just that water is an excellent conductor, it's that the fish inside the water are vulnerable to it as well
That’s what I was thinking
That or when an electrical current is passed through mineral-dense water, the water molecules break down into hydrogen and oxygen gas while the metal cables stay intact.
"If you hit a bird with a rock, it will stop moving"
Michael
-November 15th, 2018
Shoutout to the best Pokémon
*Q W I L F I S H*
"Afraid of the dark? Punch it!"
“Your Boss didn’t give you that raise... PUNCH IT”
“ on no its a tiny busshhh
"Dark because evil actions usually aren't carried out against metal."
What?
they are carried WITH metal
(Clears throat) Syringes, knives, swords, guns, shotguns, Rapier
@@benedict0902 against, not with
Or it might be that Dark (as in gravity and black holes) can crush metal? * shrugs *
Or maybe because bank robbers can breach reinforced steel safes.
I have another idea of why rock is weak to ground:
Sand (ground) blows up against rocks and slowly changes the shape, or in other words wearing them away (abrasion)
This comment NEEDS more views
BG Thomas someones been doing a level geography
What’s abrasion?like erosion or weathering?
New move: Sand Paper
@@abrahamgonzales1888 erosion but more complicated
Something to add to Fighting types resisting Dark attacks: I remember someone saying that martial artists are often taught techniques that counter underhanded tricks.
Basically most criminals won't be as skilled as the martial artist and just get beat up themselves
@@duck7835 Hence why all those criminals got beaten and killed by Eric in The Crow. (Rest in Peace, Brandon.)
It could also be that Dark type represents fear and corruption in some cases while Martial Artists are brave and disciplined
@@harunocaleon5786 That's what the video says too :)
I always hated how Water resists Ice. Ice moves like Blizzard should freeze the water, thus being Super-Effective.
Their bodies arent made of water lmao still flesh
Freeze dry : Allow me to introduce myself
There are some water move that are super effective against ice such as scald . and the other way around as well! therefore i think move such as ice shard should be not very effective and blizzard super effective
try putting an ice cube in a glass of water
That's not how it works, but ice types deserve better
Is it me or is Pokémon a over complicated version of Rock Paper Scissors
Oh my god
Pretty much. XD
Feesh Feeny yes your right
Yep
AHHHHHHHH
"If you can kill two birds with one stone, you probably can kill quite a few more with one"
thats one of the best things I've ever heard
No no not birds with stones, nae, PIDGEYS WITH GOLEMS
I will see myself out
Yeah you know just throw a 300 kg
Rock animal at a tiny Bird
@@s_r-d2n How and mainly why the hell do you chuck golems at pidgeys? Clearly you should get an onix and karate chop it. The rock segment will break apart and you'll have more rocks to throw.
What about biting ghosts
@@billkling378 I've tried it and keeping this between you an me... " *gengar tastes like shi-* "
I imagine that psychics aren’t actually afraid of bugs, but if there’s a fly in your room it’s kind of hard to focus on anything else
If psychic is the type of the mind, it makes intuitive sense to think that a common phobia, bugs, are a weakness of it. Not because psychics are afraid of bugs xd
Psychics are afraid of bugs because even with powerful intelligence, psychics cannot read the thinking of bugs so they cannot predict their actions and that makes bugs an exceptional fear to psychics.
So one of the strongest types is weakened against a freaking fly? that's weird
As someone who is terrified of bugs I disagree
are you a psychic?@@unitds27-delta
Fire: Melts Ice
Ice: Becomes water
New Water: puts out fire
Fire: fork
Cat Kool aid oof
@@doggypilled You are an even more idiotic idiot than what you accuse him
@@doggypilled hi :)
Cat Kool aid She was Making a The Good Place(yes I said that intentionally) Reference
Night Orcid i dont know what u were trying to say but this was so funny
"Poison can't poison poison"
Real diseases: I diagone this other disease with my disease
lol
Mistake at 3:50.
First, he says Dragons are strong against Electro, just a Minute later he says Electro is ONLY Weak against Ground.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
@@faisooli6626 Could you not have made any better of a comment??
Poisons are different from diseases
"Evil actions usually aren't carried out against metal"
Unless thy name is gold
And if they’re a corporation which tend to be affiliated with cars, buildings, phones, computers, etc.
Or if thou hast it a family heirloom
It's not carried out against the metal, it carried out to steal it.
I always thought of Dark’s weakness to Fighting and Fairy as: “When might and magic work as one, an evil plan can be undone”
except dark in this instance is not evil
@@aaron75fy Except in its original Japanese source it's literally the "Evil" type
@@leahlcruz and yet they changed it
Yin Yang Yo reference?
Hence why I can't stand Fighting and Fairy types.
Bug types are more of an annoyance. (They are the literal definition of the phrase, "useless insect".)
1:44 bug
2:16 dark
3:10 dragon
3:49 electric
4:18 fairy
5:06 fighting
5:44 fire
6:35 flying
7:14 ghost
7:52 grass
8:34 ground
9:05 ice
9:28 normal
9:45 poison
10:23 psychic
10:56 rock
11:42 steel
12:54 water
Thanks bro 😘
Thanks. Those time stamps really help. Fist-pump🤜🏻🤛🏻!
Thank god bro
TY
@@lexanderdouglas4701 covid alert
I'm glad to see this revisited! Those first two Type videos were what drew me to your channel to begin with!
hey look its emperor cubone
Emperor Cubone same, also I’m a fan of you’re content
same
Same!
Emperor Cubone SAME. I also was drawn to his channel by those videos because I was doing a Nuzlocke and needed to know what fairy was weak too
My personal favorite reason for dark being weak to fighting is “Afraid of the dark, Punch it”
Just like police
MagnetoDorito exactly
@@Fanimati0n lmao
U just made me hate Dark Type for a swcond
Because a skilled fighter can take down a street fighter.
Watch the video on Dark Type moves explained, by ...
I think that electric type being super effective against water and not to steel makes sense because water type pokemon are made of flesh and they are just covered by water, so they would get hurt if an electric discharge hits them, while steel type pokemon are made of iron, they don't have flesh, so a discharge would only pass through their body without damaging them
Plus people working with electricity wear full-body mail suits. The electricity conducts through the metal better than flesh, and it’d rather go through the suit rather than the worker. Allen Pan has a video where he messes with a Tesla coil and he’s in full-body mail.
@@qykolas Well, Marill is a mammal, I don't know the exact inspiration but if Azumarill is a rabbit, Marill has to be a mammal as well, so he is an "animal" and his body is made of flesh like other water type pokemon
@@qykolas ok, but also human skin repels water but an electric strike would kill us. But even if Marill goes against my thesis I think it would be one of the few exceptions
Wait I'm confused so with water conducting electricity if chinchou or Lantern does an electric attack in the water are they hurting themselves?
TVTropes explained Fairy a bit better. Copypasting from their Fridge Logic page on the types:
'Dazzling Gleam'? 'Charm'? 'Play Rough'? 'Disarming Voice'? What is this nonsense? Well, Fairy-type attacks involve the Pokémon using its beauty, charm, and feminine wiles to throw the opponent off guard. It's about being able to attack the opponent while giving off the guise of being harmless and innocent. Hell, 'Play Rough' is essentially beating the crap out of the opponent under the facade of 'playing' with them. So when you think about it... the Fairy type and the Dark type are two sides of the same coin. Both use manipulative tactics to their advantage, but the Fairy type is more subtle about it. Fairy beating Dark isn't just a matter of light driving out darkness... it's a matter of using one's charisma and guile to beat the dirty thugs at their own game. This also explains why the Fairy type is strong against Fighting. Martial artists are often taught to only use their strength for self-defense, and not to victimize innocent people. Thus, they'd naturally be inclined to hold back against the seemingly innocent Fairy type.
A lot of that makes sense, but like, what about moonblast?
@@hammerstix5791 Sailor Moon, "I shall punish you, in place of the Moon!"
MidCoreGamer *claps*
@@hammerstix5791
Many folclorical legends were moon is pretty important to do magic. This works with dark type to.
@@hammerstix5791
An explanation for Moonblast: Certain Pokemon types can have multiple origins. In the case of Fairy type, some of its moves utilize light magic.
"It's over fighting type I have the high ground "- Fly-wan kenobi
@Ahmad Adnan Fly wan kenobi used roost!
fly gon jinn
Ghost-Pokemon, even without 'Levitate' should
never be anything but Immune against Ground-Attacks.
you could have said floaty-wan kenobi but i get it
Obi-Swan Kenobi
Your search history must contain a lot of random things.
Yes
God, your right
You wont believe..
Why does Dark resist Ghosts?
doesn’t everyone’s though?
The water and steel interactions with electric make sense when you think about their attacks. Water attacks or maybe even water pokemon would leave the battlefield wet allowing for a more direct path to the water pokemon, steel attacks most likely wouldn't have this issue.
Ghost and Normal can't affect each other: In my mind, normal types are the pokemon which most closely resemble humans, which can't interact with ghosts. Therefore, Normal types too, cannot interact with ghosts.
Dragon Ghost, because ghosts can touch each other, so a ghost slapping another ghost would hurt them.
Rock > Flying. You can kill two birds with one stone.
Dark > Ghost, good spirits can become evil spirits.
Steel > Fairy. In many stories, metal can harm or even burn fairies at the touch.
Dragon resists Fire, Water, Grass, and Electric, yet is weak to Ice because dragons are reptilian and cold-blooded.
Poison is not very effective against ghost because spirits have no body to poison.
Water drowns out Fire, Rock and even solid Ground.
Fire can be extinguished by throwing water, sand or rocks on it.
Water type weaknesses electric, grass.
* Plants absorb water
* Electricity flows through water and kills everything in it
Grass's weaknesses: fire, ice, bug, flying, poison.
* What are the things that can hurt a plant? Plants are weak to extreme weather conditions (fire, ice), bugs and birds eating them, and poison.
Ice's weaknesses: fire, rock, steel, fighting.
Fighting weaknesses: psychic, flying, fairy.
* If you rely on pure strength only, you can be easily outsmarted (psychic)
* A fighter can't throw punches at a flying target, while the bird can pick it's moment and strike (flying)
* Fairy represents the forces of nature and ageing has the most detrimental effect on a fighter's abilities (fairy)
Poison's weaknesses: Ground, Psychic.
* The earth absorbs the poison.
* While the body can be poisoned, the mind is something meta-physical and has the upper hand over poison.
Ground's weaknesses: Grass, Water, Ice.
Dragon's weaknesses: Dragon, Fairy, Ice.
also Kamen Rider
“This kid is insane man”-Aaron Burr, Hamilton
WHY IS THIS SO UNDERRATED
By the ghost logic, everything should be super effective against themselves.
Ghosts can hurt ghosts
Bugs can eat other bugs
Animals(normal types) can hurt/eat other animals
Master martial artists can do serious damage to other martial artists
Birds can hurt other birds
And a lot other than that
I see what you are trying to say but I don't think ghost should be super effective against ghosts. The moves doing neutral damage to eachother would make the most sense.
woah
"This video is the bomb. I'm gonna make sure everyone knows about this wisdom this guy is spittin' out." -Hop. Probably.
If I had the power to erase something from gaming history, it would probably be swsh because the game was POINTLESS
@@sparklylexi2159 bitter much?
Why do I have a feeling that’s something he would say tho
69th like nice
ThE bOmB
My logic for remembering flying being weak to electric is because if a bird gets struck by lightning it’s not gonna be flying anymore
Oh no
Itsa gonna d I e
Its not gonna be flying, its gonna be D E A D
Me to
It’s like that for most things
I think another reason bugs are strong against dark is because of the religious and folklore significance a lot of bugs have in Japanese culture and how they’re seen as protecting against evil and dark spirits. Especially given the whole dark type being evil type in Japan thing.
I just don’t get why the literal devil Pokémon isn’t dark type and is actually weak to dark type like the devil is ghost??? Wtf
@@skyrrmish6207 Giratina is part-Ghost as part of its theming with Dialga and Palkia; Time is inflexible and immobile like Steel, space is expansive and ever-shifting like Water, and anti-matter (Hypothetically) exists throughout the universe, but cannot be perceived or touched, like a Ghost
@@alexryu2632 Wouldn't that be dark matter?
I usually just think of fireflies lol
When is someone going to tell him that the ground to ice weakness isn’t because it makes the ground slippery, but rather because ice formation within the ground can easily crack the soil?
i agree
I hate when ppl forget simple things from school.
Neither is grass to poison
....or maybe he knows but is funnier to say it anyways. We never know.
yeah lmao, i was just like, "...but erosion and weathering?"
alternative explanation for water being weak to electric: the process called "electrolysis" is a process consisting of passing an electrical current in water, breaking the bonds between the hydrogen and oxygen atoms, basically breaking the water molecules
Makes sense
I did not understand a word you just said.
Adding electricity to water makes it turn into a gas, there fore destroying the water. This does not happen to steel/metal as easily.
Just look up lighting hitting water
completely agree. Chemistry for the win
You could use the actual darkness argument for both psychic and ghost weaknesses. A lot of people are actually scared of the darkness too and ghost are usually limited to only appearing at night so it has control over ghosts.
Darkness is actually represented by Ghost type. Since night and darkness is where ghosts can mainly appear and act, it makes no sense they’re weak to darkness.
It’s more likely the explaination is the one said in the video
CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR
I like ghosts
Wait why am I apart of this conversation
4:10 I think I have a better explanation for flying: Electricity is wild and unpredictable in movement, and is hard to avoid midair. In fact, in the air you are quit open to electric attack for its speeds could catch you off guard. Not my best explanation, but I think this also is an applicable reason
I thought of it as a bird getting struck by lightning, lightning tries to find the closest object to hit so a bird who is closer will be hit
Exactly, its wings would get paralyzed. Also, if to wanna associate Flying with air/wind, clouds get struck by sheet lightning.
These explanations are so bad. Even the one for why ice beats flying "because frozen wings wouldn't work well" wtf. Birds literally migrate in winter, they can't handle the cold and flee from it. Bird eggs must be kept warm or the baby dies.
I always thought Psychic’s superiority to Poison as of our ability to learn of various poisons and toxins and how we can not only build a tolerance or immunity, like Michael said, but also how we have studied and learned from them so much to the point we created vaccines and medications/antibodies (like in antivenom) and treatment to diseases.
I thought they like used there kind to push out the poison of the body
"Vaccines cause autism though!" - Some idiot karen
And the fact that mind readers could probably see any poison attempt coming and avoid or plan for it.
I myself thought it was because of famous mind games involving poisoned drinks, like that one scene from The Princess Bride where the main protagonist challenges an opponent to a battle of the wits: Two drinks, one is poisoned.
@@OhCrapI_He that the one when they were both actually poisoned but the protagonist lived only because he exposed himself to it to the point he built up a tolerance to it?
"Ice is weak to steel"
Try telling that to the Titanic
Edit after 6 months: holy crap, this is the most likes I've ever gotten on any comment. It means a lot, thank you!
Damn
Level 1 titanic vs level 100 Iceberg
@@aizoid4735 ikr
It was mainly a fire
@@aizoid4735 *that's how Mafia work*
This video is super effective!
Everyone who watched it fainted
Amelia Driscoll critcal hit
REALLY
Amelia Driscoll lol
Itz a 1 hit ko
Also for electric being super effective on flying types, birds when they fly are more elevated in the air and lightning likes to strike more elevated objects
Birds fly into power lines & that doesn't go well for them, is how I remember it
@@dominiquediva lmao that too
Lightning wants to move to ground. A bird in the air is not a path to ground, but rather a freak accident. Taller objects get hit because air is actually not a great conductor relative to things sticking up out of the ground so the fastest and easiest path to ground is through those objects.
@@dominiquediva If they’re only touching one line, most of the electricity will flow through the line and bypass the bird as the resistance of the wires is much lower than that of the bird’s body. I’m not sure off hand if this small amount is ever enough to harm the birds or not. Now, if it touches two lines at once, it now becomes a path between those two and extra crispy.
@@lq7777 the ground has nothing to do with it, lightning is a flow of electrons and lightning doesn’t choose where it strikes, it is drawn to its striking point by positive charge, this can be any object, most often the ground but if there are any objects closer to the Lightning’s origin (closer to the sky) they can possibly have a stronger Coloumbian attraction, thus, the point of the type effectiveness being that birds are more prone to lightning strikes being higher in the air
I still think that “Fairy is Immune to Dragon types because the metagame needed to be balanced out” is pretty accurate
Ghost-Pokemon, even without 'Levitate' should
never be anything but Immune against Ground-Attacks.
@@slevinchannel7589 but it would weaken the ground type too much there is a reason no type can have two types that are immune agianst it
Like what he said the last video he did like this?
100th like
Hence why I can’t stand Fairy types.
Emojis that resemble Pokémon types.
Normal: ⚪️
Grass: 🌱
Fire: 🔥
Water: 💧
Electric: ⚡️
Ice: ❄️
Rock: ⛰
Poison: ☠️
Ground: 🏜
Bug: 🐞
Psychic: 🔮
Flying: ☁️
Fighting: 🤜
Ghost: 👻
Dragon: 🐲
Dark: 🌑
Steel: ⚙️
Fairy: 🧚♂️
Fairy is an Xbox that's male
Fighting: 🥋
Emoji people that represent types
Bug:🧟♂️
Ground:🤷♀️
Grass:👩🌾
Fire:👨🚒
Water:🧜♀️
Dark:🦹♂️
Ghost:👼
Flying:👨✈️
Fairy:🧚♀️
Fighting:👩💻
Steel:👨🔧
Electric:👨🏭
Psychic:🧞♀️
Normal:👩💼
Poison:👨🔬
Rock:🧙♂️
Dragon:🧝♀️
Ice:🎅
@@CookiedFoxy lol same
🐛 in my opinion this is a better bug
Robin: Of course, fire is it's one weakness.
Batman: Fire is everyones weaknes, it's fire.
psycologo121
Because it is fiiiiire!
Firefly: Says you...
It's like trying to explain how Batman can do so much.
Batman Is wrong
psycologo121 fire is the weakness of humans
Steel isn’t weak to Electric because while metal is a great conductor of electricity, it wouldn’t really get damaged by the electricity passing through it. Whereas, with Water type, if you were to use an Electro Ball on an animal that is almost always soaking wet, it’s gonna take some damage.
If anything, Steel should be more likely to get paralyzed, since the electricity passes all around the body of the Pokémon. Similar to how Water types are more likely to get frozen
If anything steel should be immune to electric cause it's great conductor. Also lightning rods exist. Too bad it isn't.. And water is weak because electrolysis.. And lightning being very hot so water just evaporates if struck by one.
@@enoraltheoutcast I see what you mean, but Lighting Rod is already an ability, so clearly it’s been established that that logic only applies to *some* cases. Plus, lightning rods in real life only really work when grounded, which is why Ground is immune to Electric. The only things that make sense is to make Steel weak to Electric or be paralyzed more often from Electric, and having Steel be weak to Electric would be boring.
Am I the only one who used to say “ no but if fire melts ice it will turn into water which puts out fire” I thought I was some sort of scientist.
Harry Busuttil no, you weren’t. I did it too.
Same.... Same...
Yeah, but...it wouldn't be ice anymore...
Harry Busuttil Then it wouldn’t be ice anymore. It would be water.
Same
Michael: makes this video with very "accurate" pictures
Micheal's FBI agent: what is this wrong with this man?
Fighting < Flying
Ever tried punching a bird?
Then if possible, what do people think about when Hawlucha was added with the Flying/Fighting type combo plus the move Flying Press which does damage to Flying and fighting. ?
birds run away instead of me running away
Someone that can fly has and advance in a fight over someone who doesn't fly
Me:"*whistling in the distance*"
@Leon Peter Keates I knew that it's just a uncommon type combo of Flying-fighting, that's what like about Hawlucha.
Ghost seems like a natural typing to add to the fairy type's weaknesses. negative energy against their positive, or even more precise, death taking away life.
and it should also be the other way around.
And it works really well. Its only weaknesses are then Ghost and Steel, and the only Pokemon that can resist both are Normal types with a secondary type that resists Fairy, which is only Grafaiai and Pyroar.
I was genuinely saddened that there was no “Have you ever tried to punch a bug?”
I feel like that'd be pretty effective...
Bugs have exoskeletons and superb durability they would beat up the best martial artists in the world
Once I just shoved my finger into a fly thinking it would fly away. That was kinda gross
Yes. Punched an ant, it died
@@penggao7034
*I
The most logical explanation ever:
You can't really poison...poison.
Unless your name it's Salazzle
Antivenom?
it like you can't kill what is already dead
Adding more of a disease to what’s already there just kills you faster
“Adding water to water just increases the total amount” me spilling water on my bathtub and watching as the water forms a puddle on the water
Because science
Coy Raig yeah science
WHAT I NEED TO SEE THAT
Dark also represents literal darkness. It's weak to Bug and Fairy as both bugs and fairies glow... In the dark. It's also works better for Psychic's weakness to it as fear of the dark is far more common than fear of evil. Usually people just hate evil people.
Dragon's resistances can all be reasoned that it is the end boss type. How do you make the end boss strong? Make it resist the 4 starter Pokemon.
Nah clearly it's because people commit crimes at night when there are bugs around /s
Dark is called the Evil Type in Japan, where Pokémon originates from.
It does not represent literal darkness, it represents what it was originally called, evilness.
@@abrahamlincoln9160 I think you're forgetting one of the key features of Pokemon: everything has multiple origins.
Likewise, Grass isn't just mons that are grass. There are plants and fungi of all kinds. Also the same as Fairy being more than just fairies. It more represents nature magic and 'fairy' is the closest, catchiest way to describe it in one word.
Dark and Evil both equate to the things that go bump in the night, which are revealed when Bugs and Fairies shed their light on them.
@@PieaterProducts But hardly any Dark types look like they'd hide in actual darkness. Most of them do however look evil or at the very least mischievous.
And most Bug pokémon don't shed any light at all, there's only like a couple of them where that's part of their design.
And for that matter, most Fairies don't naturally shed light either. I guess they could with a moonblast... But by that logic, both Fire and Electric should be super effective against Dark, too.
@@antoniomolinatorres3873 If we're bringing up everything that should be, but isn't, a type interaction, Ghost would be very weak. Ghosts should be weak to Water and Fire as those are well-known weaknesses of the undead.
As for not all members of a type following the exact standard, I suppose Fire types are incredibly rare, seeing as very few are actually on fire.
Onix:Oh hey I’m evolving! I’m going to be so strong! I can’t wait to see Charizard’s face.
Onix evolved into Steelix!
Steelix:Well.....shoot
Shouldn't onix be happy?
Srinivas Aryan Balchukuru Steelix is still Ground type.
Necrozmew Except most people don’t teach Flying type moves to Charizard. Steelix can learn Rock type moves which are double effective-
@@microwavedpepsi i do same with a guy who traded me his charizard
Steelix is also ground..
Is it just me or is Michael going through reverse puberty?
It’s not just you
yeah the first time he did this video his voice was deeper
Like how Squrtle did?
His Inner Squirtle is kicking in
*-*
Yeah he's fully embracing his cartoony kids-show-host persona. It's an act.
Fun fact: Back in Gen 1, Bug and Poison were supereffective against each other. Poison beating Bug would make sense, insecticides are a common way to kill bugs after all. It's also odd that Poison doesn't beat Water, since pollution can be very toxic to fish and other sea creatures. Steel should be super effective against Dragon due to stories of knights in shining armor defeating Dragons with swords, lances, or arrows.
I’m confused on how hyper beam goes through ghost types when you can’t really have a normal laser that isn’t like electric
Water can dilute poison so that’s why it resists it. If you get a cut on your finger, you usually run water through it to wash away the poison/infect ants.
@@fluffylizz Except Water _doesn't_ resist Poison, they're neutral to each other.
Punch a ghost: No effect.
Crunch a ghost: SUPER EFFECTIVE!
Why do people have a problem that ghosts are immune to punching like wtf
“Fairy is only weak to steel and poison”
my umbreon: * Laughing in steel hidden power *
Edit: my Umbreon is now crying, as hidden power has been removed in Sword and shield. Why, Nintendo, why.
steel hidden power is turned into steel even though it says normal
Cathy King yes, that’s- that’s the point...? Steel is strong against fairy, so using that hidden power is super effecting against fairy types and other things weak to steel.
My sylveon is wait for your umbreon
Hahahaahahhahahahhahahahahahaha
Just kidding broooo but still mt sylveon has advantage
@@cathyking5786 What are you trying to say here?
The art in this video is top-notch. Masterpieces like that deserve to be in museums.
JAEA Books this guy stole some of Piccaso's painting smh
Especially the fairy - dragon art 🤩
He means micheals drawings
"Fairy's represent pure heart and kindness" tell that to Sylveon
But where is Sylveon
@@ralsseubd6310 I wasn't being literal
Fairy-type are more Dangerous than you think. Mischevious and decieving, not even Dark-type, know for their psychological trick, can escape their innocent.
@@zigaudrey sounds exactly what a dragon type would say
zigaudrey it’s more of how scary Sylveon is in pvp.
This is probably Mikey's best informative video IMO, whenever I'm playing a main series game, this video helps me remember the type match-ups better thanks to the well explained and visual examples. Thanks Mikey.
A Pokémon: *Punches a Gastly*
Gastly: This is fine.
Another Pokémon: *Bites Gastly*
Gastly: OUCH!
*LOGIC*
lol
Biting is Dark .. because .. whatever .. That's y kids u should never bite. It's baddd. Dark is bad.
Hey, in a fight, biting is considered fighting dirty.
@@darktrainerz6707 yep, that's why sucker punch is dark type too
Dark type moves probably have some psychological component that affects the Ghost types.
I always considered Dark, not as an evil type, but misunderstood and unknown. And sometimes literal darkness. For example, Absol is Dark type, but they aren't actually evil. Just perceived as such, despite them trying to do good. Though some Dark types are evil. Just like how some Flying types are bird-related, and some are wind-related.
Ironically, it is literally called the Evil Type back in Japan. Not to mention most of the moves consist of underhanded tactics, doing cruel things, or bullying the opponent.
In season 1, psychic types were evil types. Remember sabrina 😅
true
Japan might be lying about the dark type, as not all dark types are evil
@@extremeboss5282 Or maybe it’s that Japanese is not a very well-rounded language. The only word that means “dark” in Japanese refers to the literal lack of light. “Dark” can be seen as more of a slang for “evil” in English, and not all English slang has slang Japanese translation, only literal.
You can't really poison, poison.
Salazzle :Dafaq you talking about?
Unless you have the Corrosion ability...
@@KarateGirl999 I hope you know that that's salazzle's only main ability
@@milky3494 Salazzle can also have Oblivious as a hidden ability. Corrosion is her signature ability along with Salandit but it's not the only one she can have.
@@milky3494 Yes, I know that Corrosion is Salandit and Salazzle's main ability. I never said other Pokémon can have Corrosion.
@Leon Peter Keates nope. Sludge still doesn't affect Togedemaru even with Corrosion.
1:44 Bug
2:18 Dark
3:09 Dragon
3:47 Electric
4:17 Fairy
5:06 Fighting
5:42 Fire
6:28 Flying
7:14 Ghost
7:51 Grass
8:34 Ground
9:05 Ice
9:27 Normal
9:45 Posion
10:24 Psychic
10:56 Rock
11:42 Steel
13:14 Water
Water is weak to electric because of a process called "Electrolysis", where high voltage breaks down water into oxygen and hydrogen.
Dark should be weak to fire
Or since it is a "kid" game have you tried shocking a fish?
@Yaxyax E bruh
"Dragon is weak to Ice because reptiles are cold-blooded."
Dialga and Reshiram: *"Guten Tag."*
Kyurem be like, I’m too cold to get cold
Palkia: hola
And Duraladon
Dracovish: Allow me to introduce myself
Bewilderbeast: 👁️👄👁️
Fairy＞Dragons
Easy,dragons always die in fairy tales.
I'm sorry to burst your bubble but
Fairy>Dragon- That means fairies are better than dragons
You put
Fairy
Charly Omega992 you sure about that bud
Fu Tiffany or it’s because apparently game freak likes to think of dragons as the dark side and negativity, and should be completely useless against good fairy’s even though fairy’s can be a corrupt fairy.
At least make Dragon effective or not very effective.
That's because Dragons are seen as evil, corrupted creatures in mythology while Fairies were seen as semi-divine creatures. This also would explain why they're immune to dragon type attacks.
Dragons were also seen as indestructible to anything other than magic for what I've seen, so Fairy being a magic type makes it strong against dragon types.
That’s explained in fairy tail
For the Ice-Ground thing, I have always considered how glaciers can remove enormous chunks of earth from the ground and form valleys.
"Fairy is immune to dragon, because they are both magical creatures and it is clear that dragon magic is far outclassed by fairy magic"
"Logical explanations for all of them"
...hmmm ok.
He could have done a better job explaining it but the logic does hold up. In classic mythology Fae creatures can be among the most powerful while dragons (at least in western myth) are just big brutes who wouldn't really effect a fairy much if at all.
Dragons are less capable of cognitive thought, therefore they won't be as good with magic.
Any DnD player that has fought an ancient dragon knows this is certainly not the case lol Dragon's in DnD can be smarter than the average human and they have the potential to outclass most wizards with their magical abilities :)
Better explanation: Many kids play Pokémon, good will prevail. Dragons are usually put on the evil side, fairys will be associated with the good side.
@@robertcales8544 DnD is just a game, the REAL history of dragons/fairies proves otherwise, although i respect your input they base the game not on DnD rules
“Dragon is weak to Fairy”
Dialga: *Allow me to introduce myself*
And Eternatus
@@glowstonelovepad9294 duraludon
Duraladon
dragalge
Reshiram, Turtonator
I'm glad you revisited these videos; they're some of my favorites from back when I first found your channel. I must know, who did all the cute little stick figure drawings? And yeah, Steel not being weak to Electric bothers me, too.
Thank you! And I made them ^-^
I would say steel conducts electricity too well, too efficiently. Can easily redirect it away to the ground, and unlike most water types, doesn't have fleshy bits to be hurt.
steel: well steel can PROTECT YOU IN THUNDER STORMS cause it a great conductor because it never touches the skin of the Pokemon if it's covered or made out of steel SOOO that's why steel isn't weak to
Electric. But it would hurt
@@MandJTV Hello
5:15 im so glad he used the star wars reference I was thinking of at that very moment
Michael: "Toxins can not pass through metal."
_Corrosion enters the chat_
Ground type: bruh
corrosive is not the same as toxic :)
@@potatobird52 he was talking about salazzle ability tho
I have always thought water should be super effective to steel because of corrosion
@@jacobwhelan45 I think Steel as it's refered to in Pokémon is stainless.
Raticate’s frosslass...
My favorite phrase now
Glalie: *exists*
Blaziken: Ima bout to end this mans whole career
Glalie: *b ö r k*
Why Glalie specifically? Any Ice type works.
In the medagame they are competing against each other alot
@@zeyanhtet9040 well glalie's dex entry says its body is made of rock so technically it's also rock type
@@scottsepter No, its a pure ice type.
I'm still stuck on the reason why fairy is resistant to bug. I guess maybe a bug couldn't do much to hurt a fairy, but that just doesn't seem like a good enough argument. Especially when there are already so many other types that resist bug.
@@qykolas nope. Thats not
There is no light type because Fairy already exists. Fairies are angels, angels are created by light. Fairies also represents shiny beautiness. You know bugs are attracted by light. They even fall in traps due to light. So I think Fairies should be super effective against Bugs.
In most fantasy stuff, fairies live among bugs and insects because they are small like fairies. Like for example you always see butterflies also associated with fairies. So since fey live in nature with lots of bugs it makes sense that they know how they work and to defend against them. Also another reason is because sometimes fairies are seen as half-bug and half-human like how fairies have butterfly wings for example
This is because faeries have a friendly relationship with bugs in nature and sometimes faeries have the features of bugs as far as their appearance. If you have seen the movie Tinkerbell this would make sense.
Electric is super effective against flying cuz...
... lightning vs birds
⚡️wins
That is still not a explanation but i agree wit u
Unless you’re Zapdos, tHEN YOU BECOMES STRONGAR
Yes
Also, the biggest fear of flying in airplanes is associated with thunderstorms. A lightning strike is the most common threat to an airplane.
That's why commercial planes fly so high these days. At the altitude in which they fly, so I heard, air is far less dense, and rumors have it that gas in the air may begin to transcend into plasma. At that altitude, airplanes literally fly above all weather conditions.
@@msebush if a lightning hits a bird the bird dies
Anything on the ground wont affect birds.
Volcanoes: Hold my beer
volcano is more of rock and fire
Still mad I can't git birds with bone club
*lava
Still mad that earthquake, a multi-directional, indiscriminate and wide-ranged attack could miss
@@thesnoms1492 what are they gonna do JUMP
I always thought Water should have been weak to Ice
Because water gets frozen by ice, thus not being water anymore
If anything I think it should be neutral. Yes ice freezes water but it would take too long to completely freeze a massive body of water. When water freezes it's really only the top layer.
No, because on a normal temperature a cube of ice tge exact volume of a body of water would not be able to freeze the water, instead the ice would melt.
I also think ice and fire should be neutral because fire melts ice but then the ice puts out the fire because it is water jow
Nope . Water gets frozen by the coldness . Not ice .
@@hubertbrownold6527 ...Ice is normally cold. ...You know that, right?
I feel like in certain cases water should be weak to ice because it converts into ice in cold enough temperatures but at the same time it's very true that ice would just float above many liquids and melt if left for a long enough time period
"Bugs get crushed by rocks"
Heracross: "Hold my beer"
Buzzwole:hold my beer
Genasect: Hold my beer
Scizor,Durant,and forretrest:hold my beer
Why didnt they put ground kills bug bc we step on bugs
@@relearnitall That's a human's foot crushing it against the ground, not just the ground itself
Pidgey: its over machoke, i have the high ground
Machoke: you under estimate my mach punch
Pidgey: dont try it
Pidgey uses gust
Machoke faints
**D I R E C T E D B Y G E O R G E L U K A S**
You do realize machoke learns rock slide and ice punch?
Also Ice resists ice because *ICE IS NICE* so it won't want to harm another ice. :)
But it still *hurt the other ice so it isnt that nice*
Sometimes *ICE* will hurt another *ICE* and that's not *NICE* but they will get over it and have *RICE*
KAJSKAJS
Ice is cool.
stop, you're a terrible human being
I still find dragon types really weird because of the lack of types it is super effective against
What do you think about a new Rubber type which is opposite of steel?? Its a electricity and heat insulator. Also its so flexible and cant be broken. So It will resist Electricity, Steel, Fighting, Rock, Fire and Ice.
Rubber is also near to Sponge, Jelly, Spring, Foams. There are some rubberlike pokemons too like Woffbuffet, Grumpig, Jellicent, spoink, Ditto, Swalot etc. Rubberlike things are very common in our life.
Rubber will be strong against Electricity, Ground and Sound. Electricity will finally get 2nd weakness. Ground becoz we clean dirts with rubberlike things.
I know right it is like a normal type clone but the only exception is that dragon is ONLY strong against itself.
@@n-zedorai6613 That sounds nice.
@@bronwynroberts860 what do you think about sound type?
6:02
And Steel resists all of the types that Fire resists except for Fire itself...
(Hence Heatran, a Fire/Steel-type, having 5 double resistances)
Fighting
GreenishBean7 _YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY POWER_
@@CrasherX2000 DON'T TRY IT
Mandjtv: and the next type, is the next type
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Micheal’s search history: why is my bearded dragon scared of ice cream
Still no Detective Pikachu reaction?? NANI?
Salsa 2 Omae u wa mou shindeiru
F*** you bitc*
John Espinoza no u
Here's my reaction:
Ew.
Uuii
With the nature logic, doesn't that mean that fire should be super effective against fairy? 🤔🤔🤔
CrusaderApex another logical question would be : why doesn't Psychic resist Fairy?
That is a very good question. Wild fires destroy nature such as animals trees and grass so it would be logical for the fairy type to be weak to fire
@@DayzAhat I would if Psychic was immune to Fairy and Dragon, because any person that uses logic knows that they don't exist.
Dexuz I don't really get what you're trying to say
@@scarmom06 Fire types, although they aren't good against fairies when they should be, do resist fairies so... I guess it's still kinda there???
Michael: "flying represents wind and flying creatures."
Also Michael: ONLY GIVES FLYING CREATURES EXPLANATIONS
6:46 He says, "If you can kill two birds with one stone, you could probably kill quite a few more with one."
Edit: I meant when he was explaining flying weaknesses and resistances
I meant the wind, not wind Pokémon
There's no such thing as a wind Pokémon, only wind Pokémon
Jonah Esco I think he was just messing with you.... also, that last statement is kanda random...
I don't know what I was thinking, but I edited it out
Thinking of slightly changing some resistances for my own project. Truly, it's all in the name of balancing the types in general. These aren't even all my original ideas - I'm not that good - but here are the reasonings behind them. Tell me what you think?
Giving Bug resistance to Fairy - implying the two are natural rivals
Giving Bug resistance to Psychic - referring to the hivemind nature of bugs
Giving Bug immunity to Confusion - same hivemind argument
Taking Fairy's resistance to Bug - expounding on the two being rivals
Giving Ice resistance to Water - cold can freeze water before it thaws ice
Giving Ice resistance to Flying - expounds on ice's existing threat to flying
Giving Ice immunity to Burning - ice can melt but ice does not burn
Taking Fire's resistance to Ice - ice can douse a fire
Giving Grass resistance to Fairy - fairy magic does not harm plants
Taking Dragon's resistance to Grass - grass being the most physical of the elemental types
Giving Dragon resistance to Normal - pretty self-explanatory
Giving Dragon strength against Steel - makes dragon, steel and fairy a type triangle
Giving Normal resistance to Dragon - less self-explanatory, idea is dragon magic does not harm regular animals
I had some ideas:
Make bug and fairy and bug and grass resist each other (all friends, but bugs still eat grass)
Make Ice and water neutral against each other (same reasoning as yours).
Steel is weak to electric (conduction)
Ice actually can burn.
And if you want to be really wild, water's weak to fire (fire evaporates water, like it melts ice. You could also play with dark and fighting.