Sunflora looks really high, I think we can all agree on this. He also probably sucks, but that takes a backseat to my REAL topic today.
Why isn't there a Light type?
To do against the Dark type, I suppose. It would be good against dark, which would be good against it. WOOOO YING YANG BALANCE WOOOO but seriously. Grass would be good against it, because it can just soak it up, and also light would destroy ghosts (while dark wouldn't). also maybe light could be good against ice or something, because it would melt it? something like that.
and the moves would be sunny day and hyper beam and stuff. And like light bombs and lasers and things. It would be cool.
As for the pokemon that could be retroactively typed with Light, Sunkern and Sunflora obviously. They evolve only with a sun stone. Then Ho-oh would be Light/Flying, which honestly makes a poop ton more sense and doesn't double-up our legendary bird typings. Um, Solrock could be Rock/Light while Lunatone could be Rock/Dark, that would be neat. There's lots of Pokemon that need this type to make more sense, and it would just be cool.
anyway.
Sunflora is mediocre, you shouldn't need me to tell you that. And it kinda seems weird that you have to go to the trouble of getting a sun stone to evolve him, when his pre-evo sucks big time, and he is pretty bad too. There are so many better grass-types hanging around in the first 2 gens. But he is a living sunflower, so that's cool I guess.
Overall: 5/10
"Dark" type in Japanese is "Aku"--EVIL type. So that's why. Unless there's a Justice type or something in the works, lol.
ReplyDeleteThat explains why all the moves are just mean, instead of actual darkness. But that's still stupid. Why is "evil" an element?
ReplyDeleteIf I had my way, I'd reformat the entire type chart.
gliblord is overlooking the fact there there's several shadowy moves as well. Dark may be called Evil in Japan, but it pretty clearly encompasses both subjects.
ReplyDeletefairy type is coming up in Gen 6
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