If Pokémon had an Earth Type 

I’m here and I hate drowzee Edit: video is so good you added Wolfey

I would buy them it If i wasn't broke 😭

Tell AirUp to come to Brazil so I can buy it

I'd love to see a video of "What if Flying and Bird were separate types?"

agreed, blow this up

Agreed!!!

Also ghost and dark combining into evil type that would also be cool

True, that would be great

Petition signed, I like this

Wow thats a great new type to explore, I would say that Dragon would be as strong as diamonds, ie diamond fangs, claws, scales, etc.

Question: is there a Rock move that uses diamonds to be super effective on Steel Pokémon like Freeze Dry is on water types?

​@@luisvelez1952there is the move diamond storm, but it doesn't have any special type interactions like that

@@Nikowo1610 Diamond Storm is Renamon’s move.

@@JaelinBezel there's also a signature move of Diancie called the same thing then

That and hyperbeaming with stab having a 100 attack and 70 special which meant blizzard was an option for coverage which meant a lot

@@GortinTime don't forget that in gen 1 if hyperbeam KO'd,it would not need to recharge

I'd be worried about him overshadowing the Elite 4, because all the best Pokemon in Gen 1 are Normal-type or Psychic-type.

Persian was also fucking terrifying

Persian, Kangaskhan, Snorlax, Chansey and Tauros as a normal type gym leader team would be terrifying

okay i'm very intrigued - what kind of pokemon TTRPG? please take this as an excuse to ramble (:

@@altariamotives16 Currently looking at Pokémon Tabletop Reunited. Tbh it's a bit more complex than it needs to be, very heavy crunch, probably as close as you can get to just using the Pokémon video game mechanics in a TRPG. It has all the same moves, abilities, and held items, which already is a truly bonkers amount of content, but it also has a rich class system for trainers that I really like. But primarily it's one of the few games that lets you punch a Pokémon in the face, as it were. :3

Tell me when your done making it@@MumboJ

A pokemon TTRPG?? That sounds amazing!!

@@SugarSpice07 There's actually quite a few kicking around, nothing officially branded but a lot of fanmade games. Depending on how involved you want the mechanics, there's games that just have generic elemental attacks and are more roleplay focused, there's games where pokemon are glorified class abilities, and there's games that intricately represent as much as possible from the videogames and other media. PTR is the latter, it includes every move and every ability, most of the items, and a butt-load of trainer class options. There's even a class based on the RéBURST manga where you can fuse with your pokemon to become a hybrid form. I'm currently playing a Hex Maniac in my friend's game. :3

This is a fascinating idea!

That's a good one.

Genuinely that’s a great idea I would love to see Mikey do this

Gen 1 prepare you rather poorly, with the only two real counters to Brock outside of starters being Mankey and Butterfree, but you'll have access to counters in Bellsprout/Oddish for Misty and Geodude and Diglett for Surge Gen 2 is perfect, you can get Geodude and Onix early and they can easily handle the first three or even four gyms on their own, the only starter that has any advantage to begin with is Cyndaquil against the second gym of the first 3 Gen 3 gives you access to Seedot/Lotad and Shroomish to handle the first gym, Sableye in two of the games can sweep the second gym, with Beautifly/Dustox being a runner-up and best option for Ruby, and you could use Nincada or Shedinja, just needing to take out Voltorb since it knows rollout, the rest being unable to hit Shedinja at all Gen 4 have Machop found right next to the first gym which is a decent counter for the gym, can even trade it for an Abra afterwards that can be useful against the second gym's ace in Roserade, you can also find Ponyta right next-door or use a Starly now a Staravia from the early routes, After that though, it gets a bit complicated, as the third gym is switched around in Platinum to being Fantina and her ghosts, If you could get dark type at this point in the game it would be trivial, however, i can't remember any Dark types you have access to at this point in the game except Umbreon from the gift Eevee. In diamond and Pearl you have access to several grass types in the great marsh to handle the third gym Gen 5 is in a precarious situation, the first gym's leader is determined by your starter, but assuming you no longer pick one, i guess you get to pick the monkey that is good against theirs as that is what you normally would do? for the second gym you can get Rogenrola to resist the normal type (and the high defense cover against the dark non-STAB bite and crunch), the third Gym is hard if you didn't pick Pansear, with the only other real counter being Rogenrola who will struggle against Leavanny Gen 6, Easy enough, you can trade for a Farfetch'd or catch a Fletchling for the fist gym, and being so far to the second gym, you'll have plenty of options to handle the Rock types, despite having a Tyrunt. And the third gym have 3 good counters right after the second gym, in Emolga, Sigilyph and Hawlucha Gen 7 doesn't have Gyms but i'm fairly certain you can get a counter for all the first major battles without a starter. Gen 8 Wild Area. Gen 9, haven't played, but as far as i've been told, it's open what gym you tackle in what order, and you can go about do other challenges before then, you probably have options to use in battle. As for who prepares you the best, it'd probably be gen 2, 8, and 6, as gen 2 have two counters that alone can tackle the first 3 gyms, while the other two have access to such a variety that you will likely have a counter for the early game. The ones that prepare you the worst being gen 5, 1 and 4 by virtue of not having easy or any access to counters and in gen 1 specifically, few trainers to train on before the first gym and only 2 counters, one at an optional route and the other being a type combination you'd think would get demolished by Brock, had he had any rock moves (which he does in the remakes).

This is such a good idea

I feel like ice has such a strong identity as a glass canon, though.

I wholeheartedly agree

Get pokeaimMD in for a roundtable, that would be pretty crazy

There is alos the "Can Pokemon Breed" video that features Wolfey and John (PM7) so you might like that too.

@@dhruvanand6695 I did enjoy that

You know they've collaborated before on Wolfe's channel right? Wofle made Mikey a competitive team and tried to help him get to master ball I'm pretty sure they got there in the end, but I don't really know

Ngl I always thought it was weird how not only they chose a specific plant to name the type after and not calling it just just the plant type. Makes it seem like every Pokémon in the type is just based off of grass lol

Same for in Colombia. Tipo planta is much better than hierba/pasto. Sadly, we still have steel “acero” instead of metal (same writing in both languages)

@@diamonddrawsthegoat Yeah, that's my problem exactly. Maybe it made sense in gen 1 when most grass types where actually based off on types of grass and flowers (and fungi for some reason) but now that we also have Pokémon based on trees, fruits and even leaves and paper, it should just be called the plant type.

tipo hierba technically would be weed type, but yeah planta sounds better than pasto

Same for France - In French, Grass Type becomes Type Plante

Ba dum tss

Exactly my thoughts

why scorching sands though? it just sounds like the pokemon using it heats up the sand/ground nearby. Or does it actually throw scorching sands at the opponent?

@@rivershen8954 exactly that. In tha games the description of the move says: "The user throws scorching sand at the target to attack. This may also leave the target with a burn."

Yeah, I've thought about the idea of a wind or air type too. I think it has a lot of potential, though I do think one of the main issues is that there's not a lot of pokemon that specifically fit with the new type. The only ones I can think to give it would be Gyarados, Rayquaza, the forces of nature, Fan Rotom, and maybe the Hoppip line.

Ive thought about this too. There’s lots of Levitate pokemon with boring secondary types like psychic, or pokemon that are flying but don’t have wings. A Floating/Levitating type would have been a really good special counterpart to flying in the physical/special split days. It could lose the electric/ice/rock weaknesses while gaining weaknesses like ghost/dark/bug. The theme being that their flight could be impaired more by fear than by physical ailments. Offensively it would be a bit more difficult to figure out what it should be good against without stepping on Flying’s toes too much though. Maybe take the fighting super-effectiveness from Flying and also make it good against types with few weaknesses like electric or water or steel or normal even if they don’t make sense lol.

and we could call the two new types, wind and winged type, specifically written to confuse people

@@gooseygooseman1383 drifloon and drifblim. I could also see swablu turning from a flying type to an air type since altaria is half cloud.

In addition to those listed, I thought maybe Koffing/Weezing, Castform, and Tornadus. Would love to see a video splitting the type.

I like that. It could be used within the anime or storylines outside of the games too.m

Like facing the ultimate rematch

especially since Brock uses Geodude and Giovanni uses Golem, a very direct comparison between where you started and where you ended up

Holy moly, that's genius, I love that idea

or they'd just change Giovanni to a flying type leader considering the badge looks like a feather

Well. The whole type chart is the point of the franchise. Adding Fairy was a game changer because it made poison pokemon a threat to something other than grass… which felt redundant because a lot of grass were also poison types. But especially against dragon, a powerhouse type that has quite a bit of resistances.

and also made ghost/dark type pokemons actually have a real weakness. Before Gen6, GhostDark type pokemons literally have no weakness, neutral to everything and immune to psychic and normal. But fortunately only 2 pokemon had this typing which were Sableye and Spiritomb. Now their only weakness is Fairy

You didn't watch the full video did you? They explicitly mentioned that Stealth Rock would still affect Flying Types, even if it's not Super Effective anymore.

​@@goodhelmetjunior3399 I mean, taking half damage from stealth rock in comparison to now is still a huge buff.

Scizor having another weakness isn't that big a deal but yeah Bugs shouldn't ever be nerfed anymore

@@kombokhan Agreed, the LAST thing the Bug Type needs is a nerf.

My only gripe with this video. I don’t care how much sense it makes, your theorycraft is not allowed to nerf Bugs.

If you were going to implement this, I would buff Bug. Bug needs it anyway.

I think if you make Bug resist and super effective against Fairy, it would be alright.

How are they different apart from pokemon?

@@maganhassan2627 Wdym?

@Regeor your 1st sentence I wanted you to elaborate further with examples 🤷‍♂️

@@maganhassan2627 Like sometimes there’s a lightning element, wind element, nature, energy, light, magic, tech or earth. Pokémon has got a unique collection of Types.

In the TCG, Grass is Plant and Steel is Metal, so it would make sense for those to be the official names because they make more sense than Grass and Steel

Rhydon feels like it started off as a normal in design. Its moveset in Gen 1 is really heavily biased to normal moves.

What would you do about Whitney?

@@GrandRezerotbf, every pokemon in gen 1 has a predisposition to normal moves. Level up movesets are all pretty bad in RBY 🫠

Yes, they should be separated, but I don't like the name bird type. Flying should stay. Wind and flying.

And most flying/normal pokemon would turn into bird/wind type

Normal should be beast type

​@@LeoDaKirra-vl3yvmore like it should be split into "beast type" and typeless

Yes, Dodrio could be Bird and Ground (or Earth)

Tornadus would become a Wind/Flying type.

Fun fact: During the creation of the first games flying type was two different types, bird and wind type. Later they decided to mix them because bats and flying bugs aren't birds and etc. This is also the reason Lance is a flying type trainer, he was actually a wind type master

Good ol Missingno, the original bird type

Birds manipulate air for mobility do they not?

a really good game design can consolidate both, but focusing on gameplay enjoyability also requires balancing, so its good to have that as a priority but not deny thematic and lore reasonings if possible.

I honestly think you could do a further split with gemstones, rock is weak against steel but diamonds are treated as part of the type and steel has no impact on them

I get that

​@@TheBTNah that would just create more chaos. And there aren't enough "gem" type candidates to justify it's beieng a type. And on the top of that: rock would loose a ton of special moves.

@@TheBT If you're going purely by composition, steel should also be considered a rock or ground, since its from where they come from.

@@VivioSaf Nah, Steel has gone through a non natural process to be created.

Sharpening Stone sounds like it'd either be too situational to use or broken. Cool idea though.

I think they should have done that with fairy and dragon.

I think the type ice/earth should be resist each other like bug/fighting. Ice has no damage against dirty and earth can "storage" heat, or "warm" in winter . That's why bug and other animals can survive in winter. Even plants can survive too.

How would Rock types use it if Rock types don't exist? I assume you mean Earth types.

Isn't Ghost and Normal weak to each other? (Immune)

I agree, I think the rock and ground type are fine to stay separate. Mikey made Flying way better defensively, and Steel and Water a little better defensively, none of which needed the help. At the same time, he kinda held up a middle finger to Bugs, because they lose their best resistance, and keep one of their worst weaknesses. Bugs did not need to be made worse, and unless I missed it, I don’t think they talked about that at all. The Sandstorm buff is no longer needed if the Earth type is better defensively than Rock, so it just makes sand broken-like Ubers broken for no good reason.

Chi'yu already evaporates everything it touches, including Water types. :P Jokes aside, Evaporate sounds like a fun move idea.

Boil and Vaporize

It should’ve been fast and powerful like Weavile!

In ate them, water is weak weak to its poison type funnily enough…

Also, some bugs live in the ground, don't they?

I don’t know if water should be weak to Ice officially (other than Freeze-Dry obviously), but I really do think Ice should resist Water. Ultimately, they’re the same thing, just that one’s colder than the other, and given enough time, one can freeze/melt the other. It just makes sense to me to have Ice and Water resist each other like Bug and Fighting do.

​@ashenwolf98 Scald should be super effective to Ice types.

​@@wuguxiandi9413NO. Scald is already way too good due to the 30% burn chance, but making it super effective against Ice?! That's op!

Combine fire and water for the steam type lol

That would absolutely suck for Dragon types lol

The water type is now a combination of fire and ice types

It’s less about combining types but rather identifying their shared traits/likeness. Mystic makes sense however!

​@ashenwolf98 The typing would get rebalanced to prevent it from becoming OP as u see in the video.

I feel like that would make stall horrifying. Wo-Chien and Ting-Lu together with passive damage for up to 8 turns is a horrible idea.

@@strangevol5264 Well if reducing the attacking stats doesn't work, than you can always go with something else, like reduce speed, remove STAB, reduce accuracy, nullify abilities, etc. Any of those would offer a similar effect as described above too.

magic and divine would be very similar concept to fairy

@@grmancool I'm pretty sure Divine Type would focus on Pokemon who're confirmed to be Gods. Pokemon like Arceus as an example.

​@OmnicidalClown1992 you guys are so annoying. SOUND TYPE IS NOT HAPPENING

​@@purpleclaws202That may be true. To be honest the only new type that would make sense would be the sound type. Magic type, divine type, light type blah blah blah are all bs. These types are very similar to fairy and there is no need for a distinct type for mythical pokemon.

​@@Mr.Magcargohonestly I feel making Arceus typeless without the plates would be more interesting

Imagine one of the best Pokémon being based off the pink fairy armadillo.

The combination of earth/fairy seems to improve from ground/fairy. This is due to the increased viability of fire types. (Having one less weakness).

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another idea: porygon should have been some kind of digital type, nothing about porygon makes it "normal" like pokemon like Snorlax or Tauros.

I think they'd be copying Cassette Beasts. Its fine if they'll call it that tho

what other pokemon do you think could be digital type aside form porygon's evolutionary line?@@ZingierAlpaca96

@@ZingierAlpaca96 I think they made it normal since it could change type with Conversion.

@@ZingierAlpaca96 Porigon is normal type because not only the digital world is something normal by today's standards, it is also normal because the whole line represents human technology (Technology as something man-made, not only electronical), with it improing over time. Porygon Z might represent several things: Some kind of technological apocalypse, like robots taking over the world, or some technology from the far future we do not understand. ( I knnow that this is a more secondary inspiration and might not even be the original one, and I also know the Porygon Z lore)

I would definitely like to see some fanmade games use the Earth type with either the suggestions made by this video, or a modified version of them. I really would like to play through games set in each of the regions that exist as of 2023(including Hisui) so that we get a glimpse as to how much combining Rock & Ground into Earth really affects Pokémon in-game. Perhaps we could also get Pokémon Showdown to create a battle format where Earth is a type rather than Rock & Ground to see this change's impact on the competitive scene.

Why would Game Freak wanna do this though? Having the two separate allows for more nuance in the uses of both and gives them more freedom in how the two are distinguished in the designs. While some pokemon would definitely be better with Earth type, think about the type chart as a whole. This would just make Flying even better than it already is since it loses a weakness while keeping the immunity, but Bug (one of the worst typings in the game mind you) now gains a weakness and loses a resistance. If we're changing the type chart around for such an arbitrary reason, shouldnt we try to make weaker types stronger and nerf the stronger types? Say what you will about Fairy type, it gave Poison (one of the worst types before gen 6) and Steel the ability to actually be useful offensively while nerfing the really strong at the time Dragon and Fighting types. This just buffs the stronger types while giving one of the weaker types a bone (Ice) and kicking the other one (Bug) into its place

Funnily enough I've been trying to make a fan game that fused the rock and ground type to earth for a while now, because I'm lazy though very little progress has been made

I Want The Light Type,Combined Psychic And Fairy!Chronomon HM Would Be Light/Flying!

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Would Birdramon be Dragon/Flying or Fire/Flying? Maybe Dragon/Flying with the Flame Body ability...

That is so situational and not that good.

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@@pixelreaper7953 dude i know

I think the devision is a ok. I like both of then being separate rather than them being on type

Heatran approves of the proposed change to the type chart.

This change makes steel broken i think

Would it also be weak to water, because sugar dissolves in it?

If you had a sweet type, wouldn’t you have to have a sour type? That would probably just be poison.

Aw hell nah 💀 The only new type which would make sense would be a sound type.

​@@Mr.Magcargo Sound becoming a type would screw up way too much. Something like Nuclear or Plastic would work better.

Earth should not exist