Light and Sound Type 

Soundproof ability:

The thing about the Light type is that we already have it in the form of Fairy and Psychic: Necrozma is all about eating and giving off light and its Psychic type, and Dazzling Gleam is a Fairy type move. Fairy types are Light type, but they also represent cutesy, charming and magical themes. Like how Dark represents literal darkness, night, and underhanded tactics, or Dragon represents literal dragons as well as arcane power/mana.

Somehow, my favorite interpretation and justification of Pokemon types comes from fanfiction of all things. In Borne of Caution, by Fuggmann, there's an incredible digression on it, even if it's limited to just a few types. First, "one must first understand the inherent differences between the four ethereal pokemon types: Psychic, Ghost, Dark, and Fairy. All other types have elements that totally or partially reside in the physical world." This is all in a single chapter, Act 2 Ch 13. "Dark and Fairy exist close to Psychic and Ghost, overlapping but not truly touching. Where Psychic and Ghost are the realms of intellect and emotion respectively, Dark and Fairy occupy an even muddier scale of intent along the axis of Psychic and Ghost, forming a wicked compass." "Psychics are the most populous of the four, and thus the type the layman thinks of when they see phenomena that do not obviously belong to another type. Psychics are rooted deeply in using cold logic and intellect to enforce one's will upon the world around them, with almost zero emotional component. Ghost and Dark energy will disrupt Psychics for this reason, as the volatile emotions within these energies are not a quantifiable concept that a Psychic can control or calculate." "Ghosts are the opposite of Psychics. Strip away the flesh and the mind, and what are you left with? A soul, a being of pure sentiment and passion. Here, understanding becomes hazy for most. Love, hate, joy, sadness, and every emotion save raw apathy has a power that cannot be measured with the eye or instruments. Emotion is what makes a soul, what fuels it, and what drives it forward. [...] strong feelings are a power that defies and persists even beyond death." "Dark is the element of animalistic desire and violence. The want to cause harm, the want to control, the want to spread misery. That is not to say all who bear the epithet of Dark-type are monsters, but that the most personable of them are pokemon of admirable self-control. A Dark pokemon may love and hate like any other, but only the intent within will empower Dark energies. Many fail to realize this and nurture a most detestable character in the pursuit of power." "Fairy is a type I hesitate to put into words. Most would think Fairy to be the type of joy and happiness, but that's not quite correct. There is an underlying sinister, distorted nature that I do not truly grasp, one required to bear these powers in battle with the intent to harm. I know precious little about these energies or the minds of those who wield them. The state of mind required to master Fairy-type is alien, and that is all I know for certain. I have doubts that many of the users of Fairies actually understand their pokemon."

I also agree with your sound type opinion. I like the moves "subtypes" like punch, pulse and sound. I would like more of them to be added to the game, since it adds more dynamics to moves.

Theres a lot of design work that needs to go into designing types. Its not just about themes, that is just one part of what makes a good design. Theres the functional aspect which a lot of people overlook. If its just for art and creativity sake, then maybe that can be ignored. But if you're actually going to make a game, then each type added creates exponentially more work that needs to be done. Considering the effectiveness of each type against each other type, each pokemon, balancing and testing all of it is a lot of work. Also N0Rtist mentioned in a previous video, wanting to have subtypes as well, which is even more complexity. Not saying it can't all be done, but inexperience with controlling scope can kill a project.

The thing you did with the music while explaining the doppler effect is genius and an awesome detail!!

I've always felt like more than a sound type there should be a music type, to encompass the dance archetype as well. Or maybe an art type? That would be cool

I like the sound and light types conceptually, and find when people use them in creating new or reimagined pokemon they work great. Adding them as new types to pokemon itself has its own issues that make it unlikely or unneeded/useless. I prefer sound as a move type (as mentioned) or theme, and dark itself isn't explicitly "evil," so I don't think we need light, plus fairy and fighting in my opinion fit that role well. If you removed one of them though, it would hurt a lot of the pokemon designs already out there, so it's best for a creation/game of it's own.

Honestly I've always really wanted a thing similar to rotom that encompasses the electromagnetic spectrum that has different types based on whatever electromagnetic wave it is! I feel like it would be really cool for a light type mon!

I like the way the romhack Pokemon Prism does with Gas and Sound types. Gas is weak and strong against fire (same the other way) and how Sound type is immune to itself.

All we need to know about sound type is **SINGING DOG**

Here are my personal reasons for why Light and Sound types don't really need to be added. I should note that I'm not against the ideas or hate people who just wanna see them btw. Light: I feel like both aspects have already been covered. For the "purity" and "heroism", it's already done by the Fairy type. Pure kindness and good will is already their motto and before someone tries to correct me again, I KNOW. Actual fairies are horrible tricksters. I mean that 90% of Fairy type POKEMON are meant to be good little balls of kindness or are kind by nature e.g Gardevoir, the entire Cleffa line, etc (sorry, I've just had a lot of people telling me over and over again that they're evil. Never rudely, thankfully, but it is annoying when it happens over and over again). And yes, I know it is also the "magic" type, but Psychic and Dragon also already do magic so we aren't talking about that side. As for literal light, Electric type kinda already covers the scientific side through goofy cartoon electricity being incredibly bright and some Electric Pokemon being based on light sources e.g the Chinchou line. Sound: making noise is something most living and non-living things do on the daily. It's extremely... well, normal. Scraping something makes noise, animals make noise to threaten or attract, etc. If a drop of water hitting a puddle makes noise, so can literal God himself aka Arceus. Plus, there are already "sound-based moves". I simply don't feel like these types can work since their concepts have already been gone over by other existing types. But just like everyone, I do wish they existed.

Holy crap, my light type suggestion actually made it through a video! Also, I'm VERY glad someone else thinks sound works better as a category rather than an actual type.

Doppler Effect: The higher the opponent’s speed is in comparison to the user’s, the slower their sound based moves will go, and vice versa

What about a Soul type to replace Ghost? Or maybe it could be in-between Ghost and Fairy so you could also replace Fairy with something else? Idk just an idea I've had a little while ago because I felt that Ghost and Dark were really similar to each other when it came to their general design vibes, so "Soul" felt like a good enough alternative to separate it further from Dark and allow for more variety in designs too.

Okay, that Doppler Shift in the music was slick!

words can't express how much i love these type videos

As your videos continues, I am more and more hyped about your game

Maybe odd idea, but you could have types that are exclusively only to moves. So like Sound could be a type and have strengths and weaknesses but without an associate creature. Might not make any sense but I could see it having some game balance potential?

Just an idea, you could call them Monstems but that might be a bit too simple

I saw the food type at the end. I went, 'finally, someone actually MENTIONS this.'

I was always a huge fan of the Cosmic type ever since the Fairy Type most definitely filled the niche the light type was supposed to, while also providing enough unique pre-existing lore and Pokémon to reappropriate from the overbloated Normal or Psychic types, and the potential is otherwise sheer endless. I'm quite saddened that Pokémon will never go back to something akin to your project where there is just a huge flood of new lore with some implications for the wider world which such a new type in a Gen 5-style setting where one is forced to confront the new things could provide. Oh well, fan games are the future!

I think the biggest issue with "the light type" is that a lot of types already fill the role light types would Fairy, fighting, electric. A lot of types already represent light or being the heroic balance against the dark As for a sound type... I can kinda see it. Considering theres a large pool of moves based off attack, there are 2 abilities in the game that deal with "sound-based moves", and there are even sound based mons like the wismur line, chatot, and noivern. I can see sound being a type The only issue is adding another type that doesnt off-set the chart already. Fairy was a good addition because it gave dragon another type to be weak to, gave dark a counter-balance, and made fighting types deal with a new weakness. It worked for fairy to be added. So my only issue would be adding another type without adding more pressure to the type chart. Cuz I think after fairy, it will be a lot harder to make a new type that doesnt affect the type balance all too much Other than my complaints (more of concerns about new types post-fairy) I think its the only fan-made type that coupd theoretically work and make sense in tur context of pokemon

I made a custom pokemon type, which is light. Its super effective on dark, but also weak to this type at the same type. I know im for sure not the first person who made its own light type, but i just wanted do tell

absolutely in love with Blipup, amazing design ❤

Here is half an idea for an ability. "Scene Chains" -The more attacks done during a battle, the more it changes closer to Trace based on your speed. The more non-attacks done during a battle, the more it changes closer to Intimidate based on your speed. The rest is a sequence of 5 abilities in between. This ability that matches other abilities is based on the Doppler Effect with a bit of that Prowler meme mixed in. Feel free to use it as a debug Ability. Thoughts?

I wonder if a Water/Normal mon based on sound being a *wave* would be interesting or just too straightforward.

I love you, you made me understand physics in 5 mins in a different language, than my teacher did in class❤

I am really excited for the prototype.

I can’t wait to see your creation more!

I can see it coming, I got a real bad feeling the ghost type is going to get removed

sound = my singing mosnters

Man I really love this videos

I feel like the sound type absolutely has a place in a STEM based game. There's just too many fun facts about sound waves, waveforms and whatnot.

Blipup is amazing. It would look great in 3d. And thank u for finally explaining the doppler effect in a way i can understand with the visual.

I really feel like the light type should have been added a long time ago, given that ghost and dark exist, fairy and light balance those out pretty well together. Cosmic type is also an interesting idea i've seen mentioned. These two seem way more appropriate for pokémon than a sound type imo

How about an Astro type? I mean there is quite a lot of different possibilities to do space.

The thing about the Types is that "Dark" is a mistranslation. It is supposed to mean "evil" A Dark move is cheap, underhanded, dirty, and powerful. Dragon, meanwhile, is the true Dark type with Fairy being its opposing Light type.

I was never huge on the Light type idea, since in my mind, I saw Fairy as filling that role of bright and colourful stuff, as well as general positivity. Sound, on the other hand, I was way more of a fan of, because it isn’t really covered in any other type properly: the best we have for it is normal (since normal is the baseline for anything not covered imo), flying (both are connected to air), and psychic (something about the sound and mind being connected). It was never properly covered, and I think it could be cool if it were.

I would love a light or sound type, very cool!

Who else first heard of the Doppler effect in that one episode of Malcolm In The Middle? In any case, it's certainly exciting to hear the headway you're making, I haven't been doing much gaming in a while, but it'd be pretty neat to see your Stema game come into fruition! Neat video!

I hope you make an Ice/Poison type creature (or whatever your equivalent is)!

I made my type matchup for sound Super affective against Fairy (because balencing sakes) Ice (like shattering glass with your voice) Psychic (voice annoys mind) Weak to Wa'er (blaiahagaugauaug) .... Don't know why I never made something that resists it or it resists but I made bug immune to it… cuz bugs are deaf I made a boombox line Sinbox (one boombox and SING!!! Ah ah?) Bibox And then a split With the fire stone it's Desiboom! (It shoots exploding disco balls and it has a cool rock design(it's fire sound and it's a special attacker)) And with a… leveling up while knowing a dark move Deseivil (dark sound..... Uhh it's name is desible deseive and evil... It's a physical attacker...)

combine both concepts and create a wave type; wave types can control oscillations of particles allowing for sound attacks on sound creatures, lights lasers and radiation on light creatures, and cool stuff like earthquakes and attacking despite defensive moves

personally I feel like it is too late to add a new type to pokemon especially something like sound which has been covered in other pokemon. Sure chatot and exploud could just have their normal type removed but then what about noivern, it perfectly fits the type but which of its two types do you remove to add it? it doesn't make sense for it to not be a flying type but it'd also feel wrong for it not to be a dragon. What about oricori? it's a bird so it should be flying but it still fits the sound type well and you can't change its other type because that's the entire gimic

I just vinge watched your whole channel, I need more T-T

QUANTUM PHYSICS ??? POKEMON??? ART????? its like my ultimate perfect channel

Personally i believe sound type is already covered by the normal type(most sound-based pokemon are normal type and it has most sound-based moves) and the fairy type The fairies and the fae are usually associated with song and music such as sirens, merfolk, selkies and fairies in general, like the sea maiden of beloxi or satyrs, which is why i think they take over the sound typing The normal type uses MOST of the sound-based moves and sound is everywhere and its NORMAL, so its placement in the normal type is pretty reasonable

Honestly, I'm curious to see if a Magic Type would actually work.

discovered you an hour ago and have gotta say i am hyped about this, very thankful for rng-esus for giving me your content!!

for me personally sound type are more of a theme in typing like we have moves like Beams, Slashes, Bites Punches, while Light is opposite all types are from light, basicly Necrozma shows it hy light refraction, from white light to other spectres etc. in this case other types

I allowed to create them as a new pokomon type so THANK you

If sound and light was added to Pokémon the meta would implode into a supernova of its old self

i llearn more on this channel than in school.

Me gesturing at normal type: THERE. THERE IS YOUR SOUND TYPE.

0:39 "I highly doubt it" *shows Terapagos* Funny how that aged

Thank you for the video.

I think light would be cool to see it react with the dark type

Fairy = Light Normal = Sound (some attacks) You already have it. Fairy was added to balance Dragon, that's why. As far as we feel in the meta, there's no reason to add any other new types.

Farie has been turned into a charisma type, i like it!

Wow! nice job n0Rtist! I have some ideas, so make sure to Read all of this! 1. Carnot cycle Pokemon. A possible Carnot cycle Pokemon could be named Carnomoo, which would be a Steel-type Pokemon. It would have a body structure that resembles a mechanical engine, with rotating gears and pistons visible as part of its design. Carnomoo's ability would be called "Efficiency Mastery," which would allow it to maximize the use of heat and energy in battle. This means it can absorb heat from the environment or from its opponent's attacks and convert it into mechanical energy to boost its strength and speed. In terms of moves, Carnomoo would have access to various attacks that represent different stages of the Carnot cycle, including Heat Absorption, Adiabatic Compression, Isothermal Expansion, and Adiabatic Expansion. These moves would allow Carnomoo to manipulate temperature and pressure to gain an upper hand in battle. Overall, Carnomoo would be a formidable opponent due to its efficiency in energy conversion and its unique ability to manipulate heat and energy for its own advantage. 2. A possible Higgs boson Pokemon could be named Bosopod, which would be an Electric/Water-type Pokemon. It would have a body design similar to a Isopod with a nucleus at its center surrounded by orbiting electrons. Bosopod's ability would be called "Particle Master," which would allow it to manipulate subatomic particles to create electric and water-based attacks. This means it can change the charge of particles in the air or water to create powerful electric currents or manipulate the cohesive forces between water molecules to create powerful waves. In terms of moves, Bosopod would have access to various attacks that represent different interactions and properties of the Higgs boson particle, including Gravitational Charge, Weak Nuclear Force, and Strong Nuclear Force. These moves would allow Bosopod to manipulate fundamental forces and interactions to gain an upper hand in battle. Overall, Bosopod would be a versatile and powerful opponent due to its unique ability to manipulate subatomic particles and fundamental forces to create devastating attacks. thank you

Ah yes the long and complicated version of saying "No", my favorite type.

Idea for the names: Sound: echo Light: lumo

Ok, the instant i saw Blipup it instantly became my favorite, the silhouette caught my eye much earlier in the sieries and i was not disappointed.

Actually in my Fakemon region AMA adding 3 new ones so hope everybody can keep track Sound, Cosmic, and Light

Please add some new types like the chemical type

This is a very good idea

A star cycle pokemon might be interesting. Like the base pokemon has two forms and each evolve into different pokemon for different stages of life

Oh i already coded these (by grabbing them around the internet) Sound is just "better normal" and light is literally the opposite of dark (and theyre supereffective against each other~)

An interesting way to combine the two would be a "wave" type, widening the options beyond light and sound.

We definitely need a sound type/music type

Finally, someone who understands that dragon isn't a type its a body form

Well! I think you helped me figure out the type for my Pokemon Loveletter game! For context, im creating a dual-type system where every pokemon has two types - what they are, and what they do. Which means a Rock-Fire type would be different from a Fire-Rock type (the first one is made out lf rock and breathes fire, the second one is made of fire and throws/manipulates rocks). For STAB effects, your resistance is 75% of your fitst types resistance and 25% of your 2nd types resistance, so a plant type attack would deal about 1.625x damage to the first creature (Rock-Fire) and 0.875 to the second creature (Fire-Rock). Anyways, because each type can be bkth what it is and what it does, i eas struggling with yhe relationship between controlling air/wind, bird attacks, being a cloud, and kf ibwpuld include sound, etc. But i think I might define it as a Wave type, encompassing both soundwaves and airwaves

I have had an idea for a chaos type for a bit now. I think an entropy type might fit with your world. That one monkey mon you made would match it quite well, at least the first evolution. It could also act as a cosmic type, because space just kinda seems chaotic? There’s a better explanation somewhere, I just don’t have the words for it. Then agin, this IS the kind of type that works best with a world built around it, and probably won’t work that well when inserted into a pre-existing world that doesn’t already have a theme of chance, chaos, and/or space in it.

Fun Fact: The recently released, very popular “Pokémon Flux” specifically notes in-game that there’s not a single Dragon-type in the regional dex. Fakemon creators, do whatever you want, don’t listen to haters. This is supposed to be fun lol

I wanted to make a branch evolution for Charcadet based on soundwaves, like, have you seen sound be used actively as an attack? Or the potency some sounds have to, maybe not be fatal but can cause permanent damage, soundwaves that can only be heard by animals, so much potential

A quick thought I just had was to combine the two into a sort of "Wave" type, though it might be too specific and redundant still. What do you guys think?

I am very excited for when this becomes a game hopefully

Bugs are the first large forms of life, first animal on land, first to fly Dragons are elementals of the land. It’s the pinnacle a spirit can reach. Usually they viciously defend a space or aspect of nature

You taught me more than literal college did

Even though for a while I think Sound type would be cool to have in Pokémon, I think I know why we don’t have it. First, it feels a lot like both Psychic or Normal type (mainly Normal Type). Second, adding a new type means changing how a bunch of types work against each other. Light type it’s probably just them being to lazy to want to add it, and also the previous reason #2.

what if you have a sound-type pokemon that's not literally about sound? like a water-type that's about waves that MAYBE you could interperit as sound? or a light-sensitive pokemon that can pick up waves and other kinds of signals like sound

Yay🎉🎉🎉 now my team have a second member

Main reasons not to add Light or Sound to Pokemon proper is just redundancy issues and balancing issues (so many types exist already, most of their effects already exist under other types just fine). When making a new project, there's a lot more room to not include highly Pokemon-specific stuff like Bug, Dragon, Fairy, and Dark typings.

We have the notorious bird type as well

Pokemon when they add the Stellar type:

By the end of the year???? I thought it was gonna take longer Let's gooo

Been wanting on light and sound type since the first x and y trailer

One banger after another. And I cant even finish a drawing

nice concept once more

A few days ago i thought about "if i would make a new type in the game, i would bring light type" Am happy im not the only one w that idea

Just a few days ago I decided to replay Pokémon Xenoverse, which has the Sound type, perfect timing Edit: 7:22 There it is

If Sound were an actual type Grass would be super effective against it because Plants grow faster when music is playing (especially rock music)

Love from a Vaush and Xanderhal Fan!

pokemon is probably almost definitely going to add a new type atleast one of these days, its been 9 generations and 3 types have been added already, its very likely to get more types

I stan light type literally only because theres already a dark typing. How can dark exist without light

Maybe rename fairy type to charming type?

I'm just gonna call it: Doppler Effect strengthens your attacks proportionally to how much faster you are than your opponent

For dotler effect could it be being able to hit regardless of semi invulnerability?

Within the world of Pokémon the existence of sound type is so silly to me. Yes there are moves and abilities with a sound attribute but with that logic there should be a punch type or a slash type because there are attributes for those too. It feels weird to add it in a fan Pokémon style game too since the only reason people want it in the Pokémon games is because there are enough moves to justify it