Tag: Pokémon

Anonymous asks:

I know Pokémon’s weaknesses, resistances, and immunities don’t always make sense, but what do you think is the deal with 1) Normal being immune to Ghost but Fighting isn’t, and 2) Steel being immune to Poison and Rock and/or Ground aren’t?

I think the Normal immunity to Ghost attacks comes from a sort of obliviousness to the paranormal.  Ghosts and spirits have no hold over you if you don’t believe they can harm you, and Normal Pokémon are just too normal, too mundane, too out of touch with the supernatural, to know that they should even be scared.  Steel and Poison… well, Rock and Ground do resist Poison attacks, despite not actually being immune to Poison attacks or the poison status, so I think we probably shouldn’t read too much into it.  However, I suppose I would say that what I think they’re implying here is that Steel-types are more divorced from normal Pokémon biology than Rock-types are; Rock Pokémon have layers of anatomy that are in some sense “normal” underneath their silica-based shells, but the bodies of Steel Pokémon are radically different through-and-through at the level of their biochemistry, which makes them invulnerable to ordinary poisons.

Anonymous asks:

Explain Diglett’s Cave to me.

Well, it’s… a cave.  There are Diglett and Dugtrio in it.  I think it’s at least implied (or possibly stated somewhere; I don’t remember) that they dug the cave, and it’s not entirely clear why they might have done that.  The anime portrays Diglett as being surprisingly organised, and having a long-term plan for managing the landscape in order to maintain and enhance the habitats of other species of Pokémon, so I’m prepared to believe that they could have coordinated on that scale, but I’m lost on why.  It could have been part of an agreement with ancient humans, considering that Pokémon other than Diglett don’t seem to use it.

Anonymous asks:

We all know you despise Ruin Maniacs, but what’s your favorite Trainer Class and why? (or is this an obvious question and you’re just going to answer ‘Pokémaniac’?)

Well, Pokémaniac, but specifically generation II Pokémaniacs like the one in my Tumblr avatar, where they have the long cape thing and the wide-eyed crazed grin.  Not really into that half-baked cosplay they’ve got going in later generations.  I’m also quite fond of Channellers and Hex Maniacs.

(And let’s be honest, at least part of the reason I dislike Ruin Maniacs and other fictional archaeologists is because they can just take whatever cool $#!t they want while my friends and I have to be all “responsible” and show “scholarly integrity” or whatever)

Anonymous asks:

I’m not sure if this has been asked before, but do you have plans to review the previous generations of Pokémon? And when the new game comes out, do you intend to review those Pokémon as well?

I’ve never wanted to commit to doing old generations because I would die before ever finishing.  As for the new ones, well, I feel like I’m expected to, and I probably should, but I honestly don’t know if I want to because I’m just not convinced my Pokémon reviews are my best work anyway, so… I don’t know.  I suppose I probably will but I’m thinking about trying to come up with a different approach to generation VII.  We’ll see.