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^^ The linework was by hand, so...
I've been noticing that Flygon gets designed lije a dragonfly. But... It isn't. Vibrava to Flygon is much like Remoraid to Octillery (a vertebrate to an invertebrate in Remoraid's case). Flygon doesn't have any sign of an exoskeleton, has defined, non bug like limbs, and even the eyes are not compound but have natural shields around them
The head thing could be interpreted as attenae and maybe the solid wings sheathe fragile bug like wings, but otherwise it doesn't resemble a bug
Except Flygon's line is explicitly based on the maturation cycle of an antlion. Which ends with this.
♪ I'm lookin' Flygon, ooo I'm 'bout to spread my wings ♪
♫ Watch a Trapinch spread his wings ♫
Flygon's like a reptile/bug cross
...And should have been Bug/Dragon with Sand Veil
They like giving Dragons a second type with quadruple damage to blunt their extreme versatility.
Hell, even with one they're usually at least OU.
@Bee: That thing is terrifying yet beautiful.
A lot of typings don't make sense in the lore. Golduck by all rights should be Water/Psychic, for instance.
To be honest, I'd like this guy better if he let go of his "based on real animals" rule.
I mean the guy has the talent to make really neat things. I for one would pay to see Garbodor as a mass of slithering, pulsating and incredibly sticky flesh with debris stuck on it.
>implying game freak gives a shit about balance
My guess (and this is just a guess mind you) is that the Psychic-type wasn't invented by the time Golduck was designed and they never went back and changed it.
That could be why Charizard and Gyarados aren't Dragon-types too, even though it worked out in the long run in terms of balance.
What pisses me off is that they totally retconned Magnemite and Magneton's typing in G2. They could've done the same for a LOT of Pokemon, but nooooo.
Umbreon has a neck. What are you talking about?
^ Well SOMETHING is off with that guy's Umbreon's neck
@707ruz: Their attempts at balance are pretty halfhearted, but they certainly do try a little bit.
I don't see how a dragon starter is more overpowered than a steel and fighting starter.
Sure, Steel resists grass. But it's also weak to fire, maintaining a semblance of a triangle. And fighting isn't strong or weak to the starter types
I could see a grass/dragon with a starter ice or flying, or a fire/dragon with another starter rock or ground, but otherwise...
Recent starters were given supplemental types in their later evos to give a counter-triangle and likely to encourage you to keep your starter in the late game even though you know your rival is gunning for it. They still start out as single types of a less game-breaking magnitude.
A dragon-type starter would be resistant to pretty much everything the early game throws at you that isn't normal attacks, and likely have nearly immediate access to most of the useful TM's.
But if you evolved your starter to its third stage while you're still in the early game, then you're presumably going to be overpowered anyway, so what's the problem? (I mean, I'm assuming by "dragon-type starter" you really mean "if Charizard were Fire/Dragon" since that's what seemed to make Icalasari bring up the subject)
Yeah, and charmander and charmeleon should remain single-type fire.
If you're evolving your started to its third stage in the "early game", you're grinding so goddamn much as to trivialize the whole thing and balance is kind of out the window...
Uh, yeah, that's what I said.