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greasy salmon mmmmmmmmmmmm
Salmon is pretty wonderful. It's not usually the fish I eat with tartar sauce, though.
I usually don't even like tartar sauce.
But less is definitely more.
^Kappa's heads are concave, forming a bowl filled with water. If you trick it into bowing, it weakens it so it can't hurt you. Golduck's head is about as far from that as you can get.
^ Oh, I thought you were talking about Psyduck there
Yes, it's without the bowl, but the dex entries state that Golduck is often mistaken for a monster. So I think they're getting at Golduck being based on a kappa, but not actually one, and instead gets mistaken for one
Besides, the water typing kind of negates the weakness anyways
This is a nice novelty hottub...
Also, Golduck should've been Water/Psychic.
<.< >.> *looks for the lid for the "novelty" "hot tub"*
^^ YES
That would make sense, especially if it's more of an in-universe "oh, hey, a blue humanoid swimming in a river. Must be a Kappa" thing.
Er, I think you misunderstood. Kappa are weakened if the bowl in their head isn't full of water.
^^ I mean, it's associated with psychic powers, it can learn them and its psychic powers are displayed prominently in media.
I think it's a case of Psychic types not being invented at that time in the design process, that's why Golduck doesn't have it.
See also, Gyarados.
How often do you get pokemon naturally learning moves of a type they don't have (other than Normal-type moves)?
Crimson: Gyarados is likely based on the Dragon Gate legend, where a carp turned into a dragon, rampaged, then had the dragon designation TAKEN AWAY, turning it from a dragon into a flying sea serpent
^^ That is ubiquitous. Most Pokemon learn non-STAB moves.
Ex: Gengar gets Icy Wind, Alakazam gets Focus Blast, Garchomp gets Fire Fang and I get Flamethrower.
^ Charizard as secondary Dragon would be overpowered.
As he should be.
^No. That would totally unbalance the starter dynamic.
Yeah, that would be a complete disaster.
Lawl, 4x resists Grass and is neutral to Water
SR is still a major pain in the ass, tho.
Sorry, for a moment there I was thinking purely in terms of flavor and not in terms of competitive balance.
Also, it would've been unresisted for 3 gens straight, and even DPPt-onwards it'd only be resisted by Heatran.
I'd rather see Charizard attain Dragon type because fuck balance; even with the type, Charizard would only be overpowered in comparison to other starters -- not to semi-legendaries or true legendaries. Very powerful, sure, but his stat potential still doesn't line up with the true highest tier. If anything, making it Dragon/Fire would remove the weaknesses that cripple it, making it so uncommon and poorly used.
Not that Charizard are particularly common in any case, given that you have to trade from older games to get one reliably and at low level. Starters don't come back as capturable Pokemon. So Charizard would remain rare, well-balanced in the grand scheme of things and actually halfway usable against Stealth Rock strategies.
And while I understand why starters should be balanced with one-another, we're talking about Gen 1 here. Given that player access to Gen 1 starters is limited (for better or worse -- probably worse), they may as well be considered miscellaneous Pokemon. Worst comes to worst, Charizard's position in the power scale is altered and competitive rules change for that.
On the other hand, Charizard is my favourite Pokemon, so
You shouldn't let biases affect these sorts of things.
Well, actually, better question.
What would happen if charizard had the exact same stats, abilities, and movepool, but had dragon type instead of flying type?
It would lose half of its weaknesses.
Can't you get him in Gen IV?
And what tier would that put it in?
I don't know, I try to ignore the Smogon stuff. But it's a pretty powerful Pokemon, and the choice between the gen 1 starters would have a "right" answer if it had dragon type, which from a design perspective is really, really bad.
Except nobody actually chooses starters based on how good they are in the metagame since it's easy enough to get all of them anyway via trading. So... yeah.