After all these decades, Pokemon fans haven't been able to pitch any better new Type ideas than Cosmic, Sound and Light. Which means Game Freak is highly unlikely to invent a new Type that's better than those ideas...Sorta makes you realize that one day, eventually, the higher-ups will obviously insist on creating a brand new Type, for marketing and $$$$. Even if it's 20 years from now. And when that day inevitably comes, they will either go with one of the 3 mentioned ideas, or they'll come up with a stupider idea....Our future looks grim.
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>>59132555Why do we have Dragon and Bug types, but not a Fish type? There are already too many Water Pokémon, they can be divided into two types.Another idea is Synthetic. Anything man-made or digital that Electric, Steel, Normal etc. cannot quite cover.
>>59132555Feral/Beast and Regal are also great type ideas imo. And Cyber/Tech is a perfect concept for a new type. You could also always split types, like making Flying Bird and Wind, or something, but I'm not a fan of that one.
>>59132603>Water PokémonAbyss pokemonCan cover a myth-esque type like cosmic, and split open the water type.
Sound makes more sense as a stat than a type. Being classified as a specific typing just because the pokemon is loud or can sing or whatever is silly. It'd be better to give those kind of pokemon a third attack stat to work with instead.
>>59132624This is one of the weirdest takes I've ever seen. Sound makes as much sense as a type as psychic does (nobody asks what's supposed to hit psychic energy SE even though they ask that for sound) or even electric or whatever for that matter because it's animal/object/person + ability for those (and ice and fire and whatever, you get it) And it makes sense as a move attribute like contact or wind where it describes what a move does or accomplishes its effects, which is where we're at now. But sound as a stat? Like, how sonorous a pokemon is? That's really silly, and you're silly for saying it.
>>59132619Yeah I've heard this one as a decent option before too.
New Type autists are the worst.These "discussions" are always total nonsense.
>>59132555Food typeWe got eggs, bananas, cherries, cake and farm animals. There's plenty of material.
I kinda wanna pokemon to move away from focusing on types and instead go with themes.Like how Lance is a Dragon trainer but not Dragon type. There are enough pokemon to come up with any theme, avian theme, multiple lifeforms(singular pokemon) theme, etc.
>>59133743yeah just like fairy haha glad that they didn't add that and everyone agreed they'd never add new types again
>>59132555Sacred (Holy) type. Strong against and resists Dark/Ghost/Fairy (evil spirits), weak to Poison/Bug (plagues) and Psychic (mediums’ mastery over the spiritual).It’s resisted by Rock(salt), Grass (nature), Normal(refusal to harm the innocent), and Flying (divinity).
>>59132555Fairy type convoluted and created this mess. Because most pokemon that could fit into other types just got hit with the FAIRY type, and Gamefreak is NEVER retconning pokemon typing. You would have to create new regional pokemon or original pokemon who would be derivative and only serve to convolute the playerbase more.The Fairy type, as painful as it may be to hear should probably be the LAST type. It covers mystic, holy, sound, all that shit. It just sounds very gay and retarded.
>>59132607beast royal cyber sound cosmic, these were always the best recommendations for new types imo
>>59132555Stellar is basically cosmic thematically but they stupidly locked it behind a gimmick
>>59132555food type
>>59134138Cutlery type
>>59132692>>59132624Psychics use hyperfocus to access the cosmic power that envelops the world. Anything that breaks said focus, cuts their connection. So, annoyance(bugs, evil tricks), or fear(ghosts, suprise attacks). BUT ALSO SOUND.However, sound is too broad. Melodic Music though can be merged with the Fairy type (muses) and give it 2x over Psychics. Bugs should resist Fairies.Alternatively, Sound can be made into a type BUT it would be better if the Phys/Special split was removed for Normal's sake. To make any "Special" type interactions, just use some of the attacking effectivenesses and apply their reverse for defence (e.g. Electric being weak to Ground, or Ice weak to fire even though they can cool themselves)So Sound rings steel armour like a bellShatters glass and iceShivering also defreezes youDisperses, reshapes waterPenetrates groundStartles psychicsDisrupts melody of Fairiesand notably Bugs are deaf.Sound mons get:1/2x from water, fairy, ice (ice gets 0x electric)2x from bug0x from sound itselfSound attacks :2x to steel, psychic, water1/2x to flying (because of distance and wind noise) and Ground(because sound type is not about general vibrations rather more like music. Music can get muffled if buried under sand)0x Bugs
>>59134363So to clarifyIf the sound the creature makes is more melodic, then the mon will be fairy typed (if the design also supports it).If the sound is more irritative, then it is a Sound typed mon.Normal special attacks all turn sound typed, apart from some exceptions, like Hyper Beam. Sound themed attacks from other types stay like so, similar to Fire Punch. Alternatively, introduce dual typed attacks.
>>59134363>for Normal's sake.idk why people keep thinking normal can't just have normal special attacks that aren't sound-themed. hyper beam, razor wind, blood moon, revelation dance, spit up, swift, trump card, wring out. Just make more simple generic beam or whatever attacks. I mean why can't we just have "Pure Beam" and "Emanate Energy" and "Ptooey" and whatever else. It's easy. my favorite type chart for sound was this, I'll copy it from the archives:>>59016872>Sound hits super-effectivelySteel (Vibrations weakening metal)Water (Passes through water very well)Fairy (Saying their true name)Ghost (Exorcism)>Sound hits not very effectivelyGrass (Can't penetrate dense foliage)Ice (Doesn't travel well in snow)Bug (Bugs don't get hurt by sound the same way other animals do)Psychic (Focused enough to ignore the noise)>Hits Sound super-effectivelyIce (Cold makes sound travel less effectively, so it puts up less of a resistance)Bug (They don't care about sound and can pierce through it)Psychic (They can attack through any sonic barrier)>Hits Sound not very effectivelyFire (gets repelled by sound waves)Water (gets dispersed easily by the vibrations)Ground (Dust and sand is blown away by the sound)>ImmuneSound (Immune to itself; sound cancels out sound)
>>59134851These are way too many interactions. They should mostly focus around ice, bug, steel, fairy
Sound is miles better as a category of moves with unique mechanics, than it would be as a separate type
soundfags really out here fiending to make primarina's dogshit hidden ability even worse by making it actively remove an entire coverage type
>>59134363>>59134851For thematic reasons sound should be resisted by rock, electric and steel.
>>59134917it's in the same range as grass/fire/water and most sound type threads people reeee that it wouldn't have enough type interactions lmao>>59134934idk why people say this, types already have unique mechanics and these mechanics can be passed onto other move categories if you wanted them to be anyway>>59135100liquid voice is actually pretty good and you could always run torrent instead if you felt like you needed sound coverage, some primarina already swap to keep Psychic Noise's default type>>59135124kek you could probably get away with Rock resisting it to get the reference across. Technically speaking rocks are what causes ground-penetrating sonar to fail or falter, now that I think of it...
