>bug type>not a bug
>>59220427Yes we are
>>59220427That's why these are the GOATs.
>mushroom Pokemon>Grass type>not a plantIt’s just how Pokemon categorizes species in-universe; you can take it further and say it’s less about what a Pokemon is (or isn’t) and instead simply how it interacts with different types of attacks.
>>59220427Bug has 3 meanings.>Any creepy crawly>Insect>Actual cladistic Bugs (True Bugs)
>>59220447Pokemon design peaked here
>>59220427does this bug you, op?
porygon-z should be normal/bug
>>59220427Spiders are bugs. They're just not insects.
>>59220427Bug is the catchall term for insects/invertebrates in Pokemon
>>59220525A bug is any insect with wings, you idiot!
>>59220534Most people refer to any creepy crawlie as a bug.
>>59220427Actual entomologist here, don't be a pedant.
>>59220427how do you know they're not bugs? They don't have 8 legs so they aren't classic arachnids.
>>59220427the only true bug types are paras, parasect, nincada, ninjask, and shedinja
>>59220602>ant
>>59220427>implying mantis are bugs
>fire-themed pokemon based on a snail>not a fire-bug type>gets to be one of the worst dual types in the game insteadThis poor bastard never had a chance.
>>59220427>BUGBiology (True Bugs): In a strict scientific sense, a "true bug" belongs to the order Hemiptera, characterized by sucking mouthparts and incomplete metamorphosis (e.g., aphids, cicadas, bedbugs).Colloquial/General: Used loosely to describe any small "creepy-crawly," including insects (beetles, ants) myriapods (millipedes, centipedes) myriapods (millipedes, centipedes) terrestrial mollusks (snails, slugs) terrestrial isopods (woodlice, pillbugs, or sowbugs) annelids (earthworm, leech) and arachnids (spiders, scorpions).Computing/Engineering: A, software bug is an unexpected defect in code or a hardware system, resulting in a malfunction or unexpected behavior.Obviously GF is using the colloquial term; most people use that as a general term. Just think of Pixar's Bugs movie; among the characters you have a spider, and two pill bugs, as well as a bunch of ants, which are hymenopterans, insects that by definition are not "true bugs".
>>59220883Why would it be a bug-type? It doesn't look like a bug. Even Krabby looks more like a bug.
>>59221164In case it's still not clear, here's an image with the only true bugs from a biological point of view. If Pokemon strictly followed the biological term, we would have very few bug types.
>>59220456Pokémon uses many outdated systems, probably based on the creators' childhood books.I still find it strange that reptiles disappeared from my nephew's textbooks and that birds are now classified as avian dinosaurs, or that they now recognize the Vikings as the first Europeans to reach America. Times change so fast.
>>59220427This is what I think every time a non-bug type uses U-turn on me
>>59221199How old are you? I'm thirty and birds being related to dinosaurs and guys like Leif Erikson were talked about in elementary school.
>>5922121535, I know that bird-related dinosaurs became popular after Jurassic Park, but the term "bird" still appeared as a form of classification. In his book, they're no longer called birds, but avian dinosaurs.I don't have the book, but it was something like PR: while mammals appear as placentals, marsupials, and monotremes, when it gets to the part where reptiles and then birds appear, now these two are mixed together. I'm not complaining, it's just that having grown up with the classic: fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, it feels strange that they disappeared.
>>59221291I don't remember if the book claimed all reptiles were more related to each other than other creatures. I think there was more focus on how they work like warm-blooded vs cold-blooded or lungs vs gills.
>>59220427>skorupi is a bug>drapion is notExplain this
>>59221346Needed STAB Crunch. I want a regional Drapion that is Bug/whatever so it goes the other way.
>>59221170A snail is a bug and Magcargo is based on a snail. Magcargo's design has more in common with bugs than it does with rocks.
>>59221170That's because crabs are literally sea bugs, lol
>>59221502But this thing has a soft body and isn't divided into segments. How can it be a bug? Even guys like maggots get hard when they grow up.
>>59221590Bug colloquially refers to any creepy crawly thing; snails, centipedes, daddy longlegs, ants, whatever. All bugs.
>>59221595Colloquial for terrestrial arthropods.
>Swims instead of crawls, and is cute instead of creepy>bug-typeI hope someone was fired for that
>>59221618It's pretty creepy. Imagine waking up with a couple of those chilling on your arms and torso
>>59220591Yeah, and if everyone started calling ice cream 'yoghurt', it still wouldn't be yoghurt, now would it?
>>59220519It should be normal/fug
>>59220534Look, a biology freshman who thinks he masters the subject after his first college day...Just kidding, of course, i know your knowledge is based entirely on animal channel
>>59221199Fair, but I was referring to in-universe reasons, not anything the developers had in mind.
>>59221199>>59221291Minor point of clarification...it's still acceptable to see the vertebrates classified as fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, at least as far as taxonomy (specifically Class) is concerned. However cladistics, grouping animals into clades/ classification based on common ancestors, is more common now than when we were younger and is indeed where the "avian dinosaur" name comes from. So no, we're not crazy for separating them since that's how we were taught, but it's science catching up to better reflect today's understanding (taxonomy vs cladistics). I still think of them separately since birds are warm-blooded and reptiles are cold-blooded.
>>59220427>bug>not bug type
>>59222243Crabs aren't bugs
>>59220456But they're in Plants vs Zombies...
>>59220883Snails aren't bugs, you dip.
>implying spiders are bugs
>>59220883Snails aren't bugs, Magcargo being part Rock makes sense and losing the Rock-type won't change Magcargo's dogshit stats as if a simple Surf still doesn't flush that slug away.
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>>59222538As already mentioned in the thread, snails and a bunch of other crawling creatures are part of the collective group of "bugs," as a colloquial term.If you want true bugs, only the Parasect and Shedinja families are true bugs.
>>59222533yes
>>59222662>implying tarantulas are spiders
>>59222667YES
>>59221164>>59222662>Only arthropods>>59222655>Includes molluscs and annelidsSeems your version is the minority view of what a colloquial bug includes by comparing the covers of books aimed at children.
>>59222029here's your normal/fug
>>59222860Does it Air Lock?
>>59222583>barnacles are crustaceansHuh. This has been an educational thread.
