I've been a fan for 21 years and I just had to return to /vp/ after finding this out, isn't that fucking crazy, what the hell
ok im leaving for 7 years again
And it shouldn't even be Poison in the first place because it makes no sense, weird huh?
>>59259970dark wasnt a thing in gen 1. the only plausible alternative would be normal/flying which also feels wrong
>>59259970Poison was working overtime as the venom type, the unsafe type, the pollution type, AND the evil type. And since Zubat and Golbat were most often associated with Team Rocket, they made it Poison.
>>59259970It's not a poisonous bat???
>>59259852too bad its movesets sucked until like gen 6 or 7. didnt have a chance to imprint on people
>>59259970Don't vampire bats cary rabies? Or is that a myth.
>>59259970Bats can carry rabies dumbass nigga
>>59260058The fuck are you talking about? The zubat line is one of the most iconic lines due to its infamy for cave encounters. Also it's moveset is fine even for old pokemon standards, have you even tried using on in the older games?
I honestly like Golbat a lot more than Crobat, Crobat just feels like it's trying too hard to be cool and badass, while Golbat is this weird creepy creaturesaying this as a johtofag whose first game was HGSS
>>59260099>whose first game was HGSSdelete yourself
>>59260144What was your first game? sorry for being old I played BW later and enjoyed it
>>59260084yeah, replaying pokemon crystal nowthe fact that it cant learn anything for poison drops it down a lot and there are numerous other flying types to pick fromseriously even a ditto might be better
>>59260165Bro we'd have believed you no need to sign the napkinas for what you said, does that really matter at all? there is literally no competitive or battle tower, the games are piss easy, just use the pokemon you like the designs of, I used a Golbat while playing Pokemon Red and he worked just fine with double team and some other bullshit moves
>>59260211yes and no, sometimes i like tor eplay games for mons i never used before and it feels good having stab attacks. watching golbat do gymnastics for confuse, double team and whatever to take down a random encounter is meh. think im going to go back to waiting for gina to give up a stone or something while i go look for a ditto
>>59260165I used Crobat in Emerald and he was unbelievably clutch, just riding on Confuse Ray/Bite/Wing Attack, being able to stunlock everything was more valuable than STAB poison
>>59260165Why are you so fucking dirty
>>59260257you aint worth a clean piece of paper and a pen
>>59260211>Bro we'd have believed you no need to sign the napkinI wouldn't have.
>>59259970anonwe all had to sit out 2020 in gay baby jail
>>59260165Sludge Bomb and Fly are all you need
>>59259852>what secondary typing should we give the flying scorpion?>ground
>>59260165Poison type kinda sucked in Crystal.>super effective vs grassWow>resisted by like everything, including poison, and half the grass types are grass-poison
>>59260758>>59260076rats are just as disease-ridden as bats. should raticate be poison type?
>>59260985HE'S A GARGOYLEEEEEEEEE
>>59261032Why do you care that Golbat can't learn fucking Sludge dude
>>59261043there's plenty of flaws in gen 1 movepools but it further illustrate just how unrelated to poison golbat actually is.not unlike raticate(another dirty mammal that spreads disease), golbat has no connection with poison, venom, acid or pollution
>>59261051The only pokemon in RBY that gets hit supereffectively from poison moves is TANGELA, Raticate is BEIGE which is NORMAL TYPE COLORED, Golbat is PURPLE which is POISON TYPE COLORED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I just hit my fucking wall in anger
>>59260818gen2 batline cannot learn sludge bomb
>>59260985one of the weirdest typings ever, and why would a gargoyle be ground
>>59261108gligar is not a gargoylegligar's japanese name is gliger. gliger is one letter away from Giger(as in the artist famous for designing Alien)this is gligar's beta design. pokedex entries talk about how it jumps people's faces and clamps down to inject poison
>>59261131I've never seen this design in my life its not from spaceworld where is this from?anyways gliscor is definitely a gargoyle
>>59260985no, you don't get it>it's a scorpion, so it's ground>but it also flies, so it's flying>fuck the bug tyepe it's an arachnid anyway
>>59260076Fuck off, any mammal can carry rabies - including dumb swines like you.
>>59260985Ah yes, my favorite Ground/Flying/Bug/Poison/Dark Type Pokémon.
>>59260052nope. Not a single dex entries in it's entire evolution line mentions poison.
>>59260165You can get Poison Bomb TM from warden leading to Lake of Rage after you deal with Rocket Hideout.It's a single-use, unique TM so you may end having dilemma about who to teach it, but Crobat really would love that 90BP STAB move.
>>59261355And then they give an arachnid the bug type in the same generation. Bravo Kojima
>>59261514Bug isn't a scientific term, arachnids are bugs
