Why doesn't GF combine Rock and Ground types into a singular Earth type? >The pokemon with these typings share very similar design elements >Rock/Ground dual types will lose their 4x weaknesses to grass and water >These two types share many weaknesses and resistances already >Rock types need a buff and ground types are a little too strong, so meet them in the middle >Gives former rock types better STAB options like Earthquake and Earth Power
Earth Type Weaknesses: >Water >Grass >Ice >Fighting
For a while I thought it was just rock type and didn't know ground type existed in gen 3. The two are oretty redundant.
Matthew Rogers
Even gamefreak doesn't have ideas as terrible as yours. Stop posting.
Wyatt Bennett
Why? Because they don't want to.
Jack Murphy
How doesn’t gf combine electric and fire into the HEAT type Why doesn’t gf combine dark and ghost into the SHADOW type What doesn’t gf combine grass and fairy into the NATURE type Who doesn’t gf combine psychic and fairy into the MAGIC type?
Giving flying one less weakness is nuts, it's a very good type already
Austin Adams
Good thinking, Landorus should absolutely get Stone Edge STAB
Ethan Jackson
>redundant This is small brain logic >hurrr earth and rock are the same
Retards
Landon Perry
Might as well. GF only remembers Geodude anyways, and Ground types have to be sidelined to not threaten Pikachurino or something
Oliver Green
ground and rock are very different functionally which can't be ignored despite being similar thematically mixing them just fucks up the identity of both types in a bad way
John Howard
Why doesn’t Game Freak combine Water and Ice into a singular Aqua type?
Aaron Allen
yeah make flying types fucking broken by turning their most common weakness into an immunity because uhhhhh rock is like dirt?
Leo Baker
>ground shake a little very ouchie >take that whole fucking ground and drop that right on its head barely ouchie
I think everyone who suggests types should be consolidated is in turn advocating for the presence of more background conditions and categories to differentiate certain moves and Pokemon. Basically, a reformatting of things that are already there. Super redundant.
Thomas Evans
The only chance they had to heavily tweak Rock and Ground was midway through Gen 1's development or Gen 2, but those timeframes passed a very long time ago and now the types are distinctive enough that a merger would do more harm than good.
Adam Powell
In gen 1, rock types were actually made of rock (or fossils who were resurrected from rocks). Ground type just signified that the creature lives in rocky or sandy terrain
Josiah Cooper
Tell him how it's any different
Grayson Cox
Because the ground type is already a combination of Earth and Kaiju type.
So, you need to create a separate Kaiju type if you want to combine Ground and Rock to Earth.
By the way I fully support combining ground and rock. Those who disagree are just gf apologists.
Nicholas Hall
>Tell him how it's any different okay! > How doesn’t gf combine electric and fire into the HEAT type electricity and fire aren't the same material, Rock and Ground are. > Why doesn’t gf combine dark and ghost into the SHADOW type Dark and ghost are very distinct, Dark had to do with evil intent and "fighting dirty" until they had to come up "magical dark energy" when the phys/spec split happened. Whereas ghost types are just about pained spirits and the dead, which aren't inherently evil. > What doesn’t gf combine grass and fairy into the NATURE type because the Fairy type is based on pagan perceptions of nature spirits and witchcraft, hence why they're routinely associated with mushrooms and the moon. > Who doesn’t gf combine psychic and fairy into the MAGIC type? because Psychic power comes from the mind and spiritual connection to the universe (hence some psychics being associated with space) whereas the fairy type, as mentioned before, is more about trickster nature spirits based on pagan / wiccan folklore
Jason Roberts
Combine Ground and Water into Mud type, now only 2x weak to Grass.
