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Porygon2 and PorygonZ are my fav pokemon, but I like psychic, fairy, ghost, steel, electric, and flying more than normal type. That's how cool the line is, it's a little like all those types too ig.

I'm currently doing a normal monotype run of Pokémon White and have come to the same conclusion as their statistics show: they're okay.

Piss Poor Shit Take on a great part of this game. Not worth trying to catch a venonat in safari zone compared to just getting it here. Early ditto was exciting. And this is always where I go to catch weepinbell. You also completely missed the hidden items. Missing context of the original release, this is obviously from the perspective of someone who played these games long after they released.

I think my favorite is Whismur, a sound based pokemon is neat and it's a very cute sad little man.

I conclude that normal is non elemental. Also to determine when normal was most dominant you should look to competitive play, which in that case it's gen 1 as the top 3 pokemon are normal

I always thought 'weird,' should have been a type in gen I. I mean you have normal like; rats, bulls, birds, etc. But what is normal about a blob of jelly that can transform into anything, or a living amalgamation of code, so why not have weird as a type. In gen I it would have included; Ditto, Porygon, Likitung and acted as a second type for; Mr Mime and Jynx. And it could have included moves like; Tri-attack, Conversion, Disable, Lovely Kiss, Metronome and Mimic. It could have been super effective against; Psychic and ghost. While also being weak to; Psychic and Ghost. Just my own thoughts on it.

Mew should have been normal type, change my mind

Normal types are easily my favorite type. I love the stratigy that comes with a team of all normal types some of my favorite pokemon are normal (including my favorite, lickitung) I like how they can’t hit any type super effectively, but I think it’d be better if steel and rock didn’t resist and they weren’t weak to fighting. But overall it’s always a blast to do normal type nuzlocke. Love the deep dive! Excited to see what comes next

You should do a video next of whether or not pokemon match their learnset stereotypes. I can think of quite a lot of pokemon that can learn Quick Attack, who have less than 90 speed, yet some fast pokemon don't. I can also think of a few pokemon who can learn Dragon Pulse, yet do not have the stereotypical personality of dragon pokemon i.e. violent and powerful

0:30 ah yes, zubat the normal type

gen 1 is also the peak of normal types competitively, Chansey Tauros Snorlax is the big 3 of smogon OU, all Normal types.

This was an interesting discussion. Part Normal typed Pokémon are so funny. "Oh that lion looking thing is a Normal/Fire type" "Why the Normal?" "It's just a regular animal. It breathes fire sometimes. Other times it's just being an animal. That's pretty normal."

I never liked when people think the normal type is like the "sound type" or things like that. I think that's kinda silly. The way I define the normal type is as any pokemon that fall into these categories that I noticed: "Pokemon that are normal type because they're extremely common in many parts of the world" (like rats, birds, horses, bears, cows, rabbits, cats and dogs). "Pokemon that are normal type because of the things they do are extremely common" . Like eating and sleeping (Snorlax and Komala for example), dancing and singing (meloetta and jigglypuff), being unable to swim (azurril), cleaning (cinccino), being a mother (kanghaskan), being a grandfather (drampa), taking care of people (chansey's line), etc. "Pokemon that are normal type because they're based on things very commonly used by humans". Like toys, costumes, things to sleep well, solar panels (stufful, bewear, skitty, delcatty, helioptile, minccino, etc). "Pokemon that are normal type because they represent something commonly accepted by humans as a truth or things that are related to the world itself". Like weather (castform), metamorphosis (ditto), evolution (eevee), gods/religion (arceus), terraformation/movement of the continents (regigigas), year seasons (deerling line), aging (slakoth line,), technological advancements (porygon line), etc. If you look well, basically all normal type pokemon fit in at least one or more of these categories.

I would gladly remove Normal-type from the Pokémon themselves and let it exist only for moves, like an official "Typeless" move (no STAB and no effectiveness). All Normal-type Pokémon could be classified into other types, I feel like... Many could be Fighting because they're bulky/aggressive/strong (Snorlax, Tauros, Kangaskhan, Miltank...), birds could be Flying only, some could be Poison or Dark (Rattata, Lickitung, Meowth...), the pink cute ones are of course Fairies etc...

Not a normal trainer but I had such a crush on Whitney.

I will never understand how the Porygons, artificially-created Pokemon made from computer code and adjacent tech, is pure normal. it should at *least* be Normal/Electric!

My favort Powkmob is Normal typed. The original and still king of the normal typs Snorlax.

Normal is for when a pokémon isn't any other type. It's not elemental, like for fire, electric, grass, etc. It's not heroic enough for fighting type, nor is it evil enough for dark type. It's not magical enough for fairy, psychic, or dragon. It isn't dead, so it can't be ghost.

Normal is my favourite. It has identity in using the other Types because its colorless. Somehow,Normal tend to be always harder than expected,because they rely on inherent bulkiness or special moves,rather than type advantage. Like how in RPGs you would find the token non magic character with higher stats or skills to compensate. I like to call it "The Giant"

Normal type to me is just Pokémon. Just anything that does not fit into the other types

Types are kinda weird. -What even is fairy for instance? The Kalos games claim it to have been "discovered recently", but how in the world do you not notice earlier than the "pure normal type" called Jigglypuff is somehow immune to Dragon type attacks and resistant to fire attacks when it shouldn't be?(Not to mention that later games kinda retconned the whole chronology by saying there is a seperate Mega universe and Fairies were known much earlier than X and Y. Oops) -Normal was originally supposed to be having no elemental power, the true "all rounder" basically, but that has been retconned into being its own elemental power as-of LA.(Notice how the normal plate never existed until that game, because it wasn't considered an element until then). -There was once a ??? type, which...well, it was only ever a visual thing on a single move and on Egg-displays and briefly considered for an Arceus form before being forever kicked out of the series in Gen 5. Unfortunate, really. -There is technically a typeless state now, sorta replacing the concepts of what Normal and ??? originally stood for. But it only finds actual use in Struggle and a handful of mons who are able to lose all their types in some way. All of this is so vague and undefined that the question is less "what is X type actually", it is more "what in the world even are types to begin with?"

I know it wasn't the main point of the video, but i gotta heavily disagree with the starter pokemon part. Normal pokemon would make for absolutely horrible starters. Grass, fire, and water are the PERFECT starter trio types because they are extremely simple, easy to understand, and clear self explanatory introductions to the type advantage and disadvantage system. Also due to the design of normal type pokemon typically being. . . Well. . . Normal lol, there is less room for individuality which is also supposed to be a main selling point of each starter. Each starter has their own personality and flare for trainers to start with and choose something they feel they match or bond with best. Normal types just aren't able to accomplish the same tasks a starter pokemon needs to accomplish as well as fire, water, and grass does.

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The thing of course is ice types arent known for being WEAK, theyre known for being BAD

It's really not that bizarre of a concept. In a lot of other RPGs, there's different elemental types that are effective against each other, and then some form of "typeless" attack that is neutral against everything.

I like normal types for using in pokemon Walktrough, because they have versatile moves for beating every gym, e4 and champion.

LOVE the concept from the title alone!

I think just like fairy and dragon, normal type is more like a "beast" type, in that it is a vague classification of what the species of pokemon are. A lot of normal types have a "wild animal" feel to them, and that also seems to be a big consideration on which pokemon gets a secondary normal type

You also mentioned another stereotype in this video: Ground and rock being a common combination. Surprisingly there aren't many of them, specially after gen 2.

My favorite Normal type is Herdier because D O G

Only my favorite type

Gen 7 actually has the most amount of legendary Normal mons, Type: Null and Silvally for 2 compared to Regigigas being the only one in gen 4 (Arceus is a mythical, and as per the game freak leaks, we officially know that mythical and legendary are entirely separate, no "Mythical is a subset of legendary" or whatever)

I tend to avoid having normal types in my team, honestly to a point where I have to look up normal type match ups

I feel like the TCG's take on Normal, the "Colorless" type, is a better way of looking at Normal type Pokémon. It's not that "Normal" is an element, it's more like the lack of an element. They can pick up and learn a lot of different elemental abilities, but as they are, they have no element assigned to themselves. Half-Normal types have always seemed like "watered down" types. Girafarig is Normal/Psychic, because maybe only one half of it is psychic. Most bird Pokémon are Normal/Flying because their ability to fly gives them some air based elemental powers, but they're still overall not elemental. There's going to be exceptions to this, but this has been pretty consistent for my way of categorizing things.

normal types are the best pets

9:29 it's nuts that horn attack didn't get retconed into a bug move by gen 2, specially considering that Heracross gets both it and mega horn since its debut.

Normal types are anything but normal

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I quite like the normal type because it funnily enough is probably the strangest type out of all of them. While yes, in terms of competitive, Normal is considered one of the worst. For playthroughs, I feel Normal types are quite helpful as they can usually deal good damage while having a good variety of coverage. I also just generally like the designs of Normal types too. They’re not the most flashy but that’s what I like about them. They’re usually just animals and I like that.

In japanese, normal type is calledノーマルタイプ (noumaru taipu), which gives us deep etymological insight as to the actual nature of normal type, as the japanese word ノーマル (noumaru) actually means and is mostly pronounced as "normal", which clears up much of the confusion as to what normal type could be

Normal has a lot of great Pokémon. They don’t always get my playthrough priority, but there is nothing inherently wrong with a lot of them. I’ve used Castform in my original Gen 3 playthroughs, Starraptor is a common Gen 4 pick, I intend on grabbing Cyclizar and Farigiraf the next time I go through SV. Normal’s just got a lot of nest Pokémon. Though looking at those last few type combos it’s definitely easy to see why they haven’t come up with one yet. I’m sure there are some very easy ideas, but their disadvantages are so precarious. Like, Ice/Normal instantly reminds me of Auraurus’s fragility as an Ice/Rock type. Ice tends to just make any Pokémon defensively worse and Normal doesn’t need that. In all other circumstances, the great thing about adding Normal is that you don’t lose anything because of its balance of 1 weakness and 1 immunity. But in the case of Ice, Rock, and Steel, you lose. You just lose.

I remember as a kid teaching my older sister how to play Pokemon. I told her about “normal types” and she laughed because she didn’t get what that means lol

Personlly I like when leaders do use repeat pokemon that shows them as being different, it shows you that individual pokemon can be raised in very different ways. It's something these games miss.

Ah yes, the starter types. Easy mode, Medium mode, and Hard mode. Grass isn't as bad as the rest but, it's an starter type, you'd think it'd be a bit less, bad. Resisted by 5 types and weak to 7. Most grass pokemon tend to have very narrow movepools with little variance. And the strongest ones have to rely in some gimmick to match everyone else. They need, just a little bit more balancing. Make them strong to Fairy or something. I see a lot of people claim that Ice is totally fixed but, they went from the unquestionably absolute worst to... something that still feels so little.

i once did an Earth Nation Avatar challenge (i.e. I can only use Pokemon which have ground, fighting, steel and rock as primary typing): I felt the "type stereotypes" so hard. almost every pokemon I had access to was either "slow physical wall" or "Physical attacker" (most of them were slow too). this run was quite painful for so long because you stack up so many weaknesses (ground, grass, water), almost all pokemon are slow and low special defense and you have literally 1 good special attacking option (Lucario). Guess what the first 2 gyms in that fangame were .... grass and water LOL

Let it sink in that Blue is faster than every speedrunner in history.

One thing I can think of is Poison being a passive type where the Pokemon basically sit around and do nothing while inflicting status or doing team support, probably because before fairy was added Poison only hit one type super effectively and it was the least important one to do so, plus Poison moves were pretty bad until gen 4.

9:21 Volcarona using Quiver Dance to sweep your booty:

I would love to see your data made public via Google sheets. I would also love to see the data tables sorted in such a way that we could quickly view the data including or excluding mega evolutions, legendaries, or pre-evolutions. I say this because I would personally believe a type’s merit should be reflected by the stats of the final stage evolution of all non-legendary, non-mega Pokémon. Maybe I’ll go on a spreadsheet spree myself if you choose not to make the table public…

there's a distinction to be made too with like, how a type functions mechanically, and how the pokemon handle that mechanic. giving weighted rankings to each type and then analyzing those interactions tells you some about how they function rock has the defense stereotype but in reality is a weak type defensively and strong offensively. but a lot of rock type pokemon do have bulky stats... that play against them anyways that said one has to take some of the dialogue in context, like it may be really just telling you types before the category split, or its interactions with certain dominant types (normal, water) anyways fairy is overpowered better version of the glass-cannon type, no-sells the formerly overpowered type, better version of psychic in every way for some reason, weak to mainly defensive types, resists bug out of spite fairy is basically Better psychic