Why are Ground and Rock two separate types?

Why are Ground and Rock two separate types?

Because ground is like dirt and sediment whereas rock is like a rock, y'know, like Onix

why are fighting and strength two different types

I'm more confused in how Ice and Water are usually two separate types

Also, wouldn't gas be one too?

Gas is poison

water = wet
ice = cold

ya donut

Because you touch yourself at night

Onyx is Rock/Ground.

Ground is usually given to animal like pokemon that live underground or in arid areas. Think sandshrew or diglet. Rock types are either literally made of rocks or have a rock hard skin/armor.

Ground Pokemon are Pokemon that interact with earth, such as Sandshrew.
Rock Pokemon ae Pokemon made out of earth, like Onyx.

It's like how lightning strikes can cause fire. But you wouldn't call lightning and fire the same thing, would you?

>rock hard skin/armor.
So... Steel?

>ground rock
>not just earth type
>water ice
>not just aqua
>normal fairy
>not just faggot

xD

Because soil and rock aren't the same substance.

Ice/water is stupider.

>You used Ice Beam against Magmar.
>It's Super Effective!
Nah.

Because it's a stone Luigi you didn't make it!

Onix is a rock worm that lives in the ground.

>ice and water types exist

>no lava type to go with fire type

Fire/Ground

Think of a fatfuck that could easily push you aside with it's sheer mass but cant fight for shit.

Why are religion and fantasy two separate sections in the bookstore?

Bird and flying were gunna be diffrent types till bird got cut

>Water isn't fucking horrible defensively like Ice is
>Water-types also typically know Ice-type moves, making Ice-types inferior in almost every respect

Why, GameFreak?

pokemon types are both about being made up of an "element" and being adapted to thrive in it

ice type includes beings made out of ice and beings adapted to polar environments

a lot of water types simply couldn't survive in ice filled environments

Fire/Rock you dingus
It's molten rock

Depends.
Remember that Skarmory's armor makes it steel, tyranitar's makes it rock and aggron's makes it rock AND steel.

...

Stop oppressing me.

You're cooling it down. They'd be super effective against each other.

Rock is not a metal.

LIES there are bulky water types

>Normal type
>Isn't perfectly neutral, has its own strengths and weaknesses
>Mostly weaknesses

once again they introduce a cool feature that maybe 30 pokemon will have and fuck the rest

UPDATED BATTLECRIES WHEN

Just like water and fire in real life

Normal has one weakness and is the most versatile. Lots of Normal-type moves they get STAB for are excellent and widespread.

Because Muslims will blow your tower up if you tell them their religion is false

>Fire/Electric type
>Use a water move on it
>Fire/Electric pokemon actually becomes stronger
>This is because you don't use water to put out electrical fires

Too bad this isn't actually a thing

>UPDATED BATTLECRIES WHEN

2013

yeah right

old mons still have the chiptune shit cries

>bug type instead of just a normal type that also happens to be a bug

>fighting type instead of a normal type with better offensive attacks

>flying type instead of a normal type that can just fly

>ground and rock instead of just earth

>fairy and dragon types instead of just one mythical type

>ice and water types are separate

>ghost and dark are separate

>steel

two, technically, ghost and fighting.

normal type is about inherent and animalistic moves as well as uncoordinated strength

its reasonable that things like biting, scratching and just sheer bulk would be less effective against naturally hard materials such as rocks or metals and useless against supernatural beings (ghost)

on the other hand we have the refined martial arts of fighting which are highly adept at dealing with the unrefined attacks of the "normal" type

Ground is just a fancy name for dirt.

it's the only depth pokemon has

ground = mud and grass
rock = rocks

you don't throw mud at windows

why are fedoras and trilbys two separate hats?

Minerals, one conductive by structure, the other not.

At least Rotom has levitate

Normal is immune to ghost too so it's a moot point.

>Ghost
>Affecting Normal-types.

they were updated in XY to sound less "chiptune-y", though

I want anime cries

NOW

it's still a strength/weakness

still, ghost mons can know dark and ghost moves, too

Yeah with all one of those resists and like 15 thousand weaknesses it'll help out when it's slow as fuck

rock's like a boulder.
Ground's like mud.

>what is chemistry

Okay, help me out, because I'm just going off the cuff-

What did I miss?

I would.

>wanying ashime anything
Topkek
i will admit i freaked when hearing X and Y pikachu for the first time

Explain Vaporeon then

if he gets ashime cries, i want the game to end just before i defeat the champion

well, that shit works in megaman. for some reason.

You mean 98. Fucking Stadium bothered to give them updated cries.

Throw dirt at a bird, it'll just dissipate.

Throw a stone, and you'll kill it.

>ground
>plated mammals, lizards, hippos, bottom-feeding fish, etc.

>rock
>literally things made out of rock and that's it

Seems pretty obvious.

But pro boxer butterbean is a fatfuck and can knock you the fuck out.

"sediments" are just crushed up bits of rocks and minerals though

>ice and rock are two different types
Why? Ice is, by definition, a rock.

>In summary, rocks contain minerals, which in large concentration are called ores, and these are mined for metals.

Whatever, there's a core difference.

>this entire thread

but ice is solid water tho

>grass and bugs are two different types
Everyone knows bugs are just grass and live in grass and stuff.

No it fucking isn't.

It's water in a different state.

>ashime

what the fuck even is this

what a bunch of iceheads

>Nintendo wants you to believe Psychic, Poison, and Ghost are all different types
>pic related
Checkmate atheists

>Throw a bird at a stone, it does little damage.
>Throw dirt at it, and you'll kill it.

>All flying types can't be hurt by ground based moves
>This includes cases where it makes no sense, like the flightless bird doduo so there's really no excuse to say "but a bird can just fly off the ground"
>Not all ground attacks are purely about the ground too, see Sandstorm.

I like to think ground is like subterranean shit that live in the ground wallow in it. Stuff like a mole or hippowdon. Basically the rival of flying types.

It just sometimes encompasses clay shit like Oy Vey the Golurk.

>Amigo, Sandstorm is rock type.

Does the phrase "ALS Bucket Challenge" hold any meaning for you?

Because I will pour a bucket over you through the Internet, I swear to God.

Ice is
1. Naturally occurring
2. Inorganic
3. A solid
4. Has a specific chemical formula
5. Has a fixed internal atomic structure

Ice meets all the criteria to be considered a mineral, and by extension all minerals are rocks.
Ergo ice is a rock. Do you even science?

cringed hard

Yes, Ice is a rock too. I know.
But this is a videogame not real life.

Shit, really? My mistake then.

Non-meme answer:

Ground type is a catch-all "earth" type for land-dwelling creatures (Sandshrew, Hippowdon) and beings fashioned from earth (Claydol, Pallosand). It's a very broad type and covers a lot of mons.

Rock is much more specific, referring explicitly to hardened, dense stone. Rock types are therefore very slow and have high defense. Think Onix, Gigalith, Carbink. The fossil mons are all half-Rock too.

>Ice/water is stupider.

Fire melts ice, water douses fire. Having water and ice separate makes perfect sense. If they were one thing would it be weak to fire or strong against it?

Ground/rock is the one that makes the least sense so far, although I don't know what fucked up new types they've added since Gold/Silver.

>not knowing about sand erosion

Doduo being immune to Earthquake triggers my autism to this very day

>ice is a mineral

Minerals must be stable at room temperature. Ice melts at room temperature.

Why is there a dark type but not a light type?

>Mercury melts at room temperature, so it can't be a mineral either

Dark type is just a feral animal or otherwise something that would claw/scratch you eyes out or hit you when you're down. Darkrai is the exception not the rule.

Because dark type is evil type.

Dark is just another mineral.

Mercury isn't a fucking mineral you idiot. Some minerals have mercury in their chemical composition, but those minerals are solid at room temperature.

Are you meta-trolling because you realize that the other guy is trolling by pretending ice is a rock? I hope so.

Rock is an elemental type, ground is typically an environmental type.

Most ground types are animal based pokemon that live in the ground or sand. Only recently has it been applied to pokemon that are made of clay (claydol, golurk, that sandcastle pokemon). Before that ground refereed to their environment and not what they're made of, much like most water types and flying types.

Rock on the other hand was exclusive to pokemon that were basically made or had that substance in their body. Fossil Pokemon were rock type because despite being revived they weren't quite free of their fossilized state.

The only rock type that isn't apparently made of rock is Tyranitar, but the thing eats dirt so I guess it's mineral based, making it rock.

Everything on earth can be a solid at the right temperature. Therefore we are all rocks.