@JoshuaAslanSmith Uncle Sam, Lady Liberty, and a cheeseburger, have to stop the villainous time-travelling team-up of King George, Hitler, and a five-ounce bottle of water, from stealing national landmarks like Mount Rushmore, the Golden Gate Bridge, and a Wal-Mart.
I would figure if it is on fire it is fire type, usually pokemon, at least of that generation, were not specifically designed to throw you off the scent like that XD
Only Litleo/Pyroar are Fire/Normal, for reasons I don't exactly understand, beyond probably "hey, there aren't any Fire/Normals." Normal typing is kind of... arbitrary. Useful in certain situations, but arbitrary. Fairy took some of its thunder, too.
@trogdor Nope. Again, it's more of an extension of rock-paper-scissors type matching to add complexity to play than something that has to make sense. It is a mess balance-wise, but there is at least an attempt. :P
@trogdor I was actually agreeing with you, I just responded to the wrong message, whoops. xD The "nope" was in relation to "Pokemon doesn't seem concerned with explaining..."
But I would like to say: For the longest time, I still kept a Pigeot because that was a freaking giant bird, Alakazan because his mustache was awesome, and a Dragonite because he always just seemed to be like a really nice guy(Despite Dragon's advantage against Dragon being BS)
Looks like as of BlackWhite it was OU (Overused, which means the Pokemon is really viable and powerful), and Mega Gengar bumps it up to Uber (exactly what it sounds like :P) in XY.
They use them generally to power up popular but statistically bad Pokemon and to make overly strong Pokemon more overly strong. :P
There are some I honestly wish had just been given a second or third regular evo instead of a mega, but it wasn't unappreciated. I didn't think Absol or Mawile would ever get any attention.
I am not personally of the opinion they needed to further complicate stuff
I was happy knowing my Pokemon had reached it's full evolution, I did not need them to make it so that the optimal strategy was mega evolving in the middle of a battle
I would have rather seen second and third normal evolutions for less-than-third-stage Pokemon that weren't strong enough and a rehaul of final evos' stats.
It is, in large part, the stats that absolutely kill balance.
And I never use my masterball. I don't know why. There are so few opportunities in a given game that I would need a masterball, and I know what they are ahead of time. Yet I feel compelled to save it for... nothing. xD
I remember one time when I was a kid playing Pokemon Stadium with my friend. I looked at Clefable's wings and said, "I wonder if Clefable can fly..?" I used Metronome next turn, and it used Fly. :P