moves with confusing types

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    while some moves have very obvious types, like flamethrower being fire. some moves have types that make no sense. like why is lick a ghost-type move?
     
    hey, VisionofMilotic, did you know that razor wind's original name is kamaitachi? also, why isn't rock climb a rock move?
     
    Draco Meteor and Twister seem like they should be switched between Flying and Dragon type. Also, Eerie Impulse sounds like it might be a Ghost type move, but is actually Electric. And for some reason, Pyukumuku's Purify is a Poison type move, even though that seems the opposite of what a move of that type would do.
     
    apokemoncoordinator said:
    hey, VisionofMilotic, did you know that razor wind's original name is kamaitachi? also, why isn't rock climb a rock move?
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    Because climbing up rocks is an activity, and it's shown that Pokemon use their claws to climb up rocks. It's Normal type because of that.

    Brendino said:
    Draco Meteor and Twister seem like they should be switched between Flying and Dragon type.
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    Twister is a Dragon type move because the Japanese name has the word Dragon in it. So the move being Dragon is really only confusing in English because of that.

    Here's a entomology note on Bulbapedia about it:

    The Japanese name of Twister, たつまき (竜巻) Tatsumaki, literally means "dragon spiral", and refers to the belief that dragons spiral around themselves to form the shapes of twisters.
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    Anyway, Mega Punch and Mega Kick being Normal type moves is pretty weird. But maybe there's a reason they're not Fighting type.
     
    Brendino said:
    Draco Meteor and Twister seem like they should be switched between Flying and Dragon type. Also, Eerie Impulse sounds like it might be a Ghost type move, but is actually Electric. And for some reason, Pyukumuku's Purify is a Poison type move, even though that seems the opposite of what a move of that type would do.
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    yeah, Purify sounds like a fairy-type move. cause fairy is basically like the magical girl genre and magical girls in works of that genre purify objects possessed by monsters.

    Palamon said:
    Because climbing up rocks is an activity, and it's shown that Pokemon use their claws to climb up rocks. It's Normal type because of that.



    Twister is a Dragon type move because the Japanese name has the word Dragon in it. So the move being Dragon is really only confusing in English because of that.

    Here's a entomology note on Bulbapedia about it:



    Anyway, Mega Punch and Mega Kick being Normal type moves is pretty weird. But maybe there's a reason they're not Fighting type.
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    for rock climb, why isn't it ground or fighting? a lot of pokemon of those types learn the move. for twister, that's still no reason since all descriptions mentions tornadoes and twisters. and the dragon-type's Japanese name was still just the english word in katakana. and yeah, mega punch and mega kick, I agree. but why is Sweet Scent normal? when I hear the words "sweet scent", I think of perfume. and what type is the perfume pokemon? fairy. quite a lot of the pokemon that can learn it are in the fairy egg group. so it should be fairy, not normal.
     
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    Rock Climb is normal because it's just regular average Rock Climbing. Definitely no needed nor implied typing here.

    Mega Punch and Mega Kick could definitely be implied to be fighting, and would be really useful if they were, but they're also just regular, average, Normal moves.
     
    I thought Rock Climb was a rock move and I excitedly gave it to my Rampardos because I needed a decent stab rock move.

    Then it was Normal. I was clumsy and didn't check. And it already had strength. And I saved my file and wasn't at a point where I could reach a move deleter.
     
    Yeah, definitely the Mega Punch and Mega Kick for me...which makes me think about Comet Punch as well. Though obviously not every "Punch" move is fighting, since there are elemental punches yadda yadda. But as a kid I always wondered why these moves were not Fighting-type.
     
    Spiky Shield (not being steel) and Morning Sun (not being Psychic or Fire.......i don't know)
     
    Steamroller, Megahorn, First Impression, X-Scissor, U-Turn, and Signal Beam are all Bug-type moves. Something about that just seems really, really odd.
     
    Withdraw is water type because it has to do with shells, most often sea shells.
    Shell Smash is normal type.

    The duality of mon...
     
    why is attract normal and not fairy? attract has a similar animation to that of charm, which is a fairy move.
     
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