Okay... focusing on what you said...
Thunder Wave is a status move. All it does is inflict paralysis. It can't be super effective because it only inflicts a status and that's it.
And similarly, when Thunder Wave is used on a Ground type, it has a 0% chance of paralysis. But no as "it's moved missed" but as "opponent is uneffected."
Because type immunity makes sense, but paralysis can't be super effective... either you're paralyzed or you're not, there's no x2 paralysis.
And why can't Thunder Wave work on a Ground type pokemon...? After all, you, well not you but the other person (SwiftGallade46), keeps arguing it's a status move.
Because it uses electricity to inflict paralysis? And it is a status move. All it does is inflict a status.
No shit, status moves have types, but you're the one not understanding that status moves can't be super effective? There's no such thing as super effective status moves. They inflict a status and that is it. You can't x2 a status, you can't half a status. It either does or it does not take effect.
One of 3. I think it looks poisonous. Poison jab. Prankster, Corrosion and Flashfire would be good.
Weird that the apricorn balls didnt caused a pokemon to evolve diffrently or cause a evolution. Maybe in a future region? That you need to catch a pokemon in a special ball to cause its evolution. Branch evolutions.
Purple=/=Poisonous
Good argument to let it learn poison type moves actually and get corrosion against steel and poison types. Toxic, poison jab and cross poison? Toxic lick or poison type sound move?
Why would they cause a Pokémon to evolve differently? They're just pokeballs with different capture rates or effects upon capture. None of the other types of pokeballs influenced evolution so it isn't weird at all that apricorn pokeballs didn't.
Being purple isn't a good argument to have it learn poison-type moves. Being purple does not make a Pokémon poisonous, it just makes it purple.
Again, there is zero argument. Arguments are contradictions of opinions. As Techskylander posted proof of and Oriden has stated several times, the fact that Thunder Wave is classified as a Status move is just factually how it is classified by GameFreak themselves, and the fact that status moves don’t have effectiveness multipliers other than immunity is a fact established by GameFreak as well.
I'm not trying to join any argument or change any opinions, but I think I understand what @NealIRC is trying to say is that similar to how being a ground type negates paralysis from thunder wave 100%, that similar chances should be made based on type matchups. Like, obviously a status move doesn't have any super-effective quality, but thunder wave IS an electric attack. And so, like trying to use it on a ground type has no effect, using it on, say, a grass type, would make it less likely to paralyze the target. I think they were using accuracy as the way to do that but in my opinion that wouldn't be the correct way to go about it?
Thank you for clarifying, this makes a lot more sense. I just wish they had said this in the first place instead of assuming I was being purposely obtuse...I'm not trying to join any argument or change any opinions, but I think I understand what @NealIRC is trying to say is that similar to how being a ground type negates paralysis from thunder wave 100%, that similar chances should be made based on type matchups. Like, obviously a status move doesn't have any super-effective quality, but thunder wave IS an electric attack. And so, like trying to use it on a ground type has no effect, using it on, say, a grass type, would make it less likely to paralyze the target. I think they were using accuracy as the way to do that but in my opinion that wouldn't be the correct way to go about it?
Is that what you're getting at, Neal? Just trying to understand your side here
EDIT: oh, I don't see any of their posts. Must have bowed out of the conversation. Oh well.
I think that it would be needlessly complicated, as there are moves like Sing that shouldn't be affected by type effectiveness- because, like I said, being a Ghost doesn't make you deaf and Ghosts aren't otherwise immune to sleep, so why wouldn't it be effective? Same goes for Grass Whistle- just because it's being played on a leaf, a Fire-type would be less likely to be affected by it? Doesn't make any sense.
=P Ew no. Sound is its own separate thing without type dependency. That's why Soundproof is a thing.
Demons are.
....demons can be poisonous but being a demon doesn't automatically make it poisonous. And in any case, it's Dark/Fairy so it wouldn't particularly benefit from a plethora of poison-type moves anyway. It could learn Toxic but almost every pokemon can learn Toxic.
