LimitCrown
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1. The Dark-type moves do not take the form of actual darkness! Why are you still stuck on that? You argument relies on a statement that is essentially false. How do Sucker Punches, striking someone when they're down (Assurance), striking when the opponent least expects it (Night Slash), or using Fake Tears use darkness?
They do. Night Daze and Dark Void are explicit forms of actual darkness. The implication of these two examples is not isolated from the implicit motifs (in other moves and in dark type pokémon) which indicate the darkness theme of the dark type. It is of no concern to me whatsoever that the dark type's physical moves don't "use darkness" in the same way.
2. You could find Poochyenas during the daytime in Heartgold and Soulsilver in swarms. You could even find them in Platinum during the day. I don't know why you are saying that this was an oversight.
The real basis is the hyena, which is a nocturnal creature.
If you say that night is a recurring theme for Dark, then day, or light, would be a recurring theme for Light. Since Espeon evolves during the day, it is representative of light, using your logic.
I've only attempted to establish that darkness is a theme for dark, not that light isn't a theme for psychic. We can agree that psychic uses some examples of light. But it doesn't use light in the way that the light type would. So this is a false analogy.
3. What (type of) moves do you think that Light would have that aren't already covered by other types?
There is no type which meets both these conditions:
* uses literal light, or radiance, as a means for a metaphorical purpose (is teleologically holy)
* has holy or divine power as its most characteristic source
The light type is, in my mind, defined in a non-vague way as having a theme of the use of light in a holy manner. Consequently the descriptive nature of any light type move or pokémon would indicate why it would not be covered by an existing type, and existing types' coverage of things similar to the use of light are only auxiliary to their main definition.
I will say that I've used the word "light type" as a placeholder. My guess is that there are some other things the archetype could be called, perhaps even different things in different languages, the way the dark type is. I would also guess that, like the dark type, the light type would not always use light in an explicit manner. Though I think it would be more special-oriented than the dark type, so it would have a much more prominent correlation to light.
1. Congratulations on repeating what I said before while altering my statement. Now, you contradicted yourself by using those 2 moves as examples of literal darkness without understanding the purpose of them. Those moves are signature moves of Darkrai and Zoroark, and they use those in an "evil" way. That is only 2 out of 29 moves that uses a form of literal darkness. That isn't representative of the entire type, and you can't use those to show that all of the other moves are associated with literal darkness. It's a logical fallacy.
2. Even if the hyena is a nocturnal creature, the games don't reflect that in Poochyena or Mightyena at all. Example: Although Flygon is based on a dragonfly, it is a dragon fly. The Pokémon don't need to have the same behavior as the animals that their design comes from.
Light is a theme for the legendary Pokémon Cresselia, and Espeon evolves during the day. Cresselia especially uses Psychic-type moves in the way that a Light-type would. The analogy isn't false if the premise were the statements "Types have a specific motive." and "Dark's motive is darkness." The premises themselves must be considered true.
3. You said that light would use light in a holy manner. Dark's theme isn't literal darkness used in evil ways. It seems like your definition of the Light type is trying to be a counterpart of your definition of the Dark type. I thought that the interaction between "Light" and Dark wasn't important.
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