>Rock type But why?

because it gets me rock hard

>>26690591
wynaut?

>>26690591
Because if it was Normal type that would be boring.

>>26690634
Normal/Rock would be a new type combo, although a shitty one.

>>26690591
Why not? What's wrong with it being Rock?

>>26690699
what about that cartoon dog makes you think "yep, thats a rock"?

Because its based on the rock dog hawaiian mythology. Every few thousand years the dog comes howling near the side of mountains and. volcanoes

>>26690667
no?
it would be objectively better than pure rock type

it would not be as shit as rock/ground

while it for the fighting weakness it really doesn't matter, this dog looks like has low-average defensive stats and wouldn't take any physical or special fighting type hit anyway while it would gain powerful normal stab attacks instead

>>26690725
Actually it has a good chance of being ou. Diggersby has huge power.

>>26690591
Does anybody know where ai can find that thing about island kids being given puppies when they were born and having the dog's teeth made into something for them to wear when they outlived their pooch?

>>26690717
id love to see some source for that, it sounds so obscure it couldnt possible be the actual source for the pokemon.

>>26690715
A typing doesn't have to be LITERALLY what it is. Do you think all Grass types are lierally blades of grass?

I mean, the thing is brown and has rocks adorning it, I think that's good enough.

>>26690717
Hello Mr.John GameFreak. How are you this morning?

>>26690768
Hawaiian Poi Dogs

It's Hachiko's statue come to life

>>26690591
because it's going to rock your world

>>26690725

>powerful
>Normal type

Babby's first Pokemon generation

>>26690715
You can ask the same thing of Houndour with Fire or Snubbull with Fairy. Since when does GameFreak need to conform to fan ideas of how Pokemon get their types? Also it could easily look like a Rock-type in its evolution(s) design.

>>26690784
but every pokemon's typing has some sort of reason for why it is what it is. every grass pokemon is a plant, water pokemon are based on water animals, fighting pokemon are always fighters. all this thing has is a few tiny vaguely rock-shaped objects on its neck.

>>26690591

Because of Game freak.

Game freak created Pokémon!

Something seems very off to me about the new designs, its like they are too overdesigned for basic pokemon except the owl and fire starter. We gen4 again?

>>26690851
And Lucario is steel type just because of the thing coming out of it's chest, how is this different?

>>26690843
Houndour/Houndoom are based on Hellhounds.

Snubbull is, uh, pink. Bad typing imo, why does this random pit bull get to be fairy but the actual fairy trio (azelf and friends) doesnt?

>>26690851
No they don't. Treecko aint no plant, bro. Palkia doesn't have any visual themes tying it to Water.

I mean, hell, I dont see whats so strictly Rock about something like Rampardos or Tyranitar.

>>26690900
well for 1, there were bad typings in the past, just because it has happened doesnt mean it should happen again.

but Lucario has steel just as a secondary type, and has two steel spikes on its hands as well. Riolu has less steel and is just pure fighting

rockdog would be like Lucario if it were pure normal and evolved into a bigger rock-dog with more rock that was normal/rock

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>>26690851
>Every grass pokemon is a plant
Really? because quite a few are clearly animals with plants either symbiotically growing on them or just adorning them, much like our new Rock puppy's collar.

>>26690667
>Tyrogue used Vacuum Wave!

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>>26690603
This.

It's like a mountaineering dog that literally becomes a mountain when it evolves maybe?

They gave it rock type so it can be useful in the early game. The evolutions will probably be more definitively rock type looking.

>>26690947
those are examples of pokemon with bad typing

>>26691011
Why? Because you say so?

Are we sure it's not just Serebii fucking up?

>>26690839
>diggersby
>chansey/blissey
>meloetta
>arceus
>mega lopunny
>bandmons
>stoutland

>tauros in literally the babby's first gen

>>26690591
it's so cute!
I love little Rockweiller!

>>26690986
can't your desecration wait for a few more days?

>>26690851

>every grass pokemon is a plant

or a fungus

Because normal is damn boring.

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It identifies as a rock, so it's a rock.

>>26690591
Because its skin is too resilient for normal attacks.

Dogs like Tosa-Inu, Shiba, Pits and Rottweilers are built like that.

>>26691211
>resilient shibes

that explains the memes

>>26691215
Yeah, those suckers are cute as Corgis but they bite like Shepards or worse.

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>>26690859
Overdesigned?

A few tufts of fur and some spots doesn't make something overdesigned, it makes it not boring.

Here, I cut out some details that you might think make the designs a bit busy.

I don't care, it's an extremely interesting typing for a route 1 shitmon. It's pretty rare that they hand you rocks that early in the game. Bonus points if it doesn't follow the standard "slow and bulky" rock template.

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>>26690901
>why does this random pit bull get to be fairy but the actual fairy trio (azelf and friends) doesnt?
>Why does the literal "Fairy Pokemon" from the fucking pokedex get to be fairy but the legendary trio based on the aspects of the human mind doesn't?

>>26691394
And it only took 20 years.

>>26691386
>remove the only rocks on the rockdog
but why

Same reason Shinx is electric

>all gen 7 mons look great so far
This is gen 6 all over again except better since the starters look much better tbqh famalang
I just hope we'll get more than 70 mons this time

>>26690667

Volcarona says hi

>>26691478
Because according to /vp/ pointy shit is overdesigned.

>>26691478
Photoshopfag here, I just wanted to see what caused the other fag to call the dog and koala overdesigned.

>rockdog
>grassbird

They're really going all out this time.

>>26691071
It actually says Rock type in Japanese

>>26690603
MODS

HOLY SHIT MODS!

>>26690986

Well, that was fast.

Is there even a pokemon that escapes the claws of becoming fap fodder?

>>26690851
It doesn't have to be made from rocks. It just has to primarily use rocks as part of its methods of attack.

>>26691865
Firecat

>>26691865
>implying owls are birds

>>26690591
Has /vp/ ever been this cancerous? Seems like with every new gen and every new summer /vp/ grows into an even bigger more cancerous cesspool.

>>26690715
What about Klefki makes you think "yep, it's a fairy"?

>>26692663
There's no arguing with these kids, they're not even baiting they're just that dumb.

>I wank O

seriously?

>>26690591
Are people angry because it's the first Rock-type Pokémon with fur? Every other Rock-type is either literally made of stone or a similarly tough hide.

>inb4 Tyrunt/Tyrantrum
>inb4 Archen/Archeops
Eh. Feathers more likely, especially on the latter two.

>>26692695
People are angry because rock is a shit typing.

>>26692695
It's people with autism losing their shit over m-muh patterns

That's just how autism works

>>26692659
You would know yourself if you weren't just another newfag trying to fit in.

I don't care. It's cute as hell and I'm going to use it in my team.

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>I wank-o

>>26690591
To shit on the fire-type starter, of course. How else are you supposed to pick difficulty?

Starter choice has technically how you always pick your difficulty.

Confirmed Hard Modes
Charmander - Weak to first 2 gyms
Chikorita - Weak to first gym so hard I had to grind for like 3 days to beat the first gym
Treecko - Nothing fucking counter's May's Combusken
Piplup - Weak to all the electric and grass types at the start of Sinnoh
BW1 - ???
BW2 - Snivy - Weak to all the bug, poison and fire-types at the beginning of the game
XY - ???
SM - Assuming Litten for rock type wild mons

>>26690591
probably because we're at a loss for fast rock types, Anon.

>>26690591
So it can make that corny pun in Japanese.

>>26690839
>Normal is a bad type

that's a shit-tier opinion there, bro

>>26690986
Tf???

>>26690591
This dog is everything I wanted from that little clip

>>26690591
>able to get a Rock mon immediately
>and it isn't just a boulder
Utterly based.

>we're r-running out of ideas for an early route pokemon masuda! we made this dog but it's too similar to lillipup!
>"it's ok just add a few rocks to its neck and call it a rock type, that will get the fans excited!"
>brilliant masuda sama

>>26692833
>yorkie
>similar to a shiba inu
I bet you think Houndoom and Furfrou are the same thing.

>>26692833
>not knowing what this dog is based on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_Poi_Dog

Fucking newfags we've been discussing this ever since the trailer came out

>>26692844
no because houndoom and furfrou are vastly different concepts and play different roles in-game while i'm comparing early route shitmon to early route shitmon. Sorry I called out your lazy idea, Masuda. Maybe you should get some sleep.

>>26692855
Who the fuck said that's what it's based on? How is there any evidence that's what it's based on other than the fact that it's a dog? What does that have to do with rock type? Did you just search the animal and the region and assume it's based on the first result that came up on google?

>>26692856
They're not remotely similar besides being the same species. And Lillipup is not a shitmon.

>>26692880
>They're not remotely similar besides being the same species

being early route shitmon is something similar. And yes lillipup is a shitmon.

>>26692871
Poi Dogs aka Polynesian Dogs aka Kuri

>Kurī were small, long-haired dogs about the size of a border collie. They had a small head, pricked ears, a terrier-like snout and a powerful jaw. The shoulders and neck were heavy, the legs were short, and the tail was bushy. Some were black, some white, and others a combination with patches or spots. Some had yellow coats.

Again, we've been through this. Probably before you discovered /vp/

>>26692905
Also, why it might be a Rock type:

>A kurī named Mohorangi was said to inhabit Whangaōkena Island (off East Cape). A young woman named Pōnuiawahine saw Mohorangi and was changed into a rock. This stands today in the sea off the island. Two stone kurī were believed to haunt Lake Taupō. It was said that if strangers in canoes heard their noise and mistakenly made the usual call to a kurī, ‘Moi! Moi!’, a storm would arise and they would drown

>>26692871
Back when all we had was the screenshot of the mon from behind at a distance, people thought the white of its collar were stylized bones. Someone then barfed up the story of these Poi dogs where if the child they were paired up with outlived it, the dog's teeth would be pulled and given to the kid as a necklace for protection.
As Kermit the Frog once said: Somebody though of that, and someone believed it, and look where it's got us so far.

>>26690591
because its brownish

>>26690591
I hope it's a two-stage evolver with elite 4-worthy stats.

>>26691494
Having shown only two pokemon on the first batch. We will be lucky if we are getting 50

>>26693017
You've made your point. Please stop posting this is every other thread.

>>26692983
>evolves at level 73 because fuck you

>>26693023
Only two threads so far.

Shit this board is small.

Also, disprove my point. In BW we had 7 mon first batch and in XY we had 4. Now we have 2 unless they show some more at the stream

>>26693047
At least wait till E3. Then you can come back and bitch.

>>26690591
Because we've already had Normal-type dogs

>>26690901
Snubbull and Granbull are based on Cu Sidhe, Fairy Dogs.

>>26693057
I am not even butthurt mate. Unlike you. Sorry bout that

We already explained this a zillion times, it's a japanese pun.

iwa = rock
wanko = puppy

When will the official site update?

>>26690839
Kangamom says hello
underaged faggot, leave

>>26693137
Butthurt or not, you wanted an answer. We're expecting more info at E3, that's all.

>>26690715
The rock-like protrusions on its mane.

>>26693150
After they have been officially released worldwide. This also happened during XY. Some had appeared in CoroCoro way before they officially appeared on the official site.

>>26693141
I remember name least leak from black and white, and how Japanese isn't a language were "obvious puns" are obvious, with half people being "sure" of their puns and nothing matched the real thing.

>>26690732
diggersby also has earthquake and quick attack. The problem with rock is that it's a shit type with a shitty movepool. unless that dog nigga has no guard or something to at least hit people with those atacks. But then it means around 400 base stats. So NU.

>>26690715
those literal rocks on its neck mate

>>26692746
Also
GS-Chikorita is weak to almost everything the Tea m Rocket and Elite 4 shits out against you
RS-Treecko because Pelipper and Tentacruel's secondary typings are good against grass
BW-Snivy for the same reasons as chikorita
XY-Fennekin because Powder exists to screw with the Fire starter

>>26693174
Only as a Mega. Otherwise kangaskhan is a shitmon just like most normals and psychics nowadays

>>26690591
>Rock type bite move is made
>It's given to Tyrantrum

>>26690859
Iwanko has the same ammount of details of Growlithe to be honest. Perhaps more coordinated and balanced.

>>26693123

No they aren't. Stop believing random shit from bulbapedia. They're ugly dogs that old women fawn over.

>>26690732
Ground is not rock

Rock is like the second worst type

>>26692833
Triggered unovabort by the fact majority of kalos and current alola leaks are god tier designs lel

>>26690591
I was hoping for me Ground dogbro. Still no one. But I like it anyway.

>>26692880
>lillipup is not a shitmon
><> J

It's an UGLY shitmon.

>>26690986
First time i will make sure to use a Rock-type mon in my playthrough.

>>26692833
>waaah why doesn't a first stage pokemon have 1000000 distinguishing features
yet on the other end everyone would be complaining that it is "OBJECTIVELY OVERDESIGNED"
can you people just fuck off already?

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>>26693333
>(3+3)(3+3)(3+3+3)3333

hendecagants confirm

unovafags BTFO

>>26690900
Lucario is part steel type because it's fists and heart are steel.

It's the second rock type pokemon I actually want to use so that's a plus

>>26690591
It has small stones around its collar. Better than being Normal, and having a speedy Rock-type is cool

Also, betting money the collar evolves into a large chain of boulders and that's the "rock-type" origin for its evolutions (and nothing else)

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>>26690851
>water pokemon are based on water animals

kek

>>26693442
What is a sea monkey?

My new favorite Rock type. It was about time we got one that wasn't a just rock with a face or a dinosaur.

>>26693458

A shrimp

>>26693379
>>waaah why doesn't a first stage pokemon have 1000000 distinguishing features

It should still look like its fucking type retard. Looking like its type doesn't necessitate being overdesigned.

>>26692905
Wow, good job, you posted irrelevant information that STILL doesn't explain how it's based specifically on a Poi Dog, retard. Go take your Cu Sith tier theories somewhere else.

>>26692920
This is New Zealand. Now you're just jumping from one thing to another. Make up your fucking mind.

>>26690591
Because it's the right thing to do.

No more stereotypical "OH ITS A FIRE TYPE BECAUSE SUN XD" shit.

>>26693214
Rock is the best physical type if you can get your moves to land.

Rock is one of the strongest offensive types but you have to deal with Miss Edge and Rock Slide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpaVY8Zq9LQ

Because this.

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>>26690971
>symbiotically
>not parasitically

;_;