>grass/ghost why?

Because its fucking awesome
GF nailed the types for one

>>29458304
Because it isn't gay.

>>29458304
Cause he's sneaky. <:3

>>29458328
>>29458333
>>29458338
aren't those wings?

>>29458304
Because its amazing.

I was hoping for grass/steel or grass/dark I hadn't even considered grass/ghost and Its ace

>>29458304
>2nd stage looks emo
>It committed suicide

Probably one of the best surprises in the trailer. So happy.

>>29458304
Because Ghost is the best type. It's obviously meant for the best starter

>>29458365
They look like sheets

>>29458304
>2016
>still believe owls are birds

>>29458438
Kek

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Owl have to get use to this!

>>29458438
solid theory actually

>>29458304

Deadeye

>>29458438
get this to the game theory guys asap

cuz he killed himself

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>immune to Fag Out
aw yiss

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>>29458304

>>29458304
JUST CALL ME DEADEYE THE SNIPEHOG

>>29458438
2nd stage was Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic

They're just following the movie's plot

>>29460042
>scrappy

>>29460148
>Titanic Leo
>4x weakness to ice
ITS HABBENING

I think it's supposed to represent how sneaky it is.

Barn owls are also called ghost owls for this same reason probably

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They did it. they made a ghost type starter. I never thought I would see the day when it actuall happened.

>>29460210
>only kang and mega lop
It's fucking nothing

>>29460358
This. I'm kneeling in front of Masuda and Ohmori's shrine I made here. OHMMM.

Because Owls aren't birds.

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>>29458696

Barn owls are also called "ghost owls"

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>>29458438

>>29458304
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pueo
>The pueo is one of more famous of the various physical forms assumed by ʻaumākua (ancestor spirits) in Hawaiian culture.
If you google around you'll find specific legends and other things too, but all you need to know is it's usually seen as a ghostly guardian/protector.

>>29458304
Because it's fucking awesome

I, as a Ghostfag, am pleased

>>29458438
KEK. best post right here^

>>29458304
I'm curious too. It seems GF is expanding the notion of what make as a pokémon a Ghost type this Generation. But while I could get it with Marowak and Oricorio, I really don't see the connection here.

>>29458304
Because Grass/Flying is shit and people have been begging for special type starters since like gen 3

>>29458365
>Penguins can fly

>>29458304
>implying owls are birds

>>29458304
To protect itself against Swinub's powder snow

>>29461646
Penguins are flightless birds though, it wouldn't make sense if Empoleon could fly. Don't know if you know this anon, but owls can fly.

It died on the inside.

Also because it's sneaky asf.

>>29461646
>implying penguins are Flying-types

>>29462166
Palkia can fly too
So can dunsparce
And Metagross
And magnezone
And porygon
And Mewtwo
And empoleon has been shown to fly in the dp adventure manga
And Lunala
And Rotom
And Scizor
And...

>>29462166
There are extinct flightless owls, though. And considering how long Decidueye's legs are, like the extinct owls, it could be based on those.

>>29460919
The real reason. Also everyone has to love it now because its based on a real thing.

>>29458304
Because Robin Hood is D E A D

>>29458304
To fall for the meme:
>Implying owls are birds

>>29458304
Because teenage Dartrix killed himself

>>29460516
>only Kang and mega lop
>ONLY

You're a fucking retard if you think this isn't a big deal

I'm laughing, where I come from owls are called burung hantu, literally ghost bird

>>29463700

where are you from??

>>29458476
They are, strigiforme family.

>>29458304
Because he's a deadeye

Owls are silent hunters. Thus the ghost typing.

Snipers tend to be silent killers as well, so... Ghost.

>>29463700
Where you from?

>>29463846
Malaysia, Singapore or even Indonesia. They share a nearly identical language called Bahasa.

>>29462913
And the most absurd one: Garchomp

>>29458304
because grass flying is a terrible typing

at least with ghost it gets two immunities

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>>29458304
Spirit Shackle

>Decidueye
>Deciduous
>Trees whose leaves fall off

If Rowlet is a spring chicken, Decidueye is a stark leafless spooky winter tree? I don't fucking know.

>>29463700
Thats so clever fuck. I mean, it's literal, but clever

>>29458304
Owls are symbols of spirits or death in many cultures. In Hawaiian culture specifically, they're associated with benevolent spirits of ancestors.

>>29461186
Owls in history are seen as mythical creatures and omens. As quoted from a book Im reading, "The owl has two major symbolic meanings. One is wisdom, the other is death,"(The Messengers, Mike Clelland).

>>29464123
And like with most grass types, if it can learn a decent rock type move, it can cover a decent bit of weaknesses

>>29460148
Yeah. I love when he becomes a winter wonderland archer in the sequel.

>>29458304
burung hantu, which can be translated literally into ghost bird, is the malay/indonesian word for owl. It could be a pun.

>>29458304
>tfw I can't pronounce its name

Best starter regardless

>>29464274
Then why nobody said this shit before instead of assume it was Grass/Flying?

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>>29464091
Depends on who's portraying it really.
It only looks awkward when they make the wings bend at the elbow, rather than just extending the whole arm

>>29464418
It's a play on the words for our language, that's for sure. Others might not know that though.

>>29464427
Dess-sid-jew-eye

>fighting AND normal immunity on the starter
Nice.

>>29464444
yeah just like the mangosteen is known in SEA as the queen of fruits, and tsareena is a mangosteen queen.
nice quads

have you seen a barn owl?
spooky looking fuckers
its not a huge stretch to make it a ghost type

>>29458304
Robin Hood was known as the Ghost of the Sherwood Forest in some stories.

>>29458304
It's awesome.

That fucking name is atrocious though, holy shit. It's like the alphabet threw up for a second. Do they really expect kids to be able to say that one? Was Robinhoot too easy or something?

>>29463575
>megas

Now the question is if ghost will be 2x effective on fairy, because if so the starters stomp each other into the ground.
Water fairy stomps fire dark
Fire dark kills grass ghost
And hopefully grass ghost destroys water fairy.
If fairy can have just one more weakness, I feel fairy will be fairly decent, they made fairy to fix the dragon type and ended up doing the same thing they did with deagon, strong with limited weaknesses

Is there finally going to be a good physical ghost type? Because that sounds cool.

>>29464695
Fairy could use another weakness or resist, but not to Ghost. Seriously, fuck Ghost, that type is already really good. It only has 2 weaknesses, and only 2 things resist it. It can't be trapped, has 2 immunities and two resists.

Chicken-Chan: "Huh, but why did you become a ghost type?"

Decidueye: "Because I am dead on the inside, mother..."

>>29462166
So can "Fly"gon.

>>29464428
They didn't completely realize the theme yet.

>Non-ghost evolving into a ghost
Literally what does this mean? Did he died?

Shedinja makes sense, and we all know Alolan Marowak is gen 1 pandering, but what does it mean for Snorunt evolving into Frosslass, or Dartrix evolving into Decidueye? What is the lore behind his?

He isn't flying type cuz he can't fly and attack with his bow at the same time

>>29461646
So owls are penguins?

>>29465142
Dartrix's hair got messed up so much during battle that it became a depressed edgelord, which allowed it to conjure the power of the spirits

>why
Dartrix went overboard while cutting itself and accidentally

>>29458304
Because he isn't an assassin lurking in the shadows.
Psh. Nothing personal, kid.

>>29458304
Because GameFreak wanted to kill the >implying owls are ghosts meme.
They did it too hard and killed the owl instead.

>>29463575
Nobody runs vanilla Kangaskhan.

>>29458304
Because God himself wants me to pick Rowlet.

>>29464609
Deciduous is some 6th grade science shit.

>>29465142
>what does it mean for Snorunt evolving into Frosslass
Snorunt line is based on youkais. Zashiki warashi, oni, yuki-onna.

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Owls are ghosts

is this better typing than grass/flying

>>29458304
Because Robin Hood is dead

>>29465822
>Owls are ghosts
>posts a bug type

>>29464464
>jew-eye

oy vey

>>29465822
Actually, there is a theory that the "Flatwoods Phantom" might have really been an owl.

>>29463575
>implying anyone uses regular Kanga

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Owls are associated with the Illuminati. They're generally spoopy and filled with occult shit. Now that I think about it there's the sex kitten archetype represented by Litten and Popplio could be about popstars being brainwashed tools of them.

>>29463700
sup malaybro, or indoshit

>>29465943
>Implying moths are bugs

>>29465822
>>29465982
Western cryptid-themed Pokemon fucking when?

>>29464428
It's a lot easier to find the reference once you know the actual theme. Also, we've never had a dual type starter pokemon change it's second type before, so everyone just assumed it would stay flying.

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Because owls are spooky

He's going to be in Smash. People were begging for a grass starter in Smash and this fellow obviously will be Greninja of Gen 7 in terms of popularity.

>>29466186
Sableye is based on the Hopkinsville Goblin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter

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>>29466186
We already have the Hopkinsville goblins. Mothman and Flatwoods monster pls gamefreak

>>29460919
>Pueo nest on the ground, which makes their eggs and young susceptible to predation by the introduced small Asian mongoose

>pre-evos aren't immune to Gumshoos' STAB

POTTERY
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>>29466246
A group of these live in my palm tree. THey're actually pretty spooky when they're hunting but other than that they just make these loud ass screeches all the time.

>>29460919
>Pueo appear to be somewhat resistant to the avian malaria that has devastated many other endemic bird populations in Hawaii

>loses flying type to avoid being a bird

MEME MAGIC
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>>29460919
>however, they have recently become victim to a mysterious "sick owl syndrome", or SOS, in which large numbers of pueo have been found walking dazedly on roads, leading to death by collision

>literally dead

STEEPEST
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>>29466249
I'd be more than fine with that. A full-on archery based character would be awesome, rather than Link and Pit's one arrow attack each, and then if you factor in his ghostly abilities and the fact that he's a bird, you get a lot of room to create a really unique fighter. Decidueye for smash!

>>29466536
That's actually neat. Well, not for the owls, but lore wise.

>>29466462
>>29466481
Never knew this. This is awesome, thanks.

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>>29465142

>or Dartrix evolving into Decidueye? What is the lore behind his?

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."

Owlbro became a spook, he didn't die but he is more or less haunted by the very nature of his biology. That's what happens when you hunt at night and vomit the bones of your consumed prey.

>>29458304
Ghosts can Fly

>>29465766
>literally yokai watch

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>everyone shitposting about 4x ice weakness ever since the datamine

Who /celebratan/ here?