Does anyone know why these learn Psychic attacks by levelup?

I guess because butterflies and moths are seen as psychedelic

>>32637424
Because butterflies and moths are awesome

Because you touch yourself at night

>>32637431
>>32637432
I will accept these explanations.

>>32637424

No good Bug moves in Gen 1. Most Grass types were paired with Poison.

>>32637455
>Pin Missile
>Twineedle

>>32637424
I guess they wanted butterflies and moths to have psychic powers. I think it's an interesting concept but I wish they would make a Bug/Psychic type already, preferably make Butterfree the first.

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because in my headcanon world Venonat -> Butterfree is a Bug/Psychic line

>>32637424

Maybe when psychic was related to the moon/space, and moths kind of have a connection to the moon. It's all I got

>>32637566
>Maybe when psychic was related to the moon/space
You mean every gen up to and including this one?

It's also worth noting Volcarona and Beautifly learn Psychic by TM.

I mean.... does Mothra have psychic abilities or something?

>>32637591

fairy kind of took it over.

>>32637624
>Cosmic Power is still Psychic
>Cosmog line is Psychic
Okay pal whatever (you) say

>>32637424
If you picked Charmander, Butterfree with Confusion was one of the better ways to get past Brock, especially if you didn't get a Mankey.

>>32637468
Learned by nearly nothing in Gen 1

>>32637647
You need to level up Butterfree to 12 in RGB if you want it to learn Confusion though. Yellow carried over the moveset from GS so that's why it learns Confusion at lv10, immediately after evolving.

>>32637652
Picking Charmander in R/B was a commitment.

>>32637647
You couldn't get a Mankey in the original RB and if you used Butterfree against Brock in the remakes you got fucked by that x4 weakness to Rock Throw. Nidoran was always the superior choice which is why I've refused to play the remakes since I found out the Nidos have been removed from the pre-Brock areas

>>32637667
I thought you could if you went toward the E4 and had that trainer battle with your rival.

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Months and butterflies always had a lot of mythos attached to them, it isn't out of the blue to say that GF wanted to pair them with ESPer abilities.

>>32637676
Mankey in Route 22 is a Yellow thing, Anon. Also, that second battle with the rival is optional but it is required if you want Oak to give you 5 Poké Balls for free.

>>32637676
Mankey was only there in Yellow. In RB the Nidos were there. I think they were also there in Yellow too but I don't remember.

>>32637667
>You couldn't get a Mankey in the original RB

what did he mean by this?

>>32637700
obviously meant before Brock, dipshit

>>32637424
to give them an immediate advantage over poison: the region

>>32637699
Yes, the Nidoran are found on Route 22 in Japanese RG and Western RB as well as Yellow. Dunno about Japanese Blue.

>>32637712
>poison: the region
>Only two are even found in that region
>One of them is mid-game

>>32637468
>>Pin Missile
Only Beedrill and Jolteon can learn it in gen 1
>>Twineedle
Only Beedrill can learn it in gen 1
The only other Bug moves in gen 1 were String shot and Leech life, the latter only being learned by Zubat/Golbat, Paras/Parasect and Venonat/Venomoth and it was shit until this gen anyway

>>32637424
but which is the best

>>32638030
Yeah, and Brodrill is a fucking pimp, why aren't you using him? Twineedle can fucking poison Poison types.

>>32638041
I've never seen the appeal of Beedrill but I'm considering using one if I ever get around to playing Blue on the VC since I've never used it before

>>32637687
these doujins are GREAT

>>32638052
Why not Yellow? Red, Green, Blue, and Japanese Yellow play in Game Boy mode whereas non-Japanese Yellow plays in Game Boy Color mode.

I'm only saying this because you may not want to play the Virtual Console editions with monochromatic graphics.

>>32638092
>doujin
???

>>32638097
Not him, but the issue here is that Pokémon Yellow is shit and for total faggots.

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>>32637616
Mothra has that antenna beam and a calling to protect the earth at a moments notice, so maybe it's based on that

>>32638097
Beedrill isn't in yellow

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>>32638105

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>>32638105
>>32638134

>>32638145

Source?

>>32637468
>Good.
If your type's best move is a 14 base power multi hit move, and the best user of this move is a fucking mono-type electric Pokemon, you know you're fucked.

>>32638052
He's just memeing, anon, Beedrill was awful until it got a mega.

>>32638178
Um, no, you're a faggot. Brodrill was a champ in RB, his mega on the other hand is an ugly piece of shit.

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>>32638190
>champ

What did it mean by this?

>>32638123
Then trade it.

>>32638195
Wow that's pretty respectable for a shitmon bug from the beginning area.

>>32638440
in RB there's only 3 tier
Uber
OU
UU

UU being the weakest and having the most pokemon.

Beedrill is kinda shitty even in UU. Not bad but really far from >champ

>>32638440

Gen 1 just had OU and UU.

Beedrill was pretty bottom barrel, saved only by the fact that twinneedle was the only realistic way to hit psychics SEtively besides jolteon's pin missile

>>32638468
Even then Jolteon still hit them harder with Thunderbolt.
Pin Missile Jolteon was a meme.

It's because of mothra. Pokemon has always been Kaiju for kids and has plenty of references to Toho. Every butterfly/moth pokemon has some connection to mothra. My personal favorite is the shout out to Baragon I'm the form of the Nido line.

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>Ctrl+F "mothra"
>only 4 results

It's a Godzilla reference you underage tards.

>>32637424
Tapu Lele kind of fits with this patter too, doesn't she? Being Psychic-type and butterfly themed.

>>32639303
>kaiju
>relevant in the west

>>32638503
Pin Missile is a multi-strike move. Considering it can hit 5 times and have 70 HP damage, it's not that bad.

>>32637721
>japanese blue
lmao wtf are u smoking nigger

>>32639947
http://www.pokemon.co.jp/game/other/gb-blue/summary.html

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/n02/dmg/apej/

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/titles/50010000038656

>>32639318
>she
Lele is male, anon.

Bugs tend to psych people out
>>32639954
Vivian is a good girl...in NA

"Psyche" is the Ancient Greek word for both "soul" and "butterfly," so that might explain some connection.

>>32637667
in frlg you can get both nidoran and mankey before brock

>>32640003
No.

>>32640003
FRLG Nidoran (m/f) only appear on Route 3 and the Safari Zone. So after Brock.

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>>32637424
Lepidoptera symbolize the soul in lot of country. For example, in ancient Greece mythology, Psyché, the goddess of the soul, was represented with butterfly wings.

>>32637591
Kind of funny there's no psychic type rabbit Pokémon, since it there's a rabbit in Japanese media it's probably associated with the moon