REALLY Not Dragon Pokemon Explained! - Charizard, Gyarados & Aerodactyl | Gnoggin

Charizard isn't dragon type whoa this is the first I've heard about this I mean how could he not be dragon type I'm sure no one else has ever covered this topic with me as the host topic but fret not because we're going to do it better than everyone else yes sir because we're the best and by fading confidence you'll possibly watch me more because that works brothers right but really this is a debate as old as time itself that is if time started twelve million two hundred six five thousand nine hundred and twenty minutes ago yeah but heck I remember back on ye olde playground I started fights about this Charizard was a big deal back then and honestly he still is huge sort of a mascot for the game in fact it sort of was won at one point you can check out that whole rabbit trail in this here video but in this video we're going to be talking about a trio of terrible typers no not words per minute I'm talking about Charizard Aerodactyl and gr adolfs I mean why do these poor obviously dragons not get to be dragon type although than executor gets to be dragon and that's the stupid effect it's a stupid thick even the Wikipedia article has jabs at Charizard inability to be a dragon I'm not kidding look here even though Charizard gains the flying secondary type instead of the dragon type upon evolving it belongs to the dragon egg group and learns dragon moves like Dragon Claw I feel like whoever wrote this article is pretty salty about this but I mean if it looks like a duck walks like a duck sounds like I talk then it must be a duck but Lopes look here it's a goose and you're dead now because you thought you could just waltz near it but then boom Razer Tong you can't just type a Pokemon on its looks alone you know they seem to do that with almost every flying type and every fire and water and all right they do that a lot but I mean what does a dragon even look like how can you say with confidence that a dragon isn't a palm tree or a thick slug why does a dragon have to be a lizard huh heck who said it needs wings and arms there are so many types of dragons that even the modern acceptance movement can't agree on what constitutes as a dragon does it have to have wings are they a hundred feet long can they only have legs do they really need to breathe fire what about scales are those required do they grant wishes talk to humans exist all valid questions that have incredibly invalid answers really who gets to decide what is and what isn't a dragon or anything for that matter good almost had an existential crisis there ha it's also not even just Charizard it's pterodactyl and Gyarados also two other dragon list dupes you know what I think it's fair you know something about me I have got my biases I don't think they really deserve dragon type yeah even Charizard they just don't have that special sauce to attain the dragon typing sure they're mad looking and mean powerful have wings have breath weapons and heck even know multiple dragon-type moves but they're missing one crucial thing know they're missing that post gen one magic that's right it's gen one's fault like always here we say gen ones dastardly legacy of undeveloped ID types Gen one really didn't have a bunch of types I mean duh it was the first one and type diversity wasn't super important but they also had other reasons such as rarity Dragon Knights line was the only dragon in Gen 1 and it was said to be super mythic like dragons are in real life so it only makes sense that there would be very few dragon Pokemon though uh fun fact it's no longer this way as both ghosts and ice have fewer Pokemon than dragon currently video it's probably gonna be even more true after a sort of heal to come out because I'm I'm a predicting there's gonna be loads of dragons so dragon being rare was an excuse to have Charizard in the rest not half the Dragon typing at least that's one of the only real reasons people spout all the time when talking about this like they know something I'm sure that if you were to type them today and this day and age like if they didn't exist back then and they were only existent now you could argue that Aerodactyl and Gyarados would both be dragon without a doubt i mean once a dinosaur with wings in a big jaw so it's a dragon easy like many other dinosaur Pokemon that our dragon type despite just being dinosaurs and there's the other Gyarados it's rage incarnate another dragon each rate even Gyarados his origin story is dragonish so it's a shoo-in especially if they added a third type ever with her Charizard I feel would have been fire flying still just because Game Freak hates you you personally him oh wait even better answer it wouldn't be fair at all even in Pokemon a game of fighting animals they need to be fair to each other dragon type was pretty strong defensively in the meta of Gen 1 and giving an advantage to one of the starters makes for a very boring Lee uniform competitive and casual play environment if it had dragon type Charizard 's water type weakness would be ignored by Dragons resistance to it poor Blastoise imagine if everyone only chose Chara oh wait they did that because apparently he's millions of times cooler than the rest of them so never mind plus he's got a whole four more base stat than Blastoise and like nine over venusaur so he's obviously the best choice still I'm so upset by this because Blastoise is so much cooler he's wider he's either hotter by oh but stop where your brain thinks its thoughts because it's wrong I'm wrong too we're all wrong because it's not like Game Freak even thought about all this honestly you people give them way too much credit even if the type advantage could be looked over there's still this major factor they don't just give out the dragon type to everyone plus it's not even like the type is that good it's the stats dragons on average have much higher stats than regular Pokemon this makes it sound like the Dragon type is a really strong type one really that's only partially true you see traditionally the dragon-type pokémon have been the pseudo Legendary's so their stats are all very high by definition this however isn't actually a true reflection of the type just circumstance so all of that unfairness and stuff gives Charizard not case for being a dragon especially if you start looking at Charizard origins when Gen 1 was being developed there were no plans to release it in the West at all and well Japanese dragons look nothing like western lines when looking to Charizard Japanese named lizard on meaning lizard of flying is the thing in that that screams I'm a dragon instead it screams it's a flying lizard which is a thing actually check it flying lizards that's what they do and if we look to the morte much more recent mega evolutions it helps solidify the fact that Charizard isn't a dragon at least in terms of typing if we look at mega Charizard y we see that it just gets bigger Gen 1 joke jpg nothing really stands out Charizard gets edgier and its features act like other Megas in a way it's more Charizard II take Charizard traits and exemplify them it flies faster because that's what Charizard is about it is a flying lizard hence the name Megas are an enhancement of the pokemons truest form so in this case it's non dragon whereas mega Charizard X Games the dragon type and the design changes drastically the wing structure changes entirely his body gets more horns and the traditional spine spikes like many Western dragons have it emits a darker aura a much more magicky jerk onek essence all things that it lacks in its other forms if you take a look at our what makes a dragon type video you'll totally understand what I'm talking about all in all though when they took Charizard and made it more Charizard II it stayed the same type but when they changed Charizard drastically even the color of its fire now its dragon type in a way it says Charizard clearly isn't dragon type and we have to change it a lot to make it one but ok let's be honest again the Gen 1 game was not really made with the West in mind I mean almost no one here understood what Cadabra even was or what jinx was I mean their monster looking so they're good Pokemon I suppose but they're just too out there for us Westerners we never truly understood the reasons they looked the way they did and typically in Japanese mythology Dragons were significantly more related to great storms and wind and tech even the ocean but fire it was there but not so much compared to Western dragons what LOX did you said wind and storm so why isn't Gyarados dragon type he's literally storm incarnate well you got me there but if you give me a moment I'm sure I can talk it away let's go back to the storm wind thing generally when you think of storms that are destructive like dragons you would think lightning tornadoes and hurricanes yes well that's correct yeah of course I'm correct so it would then be true that any true dragon would be able to do these things these moves such as thunder or twister which is a dragon moon and with the winds and eastern dragons in mind moonless and despite being wingless they can fly Gyarados can't fly while dragon air can because it's a dragon curio same and then Thunder yeah Gyarados can technically learn Thunder through teams but not naturally at least but at least Aerodactyl can naturally learn fly so there's that but when we look at dragon eyes we see that it's move pool is much larger in terms of traditional dragon abilities plenty of elemental aptitude it is now now as for a good lore reason though Gyarados isn't a dragon when you really dive into its origins so magikarps evolution into Gyarados is based on a Chinese legend involving a carp climbing a waterfall and jumping over the Dragon Gate doing so would cause it to become a dragon that much is pretty easy to understand and clearly Magikarp just turned into a Chinese dragon here however and a lot of people miss this it's common in Japanese legends for dragons who abuse their power to lose its dragon status and become nothing more than a flying serpent let's think about what Gyarados is known for in Pokemon oh yeah rage incarnate can think of nothing but destruction and it destroys villages that slide it I see perfect that sounds pretty abusive to me sometimes I think Game Freak might have actually cared back then but then again it's probably just a nice coincidence though Gyarados is stats are still rather impressive basically comparative to a dragon stats I mean 540 is nothing to sneeze at only coming 60 short of Dragon Knights 600 also while I was looking into this did you know that Alakazam also had 600 and that just goes to show that Gen 1 balancing was way bad absolutely terrible I can't believe people like it so terrible in fact that there's actually no big reason dragon was even good other than of course it's resistances I mean there was only a single dragon move back then yeah dragon rage a move that guitars aren't Gyarados that even Aerodactyl could learn in gen 1 and this move wasn't even affected by type advantages or stab bonuses because this whole thing is that it does 40 HP and damage period the one attack the Dragons can use better than non dragons they don't use better than non dragons because it's metagaming move instead of Marilla but that is also another reason why dragon was so strong in Gen 1 as dragon was effective against dragon it's one of its only two weaknesses but there's no actual dragon moves to use against them this is important in Gyarados escapes as if it were water dragon it would essentially have no weaknesses at all as water covers the only other dragon weakness ice and dragon covers water's weaknesses grass and electric Gyarados would be basically immortal plus gamefreak I also have already had a sea dragon in the works with syndra eventually evolving into Kingdra and Jen tool notably they also added a lot more dragon moves than Jen too so this fight isn't absolutely impossible so really all in all Game Freak doesn't care about your wants they only caved in once and that was with mega Charizard X and they just slapped the dragon type on it and hope that you'd be satisfied by the X version if you care so much gear dos is actually an interesting pokemon with good reasons to be both dragon not dragon good reason without with the whole flying serpent a few of the dragon powers thing though I would love to see a possible split evolution of Magikarp being a benevolent dragon it'd be pretty sweet actually and Aerodactyl no one really ever cared but Aerodactyl no one really even thought it was a dragon it's just a dino wyvern that died to a meteor what did kill the dinosaurs in the pokemon world but what do you think are they dragons or not should they be given the dragon type if they ever go through and retime a bunch of old Mons and if you haven't checked out our dragon month thing that we're doing we're doing a whole month the dragon theme videos by the time this one comes out we're almost done but let's not this very month so be sure to stay tuned for that and gonna be awesome and epic I just use the word epic on ironically I hope to see you there and also check out TruGreen sevens video right here you wanna know what it's done he's going through a bunch of medieval manuscripts and designing Pokemon based off of them he's been doing this really cool series race designing his own they come on but like showing you the design process and it's really fun and this one it's got a dragon in it talking about dragons it's just really cool check it out and until next time please remember to never stop using your noggin

Channel: Lockstin & Gnoggin

Views: 479,500

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Length: 15min 33sec (933 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 23 2019