The move is called Meteor Drive (メテオドライブ) in Japanese. Meteors are just as much an elemental representation of steel/metal and minerals as they are of fire.
>>26577392
>Meteors are just as much an elemental representation of steel/metal and minerals
Er... no. Not to most people. But it would still explain in the context of Pokemon why it would be Steel because of Metagross/Jirachi/Meteor Mash. It still doesn't explain why that stuff is Steel to begin with or why the Sun Pokemon would be associated with meteors/shooting stars.
>>26577392
Does Sun Lion faint after using that attack ??
It looks like the flames would hurt it.
with it being weak to fire and all
:-)
>>26577423
The sun makes metals.
>>26577423
>Not to most people
Not to western people, you mean. To the japs the connection is as obvious as tentacles and porn.
Well Gamefreak created their own elemental system if you can call it that within the Pokemon universe. Moon equals fairy. Light equals steel, meteors = steel as well.
Yet Ice and Water are two seperate types.
>>26577423
Then what do meteors represent for most people, if not rocks and minerals?
>>26577473
Not as weak to ghost and dark as moon bat is though
>>26577482
Guess Sunflora should have been Steel-type since the typing suits a sun pokemon so well
>>26577499
Any source on that one or comparisons or what. A lot of RPGs I play have had it either non elemental or are actually fire element if the game has it as an option, like MMBN or Golden Sun
Steel/Fire move, make it happen Gamefreak.
>>26577799
>Sunflora
Its a pokemon based on Sunflowers you retard
>>26577818
That was the point. There's a reason Solgaleo is Steel/Psychic that we may not be entirely clear on yet, but it isn't because it's just "the sun" and because Steel-type makes sense as a representative type for it.
>>26577663
the moon is neither dark nor a ghost
:-)
>>26577473
what do you think salgaleo smells like after it uses sunsteel strike haha
>>26577882
And the sun isn't made of fire you faggot
2/10 made me reply
The real reason he's steel type
>>26577916
This shit is seriously the fucking worst. Heat Wave isn't literally an attack with fire, lava isn't literally fire, and there's probably even more examples, and people acting like the sun isn't commonly associated with fire and like people who thought solgaleo might be fire were so obviously and stupidly wrong blows my fucking mind. I wasn't sold on Fire-type because it didn't look Fire-type but yveltal doesn't look especially Dark, Xerneas look especially Fairy, Reshiram doesn't look especially fire, and etc. so who knows and Fire was as good as the fucking dimension Space pokemon being Water-type.
>>26577987
Yeah, a star is way more fire-like than magma/lava are but Primal Groudon and Slugma/Magcargo still exist, and moves like Lava Plume and Magma Storm are fire type.
>>26577423
>Er... no. Not to most people.
Er........... Yes you fucking retard. When people think of meteors they think of giant rocks from space. And I fucking love how you responded to this response to your IT NO ESPLAIN Y SUNLION IS STIL. >>26577482
Some shitty "well, well then why isn't sunflora a steel haha" quip. Maybe because Sunflora is a fucking flower and not a cosmic body known for producing metal?
>Sun is known for producing metal
Lol, yes, that's what everyone knows and associates with the sun.
>>26578105
>When people think of meteors they think of giant rocks from space.
People tihnk of giant flaming rocks from space. Mayeb after they've landed people would just think "hunks of rock" but the imagery of a landed meteor and shooting star/meteor in the sky is totally different and associated with very different things.
>>26578130
>Lol, yes, that's what everyone knows and associates with the sun.
Solgaleo isn't based off mythology based off the sun, Solgaleo is based off the sun itself. And anyone who didn't fail highschool science classes knows the sun produces metal.
'The lion who eats the sun' is an alchemical symbol for metallic purification, thus the steel type.
Also, the sun is full of different metals and shit.Sauce: leddit
Meteor Drive sounds much better that Sunsteel Strike.
>>26578147
>People tihnk of giant flaming rocks from space.
Yes, flaming rocks. When people think of meteors they think of fire and rocks. And when people think about rocks they think about minerals. For shit's sake, the biggest cliche regarding meteors is the "Alien Mineral/Element/Monster" to be found inside. One of the biggest cliches for magical weapons is that it was forged from metal from the heavens, tying back to the meteorite containing Super-Strong Space Metal.
People associate alien/heavenly properties to meteors all the time.
>>26578172
It isn't literally based on the sun. Its design has nothing to do with the sun. The association with fire also has nothing to do with the mythology of the sun. The average person definitely doesn't go "yeah the sun makes metal so if I had to pick a pokemon type to represent it would totally be steel" and you are an idiot revionist if you genuinely believe that you were given no other context but 'this is the sun pokemon' that most people wouldn't default to fire, nor would that be inaccurate as far as the concerns of most video games and fictional worlds goes. Pokemon's Fire-type doesn't just mean literally fire, but includes most heat-related effects. The move Sunny Day is fire-type and it's referring to the act of bringing out the literal sun.
>>26578173
This is what I meant about there being a reason it's Steel-type but not because it's a sun-themed pokemon. I'm pretty sure due to the AZOTH thing that the alchemy-related motif is probably where the typing comes from
>>26578172
The sun is a giant ball of super hot plasma, it would make more sense for Solgaleo to be Electric. Or Fire, since some fire produces plasma.
Honestly, I don't care that it's Steel. The Psychic typing is what annoys me. Steel/Electric or Steel/Fire would make way more sense. There are way too many Psychic legendaries anyway.
>>26578252
Nobody is arguing that people don't associate heavenly or divine attributes to meteors. But meteors aren't always associated with metal or even rocks. You are arguing for totally different things. if you asked someone to draw a meteor, they aren't going to draw a rock, they're going to draw a rock that's on fire, with the fire obviously being the prominent aspect because it's motherfucking fire. The imagery and themes associated with a crash landed meteorite is a totally different thing than a meteor shooting across the sky, just like the ocean can be peacefully symbolic or stormy. But it's clear which symbolism Solgaleo was going for based on the fucking attack animation-- the flaming meteor. There was no reason to question it was Fire-type after seeing that attack animation. Now it's supposed to be so obviously and clearly Steel-type? Fuck off with that.
>>26578268
>nor would that be inaccurate as far as the concerns of most video games and fictional worlds goes.
No it wouldn't. But it's not inaccurate to make it a steel type either, yet the board is currently filled with shitters going SOLGALEO SHOULD NOT BE SUN TYPE! SUN IS NOT STEEL IT'S FIRE! It doesn't matter what the average person would think about the sun, making the sun pokemon a steel type is SCIENTIFICALLY correct. Yes, I'll happily agree that making it a fire type would be CULTURALLY correct, and I wouldn't be upset if Solgaleo had been fire instead of steel. My fucking gripe is the people upset that it's steel instead of fire, when steel is just as correct a typing to give it as fire.
>>26578281
Plasma isn't electricity
>>26578281
I'll agree with this. Steel Electric would have been far better. Psychic is just what Gamefreak gives to legendaries if they can't think of another second typing, along with Dragon.
>>26578281
This tqbh.
Also it annoys me the fact that many previous legendary duos either counter each others' types (Palkia/Dialga) or just have types that do no super-effective damage to each other (Lugia/Ho-oh). In this case not only we have another fucking psychic but also one that has a clear disadvantage against Lunala, provided GF won't reintroduce the Steel resistance against Ghost-type moves
>>26577392
Either way, if it can oneshot Salamence like that it should be pretty powerful
In the trailer Slamence's HP showed that it had 0 HP IVs so I'm asuming they use blank stats all around for both. I Gave Solgaleo 150 Atk as a guess. With that, Sunsteel Strike would have to be at least 130 BP to ohko salamence
>0 Atk Metagross Meteor Mash vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Salamence: 135-159 (87 - 102.5%) -- 12.5% chance to OHKO
With max Atk it would have to be at least 90, but again that's just the lowest it can be and still have a chance of ohkoing
>>26578341
It's not "just as correct", at least not on the basis that it's the sun Pokemon and is based on the sun. The most immediatley identifiable aspect of the sun is that it is extremely hot. If something is extremely hot, it would be fire. We also know that pokemon includes many things that don't involve literal fire being Fire-type because of being extremely hot or otherwise associated with something hot. The Steel typing is correct for Solgaleo but for a totally different reason than being a representation of the sun, in the same way Palkia or Dialga make sense as their types in hindsight because their types aren't representative of their domain but their version names. This is basically kind of the opposite case, where they have a thematic basis related to but not exactly a literal representation of the Sun or Moon (in this case, the mercury/metal lion that eats the sun in alchemy). If it were literally just the Sun Fire-type is just objectively more correct, due to Sunny Day if nothing else.
>>26577501
>Yet Ice and Water are two seperate types.
>>26578456
>Ice and Water seperate elements
>"Jungle"/plantlife and air/wind are the same element
Fuck Lego
>>26577817
Neutral against Mence.
>tfw we'll start complaining about Psychic-typed legendaries the same way we've complained about Fighting/Fire starters
>tfw GF will take another 3 years at least to realize that trainers are pissed because of that
>tfw GF will shove us with some Dark and Ghost legendaries on the next versions
>>26577392
So...it's a Steel version of Double-Edge?
>>26577501
Skies of Arcadia and Final Fantasy did that as well.
Solgaleo is the "Sun Pokemon" and Lunala is the "Moon Pokemon", but at the end of the day we don't actually know what their relationships to those celestial bodies is. It's a bit early to be calling bullshit that they're not "such and such a type" when we're not even sure what the story is behind them.
>>26578456
I fucking loved Bionicles
>>26578504
This really confused me as a kid
>>26578623
>Solgaleo is the "Sun Pokemon" and Lunala is the "Moon Pokemon"
I think you mean "Sunne" and "Moonne" Pokemon
>>26577897
Would smell like the Twin Towers on 9/11
>>26578393
Kyogre is super effective against Groudon and Xerneas is super effective against Yvetal. This isn't a first.
>>26578448
But the sun isn't fire, it's hydrogen and helium that is going through nuclear fusion. Fire requires oxygen. You cant change science to fit your head canon.
Also Espeon is the sun pokemon and is psychic.
>>26579188
Umbreon is the moonlight Pokemon and is weak to moonblast
>>26579002
No, you stupid idiot, jet fuel can't melt steel beams
>>26579188
>Sun is associated with fire only in head canon
Yeah okay buddy.
The reason because it's a psychic two-tailed cat involved with daylight in contrast with Umbreon. The reason Sunflora isn't Fire is because it's a sunflower. The reason Solrock isn't Fire is because it's a rock powered by psychokinesis. The reason Solgaleo isn't Fire is because it's the alchemical symbol and not a literal representation of the sun which would 100% definitely be Fire-type because of Sunny Day and the sun weather empowering fire-types just based on OP's logic even if you genuinely 100% believe in your heart of hearts that you think Steel is perfectly good type for a Sun Pokemon as though the Pokemon universe has any care for the minutia of being accurate.
>>26579396
>because of Sunny Day and the sun weather empowering fire-types
I dunno, man. The most well-known sun user is a ground type.
>>26577501
>Yet Ice and Water are two seperate types.
That's just RPG tradition at this point.
>>26579475
I meant empowering fire-types in the sense that it gives them a boost. And Groudon was second fiddle to Kyogre until Primal Groudon which picks up Fire type so fuck you.
>>26579535
Golden Sun did everything right.
>Water includes water and ice
>Earth includes plants, rocks, ground, metal, etc.
>fire includes lava, fire, heat,meteors, etc.
>wind includes wind, air, storms, lightning, electricity, etc.
>>26579569
Lava has fuck all to do with fire though, it's just melted rock. And meteors are rock/metal.
>>26579592
Eruption, Magma Storm, Heatran
>>26579606
What does that have to do with what I said?
>>26577392
Why didn't they make him Steel/Fire?
>>26579633
I'll let you figure it out
>>26577866
>That was the point.
But Sunflora is perfectly typed, as it is based on a plant. The fact that it has SUN in its name is pure coincidence, as it has nothing to do with the sun.
>>26577423
>or why the Sun Pokemon would be associated with meteors/shooting stars.
Because it's not the Sun Pokemon.
>>26579650
We still don't know why the fuck these guys are Psychic. I don't buy that they just gave it to them cause they thought they needed a second type but had no idea what to make it. They made Xerneas mono type. I guess it's because they're astral related.
>>26577948
Get hype for Soliger Zero.
wait isnt that justZero Phoenix or do we not talk about how shit fuzors was?
>>26577897
Burning carbon, like shuttles and astronauts do after coming back from space
>>26579719
>Implying sunflowers aren't associated with the sun
wew
>>26578456
This got even more confusing in the G2 netflix series when the Toa of Water stated that Ice was water and was able to manipulate it as such.
Rock and Ground in pokemon and Stone and Earth in Bonkle are also another comparison of weird typings.
>>26579867
It is based on a plant that follows sources of light. And coincidentally the sun is a big source of that.
It is the same as saying that all water pokemon should be part fire, because if you don't heat it, they would all be ice.
>>26580027
I forgot that the netflix show is out. I should really get on that.
>>26578456
bionicles are more about what biomes they are adept in. obviously it takes a different build to excel in water than it does in a tundra.
