Professor Umbreon's Lab

 Hello, good day, and welcome to my lab! I'm Professor Umbreon, The Moonlit Professor. I'm here not to teach, but to discuss this wonderfully bizarre world in which we live. Today, we will discuss the Types Rock and Ground. First, we will go over what they are, why they're often confused, and how they differ. Then, my suggestions for a new way to think about and separate the two. --- What Are They? --- How Are They Similar?      Rock and Ground have a lot of overlap. Both represent minerals. Rocks, dirt, sand, mud, gemstones, dust, clay -- all are under the purview of these Types. Some Pokémon are made of minerals, some control them, some live within and have a strong connection to them. It's easy to see why they're often confused for each other, as we might as well be describing a single Type. Let's review some Pokémon from each Type, and see how they're similar. In fact, let's see if you can guess which Type each is before I reveal it (no searching). R...

 Hello, good day, and welcome to my lab! I'm Professor Umbreon, the Dark Type Pokémon Professor. I'm here not to teach, but to discuss this fantastic world in which we live. Today, we shall discuss the Bug Type, whether it's necessary, and what defines each Type in the first place. Let's start there, shall we? --- Defining Types --- Grass Type      What defines the Grass Type? The most obvious answer is a connection to plants, of course. But there is more to it than that. Grass Types come in three main flavors: 1) Sentient Flora -- These are the ones like Oddish or Bellsprout. They themselves are quite literally plants. Why they are Grass Type is fairly obvious. 2) Symbiotic/Parasitic -- These are the creatures upon which a plant grows, like Bulbasaur or Parasect. They themselves are not plants, but they live in close harmony with plants. (Though, some are not so harmonious). of course, a plant just growing on a Pokémon does not a Grass Type make; there must be som...