What is the logic behind Ground type not liking water type in pokemon.?

Question

I don't understand why ground pokemon don't like water pokemon. Most types all have logic behind them? Obviously fire doesn't like water, and grass is resistant to water, and fighting is weak to psychic because fighting requires physical touch and psychics are telekinetic. So please explain to me the logic behind ground type pokemon not liking water. Oh and if you know any other wiered ones explain that too. like why do bug not like psychic.

Answer 1

Water erodes rocks and the earth, and makes dirt become mud, as others have said.



Bug being strong against Psychic was probably just used to give Psychics an extra disadvantage, since they were extremely cheap in R/B/Y. Another reason which makes much more sense, since Bug was still strong against Psychic in the first games, is that Bugs are fairly stupid. Caterpillers and butterflies aren't really considered to have large brains. Because of this, it's probably hard for Psychic types to use their minds to attack them. It's hard to use Confusion, for example, if the Bug is too unintelligent to get all that confused. That's what I've always thought, anyway. Hope it helped.

Answer 2

Hmm.. if you're talking about why Ground-type moves don't have a big effect on a Water-type Pokemon, (in my opinion) water weakens mud. As for the Bug/Psychic thing, I wish I knew. That's actually weird now that you mention it. It doesn't make sense. Yeah my Espeon's level 100 (I seriously do have a level 100 Espeon) but if a powerful Bug-type move hits it (like Charge Beam), I'm cooked. Also, it's weird why Bug-types KILL Dark-types. It makes no sense to me either.

Answer 3

water is a very powerful substance it can erode just about anything over time. I think they made bug type strong against psychic type to give it a weakness in red and blue (Nothing really beat psychic in the originals)

Answer 4

Ground types dislike water types for the same reason that they dislike grass and ice types--EARTH, being the fragile thing that it is, can easily affected by other natural forces such as water, grass, and ice. Water erodes the earth; grass burdens the earth, kudzu for example; ice immobilizes the earth...and makes it slippery.

:p



Psychic types dislike bug types because even the most "smartest" and "gifted" psychic beings are afraid of mere bugs.

:p

Answer 5

Well when it's rain the ground becomes mud, and also this helps when you did have you noticed that the ground is softer while when the dirt is hard the ground is harder to dig in.



Hope this helped

Mip

Answer 6

Well, I kind of thought it as kind of an erosive thing, like if theres crack in the pavement that runs a long way, and it has water running through it, it'll carve out the crack and make it larger.