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I'm back like a rubber chicken rising from the sacred ash
OK but Blue's team was also, as he stated, actual mono-type pokemon, as well as a monotype team. You act like I bother to watch your showdown videos? I've watched like one in the last year 
There may be a general understanding for it being monotype tier, but a) not all fans base their lives around smogon and b) Blue said he was looking for pure water types on the previous page. Regardless of whether or not it makes sense, your answer wasn't what he wanted. |
Not you actually using the "get a life" argument
If you don't follow competitive Pokemon, then why were you butting into a conversation that you knew
nothing about?
If you want to participate in a community, then learning the lingo is something you need to do.
Let me use an example. Let's say you decided to barge in on a pro wrestling discussion, and you heard someone say, "John Cena is over." And you decided to respond with, "Um BYE, John Cena's bigger than ever, even non fans love him, here are the receipts, #clocked."
You'd look like an idiot. Why? Because "over" can mean "past your prime," but in a wrestling context it means you're popular and you're able to get fans invested in your character.
Similarly, if
you decided to post, "X-Pac is over," you'd probably be met with a response like, "Are you kidding? Nobody's cared about X-Pac in years." And they'd be right to say that, even if one other person in the forum knew what you meant.
Similarly, the prefix "mono" can be used to reference any singularity outside this context, but in competitive Pokemon, the term mono
type is used to refer to the tier.
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See above. Monotype can refer to individual pokemon and not just a tier, soz hunty.
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Technically, yeah, but my point is that it usually isn't. When most people talk about single-typed Pokemon, they say "single type" or "pure type". You know, to avoid confusion with the official tier.
