[Meta thread] Lord Windos' PokeRole Adventure : Celadon City Vandels

[Dragonstrike]

Hmmmm...did a little thinking about/research into what kinds of non-Flying type moves might count as 'wind' based.  Whatcha think of this list, @Lord Windos?

List of Wind Based Moves and Explanations

These ones are all fairly obvious since the word 'wind' is included in their names:
- Icy Wind (which Hope can also already learn, unlike every single other move besides Twister on this list [disregarding the AOM])
- Whirlwind (would probably need its effect modified. Maybe it can also replace Roar in Hope's level up moves? That makes a little sense to me, tbh)
- Silver Wind
- Ominous Wind
- Fairy Wind
- Razor Wind (might skip the Charge time?)
- Heat Wave (Okay, it's less obvious, but it's Japanese name is literally 'Hot Wind', which is why so many Flying types can learn it)
- Nuclear Wind

Interesting Notes about these moves: 
- The only (canon) Flying types that can learn Icy Wind without having any association to Ice or Water are the Murkrow line, Skarmormy, the Drifloon line, Sigilyph, and Oricorio.  (And Skarmory is the odd one out. Not only is it the least mystical of the bunch, it can't even learn the move from the Gen 2 TM, only being able to learn it via tutoring in later generations)
- Silver Wind and Ominous Wind are teachable to a larger variety of Flying types than Icy Wind, but Silver Wind is generally more limited in its selection due to both being a TM in Gen 4 (and Uranium) only and typically only being able to be taught to more 'mystical' Flying types (Togekiss, Xatu, Drifloon, Noctowl, Jumpluff...and Tropius, surprisingly. Oh, and Flygon's technically on the list, too) if they aren't part Bug.
- Fairy Wind is usable by exactly one evolution line that isn't part Fairy type: Jumpluff's! (though it's partially because they're in the Fairy egg group as well as being Flying types associated with drifting on the wind)



These ones are more implied based on the nature and/or description of the moves in question:
- Twister (which Hope already knows, unlike all the other moves on this list)
- Petal Blizzard
- Powder Snow
- Blizzard (can't blow around ice, snow, and petals without a little wind, right?)
- Sparkly Swirl (unlikely to ever come up since it's one of Partner Eevee's signature moves, but it is described as 'wrapping the target in a whirlwind of an overpowering scent', unlike Aromatherapy's simple scent emission. It's Japanese name is also 'Sparkly Storm')

Interesting Notes about these moves:
- The only Flying types that can learn how to use Powder Snow are all part Ice type, and only Flying types with some kind of association with Water or Ice can learn Blizzard
- Petal Blizzard is only usable by Grass types and Flower associated Fairy types (none of which are part Flying) in the canon games, for obvious reasons


And then there's the oddballs...

- There's Sandstorm I suppose, but given the nature of Typhoon being an Extreme Weather (which is the term I'll use to also refer to Mysterious Air Currents, Heavy Rain, and Extremely Harsh Sunlight, the weathers caused by the Weather Trio's signature Abilities), that'd have to be a rather weird interaction if the Typhoon didn't outright override the Sandstorm...(the other major weathers don't necessarily require wind to be activated, unlike a Sandstorm)

- You could also MAYBE argue Clear Smog could use wind as the basis of the attack to blow the smog away instead of throwing 'special mud' (which is the description in the games) or acting as a vacuum of sorts (which is the Pokerole interpretation)...I'm kinda iffy on that one since the original descriptions don't quite fit the concept of using wind, tbh, but it could be justifiable, I guess.

- You could probably also include Glaciate since it's basically a souped up Icy Wind (blowing cold air onto the target, just stronger...but not strong enough for it to be 3+ Power according to the book's general Move Power conventions without being Plot Deviced, ironically.  Move's with 70+ power in the games are typically 3+ Power in the book.  40-65 is usually 2, and less than 40 is 1.), but that's also really unlikely to come up alongside Typhoon weather's effect.

Also, another thought: if Fly gets to skip its Charge time, would Razor Wind, Bounce, Sky Drop, and Sky Attack do so as well?



And one more thought: should Thunderstorm be replaced in Hope's level up moves with a different weather summoning move that can resummon her Typhoon Weather? (and given that it's the most expensive move in her level up movepool if you don't count Draco Meteor, it could still be reasonable, too)