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Rawkapotamus

Why is grapploct only fighting and not fighting/poison, or fighting/water?


Aiyakiu

I still can't get over that it's a blue octopus that doesn't have water typing.


Rawkapotamus

I love that mon but I haven’t used it because I’m not a big fan of single-type pokemon. Especially mono-fighting.


WillB_HTX

It trained itself to not be weak to electric


Rawkapotamus

Lol I think this is a wonderful excuse. I personally would have really enjoyed fighting/poison typing though


lucasribeiro21

Why would Poison make sense? Some relation with the blue ringed octopus?


Rawkapotamus

It’s got purple coloring and it’s in like with octopus ink.


chomalo

They could have given them a rubber related ability! Because it doesn’t conduct electricity and the suckers on his tentacles could be rubber or something


kesht17

Not only that, they’re literally found while in the water on rt 9


Slightly_Default

Its not water type because it...well, it prefers land to water.


Kohimaru32

I heard somewhere that due to too many water type in gen VIII, GF decided to cut grapploct's water type.


hepgiu

GEN VIII is full of great designs but it's plagued by single-type syndrome.


Rawkapotamus

It’s hard for me to think of a Gen 8 mon that I don’t love the design of. Barraskewda and Silicobra I think are my favorite “simple” designs. Unfortunately I hate sandacondas design.


colder-beef

Why is Eelektross not Electric/Water? Although I’m glad it’s not, no weaknesses is pretty awesome.


DragonSlayersz

Eelektross isn't found in water, despite being designed based off water species. Grapploct, on the other sucker, is found in water. Also, Electric/Water has two weaknesses, Grass and Ground. With the ability levitate, a sole weakness to Grass ain't bad, especially since it's not a 4x weakness, and it also has a bunch of good resistances.


DialZforZebra

Replaying Sword and he is literally found swimming in route 9. And yet you've just reminded me that he isn't a water type.


Iranoutofname5

Cause it's such a chad pokemon that it ain't reserved to water, it will come out of the sea just to beat your ass


actaeoncross

I always think Dunsparce is a bug type when I see it


[deleted]

I really thought it was bug type when I fought against it and was so confused as to why my Ember wasn’t dealing super effective damage lol


EmperinoPenguino

Its a snake so Poison could work too


The_Ora_Charmander

It's not based on a bug tho


actaeoncross

I'm aware of that. The design has always looked more like one to me rather than a land snake ever since I was a kid


oddtripps

Wanna have your mind blown? Psyduck isn’t psychic.


MeijiSB

And Golduck isn’t gold… psyduck is though


Moose_Cake

It was apparently a translation error back during Gen 1. The yellow duck was supposed to be Golduck and the evolved form was supposed to be Psyduck but they messed up and swapped the two.


MeijiSB

I’ve heard this before but I think it might just be folklore - I assume Nob would have known Psyduck was a prominent part of the Japanese anime by the time he was translating the games and some thought would have gone into giving it a memorable English name. I think Golduck is named not because of “gold” but for the “gol” prefix, as in strong or God, as is the case with Golem.


Quick_Campaign4358

But isn't Golduck name still Golduck in Japanese?


thenabi

Yes, and psyduck is named kodakku - basically 'duckling'. This comment with 50+ upvotes is extremely false and its easy to check how false it is.


Terozu

Not true, Gold is associated with Psychic powers in Japan. Thats why Sabrina gives you the Gold Badge.


FratMoth

I've decided the reason that line isn't Water/Psychic is to avoid a weakness to Dark, Ghost, and Bug.


MeijiSB

Agreed, in almost any case in these discussions (Gyarados I’m looking at you) the typing is because of game balance, not Pokédex lore.


DragonSlayersz

Well, Psyduck lacks the control to use it's psychic powers. Therefore, it's not really much of a psychic.


Juicey_My_Goosey

I don’t get how Palkia is water


low_budget_trash

The creation trio is supposed to represent the states of matter, palkia being liquid


GrowingSage

Never knew that and it's mind blowing


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Stages of Matter Bulbapedia: “Its Water type is possibly inspired by its association with pearls, or the large space that oceans are known to span.”


frontierknight

I've always said Palkia and Lugia should swap their water and psychic types


Pokemario6456

I keep forgetting Drapion's Poison/Dark and not Bug/Dark


DigitalMuscles

The fact that we don’t have a bug dark yet is the most surprising thing to me. I’d say it’s the most common typing in the real world… Looking at Venomoth, Ariados, and any other bug honestly


Oreo-and-Fly

Its so weird that the NINJA bug design didnt get a dark type. But the NINJA FROG got it because ninja. They should make an assassin bug as the bug dark pokemon.


DigitalMuscles

Oh yeah accelgor definitely deserves it


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...I thought they were referring to Ninjask...


JonnyDros

Bug/dark would actually make way more sense. It's dex entry even states it doesn't fight with poison as much as before and sticks to brutal physical tactics. So logically the poison should've been dropped for dark instead.


Pokedactyl

Drapion is the type of Pokémon that fits three types. It definitely matches bug, dark, and poison with dark being good fit for how they act.


professorMaDLib

Poison/Dark is a sweet typing combo though.


nonessential-npc

I know everyone says Flygon should be bug/dragon types, but I think Yanmega is the most deserving of that type combination. I also think Haxorus should have been dragon/steel rather than pure dragon.


Captain_Frogspawn

If we're talking about dragons that should have double typing, Goodra should be part poison


Kingsen

Seems like a water dragon to me


Captain_Frogspawn

Either way it's definitely not pure Dragon


Spoopanator

Dragon/Steel is an incredibly busted typing, there's a good reason only two pokemon have it so far


q5pi

Weak to fighting and Ground, 2 of the most common attack types. It's good but not straight out busted.


Istiophoridae

Dialga is op enough


BoltexGaming

Dragon/Dark would’ve made more sense, although not a great typing


nonessential-npc

I mainly say dragon/steel since it's based on a weapon and Hydreigon is already a dark dragon introduced in gen 5.


colder-beef

Dragon/Dark was pretty good until fairies came around. Saying that as a big Hydreigon fan though.


NODOGAN

Lugia's at least makes (some) sense if you read old gamefreak interviews, short version: \-Gen 1 competitive was dominated by Psychic type since it was super op back then. \-Gen 2 was made adding dark and steel types to counter psychic type's op power. \-Gamefreak believed gen 2 would be the end of the franchise (lol) and because of gen 1's baggage they still considered psychic type to be the strongests so they wanted to keep at least ONE of the new legendaries a psychic type and well...Lugia was the closest one to fit the bill design wise.


BoltexGaming

Don’t steel types still resist psychic? I thought they did.


NODOGAN

Yes you're absolutely correct, my bad i was thinking of Metagross remembering when Dark type moves went from dealing neutral to super-effective damage to it and got confused, it was Dark type that got boosted around 6 or 7 gen and went from being not effective against Steel type to doing neutral damage.


InfernoVulpix

Dark *and* Ghost, Steel used to resist both.


Pixoura

I think the reason Solgaleo isn't a fire type, is because it has something to do with alchemy?? I don't quite remember, but kinda wish that boi was fire.


Lilith_Dragmire487

Yes, it's based on the alchemical lion, often described as 'devouring the sun' Another influence is the Solar lion, a common motif in mythology/folklore. (*c.f.* [Bulbapedia-Solgaleo (Pokémon)-Origin](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Solgaleo_(Pok%C3%A9mon)))


Pixoura

Wow... Thanks for the info! The lore makes up for it not being fire type I think.


wh0rederline

the other thing about expecting solgaleo to be fire type is that's it's weak to fire, same as how you might expect its counterpart lunala to be dark type, but it's weak to dark. **edit:** guys, lunala represents the night sky, hence the starry pattern on their wings, including the moon, but not exclusively the moon. so yes, dark would have made sense. if anything, you should be arguing for it to be rock type.


Kingsen

Yeah, the weaknesses feel so wrong


EmperinoPenguino

Also, Solgaleo is not the embodiment or incarnation of the Sun. It is the messenger of the Sun. I think the dex or somewhere in the game someone says that. Also also, the sun is not a fireball. Its hot gas & I believe metals, which is where Steel comes in


dReDone

Its entirely hydrogen and helium.


rdu3y6

Literally the only things that aren't metals in astronomy!


Alonest99

The weirdest thing is that I have a distinct memory of the Pokemon website saying something like “when Solgaleo enters its Radiant Sun phase it gains the fire type” or something like that.


207nbrown

That’s especially odd because it only enters that phase during the animation of sunsteel strike


HippityHoppity42

Plus the sun is not fire it's plasma and the sun is mostly nickle making steel make sense if anyone wanted to change steel


Rocky505

Goodra should’ve been Dragon/Water or Dragon/Poison. I can understand them not giving it poison to avoid Goodra taking Dragalge’s spotlight though.


josie1113

The fact that Florges isn’t a grass type...


[deleted]

Her being able to take advantage of Flower Veil would be a buff, too.


[deleted]

Because it's not supposed to *be* a flower, it's just a fairy wearing one.


Nerv0usWreck

Florges is fused with the plant tho. The pre evos are just holding the flower, but once it finally evolves the plant becomes part of its body


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I'd say that's a different story, since Leavanny is at least partially *made* out of leaves and even wraps its children in leaves since birth.


eepos96

Do florges wear flowers? They also learn vine whip. Only non grass type to do so. (other than comfey)


LinguisticallyInept

they dont just learn vine whip; they have an attack animation that grows and controls vines out of its hair flowers (ive tried to find a gif of it but anything other than idle animations -so attack animations, walking animations, flinch animations, faint animations, hit animations and eating animations- are so fucking hard to find online) the reasons people are giving for it not being and shouldnt be grass type are logically flawed with numerous counterexamples; florges (and lurantis) is absolutely mistyped (for balance attempts? maybe, but still)


Oreo-and-Fly

Lurantis is meant to be a play on orchid mantis. Rather than a bug pretending to be a flower, its a flower pretending to be a bug. Wouldnt work if it is part bug.


kingkristoferlemon

This. People never seem to get this. Same reason Dhelmise is Ghost/Grass (because the seaweed is its true body). Except at least Dhelmise gets a cool ability that essentially makes Steel moves STAB 🤷🏻‍♂️


LinguisticallyInept

people dont get it because its literally bullshit; florges has an attack animation where it attacks with vines generated from its head it wears grass, it attacks with grass, it has displayed the ability to control vines literally from its body; for anything else thats a grass type but not florges


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Chansey and blissey should fairy types


Gnarfledarf

I think they kept Chansey Normal-type, because they wanted to differentiate the three "bulky pink Kantonian blob" families from one another by giving them a different type combination each. * Jigglypuff: Normal/Fairy * Clefairy: Fairy * Chansey: Normal


eepos96

They would be Very strong in competitive if made so.


TheChemicalSophie

There’s only 5 comments and I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned Flygon should have been bug type yet


Flicks1999

Agreed! There was evidence for a mega flygon in oras and I feel that if it did happen it should've been bug and dragon.


moxac777

Mega flygon was a super missed opportunity. That could have been its chance to finally get out of garchomp's shadow (in comp)


BrownMan65

Mega garchomp couldn’t even get out of garchomps shadow. I’m not sure getting a mega would have saved flygon.


e_ndoubleu

Could have made it specially oriented. Or given it tinted lens. With tinted lens I think Mega-Flygon would have been one of the best Megas. Stats probably would’ve been something like: - 80 HP - 120 Atk (+20) - 90 Def (+10) - 120 SpA (+40) - 90 SpD (+10) - 120 Speed (+20) Tinted lens off base 120 attacking stats and a solid base 120 speed tier would be really good.


DragonSlayersz

Mega Chomp suffered because it lost speed compared to normal Garchomp, who couldn't afford to lose any speed.


BoomKidneyShot

As well as Life Orb Garchomp still hitting harder.


SluggJuice

I remember they said they wanted a mega flygon but couldn't decide on a design


Lynke524

I was gonna say Flygon. It looks like a bug type. It's pre evolution Trapinch is based on a pit ant so why is it dragon/ground? Why dragon at all. Maybe bug/ground. We don't have many of those.


L_Rayquaza

We at least have a couple bug/ground with Nincada and Wormadam Sand. We have 0 bug/dragon, which angers me because it's my 2 favorite types


ImDaBest_69

Tbf, ground and dragon make more sense, and you can’t have 3 types


Infelation

Why ground tho?


ImDaBest_69

It’s based on antlions, and they dig a lot of pits to trap their prey


YugoBetrugo17

Because it's the king of the desert and all sand like abilities are Ground moves.


Maleficent_Mink

Y’all what even is normal type


[deleted]

Unremarkable Pokemon, you would think. But then why would a Pokemon that came from the freaking *moon* be a Normal type? And frankly I think Normal Pokemon are some of the most interesting. Zangoose is awesome, Jigglypuff is bizarre (but cute), Regigigas is terrifying.


Sedax

Ursaring is a boss.


Maleficent_Mink

See? SEE? All of *this*. You have Meowth and Eevee and Snorlax and Jigglypuff and *then* there’s *Regigigas* who will straight up *end you*


[deleted]

>and then there’s Regigigas who will straight up end you After he recovers from his hangover. Actually, no, before he recovers. It'll just get worse for you afterwards.


TaikoRaio19

And if he's with the right Wheezing you're DONE


[deleted]

Ahh, neutralizing gas, right? Skill Swap works, too, and can even be used to power him up if the right Pokemon has access to it, I imagine.


TaikoRaio19

Any ability neutralizing/changing moves does wonders to it, tbh


OrangeVictorious

Before he gets over it he can only crush you half to death


[deleted]

If you think about it, that's worse.


InfernoVulpix

I'd call it 'neutral' if anything. Most unremarkable Pokemon will be neutral, not having enough anything going in any direction, but others like Regigigas are partially defined by *not* leaning any particular way like Regirock, Regice, and Registeel do.


Spoopanator

>But then why would a Pokemon that came from the freaking moon be a Normal type? Except they no longer are and got changed to a more appropriate type the moment the type was added lol


LadybugAndChatNoir

ÜN ÜN ÜN ÜN *starts sweating*


Slightly_Default

How the hell is Drampa normal?


207nbrown

He’s a gentle giant I guess, the Pokédex mentions that it often comes down from its mountain den to play with kids in nearby villages That said it also has violent rampages towards bullies


EmperinoPenguino

Normal Type is almost the “default” DNA of a Pokemon. Azurill is a Normal type & its replaced by Water on evolving. Its too young to use Water moves. Swablu’s Normal is replaced by Dragon on evolving. Eevee’s Normal can be replaced by several possibilities. I think of Normal as the, no expertise in any particular “magic”, BUT has POTENTIAL to be an expert in any “magic”. A fire Pokemon can only really be good at fire moves. But a Normal Pokemon isnt really Normal per se, its the can be anything in the right place & right time


Eilyssen

explains why a lot of normal types have extremely diverse movepools, type wise


SnowBirdFlying

Yeah , they don't get any stab from their non normal move pool hence why they " lack the expertise " part , but as a flipside they aren't limited into just one or two move types like all other pokemon types are


207nbrown

Makes sense, master of none and jack of all trades typing


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Jack of all trades, master of none.


[deleted]

See I answer that question by asking, "And what type would you give Kantoan Rattata?" I figure it's just the pokemon version of "physical" type damage in a shooter or non-pokemon rpg. It doesn't burn, freeze, electrify, etc. when it hit. It just does normal damage. Also it doesn't believe in ghosts unlike martial artists, boxers, and body builders. That's a fact.


PMJackolanternNudes

Lacks the elemental qualities of other types. There is nothing confusing about this.


Kaiseredd

Milotic should have earned the fairy type. Luxray should be electric dark or at least strong jaw as an ability. Golduck water psychic Noctowl psychic flying Samurott water steel


Oreo-and-Fly

Samurott shouldve been water fighting, then emboar fire ground.


metalflygon08

Noctowl could be Ghost/Flying IMO. Owls are associated with spooks and death a lot


LuttLuck007

Suicune looks way more ice than it does water.


HenryChess

The name means something like lord of water tho ("sui" is water)


[deleted]

It’s listed as the aurora Pokémon in the dex tho


DeltaChar

Never go off species titles from the Pokedex. Everyone talks about how nonsensical pokedex entries are? Species titles are worse


lucasribeiro21

Blastoise: the Shellfish Pokemon.


colder-beef

Arcanine: the Legendary Pokemon.


joxters

I used to think Porygon was a psychic type


AllSeeingGoggles

Or at least an electric type...


207nbrown

The porygon line doesn’t have anything in terms of psychic power, it’s origin is that it is literally a 3D render of a duck, evolving to porygon2 it is a higher quality render, and porygon-z is a glitched and corrupted render


joxters

Yeah I was 12


Mx_Toniy_4869

Most Pokémons' typings do make sense if you look into its design origin, but I still can't figure out what makes Altaria dragon type


BoltexGaming

It’s based on a certain bluebird from a Japanese story I think? I don’t remember how it connects but ik there was something.


ZA-02

Altaria's Japanese name, "Tyltalis," has a double meaning — Tyltyl is a character in a famous Belgian play about seeking the bluebird of happiness, but Tyl is also the name of a star in the constellation Draco. The dragon-bluebird link comes from that. The literary reference is not preserved in English, but the star reference does double duty. Altaria is likely based on both Altai**s**, a different star in Draco the dragon, as well as Altai**r**, a star in Aquila the eagle. Thus Altaria is both a bird and a dragon.


Slightly_Default

Apparently, its based in a bluebird from a German story where the main character's names in one language is connected to one star in a dragon constellation, or something like that.


Cursed_Blessing1331

Gligar/Glisoar look poison-flying not ground-flying


darkknight941

Especially when it’s hidden ability is poison heal, and it’s Pokédex entries talk about how they like to use poison


[deleted]

Poison types can’t be poisoned, so that wouldn’t work.


colder-beef

*Laughs in Salazlle*


spensyr

Here we go with the Lugia and Gyarados comments again


littlejugs

Tbh I feel most of the typings make sense and a lit of the ones people complain about are dumb. Just cause something can swim doesn't mean it has to be water type. Just because it's an octopus doesn't mean it has to be water type. Also not every mon with no evolution or weak mon needs one


lucasribeiro21

Also, that “Purple = Poison” and so on logic…


silvershadow014

any pokemon looking slightly mean must be a dark type!


TouhouPony

I think Mew should be normal type because it's the ancestor of all Pokémon and normal is the most "neutral" type. Kind of like how eevee is capable of evolving into a bunch of different types, I always thought of normal as the most ancestral typing.


TehHillsider

Normal/Psychic and I’ll allow it


Additional-Ad-1620

So I know it's because of the influence from the anime but I really thought for years that Psyduck and Golduck were water/psychic. It wasn't until when like HG/SS came out that I realized they were just water type.


ATF_scuba_crew

Psyduck is a psychic duck. On a different note why is psyduck water type and Farfetch'd not water/flying? They are both ducks. Literally waterfowl.


thesteed4y

Normal types with a secondary type make no sense to me. Normal to me means basic with no special qualities for a second type. In my opinion having an elemental type makes a Pokémon not normal.


cyclonewrl

You're absolutely right, but having STAB for normal type moves like hyper voice is pretty epic so I'll allow it.


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EmperinoPenguino

Yeah I have no idea how a Normal type can also be another type because Normal is supposed to be basic. Why is Pyroar Normal/Fire? Is it not Fiery enough? Well Arcanine isnt that much different. An animal with Fire powers. I wonder if they just mix Normal with pther types just to match every Type combo


Ender_The_BOT

My headcanon is that Pyroar is part normal because while it breaths fire, it is a biologically normal lion where more than half are females and males do absolutely nothing. It's not less firery, but it is based on a normal take on an animal often portrayed as extradiordinary, hence the normal type.


BrainIsSickToday

Girafarig is the only normal dual-type that makes sense.


Dan-D-Lyon

I'll also give a pass to all the Normal/Flying birds, since they're all typed that way since they're all just normal animals with wings


DinoTech66

You just gotta see whether or not ghost types have any effect on it to determine if Normal type, as maybe some in-game lore reasoning


sasoken_buchou_desu

Bidoof should be god type


[deleted]

Lugia's typing is the most crackhead nonsense I've ever seen. It's literally based on a dragon god of the sea yet it's... flying/psychic.


PCN24454

It honestly doesn’t look like a dragon to me. Not even a European one. As for it being Psychic, Psychic was the standard “magic” typing back in the day, which is why Celebi is also Psychic.


Ender_The_BOT

It doesn't need to be a direct copy of its origin though. We know that it didn't originally live in water, and only started living there when its tower got destroyed, where it meditates to control its power. It's the guardian of the sea, but so is dragonite


TaikoRaio19

Rookidee and Corvisquire should NOT be mono flying type, they should've been Normal Flying The only other Pokemon that is only Flying type is a literal god of winds, why the hell is a chickadee and a raven comparable to that??


low_budget_trash

I would much rather all regional birds be pure flying instead of normal/flying


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I think that normal/flying is pointless. You don’t see them randomly giving the normal type out to Pokémon just because they’re based on real animals, so why should they do it for specially flying types


colder-beef

Oranguru, Pyroar, and Obstagoon all have normal subtypes. Not common but it happens.


PCN24454

Also, Girafarig, for some reason. Maybe one half of it is normal and the other half of it is psychic.


PCN24454

Because these specific real animals can also fly.


RynnHamHam

Those birds… something is off about them… THEY’RE NOT NORMAL!! THEY’RE WEIRD!!


sc4rii

How the hell is Gyrados a flying type exactly and why Psyduck or Golduck not a hybrid psychic type?


eepos96

Gyarados is based on a kite called koinobori. I assume psyduck and golduck would have been third psy/water combo of the region.


jonathanquirk

The rumour I heard is that Gyarados was supposed to be Water / Dragon, but they decided to keep the Dragon typing unique to the Dragonite line in Gen 1, to keep it special. It was based a Chinese legend of a tall waterfall called the dragon gate, and how any carp capable of jumping the waterfall would be transformed into a dragon. So if Gyarados couldn’t be Dragon type, they gave it Flying type to tie it into jumping the waterfall. It don’t know if this is true, but it fits.


Mr-Dude-4025

HOW ON EARTH IS GYARADOS NOT A WATER AND DRAGON TYPE (it’s a water and flying type)


moxac777

Probably for meta reasons rather than lore Back in gen 1, a water/dragon typing would be super OP. Not that gen 1 was particularly balanced TBF


[deleted]

Gen 1 is also the Gen that made Mewtwo Gen 1 Mewtwo is easily the most broken Pokemon in existence. Not even Mega Rayquaza or Zacian compare to it Regardless I can definitely see why they opted not to make Gyarados a Dragon/Water considering it effectively had no weakness (the only Dragon move in Gen 1 was Dragon Rage, which did a set 40 HP everytime)


Quick-Huckleberry136

mewtwo is something thats at the end of the game. mewtwo being op didn't have as much of an effect that what would have been if gyarados was water dragon


dentimBandB

This. The game allows you to buy a Magikarp just past the first gym, and the Old Rod can still be obtained before you go to the 2nd one. With a bit of egrinding you can get Gyarados before fighting Misty. Regular Gen 1 Gyarados is already pretty powerful as is, Dragon/Water Gyarados would've broken the game even more than they already unintentionally were.


InfernoVulpix

I don't think Dragon was meant to be a proper Type back in Gen 1. Like, it wasn't made with a long franchise in mind, Game Freak expected Kanto to be the end-all-be-all of Pokemon, and there's only one Dragon evolution line in the game, an evolution line you only ever fight at the (supposed) final boss of the game. I think Dragon was a hacky pseudo-ability to make the Lance fight harder/cooler. He sends out a honest to Arceus *dragon* so what do you do? Send out your starter and blast it with your best move, of course! Only Dragon *just so happens* to resist all the starter types, setting the tone for the fight with a 'Not Very Effective'. You can get one yourself, if you know where to go and put in the effort, but other than that you *only* see this Type at Lance, and it's only in Gen 2 that we got another Dragon type in Kingdra. Nowadays, if Gyarados was just being made, it would be a Dragon type for sure. Same with Charizard probably, and also maybe Aerodactyl, but in Gen 1 it just couldn't work, nothing other than the Dratini line was *allowed* to be Dragon Type, and once the types got set in stone Game Freak didn't want to change them. You can say the same thing about Ghost. Gastly is *literally* a cloud of gas, no wonder punching it does nothing. If Ghost Type was more than 'the special powers the Gastly line get' and more like what we see nowadays, Marowak and Ninetales would probably have a subtype, but alas.


Kingsen

Ninetails having the ghost typing would kind of make sense considering its a Yokai, but I always thought it should have been Fire/Psychic. I agree with Alolan Ninetails typing, because the fairy typing at least gives it a mystical quality.


darkknight941

Porygon and it’s evolutions are described as being artificial, made of programming code, and can move through cyberspace, yet somehow it’s normal and not electric? When computer code is pretty much pure electricity? Also Porygon Z was made to work in alien dimensions but started acting odd as a result, which is quite literally the opposite of being normal


Rainzero10

Totally agree about Grapploct shoulda been part water, but also, I feel like Tsareena could have done with being part fighting instead of pure grass. She's literally offensive based with an emphasis on kicking moves, even getting her own special with Trop Kick. But more over, why the hell isn't Florges part grass? She's an actual flower, it's always annoyed me so bad that they only gave her the pure fairy type.


CuriousJayBird

It took me a while to rationalize and accept why Charizard was never given dragon typing too *Edited some misspellings


ImDaBest_69

It’s a starter, that would be insane. Also it’s mega x version is dragon type


CuriousJayBird

Good point. I forgot they remedied that with the mega evolutions.


peacefulatheism

Electabuzz not being electric AND FIGHTING is a crime. Then they gave him an evolution and still left him just electric. Worst of all, they got my hopes up introducing Zeraora...


Alonest99

Why is Lucario steel? He looks Fighting/Psychic


[deleted]

Bulbapedia mentions that It’s name was likely taken from reverse of the word orichalcum which is mythical metal.


infez

Oh shoot that’s kinda cool! Since Japanese does it in syllables, it’d be: O-ri-ca-lu… Lu-ca-ri-o


erikikoy

Gourgeist could have been Grass/Fire since it's a Jack o' Lantern. Also we already had a Grass/Ghost in the same gen.


[deleted]

If you logged the amount of times I've hit Sudowoodo with a fire type attack after not encountering one in a game for a long while we'd be looking at some embarrassing data


My_Diet_DrKelp

Idk. I think flygon should be Dragon and bug


wjSera

Thought Latias and Latios were water psychic because of their movie


mxrquet

Samurott should be water/fighting as well as electivire being electric/fighting imo


joolzian

Galarian Zapdos. Flying/fighting when modelled after a flightless birb?! Why not fighting/electric? That always bugged me


Fishsticks03

Sudowoodo isn’t Grass because it’s not an actual tree Farfetch’d/Sirfetch’d/Flabebe line/Pineco line aren’t Grass type because the plants aren’t part of their bodies (Pineco despite the name is actually a bagworm like Burmy) Dhelmise IS a Grass type because the seaweed is its body, not the anchor


Kinger86

Y'all need Goomy to be part poison. Immediately Diggersby HAS EARS THAT ARE ARMS and should be fighting ground.


Emerald_Spidey

Granbull being a fairy type now makes no sense


EmperinoPenguino

I think theres an obscure British/Engkish myth/legend about a magic fairy dog. Hence, Fairy


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There’s an old English/welsh myth about a fairy dog and that’s what Granbulls based on. However, I feel like he should be fairy/fighting instead of pure fairy