Pokemon Type Adjustments and Corrections

[plutoplanetpower]

Are there any Pokemon that you feel should have been given a different type than the one(s) they have? Feel free to post your type adjustments here and your reasons why if you have them. I know there has been lots of speculation as to why certain types were chosen in certain generations, but this is just to see what people think about typing.

My list of adjustments:

Generation 1

Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, and Venusaur: Grass/Poison -> Grass only
Pidgey, Pidgeotto, Pidgeot - Normal/Flying -> Flying only (I think all Normal/Flying types should be Flying only)
Spearow, Fearow - Normal/Flying -> Flying only
Golduck: Water -> Water/Psychic (it displays so many Psychic attributes but doesn't get the type?)
Geodude, Graveller, Golem: Rock/Ground -> Rock only
Farfetch'd: Normal/Flying -> Flying only
Doduo, Dodrio: Normal/Flying -> Flying only
Gastly, Haunter, Gengar: Ghost/Poison -> Ghost only (they don't really display any Poison atttributes)
Horsea, Seadra: Water -> Water/Dragon (to match Kingdra)
Gyarados: Water/Flying -> Water/Dragon (there have been lots of debate about this)


Generation 2

Hoothoot, Noctowl: Normal/Flying -> Flying only
Girafarig: Normal/Psychic -> Psychic/Dark (its second darker colored half with the tail-face could be the Dark half, it already learns Crunch)
Lugia: Psychic/Flying -> Water/Flying (it doesn't display many specific Psychic attributes, but it does fly underwater and Water would be a good contrast to Ho-oh's Fire typing)


Generation 3

Tailow, Swellow: Normal/Flying -> Flying only
Azurill: Normal -> Water (it's already related to a whole line of Water types and there's no real reason to make it Normal)
Sableye: Dark/Ghost -> Dark only (it's more of an imp/demon)
Volbeat: Bug -> Bug/Electric (lightning bug right?)
Illumise: Bug -> Bug/Electric (see above)
Swablu, Altaria: Normal and Dragon/Flying -> Flying Only (they mostly represent the skies and don't really look like Dragons either)
Chimecho: Psychic -> Psychic/Steel (it's a levitating bell)


Generation 4

Starly, Staravia, Staraptor: Normal/Flying -> Flying only
Luxio, Luxray: Electric -> Electric/Dark (they look part Dark and learn Dark moves)
Chingling: Psychic -> Psychic/Steel (see Chimecho)
Lucario: Fighting/Steel -> Fighting/Dark (it doesn't really have much to do with Steel except for the spikes on its hands, but it does look Dark, might be based on Anubis, and it has mysterious abilities)

 

[Rellik]

Gyarados: Water -> Water/Dragon (there have been lots of debate about this, but even if Dragon typing made it too strong, it deserves it, even if you had to adjust its stats to make up for it)

Gyarados is a Water/Flying, not just a Water.

 

[plutoplanetpower]

Whoops, Typo. Thanks

 

[raychuu]

I have to disagree on Togepi line and Noctowl's line. First ones fit the normal type well, while Noctowl should get Psychic type. Also, Shieldon/Bastiodon are clearly made of both Steel and Rock.

 

[Gatr Golf]

Most starters would make more sense to me if they were pure elemental types, at least for their first 1-2 evolutionary stages.

 

[Falconwing]

I agree with the Lugia bit, but overall I think most were typed well.

 

[Sith Droideka]

I would not mind if several of the Generation I Grass/Poison were Grass type alone. I also never saw why Masquerain was Bug/Flying. However, I think many of those are appropriately typed.

 

[thetifftiff]

Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, and Venusaur: Grass/Poison -> Grass only
Gyarados: Water/Flying -> Water/Dragon (there have been lots of debate about this, but even if Dragon typing made it too strong, it deserves it, even if you had to adjust its stats to make up for it)
Sableye: Dark/Ghost -> Dark only (it doesn't really display any Ghost characteristics)
Shiledon/Bastiodon: Rock/Steel -> Steel only (we need more single Steel types and it has much more to do with Steel than Rock)

How is the Bulbasaur line not clearly poison?

There is more to Gyarados' typing than the fact water/dragon has only one weakness, there's a whole story behind it.

How does Sableye not display ghost characteristics? Look at him, he IS a ghost. o-o

Shiledon is very likely part rock because all fossil pokemon are part rock.

 

[plutoplanetpower]

After thinking about it I agree that Togetic and Togekiss should be Normal/Flying like they are now. I don't know about Noctowl's line being Psychic - while it does have a lot of Psychic traits, it's kind of the Normal/Flying type of Gold and Silver. I never used Shieldon so I forgot that it comes from a fossil and so it should be part Rock.

It can be argued whether the bulbasuar, oddish, and bellsprout lines should be just Grass or Grass/Poison, but I personally feel that Bulbasaur leans more toward pure Grass while the others could be either.
Bulbasaur is a Grass starter, and mostly deals with leaves and vines and the bulb/flower on its back and solarbeam. The only poison move it learns is poisonpowder which was probably given to it because of its poison type. However, Oddish and Bellsprout learn poisonpowder and acid (and bellsprout gastro acid) and have more attacks based on poisonous powders and liquids respectively.

Gyarados is difficult because the Dragon type isn't so clear-cut. Some Pokemon have Dragon typing even though they don't look like dragons that much (Altaria, Flygon) and others look very much like dragons but don't have the type (Charizard) and some are not Dragon type but are in the Dragon egg group (Milotic). I know the story Magikarp is based on, about the koi climbing the waterfall and turning into a dragon, which points to Gyaraods being dragon-like. If that dragon part should be expressed through typing or only the egg group I don't know, but the flying type addition doesn't seem as warranted just because a fish went up a waterfall.

I'm not sure how I feel about Sableye being part ghost. He doesn't float or phase through things like most ghosts, he crawls around and eats gems and has physical claws - he's more like an imp or demon or something. Also, he's not in the indeterminate egg group like most ghosts.

 

[thetifftiff]

The story doesn't involve the fish becoming a dragon, it becomes a serpent.

Maybe it's just me but the second I saw Sableye I thought it looked like a ghost to me, even before I knew it was a ghost type.

I can't explain why the bulbasaur line seems so obviously poison, this could just be another one that's just me but there is definitely something about that family that screams poison to me.

 

[SharKing]

Mawile (Steel -> Steel/Dark)

Three reasons. One, it's heavily related to deception (a Dark-type trait). Two, it learns a lot of Dark-type moves. Three, it's the R/S counterpart to Sableye, a Ghost/Dark Pokemon.

 

[Loyalty]

All I can say is that there should be one more stone evolution of Kirlia that ends up being some kind of altered Gardevoir that's Psychic/Dark typed.

I'd be pleased.

 

[Octangula]

Mawile (Steel -> Steel/Dark)

Three reasons. One, it's heavily related to deception (a Dark-type trait). Two, it learns a lot of Dark-type moves. Three, it's the R/S counterpart to Sableye, a Ghost/Dark Pokemon.

You could argue that Meowth (and only Meowth, not Persian) should be Normal/Dark for the same reasons.

 

[PlatinumDude]

I agree with the fact that Azurill should've been a Water-type. I don't know why GameFreak made it a Normal type in the first place.

Dustox, Venomoth and Beedrill should've been Bug/Flying types (even though they have properties of Poison types; I think this because they have wings and can fly).

 

[Regiruler]

I would not mind if several of the Generation I Grass/Poison were Grass type alone. I also never saw why Masquerain was Bug/Flying. However, I think many of those are appropriately typed.

Because it has wings.