Pokemon With Three Elemental Types

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I know that Pokemon can only have a maximum of two elemental types, but haven't you noticed Pokemon which have a hint of a third?

Just off the top my head I can think of...

Lugia - Psychic, Flying, Water
Flygon - Dragon, Ground, Flying
Tyranitar - Rock, Ground, Dark
Gyarados - Water, Flying, Dragon
Charizard - Fire, Flying, Dragon
Drapion - Bug, Poison, Dark
Venomoth - Bug, Posion, Psychic

I'm sure there's others... I understand why they couldn't do that seeing how massively complicated it would get when battling and such, but do you think these were intentional or coincodence?
 
Interesting. And I totally agree with you.

I've always thought of Vileplume as Grass-Poison-Dark, for some reason.
 
I don't agree at all. You shouldn't want to have three types because it makes logical sense on a emotional level.
You should want to have three types because it makes sense logical sense on a logical level.
Which it's not, so, no.
 
the fact is, just because they have levatate, doesn't mean their a flying type, yeah they have wings, but who gives a crap XD

as for Charizard and Gyradose, I don't put them on the side of "Dragon" types... they only learn little dragon moves, and it won't get a STAB
 
shadow mist100 said:
as for Charizard and Gyradose, I don't put them on the side of "Dragon" types... they only learn little dragon moves, and it won't get a STAB
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But they're dragons! Heck, I don't even see why Gyarados is even Flying.

I think it'd be cool to eliminate the type limitations, but not overdo it. Or they could add the possibility of "minor" types past the first two that only get 150% from super effective, 75% from not very effective, 125% from STAB, and probably still get immunities. This will only be cool if they don't abuse it, and only make use of it when necessary, such as with these Pokémon. Not when they choose the types first and base the Pokémon on it rather than the other way around. Especially if they try an "everything" type or a Fire/Electric/Ice type or something entirely improbable.

Also, you left out Lucario (Fighting/Steel/Psychic).

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Fun fact. If there were an "everything" type, which I pray there never will be, it would have the following type matchups:

-One 1/2 resistance (Dark)
-One 1/4 resistance (Steel)
-One 1/8 resistance (Bug)
-One 1/16 resistance (Grass)
-SEVEN immunities (Normal, Electric, Fighting, Poison, Ground, Psychic, Ghost)
-ONE 2x weakness (Rock)
 
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I think dual typing gives you enough of an advantage. A pokemon with three types would be insanely hard to strategize against.
 
It's true that Venomoth has a lot of Psychic features (and is even used by Sabrina in RBY) but it seems more like Bug/Poison/Flying to me. Same with Beedrill and Dustox.

And if Flygon would be Ground/Dragon/Flying, it would have a 8x weakness to Ice, and that's quite bad, considering that it's already very weak to Ice.

So I'd prefer to keep it the way it is. But it's still quite interesting to think about the possible type combinations. Steel/Dragon/Flying would be quite awesome, but also very broken (actually, it would still be weak to Ice).

But first, they should try more dual-type combinations, like Fire/Grass. That would be pretty good.
 
That's fun from a gameplay point of view, but how would you justify that without making Pokémon any lamer than 50% of the generation IV Pokémon? A burning bush Pokémon?
 
Three elemental types? It seems to be a good concept, but this would cause way too many problems for the game designers trying to find a weakness for the tri-type pokemon. :/
 
Everyone seems to think it would cause problems in game, but I don't really see why it would cause any problems at all. The designers don't have to "find weaknesses," they just put in the types and the weaknesses/resistances/immunities are already there based on the types they choose.

I'll do a little pokemon-by-pokemon analysis of the ones the OP chose.

Lugia - Psychic, Flying, Water
This would give Lugia a x4 weakness to electricity, in exchange for neutral ice and grass, and a resistance to water.

Flygon - Dragon, Ground, Flying
As someone else said, Flygon would now have a x8 weakness to ice. That's pretty bad. I would never use Flygon if this happened to it.

Tyranitar - Rock, Ground, Dark
So he gets all the x4 weaknesses of Rock/Ground types? No.

Gyarados - Water, Flying, Dragon
Like someone else said, why is flying even on there in the first place?

Charizard - Fire, Flying, Dragon
Interesting. That would bring back his weakness to ice, but negate his weakness to electricity. He also now has a 1/8 resistance to grass, and a weakness to dragon. I could live with this setup for Charizard.

Drapion - Bug, Poison, Dark
Weak against fire, flying and rock, resists fighting, grass ghost and dark, and is immune to psychic. That sounds pretty fair.

Venomoth - Bug, Posion, Psychic
Same as above, except is weak against dark and ghost, and resists fighting more.


All in all, I think giving some pokemon three types would make the game more interesting as long as they don't go overboard and start handing out new types left and right. Especially not to pokemon that are already very strong.
 
I like the way it's implied now with the implied types. It makes the pokemon more interesting, and more similar to the Animal Kingdom with convergent evolutions and adaptability and such.

Though, I admit I think Empoleon should be immune to Hail. Not only should the ice blocks not damage it's steel frame, but it is implied as an ice type. (Well it's hard to believe it's not an arctic penguin, well...Hippodon... but still) I just don't think that should be handled with types.
 
But they're dragons! Heck, I don't even see why Gyarados is even Flying.
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Gyarados I think is part flying as its based on one of the chinese dragons and some of them are protrayed to fly in various media.

The three types would make this very complicated when playing games. ANd if there was an "everything" type, I suspect it could be given to Mew as it can learn every move anyway
 
Personally, Drapion, Gliscor and Flygon are all Bug-type Pokemon in my head, so I guess they "have a hint of a third type" to me.

They're all in the Bug breeding group, they're based on what the average person would call "bugs," Drapion evolves from a Bug-type, and yet the types of these Pokemon... aren't part-Bug. So infuriating. I think GameFreak really just hates Bug Pokemon.
 
Pokemon with three types is an interesting and fun thought, but I wouldn't like it if it were an actual game mechicanic. It would overcomplicate things.

A few weeks ago, I made a thread about dual type moves. (For example, Steel Wing would be Steel/Flying). It's fun to think about, but it would make the game to complicated.

Also, there are plenty of great dual type combinations that we have yet to see in Pokemon, so there's no need for three types. It's still fun to think about though.
 
Ceallach said:
Pokemon with three types is an interesting and fun thought, but I wouldn't like it if it were an actual game mechicanic. It would overcomplicate things.

A few weeks ago, I made a thread about dual type moves. (For example, Steel Wing would be Steel/Flying). It's fun to think about, but it would make the game to complicated.
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I always thought Muddy Water should be "Water/Ground"
 
Sleet said:
That's fun from a gameplay point of view, but how would you justify that without making Pokémon any lamer than 50% of the generation IV Pokémon? A burning bush Pokémon?
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Jackolatern.
 
Or a "volcano forme" for Snover: as it represents a grassy mountain covered with snow, we can have it unfrozen and turn the mountain on its head into a volcano, so t could be a Grass/Fire.
 
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