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Pokemon with types you wouldn't expect..

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What Pokemon do you think have types you wouldn't expect? I'll name a few.

Azurill: Azurill is actually Normal / Fairy. Water / Fairy or even just Water would make more sense in my opinion.

Helioptile / Heliolisk: The Nomal type is so random. It doesn't even make use of it.

Flabébé line: Would make more sense if it were Grass / Fairy.

Sudowoodo: Would make more sense if it were Grass / Rock.

Post your own :p
 
xXMelanie_HimeXx said:
What Pokemon do you think have types you wouldn't expect? I'll name a few.

Azurill: Azurill is actually Normal / Fairy. Water / Fairy or even just Water would make more sense in my opinion.

Helioptile / Heliolisk: The Nomal type is so random. It doesn't even make use of it.

Flabébé line: Would make more sense if it were Grass / Fairy.

Sudowoodo: Would make more sense if it were Grass / Rock.

Post your own :p
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I take your point on most of those, except Sudowoodo. The point of Sudowoodo is that it isn't what it appears to be
 
Gyarados being part flying definitely qualifies. It definitely doesn't look like it should be able to fly at all, but apparently it can. I guess being styled after an Eastern dragon has something to do with it, but I'm still not sure water/dragon wouldn't have suited it better.
 
Most of the Fairy retcons (Marill, Ralts, Jigglypuff etc.). Lati@s to, they look more like birds than dragons.
 
Lucario being a Steel type. During my friend's first playthrough of Diamond we were at Cynthia's battle, she sents out Lucario and we say that it looks like a Fighting type (we didn't followed any of leaks or information prior to the game release) and i say for him to use Psychic. But then Lucario takes neutral damage from it and we were suprised to find out later that it was Fighting and Steel type.

Also, Heliolisk can use its Normal type STAB now because it gets Hyper Voice in ORAS.
 
shuckle is kind of weird being bug/rock

mold strikes me as more grass-like than bug-like. Poison/Rock or even Water/Rock would make more sense too.

zygarde barely looks like a dragon or a ground type, I don't really get why it's either. I suppose dragon is somewhat excusable as it resembles dragons more than it does most other types, but ground is just dumb. The combo is dull at this point, with Flygon and also Garchomp sharing the same typing, not to mention similarish stats. Dragon/Bug, Poison/Steel, etc would have made more sense as well as being more interesting.

gyarados being water/flying never made much sense. I get that it levitates, but so do most fish pokemon when brought out of water, so why is gyarados flying while they're not. I bet it was water/dragon originally, but they retyped it so dragon would be exclusive to that stupid fat yellow pseudo. And no, I don't feel the same way about charizard because charizard actually looks like a flying-type.

no idea how mr. mime is a fairy while chimecho and co. aren't
 
Neosquid said:
shuckle is kind of weird being bug/rock

mold strikes me as more grass-like than bug-like. Poison/Rock or even Water/Rock would make more sense too.

zygarde barely looks like a dragon or a ground type, I don't really get why it's either. I suppose dragon is somewhat excusable as it resembles dragons more than it does most other types, but ground is just dumb. The combo is dull at this point, with Flygon and also Garchomp sharing the same typing, not to mention similarish stats. Dragon/Bug, Poison/Steel, etc would have made more sense as well as being more interesting.

gyarados being water/flying never made much sense. I get that it levitates, but so do most fish pokemon when brought out of water, so why is gyarados flying while they're not. I bet it was water/dragon originally, but they retyped it so dragon would be exclusive to that stupid fat yellow pseudo. And no, I don't feel the same way about charizard because charizard actually looks like a flying-type.

no idea how mr. mime is a fairy while chimecho and co. aren't
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Shuckle is quite simple. It's a bug that lives in a shell as hard as a rock. The fact that it produces berry juice and mould doesn't define what it is, only what it does. The term 'shuck' is a hard outer shell, hence its name.

I'm ok with the fairy retcons that happened, but i do feel they missed the boat on a lot more pokemon that could also be fairy type. Lake trio, Manaphione duo, Skitty line maybe, Volbeat & Illumise maybe, Mega Absol etc.

I also really didn't get the whole Gyarados is not a dragon type, and when megas were being handed out i like many others thought it might happen, but i am ok with water/dark because that does make some sense.

Here's one that bugs me to this day: WHY is the Tynamo line not at least part WATER when they are based on EELS?!?!
 
Why the hell isn't Torkoal Fire/Rock? It's the Coal Pokemon, for Groudon's sake. I also didn't get why the Gengar family was part-Poison for a good decade before realizing it's because they're made of gas.​
 
Gligar/Gliscor. I could never remember its type combo because it looked like a Bug/Flying, Poison/Flying, or Poison/Bug. Instead, it's... Ground/Flying? A Pokemon called the Fly SCORPION Pokemon is nether Poison nor a Bug? Okay then!
 
Drapion being Poison/Dark. I have lost count of how many times I have lost to Aaron simply by using Flamethrower instead of Earthquake.

Torkoal should be Fire/Rock, but I'm glad it isn't since we'd have Magcargo 2.0.

Also, recently I keep using Fighting moves on Jigglypuff and the like, but that's simply because I keep forgetting Fairy-types even exist.

Furthermore, why is Heliolisk not Electric/Fire? It would have been so cool and an actually distinctive Electric type that way..
 
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PickleMendip said:
Here's one that bugs me to this day: WHY is the Tynamo line not at least part WATER when they are based on EELS?!?!
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Well they're technically more based on lampreys (long vampiric fish with circular sucker mouth and lots of teeth) than eels, but that still doesn't change anything in this case. lol

Although honestly, it doesn't bother me at all since they don't always base a Pokemon's type on where the basis animal is found. Since they decided Tynamo and friends would be land-dwellers, it doesn't make sense for them to be part water. Just like how Krookodile isn't water despite being a crocodile and Empoleon isn't Ice despite being an emperor penguin.
 
Swablu and Altaria look like they should be pure Flying, but they're actually Normal/Flying and Dragon/Flying respectively. The latter makes sense because Altaria's based on mythical dragon-headed birds called peng, but it's still a little weird. Stunfisk also looks like it should be Water/Ground instead of Ground/Electric (I've heard that apparently it's an Electric-type for diversity reasons).
 
On first glance you'd probably never think Goomy is a dragon type. I know dragons in Pokemon come in many strange shapes but Goomy is strange even by those standards. What I find weirder is that the whole line is pure dragon instead of say dragon/water or dragon/poison since they are slugs/slime monsters.
 
Also, why isn't Yanmega (and maybe even Yanma) Bug/Dragon? They're based off dragonflies, and Yanmega looks like... well, it looks like a dragon.
 
Tyrfing said:
Drapion being Poison/Dark. I have lost count of how many times I have lost to Aaron simply by using Flamethrower instead of Earthquake.
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BlackOsprey said:
Gligar/Gliscor. I could never remember its type combo because it looked like a Bug/Flying, Poison/Flying, or Poison/Bug. Instead, it's... Ground/Flying? A Pokemon called the Fly SCORPION Pokemon is nether Poison nor a Bug? Okay then!
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Yet the Gligar family, the Skorupi family and the Trapinch family are in the bug egg group. It's just one big (bug) tease.
Jimmy Version 1.0 said:
Also, why isn't Yanmega (and maybe even Yanma) Bug/Dragon? They're based off dragonflies, and Yanmega looks like... well, it looks like a dragon.
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Short and simple answer: The Japanese name for dragonflies has no connection to the word dragon. That being said, If Vibrava and Flygon don't resemble them at all, then what the hell are they? Oh, yes. The antlion - which is commonly mistaken for the dragonfly in its appearance. :-S
 
Palkia being part Water type???

Why just why? Dialga looks obvious as it has partly steel on its body, but why is Palkia Water Dragon instead of just pure Dragon, or even Dragon Psychic which it looks more like? I just don't get it's relation to water.
 
Neosquid said:
no idea how mr. mime is a fairy while chimecho and co. aren't
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Becaues Mr. Mime is whimsical! Fairies are whimsical, therefore Mr. Mime is a Fairy! =D

I was surprised and disappointed to find out Helioptile/Heliolisk as well as Litleo/Pyroar were part Normal. It's good they get a resistance to Ghost-types moves, but now they are open season to mega common Fighting-type moves. While they make use out of Hyper Voice, they would have been perfectly fine as standalone types. I'm not against part Normal as a type, but they just don't look like they would be part Normal. They look like what their primary type makes them. With this being the case, why not make all standalone types part Normal, then?
 
Jynx has always puzzled me. I understand the Psychic type of her as, let's face it, a lot (if not all) Gen I Psychic Mons were odd-looking, so it fits her fairly well, but the Ice part doesn't make much sense to me. She's always been a oddball Mon, and her typing makes her even more so.

Empoleon is another odd one to me. Being a penguin, I would think Water/Ice would fit better, but the Steel-type comes out of left field. Granted, I've come to hate it due to it giving me grief in-game (not against, but using it), but Ice would've worked a bit better due to the nature of its origin (plus it would've made a more understandable two-way type advantage cycle).
 
Azuro said:
Palkia being part Water type???

Why just why? Dialga looks obvious as it has partly steel on its body, but why is Palkia Water Dragon instead of just pure Dragon, or even Dragon Psychic which it looks more like? I just don't get it's relation to water.
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It's likely referring either to the source of pearls, or the common scifi trope of likening space to an ocean.

As for types I wasn't expecting, I was so certain that the Flabebe line, or at least Florges, would be part Grass, but we know how that went, lmao.
 
When I first played through Pokemon Diamond, I thought my luxray would definitely be a electric\dark type
 
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