What new types would you like to see?

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From what I know so far, there won't be any new types in Generation 5, so I'm not hoping for anything. But what new type would you like to see in the Pokemon World?
I've been thinking about a "Light" type for a while now. I think this would make a better opposite to "Dark" than "Psychic". By "Light", I mean "good" or "holy".

"Light" could be offensively strong against:
Dark
Ghost
Poison
It could be weak against:
Steel
water
Defensively it would be strong against:
Electric
Fire
Grass
Water
Defensively weak to:
Ghost
Dark
Immune and "no effect" to itself.

How's that look, I feel like "rock" or "ice" should go in there somewhere, but I'm not sure where? And what types would add to the world?
 
Light-type could have come in handy with the two new legendary Dragons: instead of Dragon/Fire and Dragon/Electric, they could have been Dragon/Light and Dragon/Dark, which would have gone nicely with the Black/White thing.
 
I'd say Plastic type. Everything is plastic now. Houses, utensils, people. Its about time it reached pokemon.

ogregames64 said:
Wood type would be cool. It'd be useful for a nature themed team.
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Thats still considered Grass.
 
Wood and light sound promising. The problem with light is that no Pokemon is inherently good or evil, though, so I don't know if it would work. If we did use light though, I think it should be equal damage with Dark.
And wood would mean we'd have to change the typings of say, Torterra, possibly.
How about a glass type? Sounds stupid at first but it could be a steel counterpart.
Also, Magic, Time, and Fog (well maybe not the last one).
 
MasqueradeOfSilence said:
How about a glass type? Sounds stupid at first but it could be a steel counterpart.
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It's an interesting idea, but steel was put in place because there was no way to type Pokémon that were made out of metal, which there were quite a few in Gens I and II if memory serves me. I don't know what Pokémon glass would serve, though.
Also, Magic, Time, and Fog (well maybe not the last one).
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Psychic says hello. Only Dialga would need that type... ? It'd be weak to Flying, I bet.
 
Light type already exists as fighting type.

There's been some confusion because the term Dark wasn't really translated well in English. In Japanese Dark type is really Aku or Evil type. In reality Dark type is really more "cheating" or "fighting dirty" type. This is more obvious when you look at the dark type moves:

Beat Up
Nasty Plot
Punishment
Pay Back
Taunt
Thief
Torment

This is why Dark is weak to Fighting, because Fighting type is "fighting clean" and honorably, while dark type is "fighting dirty," and cheating, putting down your opponent using tricks, etc. Fighting is essentially light type.

THERE WON'T BE A LIGHT TYPE.
 
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We had a thread for this in the BW section, yano?

I wouldn't want to see any new types, especially the Light type. It would bring an unwanted 'religious' and 'divine' theme to the battlefield the way most people see it as, which is pretty lame. I see it as a physics thing (photon cannon!) but that can easily be merged into electricity and/or fire.

Sound type was another one I saw. Sound is vibrations, so earthquake would be sound-type now? Sound you can merge to electricity/energy (hence the guitarists being electric users).

Virus/bacteria/fungi type sounds cool, but poison and bug (they spread disease, yano?) type can cover that.

If there ever is a glass Pokemon (enjoy breaking it in battle, lol), it would probably be a Rock type (glass is made from minerals) or Normal, even.

Wood is already the Grass type (nature-y as it gets). Rock is stone/solid and Ground is soil/earth.
 
Clay comes from the ground and is made of minerals so that's basically ground type now. That would be a cool idea for a Pokemon though, it could shape shift or something.
 
Reggaehype said:
Clay comes from the ground and is made of minerals so that's basically ground type now. That would be a cool idea for a Pokemon though, it could shape shift or something.
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Ditto? Isn't it essentially a lump of shape-shifting clay?
 
I read somewhere about sound-based attacks as a sub-type and that got me thinking. While not actual types, the sub-types would be effected by abilities. Sound would fall under normal. I was thinking about Psychic and it being split up between kinetic moves, i.e. attacks that make contact like Zen Headbutt or Psybeam and non-kinetic which consists of most of the other Psychic attacks.

Another sub-type would be mud(or attacks that don't involve the manipulation of the ground one is standing on) moves that would fall under Ground typing would could still effect Flying types. It always struck me as odd that a bird is completely immune to the ball of mud being shot at it.
 
corDaemon said:
You could say the same thing for Rock and Ground types. Rocks come from where?

Aaaand, boom goes the dynamite.
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:lol:

anyways, i think the most common type people want is the light-type. i have no objections to make, really. i've always wondered why they didn't include it along with the dark-type, back in generation ii. some people argue it's because we have the psychic-type already, but idk.

as for other types, it'd be interesting to have the sound-type.
 
I don't think that new types are necessary, because what we have is enough. However, if there can be a new type made, I am for the "Bacteria" type, since this type is the only one I can think of that can be made as a type.
 
Personally I think we have enough types as it is...

Wouldn't bacteria be kinda similar to poison though?
 
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