>>48914816Now we move from Beginning of the game types to Early game types. You'll still encounter normal types, but this introduces new pokemon types into the mold. These types are Rock, Flying, Ground and Grass.
>RockRock type are meant to serve as defensive pokemon, And this is why they were most likely used for the first gym, As all of the beginning of the game types in Poison, Bug and Normal, Are all resisted by rock or are weak to them in the case of bug. Excluding the starter only butterfree really can hit them hard with confusion. And only because someone on the design team pitted charmander enough to not give the rock type gym leader any rock type moves. After you beat brock you are able to immediately catch geodude at mt.moon
>GroundServes a similar purpose to Rock except it's more offensively oriented. These pokemon are meant to take a hit then hit back pretty hard themselves Geodude also fits this but you can also encounter Sandshrew as well after this.
>FlyingAdmittedly should've covered this in beginning of the game types but oh well Similar to normal except their meant to be fast. as opposed to being an all arounder. Spearow becomes a lot more common at this point in the game and you can also add the beloved zubat in here.
>GrassThis is the second status type and you can tell because most of them overlap with poison. But these pokemon mainly want to status you and annoy you with moves like absorb, leech seed, Sleep powder etc. These pokemon are usually venusaur replacements in Oddish and bellsprout. Or absolute garbage like paras.
