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Should've been Grass/Poison, Fire/Dark, and Water/Fighting
>Grass/Poison
It's a snake, it learns a bunch of Poison type moves, and the upper class it's loosely based on has a history of toxicity (figuratively with attitudes and literally with assassinations/poisonings)
>Fire/Dark
would've avoided being the third Fire/Fighting in a row, which killed most people's excitement for Tepig's evolutions, Dark is believeable enough for the design (I mean look at Incineroar). Also, if you read up on Zhu Bajie, which Emboar is based on, he was a pretty dark character who was gluttonous, lustful, envious, and generally an anti-hero at best and was not nearly as good at fighting as Sun Wukong. Dark fits better.
>Water/Fighting
It's a samurai, and Fighting is the most interesting and fitting secondary type for it.
Really wish these were the actual typings. Then I might actually like these starters.