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>2017
>GEN VII is announced
>To simplify the game, GF announces that the types have been reduced.
>1. Water type (water + ice)
>2. Earth type (grass + rock + ground)
>3. Fire type
>4. Air type (flying)
>5. Electric type
>6. Poison type
>7. Metal type (steel)
>8. Warrior type (fighting)
>9. Trickster type (dark: the dark name is wrong, the original japanese one is 悪, evil, and the dark types has nothing to do with the absence of light but with tricks and foul play)
>10. Psychic type
>11. Ghost type
>12. Bug type
>13. Dragon type
>14. Fairy type
>15. Sound type
>Every type has 3 resistances and 3 weakness, is x2 on 3 types and x1/2 on 3 types
>New type chart
>Severe pokédex, attackdex retcon
>Every pokemon BST, movepool ability is retconned and balanced
>Megas are abandoned with apologies and never spoken of again