>>12706917you don't undernstand that either. before the announcement, the types were. fire, water, rock, ground, fighting, dark, steel, psychic, ghost, normal, dragon, grass, poison, ice, electric, bug, and flying. that's 17 types. now, fairy is a new type, so that's 1 new type. now, this may be hard to compute in your tiny head, so bear with me. 17+1=18, alright? let's review. 17 types, fairy's new, that's 1 extra type, so 17+1=18. get it now? they were reffering to the fact that there are 18 pokemon types.