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Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 04:31:56 No.42688838 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>42688869 >>42689229 >>42691516 >>42694961 >>42696468

ITT: Pokemon that could've had really cool types, but instead were given extremely mundane ones

Pic related, could've had Rock/Electric

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 04:35:14 No.42688869 Report

Quoted By: >>42688875

>>42688838
Ninetails could have been Fire/Psychic. It would have certainly had an interesting place in the gen 1 meta then at least.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 04:36:13 No.42688875 Report

Quoted By: >>42691360

>>42688869
Fire/Psychic, Fairy/Fire, and Ghost/Fire all could work for Ninetales. Why is it Fire and Electric are plagued with so many boring monotypes?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 05:21:28 No.42689138 Report

Quoted By: >>42689201 >>42689299 >>42693994 >>42694578

Ninetales: either Psychic, Ghost, or Fairy as a secondary type
Primeape: could've been retconned to Fighting/Dark
Kingler and arguably other crustaceans: Water/Bug
Stantler: Normal/Psychic
Masquerain: Bug/Water
Huntail: Water/Dark
Liligant: Grass/Fairy
Gogoat: Grass/Normal
Lycanroc: part Normal, Dark, and Fighting for each form
Xurkitree: Electric/Grass
Necrozma: base form could've been part Rock (crystal monster) or Dark (not because it's black but because it's very antagonistic and mindrapes Nebby)
Zeraora: Electric/Fighting
Drednaw: Its whole shtick is biting so maybe Water/Dark or Rock/Dark? Doesn't quite make sense but still better than our 8th Water/Rock line.
Runerigus: Rock/Ghost (yeah yeah, Pokedex says it's made of clay, but everyone thinks of them as runeSTONES)
Falinks: Fighting/Steel
Grapploct: Fighting/Water

I was going to mention Cursola and Polteageist, but honestly pure Ghost isn't THAT common compared to other monotypes.

Obligatory Electric/Dark Luxray mention although I've always been on the fence about that. Psychic/Dark Gothitelle I disagree with even though pure Psychic is very very boring. Similarly Fighting/Flying for Sirfetch'd.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 05:30:41 No.42689201 Report

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>>42689138
>Liligant: Grass/Fairy
This, I always felt Lilligant should've been Grass/Fairy and Whimsicott should've been Grass/Flying

>I was going to mention Cursola and Polteageist, but honestly pure Ghost isn't THAT common compared to other monotypes.
Only if Corsola was Ghost/Rock, Galar Corsola is a fossil and doesn't live in water so Ghost/Water wouldn't make sense.

>Similarly Fighting/Flying for Sirfetch'd.
Hard disagree, pure Fighting is a terrible monotype meme that needs to end, and I don't see any justification why Sirfetch'd couldn't be other than "lol leek too heavy". If Dodrio can be Flying Sirfetch'd certainly can, especially since the only other Fighting/Flying is Hawlucha.

Otherwise though pretty good choices.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 05:34:54 No.42689229 Report

Quoted By: >>42689398

>>42688838
i personally think they shouldve retconned granbull to fairy/dark when fairy was added.
i understand why from the autism standpoint, but in my opinion granbull only makes sense as a normal type or fairy/dark type. not a normal/dark or a pure fairy type.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 05:45:15 No.42689299 Report

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>>42689138
>Necrozma: base form could've been part Rock (crystal monster)
I want this so badly now and I'm sad we'll never get it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 06:00:50 No.42689398 Report

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>>42689229
>Dark
Why Dark? Granbull's whole thing is it looks scary but is actually extremely wimpy and scaredy. It's not even cowardly in an "evil-dishonorable" sense, more like just in a cowardly-lion sense.

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Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 06:13:33 No.42689488 Report

Quoted By: >>42689502 >>42695936

>Psychic/Dark Gothitelle I disagree with even though pure Psychic is very very boring.
Me too bro

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 06:15:25 No.42689502 Report

Quoted By: >>42689824 >>42691912

>>42689488
Gothitelle is not based on a Western goth.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 07:18:28 No.42689824 Report

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>>42689502
Fair, but the clothing style just uses such blacks that beg for a dark theme

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Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 07:28:50 No.42689867 Report

Quoted By: >>42691369

It should have been the first Bug/Dark type.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 08:01:18 No.42689999 Report

Quoted By: >>42690057 >>42691396

every single monotype should be retconned
monotypes are boring and gay, how can something be viable with only one STAB???

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 08:16:10 No.42690057 Report

Quoted By: >>42691351

>>42689999
Trips of truth. Monotypes need a serious buff. Additional STAB bonus or something.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 14:11:35 No.42691351 Report

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>>42690057
Quads

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 14:13:05 No.42691360 Report

Quoted By: >>42691381

>>42688875
>Ghost
Why?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 14:14:54 No.42691369 Report

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>>42689867
Accelgor is only good as a suicide lead, it doesn't need a second type anyway

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 14:16:29 No.42691381 Report

Quoted By: >>42691404

>>42691360
Kitsune are associated with spirits and the undead

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 14:19:00 No.42691396 Report

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>>42689999
>how can something be viable with only one STAB???
Extremely easily.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 14:20:02 No.42691404 Report

Quoted By: >>42691411

>>42691381
But Ninetales is neither a spirit nor undead so it being pure fire with some ghost type attacks makes more sense. Besides, no type combination would save it from its disgusting stats, infinite sunlight in gen 5 was barely enough.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 14:21:39 No.42691411 Report

Quoted By: >>42691416

>>42691404
Marowak proved ghost types don’t have to be actually undead anymore

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 14:22:28 No.42691416 Report

Quoted By: >>42694003

>>42691411
But Marowak is based on a pokemon whose main characteristic is literally dying.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 14:30:26 No.42691461 Report

Quoted By: >>42691466

Should've been Psychic/Flying.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 14:31:52 No.42691466 Report

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>>42691461
Should've had the beta form that looked like a jet. T'was a cool owl.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 14:42:39 No.42691516 Report

Quoted By: >>42691680 >>42694024

>>42688838
Mostly to fix type distributions
>Gen 1
Ninetails-Fire/Ghost
Porygon-Normal/Electric
Gyrados-Water/Dragon
Primeape-Fighting/Dark
Hypno-Psychic/Dark
>Gen 2
Dunsparce-Normal/Dragon
Noctowl-Ghost/Flying
>Gen 3
Masqurien-Bug/Water
Chimecho-Psychic/Ghost
>Gen 4
Stunktank-Poison/Fire(?)
Cherrium-Grass/Fairy<->Grass/Ghost
Gastrdon-One is Water/Poison other is still ground
Vesiqueen-Bug/Steel(?)
>Gen 5
Emboar-Fire
Accelgor-Bug/Dark
Zebstrika-Electric/Normal
Sawsbuck-Grass/+Fighting/Ghost/Ice/Fairy depending on season or with hair doo
Mushrana-Psychic/Fairy
>Gen 6
Florges-Fairy/Grass
Furfrou-Normal/??? Hair changes type
Heleolisk-Electric/Ground
Aromatise-Fairy/Poison
Goodra-Bug/Dragon
>Gen 7
Decidueye-Grass/Flying
Lycanroc-Rock/Normal(day)Rock/Dark(Night) Rock/Ground(Dusk)
>Gen 8
Grappoloct-Fighting/Water or Fighting/Poison
Runergris-Ghost/Rock
Cursola-Ghost/Water
Sirfetch'd-Fighting/Flying

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 15:07:48 No.42691680 Report

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>>42691516
>All those Normal/x types
Yikes

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 15:45:32 No.42691912 Report

Quoted By: >>42693208

>>42689502
>Gothitelle is not based on a Western goth
But, who based Eastern goths?.........
E X A C T L Y..... trueth retarded?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 18:03:52 No.42693208 Report

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>>42691912
Based

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 19:30:12 No.42693994 Report

Quoted By: >>42694904 >>42695631 >>42695656

>>42689138
>Zeraora: Electric/Fighting
>Grapploct: Fighting/Water
No
>Runerigus: Rock/Ghost (yeah yeah, Pokedex says it's made of clay, but everyone thinks of them as runeSTONES)
So? It’s still clay

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 19:31:22 No.42694003 Report

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>>42691416
It’s still not undead

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 19:33:28 No.42694024 Report

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>>42691516
>Mostly to fix type distributions
And I can already tell it would be shit
>Emboar-Fire
Get over it

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 20:29:20 No.42694578 Report

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>>42689138
How could I forget Goodra. That thing does not look "pure" Dragon at all. Water, Poison, or maybe Bug.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 21:06:01 No.42694904 Report

Quoted By: >>42695631

>>42693994
>Grapploct: Fighting/Water
>No
Ok you’re braindead

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 21:12:26 No.42694961 Report

Quoted By: >>42695608

>>42688838
And he would die to a .0001 tremor from the ground

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 22:12:32 No.42695608 Report

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>>42694961
Probopass dies to the same anyways

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 22:14:22 No.42695631 Report

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>>42693994
faggot
>>42694904
based

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 22:15:52 No.42695656 Report

Quoted By: >>42695674

>>42693994
If you think fired clay is closer to dirt than a rock then you're retarded

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 22:18:27 No.42695674 Report

Quoted By: >>42695707

>>42695656
>Claydol: Ground/Psychic
>"It appears to have been born from clay dolls made by ancient people. It uses telekinesis to float and move."
>Golett: Ground/Ghost
>"Ancient science fashioned this Pokémon from clay. It's been active for thousands of years."
you are the retard

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 22:21:24 No.42695707 Report

Quoted By: >>42696224

>>42695674
Baltoy's flexible limbs and Golurk's articulated hands suggest they are soft clay. Runerigus looks as hard as a rock.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 22:40:23 No.42695936 Report

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>>42689488
>thinking dark type has anything with literal darkness
Fucking retard
If anything the japanese goth/maid look would suggest Fairy type

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 23:05:23 No.42696224 Report

Quoted By: >>42696431

>>42695707
That doesn’t change the fact that they’re all made of clay

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 23:21:48 No.42696431 Report

Quoted By: >>42696944

>>42696224
The problem is that Runerigus is made from a runestone, yet is 'clay' for no real reason. Japs are just retarded and have no substantial understanding of the world outside their tiny island. This is why every Gen from 5 onwards have had shallow themepark regions

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 23:24:55 No.42696468 Report

Quoted By: >>42696479 >>42696514 >>42696974

>>42688838
This is a retarded and you guys are retarded for thinking this is a good idea.

I loved when Pokemon have these sorts of 'implicit' additional types, without overtly having them.

Nosepass - access to Electric moves
Ninetales - access to Ghost moves
Slowbro - access to Fire moves (one of few water types to have had it for a good while)

It's been diluted over the years by Move Tutors making a lot of moves available to a lot of monsters, but it's niche, nerdy information you'd only notice if the Pokemon is one of your favorites.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 23:26:13 No.42696479 Report

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>>42696468
Cringe and autistpilled

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2020 23:29:38 No.42696514 Report

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>>42696468
Why the past tense? The "Pokémon with unfitting typings" meme certainly hasn't died yet.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 09 Feb 2020 00:09:10 No.42696944 Report

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>>42696431
Nigga it’s made of fucking clay. I don’t know why this is so hard to understand

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Anonymous Sun 09 Feb 2020 00:12:29 No.42696974 Report

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>>42696468
This is the only good Pokemon with an implicit additional type.

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