>>44330003Gen VIII had this clash of ideas, some are more subdued than others, this one being the “normalization” and promotion of monotypes after long periods of dual-types.
As we see here, the majority of its new non-regional variant pokemon are monotypes who learn and obscene amount of non-STAB moves specifically from another type. Falinks knows a lot of bug moves, Sandaconda knows some poison moves, Sirfetch’d knows plenty of Flying and Grass moves, that kind of thing.