>>45834753This idea feels kind of forced and lame, especially since the LAST thing pokemon needs is another type, but I want to try and figure out how it would be implemented.
Beast Type:
Immune to Fairy
Resistant to Ground, Dragon, Steel and Ghost
Resisted by Fighting, Fire, Ice, and Poison
Weak to Ice, Poison, and Fighting
Strong against Fairy, Ground, Steel and Flying
Mons this would affect:
Ursaring (pure Beast)
Primeape (Beast/Fighting)
Mightyena (Beast/Dark)
Kangaskhan (Beast/Normal)
Wailord (Water/Beast)
Luxray line (Electric/Beast)
Beartic (Ice/Beast)
Pyroar (Fire/Beast)
Gumshoos (pure Beast)
There would also probably be some kind of new eeveelution to show it off.
I see Beast type as a very physical type like Fighting, though where Fighting is about refined strikes, Beast attacks would be all about savagery, more primal stuff like scratching, biting, stalking prey, that kind of thing. I also think they would probably get their own new status effect: Bleed. It's like Burn, dealing a small chunk of damage each turn, but it also cuts your Defense stat in half. It would be a status only Beast type attacks could give, and it would be VERY scarcely distributed