>>46145073>I'm also talking about how a fourth of the Gym leaders/E4 in DP can't fill out a team of Pokemon of their type, not because of any actual interesting reason like Raihan's weather gimmickWhy do people actually hate this? And why do so many people overblow the problem? There are TWO trainers in the game centered around this, Volkner and Flint. Candice, Bertha, and Aaron also have one Pokemon each not related to their typing but in Aaron and Bertha's case it's to provide type-coverage against weaknesses, and for Candice it's a Pokemon caught on an nearby snow route, it breaks up her team's typing, and the moveset is centered around buffing ice punch giving it a tactic related to ice.
Volkner is a similar mix of the two concepts. Ambipom is built around batonpass to buff electric types (while also having shockwave), and Octillary gives him coverage against ground types AND the types that resist electric type moves. Flint is the same. His team is built around buffing their fire-type moves, while also providing a team that can't be solo'd in 20 seconds by a single water Pokemon. His Rapidash also has sunny day+solar beam to counter water types. His Infernape also covers it's water weakness.
It's some of the best team building the franchise has ever had and it was absolutely on purpose. Gamefreak didn't limit fire-types and then put Flint into the game without realizing it. They wanted his team to be built around movement and not raw type, and he's limited to that style. It's what every type expert SHOULD be because it makes the games fucking interesting. If Flint just had 5 fire-types no one would remember him, they'd surf through him without a second thought and move on to Lucian. I can't understand why anyone would prefer these characters to just have 5-6 Pokemon of the same typing. I wish every major trainer had a team like Flint or Volkner's DP team.
