>>53260652I feel normal-type's purpose has kind of gotten lost in later gens. Originally normal was the type you applies to Pokemon that didn't have another type (except flying, as flying was originally a purely secondary type: there was no pure flying-types and instead it was applie to other types to indicate that they can fly, so any basic bird Pokemon would be normal/flying). Now, there was an exception to this as early as gen 2 with Girafarig being psychic/normal, but in that case it was specifically to fit Gurafarig's design gimmick of it having two halves (the original design had the front and back ends be identical except the color, and while the final design had a more definite head- and tail-end it still had a secondary head on the end of the tail), with one half presumably being the normal-type one and the other the psychic-type one.
Since then, however, there's been more and more cases of the normal type seemingly randomly applied to a Pokemon that already has another type, like electric/normal, ground/normal, ghost/normal, etc. What even makes a Pokemon normal-type anymore if normal is no longer defined as not having a specific type?
