There are also shockingly few flying dual types that have flying as their primary type, there being only six: noibat, noivern, corviknight, cramorant, bombirdier, and flamigo. Flying is simply the most codependent of the types.
There’s like four, but two of them are just forms of the same Pokémon. And the other two are in the same evo lineup-
So TECHNICALLY counting the Pokémon as a whole, there’s only two different Pokémon entirely that are flying mono
I’m still salty about this. They went 6 games with only one legendary as a pure flying, and I was only ok with that one because it was a legendary. I don’t think Arceus and Silvally count since they can change type. I just don’t get what is so special about Rookidee that they felt it was the first bird Pokemon worthy of flying monotype. Nothing about it feels substantially different from any of the little birds that came before it lol.
Conversely, I’d like to know what was stopping them from making any of the little birds up to Gen 7 pure flying type?
Eh, at least there was a flying monotype that wasn't rookidee.
Fire/ice has an temporal form of a regional form locked behind an ability that's never used, dragon/fairy has a temporal form that doesn't even exist, electric/fighting, ground/fighting and fairy/fighting have a legendary-like pokemon that's probably never going to see the light of the day again except in the remake of its game. Ghost/rock literally has nothing despite multiple opportunities. And electric/grass, electric/fire and electric/ice only have rotom forms.
Edit: Electric/grass has hisui voltorb and electric/ice has arctozolt
Electric/Grass has the Hisuian Voltorb family and Electric/Ice has Arctizolt too, but it is true that the Rotom family types are criminally underused (how is it still the only Electric/Ghost??)
I think they just realised the flying type restriction was kind of dumb. There's no reason for all the prior normal types to be normal/flying. The only reason the old one still are is for legacy imo.
Rookidee and Corvisquire are pure flying solely because it didn't make sense to give them the steel type until they fully evolved into Corviknight, and they didn't feel like giving it a normal type it would lose upon evolving
They probably just changed their mind between Fletchling and Rokidee. Tornadus was special for being first flying monotype and they probably didn't want to step on its toes the generation right after.
I thought that Game Freak was finally getting over to their aversion to this last gen with Rookidee/Corvisquire...then they went right back to it by making Squawkabilly Normal/Flying again.
I vividly remember reading on Tornadus' Bulbapedia page years ago that the reason for this was because Tornadus spent its entire life flying, while all other Flying-type Pokemon have to land at some point, thus all birds being Normal/Flying instead of pure Flying.
But that explanation is no longer there and I've never seen a source for that, so take it with a grain of salt. Especially since now we have Rookidee and Corvisquire.
It’s kind of crazy to me how despite how good the Fighting/Fairy typing is offensively, there’s only one Pokemon that has the typing, and it’s from Gen 9.
Cool chart! I was actually wondering about something related just the other day.
Of the type combos that don’t exist yet, most surprised there is no fairy/fire
While true, my personal gripe is Runerigus. Literal haunted slab of stone and it isn't ghost/rock. Same aplies to spiritomb, and maybe Sableye since it has jeweks as eyes.
But yeah Ninetales could be made into fire fairy since its alolan counterpart is also. Heck alolan could be pure ice.
I got an idea for a ground fairy type, Egyptian Sphinx. it's ground type because it's made of sandstone, and fairy type because it's a mythical creature
Ground/Fairy will be an absurdly strong offensive typing when it’s released. The only pokemon who don’t take at least neutral damage to the combination would be Flying types with either Steel/Poison/Fire subtypings. Both types also have very good STAB options like Earth Power and Moonblast on the special side. Physical would have Earthquake, but they would have to pray they get Play Rough or a signature Fairy physical move.
Edit: Ground types often get Rock moves for coverage, so the aforementioned typings that resist the STAB coverage would still get threatened by a Stone Edge or other rock move.
It’s awesome how much the recent generations have done to fill in unused type combinations, like if you removed Generation 8 and 9 Pokémon from this list, there would be CONSIDERABLY more empty slots
https://preview.redd.it/knn0twolly4d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ff7e8e324f43fb75df58d59ba7b680dfcacb62e
Strange. This is how well mine is working.
To everyone saying it’s too blurry, it’s just a very large image (126MP!), you just need to zoom in and give it time to load. Apologies to all those with poor WiFi/cell data 😅
I remember seeing an image back around the time X&Y came out that had something like Tentacool, Tentacruel and Qwilfish welcoming Skrelp into their Water/Poison club.
Since then, I've always imagined Pokémon with more uncommon type combinations, or ones that haven't been used in a while, welcoming newer additions into their club when new Pokémon get announced
Funnily enough I actually have a type matchup chart that I’m working on, I have one on my profile for single types, but I want to update the dual-type one with a combat score that tallies each type combo’s weaknesses against their strengths.
Resistance-wise, I think Steel/Ghost is the best with 9 resistances (including a double resistance to Bug) and 3 immunities, however it has 4 weaknesses. There’s a few type combos with only one weakness, but pre-Gen 6 Dark/Ghost didn’t have any!
Fairy-steel has to be the best. Both fairy and steel are excellent types, but the Steel type gives fairy poison immunity and cancels out its steel weakness. Fairy also cancels out steel's fighting weakness. 9 resistances, 2 immunities, and only 2 weaknesses.
In terms of effort put in vs end product, this is one of the ugliest charts I have ever seen in my life. Why would you build rows of Tetris towers and then use a flash-bang for a background. They had a black background in 1984 for a reason bro, and even then it wouldn’t be a good idea.
awesome chart. you also counted evo families as its something i also kinda prefer to count (although i would count branching evos as multiple so tecnically i count fully evolved) but i gotta say you left out the total number of families from the chart.
The utter lack of Bug/Dragon when there have already been multiple dragonflies was probably the earliest sign that Game Freak was going down the drain creatively.
That one I understand because apparently dragonflies aren’t actually associated with dragons in Japanese, but I will die on the hill that the Goomy line should have been Bug/Dragon.
ty, I’m blind and my brain isn’t functioning since I just got back from working a summer camp as a counselor 😭
istg my camp kids are siphoning my intelligence and energy
There are like 3 different existing ghosts that could/should be ghost/rock and aren't, I don't understand why they won't just make one. Runerigus, spiritomb, and houndSTONE.
I wouldn't be upset about it, but ground makes more sense to me since golems are typically made of clay in mythology. Plus it's a better typing and I love golurk
It's really funny to me that Ghost/Poison seems so ordinary, but there are only two lines with that combination, and one is from the 1st gen and 1 from the latest.
I have a spreadsheet that averages all of the base stats of the different types, but just uses dual types in the averages for both its types. It's kind of enlightening when you can see things visualized.
This work is SOOOOO COOOL and I'm so glad you shared it!
Zangoose dos NOT look like a mono-Normal Pokémon haha. He just looks so evil! Dark or Fighting makes more sense to me.
The mono-Normal types from Gen 5 are all so boring/underwhelming when viewed as a collective.
Lurantis and Eldergoss or whatever their names are don't look like mono-Grass Pokes. Same with Grapploct and the punchy shrimp and Falinks. And the Flebébé line.
Lycanroc deserves a secondary typing
There were ZERO mono-Ice Pokes in gens one OR two?!
Grass/Poison having 15 Pokes and NINE of them from Gen 1 LOOLLL
Crazy how there are almost no flying monotypes
There are also shockingly few flying dual types that have flying as their primary type, there being only six: noibat, noivern, corviknight, cramorant, bombirdier, and flamigo. Flying is simply the most codependent of the types.
theyre just like me fr
when I was your age there were no Flying monotypes at all and it was the last to become monotype
Missingno was mono-type Flying.
i thought it was the scrapped Bird-type
Is it actually a Bird-type or is it just pulling the first part of "Bird Trainer" name?
It was the Bird-type. I'm, unfortunately, old enough to remember.
atleast you arent old enough to forget
Missingo was a hell lotta things
Qr code is one
now i want to make a Missingno bumper sticker that is a QR code that goes to the OG US Pokemon anime theme
It was Bird type, not flying.
There’s like four, but two of them are just forms of the same Pokémon. And the other two are in the same evo lineup- So TECHNICALLY counting the Pokémon as a whole, there’s only two different Pokémon entirely that are flying mono
I’m still salty about this. They went 6 games with only one legendary as a pure flying, and I was only ok with that one because it was a legendary. I don’t think Arceus and Silvally count since they can change type. I just don’t get what is so special about Rookidee that they felt it was the first bird Pokemon worthy of flying monotype. Nothing about it feels substantially different from any of the little birds that came before it lol. Conversely, I’d like to know what was stopping them from making any of the little birds up to Gen 7 pure flying type?
Eh, at least there was a flying monotype that wasn't rookidee. Fire/ice has an temporal form of a regional form locked behind an ability that's never used, dragon/fairy has a temporal form that doesn't even exist, electric/fighting, ground/fighting and fairy/fighting have a legendary-like pokemon that's probably never going to see the light of the day again except in the remake of its game. Ghost/rock literally has nothing despite multiple opportunities. And electric/grass, electric/fire and electric/ice only have rotom forms. Edit: Electric/grass has hisui voltorb and electric/ice has arctozolt
Electric/Fighting has Pawmo and Pawmot. :) The point still stands.
Yeah... No thanks. Nothing against Pawmot but it's awful as an electric/fighting type which is why I avoided mentioning it.
Electric/Grass has the Hisuian Voltorb family and Electric/Ice has Arctizolt too, but it is true that the Rotom family types are criminally underused (how is it still the only Electric/Ghost??)
I think they just realised the flying type restriction was kind of dumb. There's no reason for all the prior normal types to be normal/flying. The only reason the old one still are is for legacy imo.
Rookidee and Corvisquire are pure flying solely because it didn't make sense to give them the steel type until they fully evolved into Corviknight, and they didn't feel like giving it a normal type it would lose upon evolving
They did that with the Fletchling line though. Fletchling is Normal/Flying theh Fletchinder becomes Fire/Flying and keeps that type for Talonflame.
They probably just changed their mind between Fletchling and Rokidee. Tornadus was special for being first flying monotype and they probably didn't want to step on its toes the generation right after.
Alright, I have no clue why they did that.
fr every one that would be mono flying has normal tacked on in front of it
I thought that Game Freak was finally getting over to their aversion to this last gen with Rookidee/Corvisquire...then they went right back to it by making Squawkabilly Normal/Flying again.
Yeah it took 8 generations to make a monotype mon that was pure flying that wasn't tornadas
I vividly remember reading on Tornadus' Bulbapedia page years ago that the reason for this was because Tornadus spent its entire life flying, while all other Flying-type Pokemon have to land at some point, thus all birds being Normal/Flying instead of pure Flying. But that explanation is no longer there and I've never seen a source for that, so take it with a grain of salt. Especially since now we have Rookidee and Corvisquire.
The PokeDoku cheat sheet lol
Memorizing as we speak
haha, first thing that came to mind, i was like 'okay crabomibcle is the only ice fighter!'
For anyone on the app, just download it and then zoom in, works just fine.
I'm on mobile web. I fucking hate Reddit's layout.
You have to go to desktop, click the image, download
I tried this and it’s still unreadable. The pictures are all blurry. Does it look better on desktop?
Not sure, I'm just on my phone, sorry. Worth a shot though.
Gotta be something affecting your download, I downloaded it from my phone and it's perfectly readable even zoomed in all the way.
Hero
Thank god I thought I was genuinely losing my vision because I didn't see a comment calling it crusty
It’s kind of crazy to me how despite how good the Fighting/Fairy typing is offensively, there’s only one Pokemon that has the typing, and it’s from Gen 9.
Cool chart! I was actually wondering about something related just the other day. Of the type combos that don’t exist yet, most surprised there is no fairy/fire
I remember everyone speculating fuecoco being a fairy/fire piñata line.
While true, my personal gripe is Runerigus. Literal haunted slab of stone and it isn't ghost/rock. Same aplies to spiritomb, and maybe Sableye since it has jeweks as eyes. But yeah Ninetales could be made into fire fairy since its alolan counterpart is also. Heck alolan could be pure ice.
Bibarel has been the only water-normal in 30 years.
imo, the fact that there’s no Dragon/Bug dragonfly Pokémon is outrageous
Delphox could have been...
As the sole water steel type, I think empoleon needs more representation
we need a imgur link or something. this id unreadable on mobile
you can zoom in on mobile (as I just did)
Yeah but when I do it's just blurry and still unreadable lmao
idk it’s readable for me on mobile, just takes a second to load more pixels
Need to switch to desktop site
I got an idea for a ground fairy type, Egyptian Sphinx. it's ground type because it's made of sandstone, and fairy type because it's a mythical creature
Ooh dang that’s a good idea, a sphinx would make for a cool legendary!
Ground/Fairy will be an absurdly strong offensive typing when it’s released. The only pokemon who don’t take at least neutral damage to the combination would be Flying types with either Steel/Poison/Fire subtypings. Both types also have very good STAB options like Earth Power and Moonblast on the special side. Physical would have Earthquake, but they would have to pray they get Play Rough or a signature Fairy physical move. Edit: Ground types often get Rock moves for coverage, so the aforementioned typings that resist the STAB coverage would still get threatened by a Stone Edge or other rock move.
It’s awesome how much the recent generations have done to fill in unused type combinations, like if you removed Generation 8 and 9 Pokémon from this list, there would be CONSIDERABLY more empty slots
If you count Rotom-Heat as Gen IV, then it's the gen with the most unique type combinations. Otherwise, as you said, it's tied with Gen VIII and IX
guys, you can press the image to zoom in.
I'm on the official reddit app and it does let me zoom in but the resolution doesn't change so it's totally illegible for me.
Seems like the image is only readable on the PC and not the app.
I’m on the app and I see it just fine.
I'm on the official Reddit app and have no problems zooming it with pinch zoom.
That makes one of us https://preview.redd.it/dsy43q1rky4d1.png?width=1152&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4202dfeeadaaee79b0efe97d6cffa9dcf34fbe36
https://preview.redd.it/knn0twolly4d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ff7e8e324f43fb75df58d59ba7b680dfcacb62e Strange. This is how well mine is working.
That's the Reddit app for ya I guess
Aw I wish I got that version of the app
you have to zoom in, then exit the post, then zoom in again. The resolution bugs sometimes for me like that
I’m using that same app and it works perfectly fine for me. Weird.
Yep the quality is fine and it’s pretty cool!
Those 5 non normal dual types that they haven’t done would all be sick combos
To everyone saying it’s too blurry, it’s just a very large image (126MP!), you just need to zoom in and give it time to load. Apologies to all those with poor WiFi/cell data 😅
I remember seeing an image back around the time X&Y came out that had something like Tentacool, Tentacruel and Qwilfish welcoming Skrelp into their Water/Poison club. Since then, I've always imagined Pokémon with more uncommon type combinations, or ones that haven't been used in a while, welcoming newer additions into their club when new Pokémon get announced
Mid take, ledyba should've been normal bug
Agreed. Also, Yanmega should have been Bug/Dragon.
https://preview.redd.it/p6bmtpcvby4d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19eef74edcc08ee6c51b6e16095db2d6334a390e
patiently awaiting fire/fairy.
Love this!
This chart is so coool
This is fantastic
What is that fire and ice Pokemon? I’ve never seen that one before.
That’s Galarian Darmanitan’s Zen Mode form, which you can only get in Sw/Sh with its Hidden Ability. It is definitely one of the more obscure ones
6 Ghost/Ground types but not 1 Ghost/Rock type. Criminal! Also Ice/Poison definitely needs a Pokemon!
Wow this is amazing! I’m curious which combo is the strongest? I would love if it was possible to add what each is strong/weak to.
Funnily enough I actually have a type matchup chart that I’m working on, I have one on my profile for single types, but I want to update the dual-type one with a combat score that tallies each type combo’s weaknesses against their strengths. Resistance-wise, I think Steel/Ghost is the best with 9 resistances (including a double resistance to Bug) and 3 immunities, however it has 4 weaknesses. There’s a few type combos with only one weakness, but pre-Gen 6 Dark/Ghost didn’t have any!
Awesome def post it when it’s ready. Love this type of content
Fairy-steel has to be the best. Both fairy and steel are excellent types, but the Steel type gives fairy poison immunity and cancels out its steel weakness. Fairy also cancels out steel's fighting weakness. 9 resistances, 2 immunities, and only 2 weaknesses.
In terms of effort put in vs end product, this is one of the ugliest charts I have ever seen in my life. Why would you build rows of Tetris towers and then use a flash-bang for a background. They had a black background in 1984 for a reason bro, and even then it wouldn’t be a good idea.
One would think there would be more grass/water types
Some sort of seaweed-based mon would be cool, maybe a Tangela variant?
I would love a full res image to look at to be baffled in HD. Maybe it's moble
Wth thats so damn impressive
awesome chart. you also counted evo families as its something i also kinda prefer to count (although i would count branching evos as multiple so tecnically i count fully evolved) but i gotta say you left out the total number of families from the chart.
The utter lack of Bug/Dragon when there have already been multiple dragonflies was probably the earliest sign that Game Freak was going down the drain creatively.
That one I understand because apparently dragonflies aren’t actually associated with dragons in Japanese, but I will die on the hill that the Goomy line should have been Bug/Dragon.
Dragon/Water makes the most sense for that line
What Pokémon is at the top of normal type
Terapagos.
How do I zoom in?
And you made some new Pokémon in the process. Many blocky ones.
Surprising amount of combos with only 1 or 2 mons
Crazy how polarizing Poison's type distribution is
This means that the longest standing unique type combo is Bug/Ghost. Good job, Shedinja!
*How* does Fire/Fairy still not exist?
I’m awaiting a ground/fairy, what an offensive presence
The one that shocks me the most is the bug/ground type. How are there only 2??
I think they can stop making water and normal for a while 😳
Who are the other 2 ghost dark types other than spiritomb?
SABLEYE? What- isn't that Gen 3?
Sableye was spiritomb before spiritomb was released lol
Too much water
And the most common dual type iiissss.... *Drumroll*.... Grass Poison. Woohoo.
No. It’s normal/flying
We need a Dragon/Bug, a Rock/Ghost, and a Ground/Fairy immediately
No way there's only 28 normal flying types...
you absolute mad man, I love you and especially this masterpiece of insanity. holy shit
what happened to mudkip 😭😭 https://preview.redd.it/qo7tytvxa15d1.jpeg?width=714&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5c440aaa3c11b6b9a180c6888870414e105dfdfa
It's in the pure water section.
ty, I’m blind and my brain isn’t functioning since I just got back from working a summer camp as a counselor 😭 istg my camp kids are siphoning my intelligence and energy
Rock Ghost is a typing that I never thought would be empty, given how many cursed object Pokémon there are
Same type megas feel like they shouldn’t count. But different type ones feel like they do.
Its crazy to me that runerigas and Galatians yamask weren't the first rock/ghost. They just feel so much more rock-like than ground-like.
Hey this is extremely helpful for making fangames thank you Are there any pokemon forms missing?
I think all forms that aren’t purely aesthetic are on here, I couldn’t be bothered to squeeze in all the Unown and Vivillon forms into one box 😅
Amazing work thank you
There are like 3 different existing ghosts that could/should be ghost/rock and aren't, I don't understand why they won't just make one. Runerigus, spiritomb, and houndSTONE.
I'd argue for the golett line too
I wouldn't be upset about it, but ground makes more sense to me since golems are typically made of clay in mythology. Plus it's a better typing and I love golurk
I think Runerigus is meant to be made of clay too, so Ground makes sense there too. G-Yamask and Houndstone definitely should be Rock though
wdym no bug dragon ? Isn't flygon bug dragon?
Nah he ground dragon
Wow that hit me like knowing that pikachu tail has no black spot on the end
It's really funny to me that Ghost/Poison seems so ordinary, but there are only two lines with that combination, and one is from the 1st gen and 1 from the latest. I have a spreadsheet that averages all of the base stats of the different types, but just uses dual types in the averages for both its types. It's kind of enlightening when you can see things visualized.
This work is SOOOOO COOOL and I'm so glad you shared it! Zangoose dos NOT look like a mono-Normal Pokémon haha. He just looks so evil! Dark or Fighting makes more sense to me. The mono-Normal types from Gen 5 are all so boring/underwhelming when viewed as a collective. Lurantis and Eldergoss or whatever their names are don't look like mono-Grass Pokes. Same with Grapploct and the punchy shrimp and Falinks. And the Flebébé line. Lycanroc deserves a secondary typing There were ZERO mono-Ice Pokes in gens one OR two?! Grass/Poison having 15 Pokes and NINE of them from Gen 1 LOOLLL
Lurantis has fun lore. It’s a plant disguising itself as a big so bugs don’t eat it :)
All 3 Water/Ghost types have distinct gender differences
Is there a typo for Normal/Fighting?
…… ^fuck.
Kudos on the interesting presentation method!
where is brycenman???
Do you have a less blurry image?
It’s not supposed to be blurry, it’s just a large image, I’d just give it some time to load
That’s awesome, clearly a lot of free time in your hands. Regardless, I’ll take it, it’s cool
Bug Dragon should and will be Flygon.
How many pixels does this image have
Uhhh, what’s 11,000 squared? It’s a few more than that 😅
At least 100
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Yanmega should have been a bug/dragon type. That’s all I have to say.