What would the type chart look like if there were only 9 types?

>>25063493
disorienting as all fuck
I played a hack that consolidated Ground and Rock into Earth and Grass and Bug into Nature respectively and it took me ages to get used to Flying now being immune to Rock instead of weak to it

>>25063493
flying+bug and grass+poison sound stupid (grimer isn't a plant and wormadam isn't "air") but the rest is ok. electric steel and fire dragon sounds a bit silly too but much less than plant and air

>>25063493
>Electric + Steel = Metal
>not Tech

>Grass + Poison = Plant
>not Grass + Bug = Life

>Luxray and Raichu become metal
>Scizor becomes Air even though it can't fly
>Kingdra becomes a Fire-type
>Seviper becomes a Plant-type
>Parasect becomes Air-type
>Gengar is Dark/Plant

etc

>>25063536
Flying is pretty much the only reason rock exists, because the devs thought

>well, what if you throw it at them?

>>25063670
>well, what if you throw it at them
>Bonemerang is ground

>>25063693
The more important questions are not that it's thrown but

>how are bones ground type
>why is it even ground type at all
>why did it take them this long to make moves like freeze dry and why isn't Bonemerang one those moves now

>>25063718
Because Cubone/Marowak are Ground type and they need to get STAB from one of their signature attacks.

>>25063718
>How are bones ground type
They aren't, but they wanted cubone/marowak's special moves be STAB

Why are cubone and marowak ground-type? They don't burrow (which itself only applies to a fraction of ground-types) or are literally based off land/earth (like claydol, groudon, etc are). They could just as easily be rock or normal-type.

You can't even use the argument that it's because they're brown because then Tauros, Kangaskhan, Slaking, etc would all be Ground, too

>>25063755
Uhh I don't know probably something to do with graves or something

>>25063727
>>25063730

I was going to say but someone beat me to the punch

>>25063755


He really could have been any other type given the theme and design.

>>25063755
Because they live in caves and underground?

>>25063536
Hello Puppet general.

>>25063493
>Not combining Steel and Poison into Industrial type
>Not combining Bug and Grass into Nature type
>Not combining Flying and Electric into Storm type

>>25063884
> Venusaur is now Nature/Industrial type

>>25063894
You're going to end up with oddities if you insist on halving the number of typings.

>>25063781
>>25063781
Except the FRLG counts them as mountain pokemon and not cave pokemon you stupid fuck

Hell, Pokemon Yellow put them in the Safari Zone

And by your logic, Zubat and Lunatone should also be ground-types

>Not combining normal and dragon into beast type
>not combining psychic and fighting into spirit type
>not combining steel and rock into mineral type
>not combining ghost, fairy and dragon into mythical type

All this thread proves is that halving the number of types would be retarded.

>>25063493
1. Physical (all contact moves with exceptions for those with obviously "elemental" properties like Flame Wheel, Thunder Punch, etc. Moves like Waterfall, which is literally tackle would also become physical. Also includes all physical and contact Normal, Dark, Fairy [Play Rough only] Fighting, Flying, Steel and Bug-type moves.)
2. Fire
3. Water (+Ice)
4. Earth (Ground, Rock)
5. Electric
6. Air (Flying)
7. Light (Special Steel-moves, assorted beam moves, includes some Psychic and Fairy moves)
8. Dark (Ghost, Dark and Poison moves)
9. Almighty (Legendaries, Dragons, Special pokemon that don't fit in other places, etc)

Pokemon goes full SMT/Persona

>>25063912
>pokemon like hitmonchan are now spirit types

Eh...

>>25063912
So are Dragon-types beats or mythical types you stupid fucking moron

>>25063952
>Venusaur is now almighty and dark

>>25063912
>mythical type
>no tale type

Instead of removing types, we should add 2 more so we would have beautiful number of 20 types.

>>25063952
>>25063961
>Rename Air to Wood since japanese people combine wind and wood
>include grass types in Earth, Venusaur becomes pure earth

wow so hard

>>25063981
>not 19 which is a prime number like the glorious 17 was

>>25063554
What's wrong with ANY of those? Don't be so literal-minded.
Think of how the Aristotelian or Feng Shui elements were metaphysically applied to everything. It's more about being aligned with certain cosmic forces than being literally made of a certain material.
It's not like Pokémon doesn't already do that. For example, the move Solar Beam is literally a beam of light, yet it interacts with types differently from other moves that are also described as beams of light. Moves like Peck and Bite are literally not any different from what real-world animals do, but aren't Normal-type. The move Rollout is Rock-type even when it's used by a pokémon that clearly doesn't contain rock. I could go on and on.

>>25063493
Looks pretty typical of a JRPG.
Normal should be Beast type however.

>>25064052
>chansey, taillow and porygon become beast-type
>arcanine, talonflame and gyarados do not

what does this accomplish

>>25064071
who said theyd be retconned to match with their original types?
Chansey > Light
Taillow > Air
Porygon > Cyber (New Type)
Arcanine > Fire/Beast
Talonflame > Fire/Air
Gyarados > Water/Dark or Beast

>>25064171
or instead of cyber being a new type, metal/electric should just be the Cyber type

>>25064171
what the fuck is the point of a beast type when the vast majority of pokemon are beasts you stupid fuck

why is a dog a beast but a bird isn't?

>>25063493
How about this.

>Normal/Fighting become Normal, moves that were once Fighting moves that had no positive effects before now partially ignore defense on certain types.
>Grass/Bug become Nature
>Fire/Ground become Magma/Heat, are immune to burn.
>Water/Ice become Water
>Flying/Dragon become Sky
>Rock/Steel become Mineral
>Psychic/Electric become Energy, are immune to paralysis
>Fairy/Ghost become Spirit
>Dark/Poison become Dark, are immune to poison

>>25064242
Mamoswine is now Magma/Water

>>25064257
>Implying there's anything wrong with that.

>>25064264
Magma doesn't mix well with cold ice tusks

>>25063537
>flying+bug and grass+poison
...are very, very common type combinations. It makes sense from a game design perspective to merge those types that way, because they already go hand in hand.
We don't want a repeat of Gen 1 where there was exactly 1 pure Grass-type species.

>>25064510
Did you even read the rest of that sentence?
If anything, it would make more sense to combine Bug and Grass to make "Life", and Poison and Flying to make "Air".

>>25064643
But why? If you did that, every Bug/Flying, Grass/Poison, Bug/Poison and Grass/Flying species would become Life/Air, and that's too many!

>>25064762
Because it makes sense!
>Bug and Grass are both "life"-y things in nature
>Toxins affect air the most

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I tried. This would probably fall to shit with dual types, but yeah.