How do you feel about how monotype teams work in-game?

Game Freak won't do it, sadly, although exchanging 'diversity' for a raw power buff would probably be how they do it if they were forced to at gunpoint.

>>30551762
Monotype teams already have a fuckton of versatility.

Unless you mean PURELY monotype, like Pure fighting. Dual typed Pokemon with a common type as a theme make amazing teams.

>>30551864
Yeah, I don't ever expect them to do anything about it. It's just hypothetically I feel there is a better way to have the whole type expert thing coincide with game mechanics.

>>30551963
No dual types are included.
I think that can be true for some type, but for example mono-ice is definitely harder to pull off than mono-water. Would you really say that a good monotype team out preforms a good varied team?

>>30552226
I think some monotype teams can outperform varied teams, but it really depends on which type you're using. If you're using some shit like Ice you're gonna get cucked by any team you see. If you use something like, I dunno, ghost or maybe steel, you're gonna have a much easier time.

>>30551762
Didn't the PWT have a monotype tournament thing? They could bring that back. But you're talking about a whole game where you pick a specialty from the start... I would enjoy that.

>>30552283
That's true. I guess a lot of it comes down to what Pokemon are available for each type and how detrimental their weaknesses are.

I do think that there are two significant inherent disadvantages of monotype teams though:
1. More limited STAP coverage
2. More limited ability to answer certain types defensively (exceptions being dual types where one type grants immunity to the other's weakness, this isn't that common though)

>>30552354
Yeah something like that, with an impact throughout the whole game. It wouldn't just be for the player character either, which I think would make gyms and NPC battle more complex than picking a type their team is weak to and sweeping them.

Maybe a certain expertise gives you a Lusamine style team boost when you send a Pokemon out. Like Rock experts Rock type Pokemon get a Special Defense boost or something.

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>>30551762
>It's always seemed weird to me that being a type expert is so common in the game and anime, yet it's completely detrimental from a strategic standpoint.

>It also makes sense that a person growing up where those types of Pokemon live or having a job that's benefited from that type of Pokemon would have an affinity for it.

People in the 'actual pokemon world' have monotype teams because monotype teams are easier to care and provide for. You as the "video game character" obviously don't have to worry about this, but you as the "actual real life pokemon trainer" would have to feed, clean, and keep your pokemon healthy and this is significantly easier if they're not all some varied or exotic animal.

Not trying to shit on the fun or detract from your point- just dictatin' my view on that certain piece of fluff.

>>30551762
>yet it's completely detrimental
Maybe if you suck.