If Pokemon can be dual type, why can't moves be dual type

Flying Press has already crossed the bridge, it's a shame they just haven't journeyed any farther.

Dual type moves already exist, they're just very rare. Flying Press exists, but it's exclusive to Hawlucha and Pikachu Libre

>>33474182
>>33474184
Do you think GF is retarded enough to let the power creep and keep creating new moves with dual type while leaving the old moves single type?

>>33474204
>Do you think GF is retarded enough to let the power creep
YES

>>33474223
Such a shame GF loves plying favorites with its Pokemon and with battle moves.

>>33474182
It's probably hard to program.

>>33474174
The Elemental Punches become half Fighting, and Muddy Water Becomes Water/Ground.

>>33474174
Blaze Kick becomes Fire/Fighting because fuck Steel-types

>>33474174
didn't Pokèmon Mystery Dungeon, the spin-off Pokémon game series do this?

>>33474174
Because it would be needlessly confusing.

>>33474425
Not by much, because not every move would be dual type.

Let's say you use a Grass/Ice move against a Poison/Ground pokemon. How is that calculated? The opposing Poison/Ground Pokemon takes double damage from the grass on its ground side, but half from the grass on its poison side. So 1x there, right? But also it takes 2x ice on its ground side and its poison side is neutral. Does the attack do 2x damage? Or 1.5x? What if it's a rock/ground Pokemon? The grass part of the attack is 2x against the ground side, and 2x against the rock side, so 4x. But the attack is also grass type, 2x against ground. Does the attack do 6x damage? Does it do 8x?

Do we even need attacks that do 6-8 times damage before STAB? Does the Pokemon using the attack get STAB on both types if available? If the Pokemon using the grass/ice attack is only ice-type, does STAB really increase the entire base power by 1.5 even though half of the attack is not the same type as the user? Does it increase it by 1.25 instead? Does it get 1.5 STAB if it only matches one type and more (1.75?) if it matches both?

True dual-type moves are too complicated and add comparatively little meaningful depth.

>>33474509
It's still more confusion than it's worth.

Muddy Water really, really should be water/ground, since over half of the Pokemon who learn it are. I just don't want to imagine what kind of hell a 90BP water/ground move would reek upon the game.

>>33474555
Flying Press is a fighting move with a secondary effect that also makes it affected by flying modifiers. It still counts as a fighting move for things like STAB. Even if you change the typing of the attack somehow, it still remains part flying.

And there are already circumstances where you can do 8x damage, since there are moves that allow a Pokemon to have three types. A Heracross under the effect of Forest's Curse will take 8x damage from flying moves.

>>33474555
Double damage. Grass is cut by Poison, but Ice doubles it.