I've been thinking about the re-typing that has been going on with Fairy type (Marill, Gardevoir, Jigglypuff, and others), and my mind wandered to some other Pokemon.
Most prominently, I think Wailord should be Water / Flying. He is based on a blimp, and at 47' long and 800~lbs, he is less dense than air. He could not possibly dive under water unless he filled his body with water, at which point he would become exponentially more heavy.
Are there any Pokemon you can think of that should be re-typed in gen 6? Fairy or otherwise?
Wailord being Water/Flying would make sense, but (from my experience) it typically gets one-hit KO'd by Thunderbolt/Electric-type moves; Water/Flying would make that feat even more ridiculously easy than it already is. While Wailord (seemingly) has a lot of bulk, that wouldn't be enough to offset such a quadruple weakness.
I'm surprised that I've been battling against Wailord all this time and I never knew what its Abilities were. XD (I knew Wailmer has the Oblivious Ability, though). I kind of like the concept of Oblivious as an Ability (honestly, doesn't Wailord look rather cute, though? There's uglier Pokemon... XD), but it seems more situational since it's dependent on infatuation/the move Attract. Water Veil kind of makes sense (as an Ability although I doubt Wailord would be burned often as it's a Water-type and has the HP to help as a buffer, and I'd imagine most Wailord would be Special Attackers anyway and thus would not be harmed severely by Burn's attack reduction)... I don't really see why it got Pressure as an Ability...it works great for bulky Pokemon, but Wailord's 'high' HP doesn't seem to be helping it much and neither are its defenses good to help it last long. I kind of want to bump its base HP stat a bit higher... (it's weird, Electric moves practically 1HKO Wailord; and you can usually 2HKO it otherwise unless it uses Chesto Berry/Rest)... Anyway, I think
Wailord should stay as monotype Water; it has enough troubles as it is surviving despite its moderately high base HP stat.
Maybe Levitate could be used as a future Ability/Hidden Ability to convey the blimp aspect a bit better (and at least reduce its troubles from Ground-type moves). Or at least give it Bounce/Fly! XD
Off the top of my head:
Blastoise
Needs a re-typing from
Water to
Water/Steel. I mean, it has 2 metallic back-mounted cannons coupled with a sturdy shell for defense (and
Mega Blastoise has
3 cannons and
3 'shells', making the omission glaringly worse)! How does the
penguin Empoleon become Water/Steel yet a turtle/tortoise/"shellfish Pokemon"/whatever that possesses proper defenses doesn't? It would also help Blastoise survive a bit more, I would think.
Raichu (
Mega Raichu)
If Raichu gains a
Mega Evolution, I would love to see it transition from monotype
Electric to
Electric/Fairy, simply because the Pikachu line is in the Fairy Egg group (and since Pikachu is all important and all, why not let it be a heralded/purported '
Dragon Slayer' like the other Fairy-type Pokemon?). It would give Raichu some more attacking options, at least.
Magmortar/Electivire
Not really important, but seem they seem so inclined towards the Fighting-type, they might as well be
Fire/Fighting and
Electric/Fighting, respectively (which also helps to parallel their icy counterpart a bit, the Ice/Psychic Jynx).
Dunsparce (
Mega Dunsparce)
If it gains a
Mega Evolution, I would love to see it change from
Normal to
Normal/Dragon, simply because of
Rule of Cool (and its serpentine design lends itself to a draconic transformation as well).
Suicune
Not nearly as important as the other re-typings mentioned here, but
Water to
Water/Ice wouldn't hurt, especially since it can be viewed as an
Expy (in terms of legends, at least) of Kanto's Articuno.
Lugia
Needs to be re-typed from
Psychic/Flying to either
Water/Flying or
Water/Dragon. With Water/Flying (although it would make sense and its my preferred choice, I
really hate its quadruple weakness because, GYARADOS, and a lot of Pokemon are like "LOL Thunderbolt"), it would have a quadruple Electric-type weakness to match its counterpart Ho-Oh's quadruple Rock-type weakness. And what kind of Pokemon bears the moniker of "guardian of the seas" yet isn't even Water type? -_- Lugia looks somewhat draconic, so Water/Dragon could work as well (although I've heard it's a bit bulky, so I'm not sure if this re-type would make it "broken" or not). :/ In any case, Lugia should still be allowed to learn whatever Psychic-type moves it does now.
Groudon
Not really important, but
Ground to
Ground/Fire (I mean, come on, who
didn't think it was a Fire-type when they first saw it, with all the flames and sunlight and lava spewing about?) would be nice (although that would mean a quadruple weakness to the Water type and especially to Kyogre, which I'm not too fond about).
Kyogre
Not really important, but
Water to
Water/Ice would be nice, especially since it embodies the seas (which are full of water), and there
are icy bodies of water (not to mention that ice is a form of water)... Coupled with a potential Ground/Fire Groudon, this would mean that all of the Weather Trio would 'match' as all the members would be dual-typed.
Empoleon
I really would not mind it at all if it was re-typed from
Water/Steel to monotype
Water (which would make Blastoise more unique in the process!); although as long as Blastoise receives Water/Steel, Empoleon can keep the same typing for all I care. Admittedly, the Water/Steel typing alone intrigued me when I first read about it, and a metallic penguin does have a little appeal (although it
really doesn't make much sense when a penguin has better defensive typing than an armored turtle with cannons).
Rotom (
all Formes except "Normal Forme")
All of them need to be re-typed from
Electric/whatever to
whatever/Ghost (or my 2nd choice,
whatever/Steel). As shown by their various "pseudo-signature moves", they're differentiated by their attacking elements (corresponding to whatever their design is). I guess the "Electric" is because they gain a 'physical' form by inhabiting functional machines - although, if you think about it, shouldn't that mean they should be part-
Steel-type since most machinery contains metallic components? I still see the "Rotom taking control of an applicance" as an ethereal entity, and only Rotom Normal Forme seems like a pure bundle of electricity.
*Coincidentally, Rotom is the one Pokemon that gives me hope that ANY Pokemon can receive an outright re-type later on in a subsequent generation, whether it be the immediate next generation or decades later.
Darkrai
It looks more phantasmal than "dark", so being changed from
Dark to
Dark/Ghost would make sense in my opinion (although from what I've read, this guy seems already tough to beat as is...).
Samurott
Needs a re-typing from
Water to
Water/Fighting. It's a samurai Pokemon, using shell-based sword-shaped implements for attacking. Samurai fight (usually)! Not that hard! This one especially annoys me since we have a good number of pure Water Pokemon, few Water/Fighting Pokemon, and Samurott's "samurai" origin is a key part of its design (it's been heavily talked about/referenced, at least).
Serperior
Needs a re-typing from
Grass to
Grass/Dragon. Originally, I wanted Grass/Dragon for Sceptile since it learns a nice number of Dragon-type moves and is in the Dragon Egg group, but Serperior fits the 'serpentine dragon' aspect better. Not to mention that it receives some level of esteem (literally, as its name and design/design origin reference royalty; and figuratively, as it's a starter Pokemon (well-known just for that element alone) and its pre-evolution Snivy unexpectedly received a surge in fan and memetic popularity following its reveal).
Additionally, the Dragon type hasn't been used on a starter Pokemon before (if a starter's evolution can receive the competitively-awesome Steel type, I see no reason why Dragon needs to be 'banned' as a type applied to starter Pokemon. Plus, Serperior would have a quadruple Ice weakness to help balance, like most of the Dragon-type 'pseudo-legendaries' do. Moreover, awesome/competitively-good typings essentially mean nothing if the Pokemon in question doesn't have the stats to back it up. Finally, the Dragon type as a whole has been nerfed in Generation 6, so there's that). Also, Grass/Dragon hasn't been used as a type combination before, and it would be a prime place to introduce it (Serperior learns a few Dragon-dedicated moves like Dragon Tail, Dragon Pulse, and Outrage anyway, which most Grass-types don't do).
Accelgor
It looks ghostly with its lost shell and its tattered rags and such, and its counterpart Escavalier gets a dual typing of Bug/Steel, so Accelgor changing from
Bug to
Bug/Ghost would work nicely IMO.
Haxorus
Monotype
Dragon is great, but I originally envisioned it as
Dragon/Bug, because it looks so insectlike!
Flygon and Yanmega are also good candidates for the Dragon/Bug typing, both being somewhat dragonfly-based, though I rather like how Flygon's Ground/Dragon type combination and Levitate Ability play with you a bit. :P Yanmega being
Bug/Dragon with the Ability Levitate would be ideal, considering that we have hiveloads of Bug/Flying Pokemon already.
~Braviary
Originally I wanted this bird Pokemon to be
Fighting/Flying since it has a strong courage/combat motif and we already have so many Normal/Flying birds, but I'm strangely content with its current typing. At least Smogon's Fakemon of Tomahawk satisfies this typing for now...
...Now that I'm seeing it, Fighting/Flying (as Fighting-type is seen as more 'honorable' than the Dark-type, which uses 'cheap tactics' along with the tangible 'dark element' to win battles) would've worked as a nice complement to the Dark/Flying Mandibuzz...
~Sylveon
Originally, I wanted it to be
Flying-type due to "sylv-" reminding me of "sylph (air elementals)", but I guess I'm OK with Fairy-type for now... And this issue was more of a joke, but I would've laughed if it became
???-type, to "forever keep its 'true' type a mystery". XD But seriously, it bothered me how many months of speculation I had to endure before its type
finally got revealed at E3 2013. I still want a ???-type Pokemon, though.
Xerneas
Probably the most annoying re-typing that comes to mind already.. Unless a secondary typing has been withheld from us somehow, I'll likely have to wait until Generation 7 for Xerneas to be re-typed. T_T Anyway, I'd like it to be re-typed from
Fairy to either
Fairy/Grass,
Fairy/Ground, or
Fairy/Steel - just
anything but monotype Fairy; pure Fairy-type seems like a cheap way to advertise Generation 6's new type. All 3 potential type combinations are so that Xerneas has
some "earth-based" typing to complement counterpart Yveltal's Flying type (you know, with Yveltal soaring in the skies on the vertical
Y-axis and Xerneas remaining
grounded on the horizontal
X-Axis). Additionally, monotype legendary mascots seem a bit..."off" nowadays, especially since Suicune (the only one not expressly in a duo), Groudon, and Kyogre are the only ones that lack dual-typing.
Fairy/Grass - Almost every screenshot/artwork of this Pokemon involves verdant areas and nature and stuff, not to mention that deer typically seem at home in forests and similar locales anyway. Plants also gives birth to a variety of things and seem to be associated with growth/birth in general, so it seems fitting, IMO.
Fairy/Ground - The most "earth-based" of the 3 potential secondary types. It's also a solid attacking type, and gets across the "heaven & earth" duality concept a bit better.
Fairy/Steel - An amazing defensive type. Xerneas seems more of a pacifist compared to the destructive, warmongering Yveltal, so it seems suited to a defensive role.
Additionally, I usually see the Steel-type (or the "metal" element in general) as "Ground/'Earth', but
better, save for its few weaknesses to heat/fire, electricity/magnetism, and oxidation/rust encroachment", so there's that. Plus, it would be a bit interesting, as the mascots (Fairy/
Steel Xerneas and
Dark/Flying Yveltal) of the generation that introduced the first new type in ages (Fairy type) would bear the two types (Dark and Steel) that Generation 2 (the first generation to retcon typings and introduce new types at all) introduced to the
Pokemon metagame.
Charizard (
Mega Charizard)
I kind of don't care whether it's re-typed or not (the MEGA evolution, I mean), but
Fire/Flying to
Fire/Dragon deserves mention because STEALTH ROCK. Every time I read why people don't use such an iconic Pokemon (aside from non-competitive reasons), it's because of that
one move (I haven't used it/encountered it at all yet, as I'm still loitering in Generation 3 for the time being). At least the typing wouldn't be such a hindrance to (Mega) Charizard as it is now (alternately, Stealth Rock could instead be altered it some way to give quadruply-weak Pokemon a chance).
Fairy type as a secondary type:
Since it's introduced, I'd like
Wigglytuff (since pre-evolution Jigglypuff has it),
Blissey (MAYBE; this thing is practically the queen/embodiment of the term "resistance"; it doesn't need
more immunities!),
Audino,
Azumarill (since pre-evolution Marill has it), and
Snubbull (I mean, its PokeDex species identifier
is the "Fairy Pokemon" XD) to gain the Fairy type as a secondary type.
Okay! I think that's it for my "re-typings wishlist". XD
