5th Gen Over-run by grass?

So, while re-playing Pokemon Black.... I noticed the over-abundance of grass pokemon... And the complete lack of fire pokemon. It's not just black and white, but in previous games as well... this bothers me, I don't know why. I love grass pokemon, but it doesn't make for strong team building....I understand that some of them are multi-type which makes it a little bit easier, but something about it just annoys me. Your thoughts?

Okay, we have the Snivy line, the Pansage line, the Sewaddle line, the Cottonee and Petilil lines, Maractus, the Deerling line, the Foongus line, the Ferroseed line, and Virizion.

That sure is a lot of Grass Pokemon.

And for the Fire Pokemon, we have Victini, the Tepig line, the Pansear line, the Darumaka line, the Litwick line, Heatmor, and Reshiram.

I barely noticed how much Grass type Pokemons we have.

Yeah, I noticed the huge number of Gen V Grass Pokemon right from the very start. it wasn't easy building a team with those numbers in mind because most of those Pokemon aren't very good in battle (save for Sawsbuck and Ferrothorn).

I agree. My impression was that most Grass Pokémon came early in the game while the really good Fire ones came late.

Raichupacabra said:

And for the Fire Pokemon, we have Victini, the Tepig line, the Pansear line, the Darumaka line, the Litwick line, Heatmor, and Reshiram.

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Don't forget the Volcarona line!

Each generation varies in how much of a particular type is introduced. The first generation was loaded with a wide variety of types, but there were a lot of grass/poison and rock/ground dual typings. It did introduce the Charmander line (probably the most popular starter Pokemon), Growlithe and Vulpix lines, Ponyta line, Magmar, and Moltres. However, the number of fire-types steadily decreased with generations, as Generation IV had only Chimchar's line, Magmortar, and Heatran, not to mention the only other fire-types available pre-Elite Four were the Ponyta line. Generations I and II introduced a buttload of water types despite not having much water. Generation II especially, with Totodile's line, Chinchou's line, Corsola, Kingdra, Slowking, Politoed, Remoraid's line, Quilfish, Marill's line, and Suicune. This generation is actually more of a blessing as for the first time, we actually had more grass-types introduced that water. We don't have that great of a selection of water types as we usually do. Sure, we have the Oshawott line, the Panpour line, the Frillish line, Alomomola, Basculin, the Tympole line, the Ducklett line, the Carracosta line, and Keldeo, but that really isn't much.

Wow there is heaps of grass Pokemon, but fire types are naturally strong with good stats and so I would think that would be why there isn't much in Unova, all of them are pretty tough, especially Volcarona and Chandelure. However in Sinnoh, is a different story...

I barely noticed it lacking. I seldome really use grass-type Pokemon, and just once in Unova (twice if I count the random challenge). Besides, grass seemed never to fit in in my team.

It seems in almost every game fire types are super rare except in the starter.

There are 150-ish Unova pokemon and all the types are represented almost evenly. (if i remember correctly)

All 649 counted, there are WAY more water pokemon than other types.