-
Ever thought it'd be cool to have your art, writing, or challenge runs featured on PokéCommunity? Click here for info - we'd love to spotlight your work!
-
PokéCommunity's Easter Egg Hunt is now on! If you're interested in looking for some eggs and earning badges, click here!
-
Our weekly protagonist poll is now up! Vote for your favorite Conquest protagonist in the poll by clicking here.
4th Gen Lack of Fire Types!
- Thread starter curiousnathan
- Start date
Snowdrop
Back and ready to babble!
- 630
- Posts
- 12
- Years
- Penguin Jail
- Seen May 22, 2017
I happen to really like Ponyta and Rapidash so I think I used them on one or two of my runs. I didn't notice the lack of fire types at first because I'm not really the biggest fan of that typing. But yeah now that you point it out, there is a serious lack of Fires here :/
Affliction
Booted out - don't be like me!
- 524
- Posts
- 12
- Years
- Seen Sep 3, 2016
GreenMoon1996 said:
Total awesomeness.
Fire is one of my favourite types, and I really had a bore while playing Pokemon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum. I dislike the Ponyta line, and I also dislike the Chimchar line.
Killjoy
"He was a laser fish."
- 584
- Posts
- 13
- Years
- Brandon, MB. Canada
- Seen Sep 17, 2015
I didn't play D or P, but I didn't mind the relative lack of them in Pt though I definitely was pleasantly surprised to find Houndour line in there, and I like Ponyta and Infernap. I do like the fire type, but I just saw it as an opportunity to use other types
Kanto_Johto
Never glimpse the truth
- 818
- Posts
- 15
- Years
- A Silver Sun
- Seen Mar 19, 2023
Yeah, Infernape, Magmortar and Heatran were the only Fire types introduced in Gen IV. It makes sense for Fire to be a scarce type, but seriously, only 3 new ones (one of which is a legendary, an awful looking one at that)? That's far too little.
I still stand by my opinion that Game Freak dropped the ball a bit with the Gen IV Pokemon. They redeemed themselves with Gen V. Just my take on it though.
I still stand by my opinion that Game Freak dropped the ball a bit with the Gen IV Pokemon. They redeemed themselves with Gen V. Just my take on it though.
- 141
- Posts
- 12
- Years
- Seen Oct 12, 2020
I wasn't that disappointed. I was never too big on fire types, but I noticed this phenomenon. This is probably where DP fails.
Grif of Hearts
Que sera sera~
- 311
- Posts
- 13
- Years
- System 32
- Seen Jan 24, 2017
It was never much of a problem for me. I've never been a huge fan of fire types and I've always liked both Rapidash and Ponyta. I do understand the value of fire types however, and I'm glad that they added plenty more fire types in Platinum, along with all of the other Pokemon that they added evolutions to but never added to the pre-Elite 4 game.
Generally it was a problem, but Platinum fixed it.
Generally it was a problem, but Platinum fixed it.