New Starter Types

[Zorogami]

Imagine you get the chance to decide the types the starters of the next Pokemon Game should be.
Since the whole Fire/Water/Grass thing seems to be a bit overdone, you decide to go with 3 other types!
Of course they have to follow the same mechanic; Water > Fire > Grass > Water. And you may as well repeat one of these types.

Which types would you pick and why??

Me for example, i always thought Dark > Psychic > Fighting would be perfect, since they are some of my favorite types!

Share and discuss ~

 

[Flushed]

Flying > Fighting > Rock

because that's the only combination I can think of off the top of my head haha. I think it'd be cool though. Add some interesting secondary types for combos like Fairy-Flying, Ghost-Fighting, and Electric-Rock or something like that, idk.

 

[Rabby]

Water > Dragon > Steel

I guess I chose those, due to favoritism :P
Gamefreak must have chosen grass, water, and fire, due to the standard elements of earth

 

[moon]

Electric > Water > Ground could be an idea, though it's a bit unfair for Electric not having any effect at all on Ground while Ground can attack Water without a drawback, from what I recall (might be wrong, haha).

Fighting > Dark > Psychic is actually the best trio I've heard of, apart from the standard element-inspired one. It's actually been used, with Greninja being Water/Dark, Delphox being Fire/Psychic and Chesnaught being Grass/Fighting. I do think they should have switched the typings around a bit on the pokémon species though, to make it a bit like in 4th gen. Torterra had a second type that could counter Infernape's fire, Infernape's Fighting type could hit Empoleon's Steel. Instead of making each pokémon extra weak to the one it's already weak against.

 

[gimmepie]

Fighting > Dark > Psychic > Fighting or

Ice > Ground > Steel > Ice

I think those are generally fairly well balanced and good give rise to some really interesting pokemon designs.

 

[Sandslash Fan]

Ground > Electric > Flying could be interesting :)

Ground beats Electric, but can't touch Flying

Electric beat Flying, but can't touch Ground

Flying is not effective against Electric, but is immune to Ground

 

[Timbjerr]

The only other balanced type triangle other than grass/fire/water is flying/rock/fighting so that wins by default.

dark's psychic immunity (as opposed to resistance) breaks the balance of the fighting/psychic/dark triangle, and the other triangles in this thread are either all defense or all offense. :/