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New Types?

Charmageddon said:
As others have said, Wood is just Grass with a different name. Light? Hmm, no serious objections but a bit limiting with the type of pokemon you could create with them, so overall, no.

As for me, I've come up with two new types, and opposites they are.

Digital and Ancient.

It's been the 21st century for 9 years and we still haven't seen a digital-type pokemon to go with the digital age we live in. It would be great, we could have an airborne virus (Digital/Ghost), a mass of wires (Digital/Electric), a huge beast than transmits information from all over the world (Dragon/Digital). We could upgrade the Porygon family too. It would be great fun.

Super-effective: Ancient, Electric, Steel
Not very effective: Poison, Psychic
Resist: Electric
Weak against: Psychic
Immune to: Ancient

As for Ancient pokemon, they would encompass all the fossil pokemon and other mons based off ancient beasts eg. Mamoswine. Chuck in a Dinosaur pokemon too (how cool would an Ancient/Dark T-Rex pokemon be? And yes, I remember Tyranitar, but he had lame prevolutions), along with a Sabre-toothed tiger (Steel/Ancient) and a Triceratops with flaming horns (Fire/Ancient).

Super-effective: Dragon, Psychic
Not very effective: Poison, Fire
No effect on: Digital
Resist: Dragon, Fire, Electric, Ice
Weak to: Poison, Digital

These would add another dimension to the playing field and give some advantages to the severely underpowered Poison-type.
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That however would result in type changes to several Pokemon as you said, such as Porygon, and Mamowsine. That may result in problems... and disagreements (plus would screw the heck out of previous canon). The additions of Dark-type Pokemon didn't change any of the 1st gen Pokemon and Steel only affected the Magnemite line - but now even more changes would occur, which would be... well, odd to say the least, in that it would then appear that these Pokemon were NEVER of that type, but really another type altogether.

Plus there's the problem with the Pokemon such as Mamoswine which already have a double typing (in this case, ice/ground). What happens then - losing one of those typings doesn't really work for aforementioned reasons, and they won't be giving Pokemon three typings now either, IMHO.

Then there are the other reasons previously mentioned... such as throwing the playing field out of balence rather than 'fixing it' (it's pretty much ok atm now, unlike the 1st gen situation), etc, etc.

Not bad thinking with them though, mind - but not that viable if you look at the nitty-gritty. =/
 
Im hoping for Light and Virus types.
 
I really hope they get some new types.

Right now they nerfed ground attacks with levitate and over nerfed psychic since Gen I.

Steel attack types didn't get much play in Gen II, if they introduce a new type, it better give it a lot of movesets
 
It might be possible for a "Light" type to be released in Gen 5 and hopefully a "Virus" type as well.
I also thinking of a "Wind" type.
 
As much as new types would add a new feel, it may not be favored by some people. New players or young kids would probably have a fit trying to protect themselves against, hmm, I dunno, about 20 types?

BTW, I agree with Poison. It has 1 strength.
 
Maybe for weird pokemon that have no characteristics of other types and not look normal, the ??? type would be implemented.
 
you stole my idea!!
holy crap, that was my idea
what a coincidence!

[SqS]Squirtle said:
I really can't imagine any more types. Light...Well.. I really couldn't imagine that since we have Electric which can basicly be used as Light.

Wood, well. That would be pretty weak to everything wouldn't it? Besides Ghost.
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speaking of ghost-types
they have almost NO support
gastly, gengar, haunter, misdrevius, mismagius, spiritomb, sabyleye, shuppet, banette, dusclops, duskull, dusknoir, and rotom are the only ones. we need more ghost-type moves and pokemon.
also, why aren't all of the normal/flying types just flying?
only togetic and togekiss should be normal/flying
 
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Guys, "Light" type Pokemon already exist. They're called Psychic types. Hence why Dark was created to counter it (full immunity). My favourite example is Espeon, notice how it evolves with a Sun Shard and learns Morning Sun? Cresselia is made to be like a Light to free one from the nightmares. Lunatone, Solrock etc. etc. It isn't a great stretch of imagination to see where Psychic is derived from the theme of Light.
Anyway, Dark isn't really based on shadows and the like, more on sneakiness and trickery (Faint Attack: goes invisible to get close enough to the enemy, Thief: stealing - among others).
Light and Shadow are probably meant to be seen as omnipresent energies in Nature, being reflected in a variety of different ways throughout Nature.

Also, Flying type does refer to Winds and all that (hence why it was changed from Bird type), but is just given to Pokemon that fly. Just not much effort has gone into the typing (I mean, for pity's sake, why is Razor Wind still a normal type attack?). Proof anyway, is attacks like Air Slash, Aeroblast, Whirlwind and Gust, all obviously Wind based.
Stop thinking so narrowly on what typings mean.

Types I'd like to see? None really. I wouldn't mind having new types, but I can't think of any not already covered in some way. What I would like to see however, is more specific sub-typings for attacks (such as Light, Wind etc.) that add certain bonuses and drawbacks to attacks. Example: as previously mentioned, Flash. Normal/Light, doesn't work on Dark types but increased accuracy/potency on others.
Mostly I'd like to see new type pairings.
 
xiraiya said:
Well, Steel and Dark were both added in the Johto Games, and so far we have had two more Generations with out any new types.

Next Generation MIGHT reveal two new types but I fail to see what they could be, unless it was something like "Wood" and "Light" (as in a Holy or Religious sense)

Light:
Super Effective against: Poison, Dark, Ghost
Weak Against: Dark, Psychic

Wood:
Super Effective against, Ground, Rock, Grass, Bug, Flying
Weak Against, Fire, Lightning, Fighting


They're just ideas I came up with off the top of my head so nothing too special.
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Well, in my opinion, Electric is Light and Wood is Grass, if you think about it. So no, I don't think there will be new types.
 
Shen said:
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Guys, "Light" type Pokemon already exist. They're called Psychic types. Hence why Dark was created to counter it (full immunity). My favourite example is Espeon, notice how it evolves with a Sun Shard and learns Morning Sun? Cresselia is made to be like a Light to free one from the nightmares. Lunatone, Solrock etc. etc. It isn't a great stretch of imagination to see where Psychic is derived from the theme of Light.
Anyway, Dark isn't really based on shadows and the like, more on sneakiness and trickery (Faint Attack: goes invisible to get close enough to the enemy, Thief: stealing - among others).
Light and Shadow are probably meant to be seen as omnipresent energies in Nature, being reflected in a variety of different ways throughout Nature.

Also, Flying type does refer to Winds and all that (hence why it was changed from Bird type), but is just given to Pokemon that fly. Just not much effort has gone into the typing (I mean, for pity's sake, why is Razor Wind still a normal type attack?). Proof anyway, is attacks like Air Slash, Aeroblast, Whirlwind and Gust, all obviously Wind based.
Stop thinking so narrowly on what typings mean.

Types I'd like to see? None really. I wouldn't mind having new types, but I can't think of any not already covered in some way. What I would like to see however, is more specific sub-typings for attacks (such as Light, Wind etc.) that add certain bonuses and drawbacks to attacks. Example: as previously mentioned, Flash. Normal/Light, doesn't work on Dark types but increased accuracy/potency on others.
Mostly I'd like to see new type pairings.
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The only reason those moves and pokemon fall under Psychic is because Light hasn been put in yet. It could be changed in the future.
 
Why would they do that? Then they'd have to think of a bunch of new moves for Psychic to balance it out, Latios and Latias's signature move will probably lose their STAB, they'd have to change to typings to old Pokemon to accomodate them so on, so forth. It's really too much bother when you can just think of Psychic as the equivalent to Light.
 
Maybe not. Who said those particular moves had to change?
 
Well, they might consider a Light type, but remember that in Gen 1, psychic was given too much power, and there was no real competition for it (unless you enjoyed bringing a bug type to the elite 4) Sure there was ghost, but the only ghosts then were Ghastly through Gengar. Thus, Dark type was created to balance out psychic.

I'm not saying that I light type is not possible, but I doubt that it would be made primarily for the purpose of countering dark. Besides, fighting types already do the job (in dealing with Dark).

Just my humble opinion.
 
How is that when to be honest, there are not that many types to begin with. Its not really like knowing the elemental table and what can be combined with what and what the reaction will be.
 
I would like to see a "mystical" type for all of those pokemon who are normal type, but clearly aren't normal. Y'know:

Clefairy family
Jigglypuff family
Ditto
Porygon family
Togepi family
Castform
Regigigas
Arceus
Noctowl

tbh, this is more of an aesthetic thing to me. These pokemon clearly aren't "normal" so the type doesn't suit them. Strengths and Weaknesses? I dunno :P
 
I Laugh at your Misfortune! said:
I would like to see a "mystical" type for all of those pokemon who are normal type, but clearly aren't normal. Y'know:

Clefairy family
Jigglypuff family
Ditto
Porygon family
Togepi family
Castform
Regigigas
Arceus
Noctowl

tbh, this is more of an aesthetic thing to me. These pokemon clearly aren't "normal" so the type doesn't suit them. Strengths and Weaknesses? I dunno :P
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Well in CBM's Pokemon Prism hack there was an "Abnormal" type, is that basically what you're aiming for?
 
i wish there was just a like game where you can create your own pokemon and choose like three or four diff types for him or her or it LOL
 
As far as the Light-type discussion goes, think about the light-related moves in the game and how scattered they are type-wise. Just off the top of my head...

Doom Desire and Flash Cannon: Steel
SolarBeam: Grass
Flash: Normal
Light Screen: Psychic
Signal Beam: Bug
Power Gem: Rock

I find it hard to believe that the Light-type already exists... I would think it would have a super-effectiveness/weakness to Dark types.

Now that I think about it, attack types have changed before, like Bite in R/B/Y.
 
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