The type removal game

[Mab]

Here's a fun game/exercise/whatever. Pick a type to remove. Can be any of them, but obviously some of them are more essential than others.
Where would the Pokémon from that type go? (List as many or few as you like.)

What got me thinking about this was whether Normal type is really necessary. It seems like such a misc type to me, and on top of that it's often used in contexts that don't really make sense, like Pyroar being secondary normal - why? What makes it more Normal than, say, Arcanine?

So imma go through with them and see if I can redistribute things.

Pure normal types

Ratatta & Meowth lines - Dark. idc if they have alt forms with those types. don't @ me
Lickitung - i hate this thing just kill it with fire. Or Water bc saliva? God I hate Lickitung.
Chansey line - Fairy. Why is it not that already
Kangaskhan - Fighting
Tauros - Rock
Ditto - Psychic? Admittedly with Ditto types don't matter, but I can sorta see it as reading its opponents mind to copy its moves.
Eevee - ??? the hardest one.
Porygon - Psychic
Snorlax line - Fighting
Sentret - Grass? Not all Grass types are straight up plants, some just live in a grassy environment, so maybe this is plausible.
Aipom - Grass/Flying
Dunsparce - Bug
Teddiursa - Fighting
Stantler - Grass
Smeargle - Fairy
Miltank - Fairy?
Zigzagoon - Dark
Slakoth - Fighting
Whismur - Fairy
Skitty - Fairy. Again, should be one anyways. Why is it not.
Zangoose - Fighting
Castform - ???
Kecleon - ???
Bidoof - Water. Bibarel gets it anyways.
Buneary - Grass, Lopunny becomes Grass/Fighting
Glameow - Dark
Regigigas - ???
Arceus - ???
Patrat - Ground
Lillipup - ???
Audino - Fairy
Minccino - Psychic
Bouffalant - Rock
Bunnelby - Ground. Diggersby gets it anyways.
Furfrou - Fairy
Yungoos - Fighting
Type: NULL - ???
Komala - Grass
Skwovet - just mercy kill it
Wooloo - weird choice, but how about Steel? It seems like not all Steel mons need to be physically made of metal - Sandslash-A or Cufant for example, and it sometimes just means that they have a very tough exterior. I could imagine that wool being portrayed more like a steel wire mesh and totally making that theme work.

Primary Normal-type Pokemon

Not gonna list them all individually, but all the Normal/Flying pokemon could totally just be Flying. It seems like for some reason they were scared of having Flying be a solo type for most of Pokemon's history, but they seem to be doing it more lately. I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be a solo type, so Pidgey etc is pure flying.

Jigglypuff - Fairy. Another case where being half normal doesn't really make sense. What makes Jigglypuff more normal than, like, Clefairy?
Girafarig - Dark/Psychic. Makes more sense visually anyways.
Azurill - Fairy or Fairy/Water.
Bibarel - just Water
Audino - Fairy. Same point as above.
Deerling - Grass
...in fact just imagine all the pokemon with normal as their first type just lost that type

Secondary Normal-type Pokémon

Litleo - Fire
Helioptile - Electric/Bug
Indeedee (what is this thing, since when does it exist) - Psychic

---

Whew, that's it! I'm far from suggesting that as an ideal change and in reality if they removed normal they'd probably have to add one or two new types to make some mons work. Within the constraints of existing types, some of those were definitely a reach, but it was still pretty fun.

If you want to repeat my process with Normal or try a different type, you can find a list of all Pokemon with a given type on Bulbapedia~

 

[DragonKing48]

I know how it's gonna sound coming from me, but Helioptile/Helioptisk would be Electric/Dragon. That's a lizard not a bug lol. GF logic is more times than not "Lizard /Reptile/ Reptilian Dinosaur Equals Dragon." , so therefore they'd have conceivably no choice.

Then again, I once wrote an entire post that's almost essay length in the Dragon Club about how often they go back and forth on that, so who knows lmao.

Honestly, nothing should have Normal as a Dual Typing. Except maybe Flying and Water in the case of Fish, like "NORMAL Bird. NORMAL Fish.", because if it's a fire breathing lion, it obviously isn't just regular ol' "Normal Type". Nothing normal about that.

That confliction intersects with every type. How is Helioptile Normal and Electric and Pikachu is pure Electric?

Oh!

Gf Logic!

Nevermind! That's the answer! Goodnight!

 

[Sheep]

I'm actually curious what we can do with the doduo line - sure they can just become full flying, but that would be odd to me since none of them can actually fly to begin with. I kind of want to take out both the normal and flying typings from it, and maybe retype it to psychic or something. here's a dex entry from the anime:

The brains in its two heads appear to communicate emotions to each other with telepathic power.

telepahy! that would've been such an interesting concept. heck, even flying/psychic seems plausible

 

[PageEmp]

If anything, the closest I can see in this situation is Rock either being removed or combined with Ground. Also I assume you probably were tired around the last part of your post but Heliolisk being Bug, really? Why not pure Electric or part Ground?