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We all disagree, even with our favorite video game creators. Pokemon is a franchise that's been going for so long - and growing all the time - that it's no surprise that the fans sometimes take issue with the decisions they make. You can hardly expect Game Freak to do everything perfect in every game for almost two decades.
If they did, I'd be investigating their time-traveling capabilities right about now. Sometimes, the grudges we pick up are tiny. The fact that we care about something as minor as, say, a Pokemon's Type, shows how much we have fallen in love with these series. Or, at least, that's what I'm telling myself to justify writing this article.
6 Gardevoir
Gardevoir is a Psychic- and Fairy-Type Pokemon, but I can't get it out of my head that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:it's a Grass-Type. Can you? I mean, I've definitely been trained to see any green-ish Pokemon and call "Grass-Type!" like I'm calling "horse!" on a family road trip, but even if you account for that bias, I still don't think I'm wrong!
Gardevoir's body is made up of petal-like, thin white strips that seem to float as it wafts to and fro. I'm reminded of the childhood books I read about fairies who hid among the flowers until people were out of sight. Even the red protrusion on its chest reminds me of a flower bud! None of that is to mention its baby forms, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kirlia and Ralts, or its opposite final form, Gallade (who looks like it's the blade of grass that gave you a papercut when you were five, come back for revenge)!
Either the Psychic or the Fairy Type needs to be dropped from this Pokemon and replaced with Grass. I'm in favour of Grass/Fairy Typing, but most of Gardevoir's Pokedex entries highlight its Psychic abilities, so Psychic/Grass might be fairer.
5 Malamar
Malamar is a giant squid. We can all agree on this, right? It evolves from Inkay, an adorable baby squid, into its final, terrifying form, covered in tentacles and the beak-like mouth seen on squids ඣand octopi.
In what world is this Pokemon not a Water Type?
Its actual Typing is Dark/Psychic. I can understand Psychic; they're adding a fantastical spin on the idea of a real-world squid, and this is proven by the Pokedex, which repeatedly talks about how Malamar lures in its prey with its Psychic abilities before swallowing them. I can even understand Dark; squids and octopi live in the pitch-black waters of the ocean, after all. But in what world do both of those things override 'Water'?
Don't get me wrong: this outrage does not arise from a particular fondness for the creature. Squids and octopi are cool to learn about but terrifying to look at. My good friend Mike Wazowski once wisely said: "put that thing back where it came from, or so help me!" In the same spirit, I would like the Pokemon Company to re-Type Malamar as Water and then throw it back into the sea.
4 Crustle
I hate that Pokemon differentiates between Rock-Type Pokemon and Ground-Type Pokemon. It is so subjective, and it is so meaningless. So many poor souls have attempted to explain the difference between them, unaware of the spiral of video game logic they were about to fall into. The difference between poisonous and venomous is much more meaningful than ground and rock, so why isn't Venom a Type?
However.
If you are going to differentiate between Rock- and Ground-Types, Crustle should be a Ground Type, not a Rock Type. Its name is literally a pun on the crust of the Earth. Crustle's design is very careful to show different strata in the pile it carries on its back - these are formed in the ground over time by collections of different minerals being moved into an area and then compressed. It looks exactly like the diagram that every fifth grader is given to show the layers of the Earth's crust.
That is not a giant rock.
Except it kinda is. Which is why it's ridiculous that Rock Type and Ground Type are different in the first place.
3 Gyarados
Gyarados is a Dragon-Type.
Take away the Flying Type and make it a Dragon-Type Pokemon, Game Freak. You know it's true, and I know it's true. Let's stop playing these games.
2 Got📖hitelle ꧟
Gothitelle is an adorable Pokemon with an adorable evolution line. 'Goth' is in the name all the way through, from Gothita to Gothorita to Gothitelle! It couldn't be doing a better job if it was trying to cosplay as Wednesday Adams herself. The Pokedex entry for Pokemon: Sword even tells us that "when stars shine in the night sky, [Gothorita] will spirit away sleeping children" and that Gothitelle can "predict the future based on theඣ movement of the stars.&quoꦉt;
And yet, they somehow didn't do this Pokemon the decency of making it a Dark-Type.
I think this particular omission stings so bad because Gothitelle only has one Type: Psychic. They had room. They weren't trying to balance three or more Types that made sense; they could have given Gothitelle the Type it deserved. But it was shunned.
1 Cinderace
Cinderace is a pure Fire-Type, but it will live on in my heart forever as a Fighting-Type Pokemon.
Its design was clearly inspired by European soccer players, which in turn was inspired by the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:British-influenced setting of Sword and Shield. While soccer doesn't match up perfectly with the Fighting Type, I'd argue that those powerful kicks serve the same purpose in Pokemon battles. It certainly loves to flex as much as the Fighting-Type Pokemon do.
If I had to guess, I'd say that Cinderace was left as a pure Fire-Type to avoid the stereotype that the Fire-Type Starter Pokemon will grow into a Fire/Fighting-Type Pokemon. That was true for three games in a row, and, though it hasn't happened again since, it's a running joke among fans of the games.
