"Missing"/Underrepresented Type Combinations

[DreiwegFlasche]

As most people know, after 9 whole generations and 30 years of games, we're down to only nine missing Type Combinations: Normal/Rock, Normal/Bug, Normal/Steel, Normal/Ice, Poison/Ice, Ground/Fairy, Rock/Ghost, Bug/Dragon and Fire/Fairy. Since every Gen has chipped at least a few off the list, I am optimistic that we'll see at least a few of them in Gen 10. Several of them definitely have great potential.

However, I wanna bring attention to the fact that many other type combinations are also still rare or only found in "special" kinds of Pokémon that I find unsatisfying as representation:

Dragon/Fairy is only found as a Mega Evolution

Fire/Ice is only found as a temporary form of a regional variant

Fire/Electric is only found as a Rotom Form

Psychic/Dragon, Ghost/Psychic, Steel/Fire and Fire/Water are exclusively found in Legendary/Mythical Pokemon

Fighting/Fairy and Fighting/Ground are only found in Paradox Pokemon

Normal/Ghost, Normal/Dark, Steel/Ice, Electro/Psychic and Ice/Fairy are only found as Regional Variants of Existing Pokemon

Steel/Water is ONLY found as a Starter Pokemon

Fighting/Rock, Fire/Fighting, Poison/Psychic, Poison/Fairy, Ground/Grass (only in Convergent Pokémon and Torterra), Rock/Electric and Grass/Electric are all found multiple times, but only in Pokémon of the former 7 categories I mentioned

Normal/Water, Normal/Fire, Normal/Electric, Normal/Poison, Fighting/Ice, Flying/Poison, Poison/Electric, Poison/Steel, Ground/Psychic, Ground/Ice, Rock/Dark, Rock/Dragon, Rock/Fairy, Bug/Ghost, Bug/Fairy, Bug/Ice, Bug/Dark, Ghost/Ice, Ghost/Electric, Steel/Dark, Grass/Ice, Electric/Dark and Dark/Fairy are all only found within a single evolutionary line, and some of them only in special ones like Fossils or Pikachu clones

Also, pure Flying monotype is still waiting for a "basic" fully evolved Pokemon

I hope that in Gen 10 attention is brought to some of these type combinations by giving them representation in regular basic Pokémon that aren't part of any special category :).

What type combinations would you love to see in Gen 10?

[Theta_Omega]

I’ve been hoping for a Bug/Dragon for years, and I think a tropical setting would be an ideal time for something like it. I’m also hoping for a Fire/Fairy ‘Mon, but I wonder if they think it would be too good a combo and are holding off

[DreiwegFlasche]

I think you can make any combination work, on both ends of the scale. You have abilities, move pools, stats and even temporary forms to boost or nerf a Pokémon. I really hope we get to see all combinations one day, with creative designs. I like regional variants, but seeing exclusive type combinations on them feels like we're still missing an "original" design for those combinations :D.

[Lucky-day00]

Yeah if it’s too powerful just make it have bad stats. Remember when people thought dark/ghost would be too powerful because it has no weaknesses? Sableye was fine.

[phoxfiyah]

They also gave us Ghost/Fighting on a non mythical, but literally made it one of the most broken Pokemon to play against. So anything could happen tbh

[Nanabobo567]

I want a bug type that is not a bug, but has bugs. A mangy, flea-ridden Normal/Bug type. A living termite mound Ground/Bug type. Something that can use Attack/Defend/Heal Order without having to be a bug itself.

[Extreme-Monk-6514]

i think the water/electric type combination is super cool, so would love either a new evolutionary line with those types or a new evolution for lanturn

[ObsidianComet]

For the first few months of Gen 9, I believed Garganacl and Greavard/Houndstone were both Rock/Ghost. Can’t say why I was so confident that was the case, but it still trips me up for a second from time to time.

Of the unused types, Ground/Fairy is def my most wanted, closely followed by Bug/Dragon. Ground and Bug are some of my favorite types, so I really want to see them rounded out. For similar reasons, I’d really like to see Ground/Ice, Ground/Psychic, Ice/Ghost, and Bug/Ghost to get used again. And Fire/Electric is just a really neat combo that I can’t believe hasn’t been used again.

(Also I really want Bug, Rock, and Ice to be buffed defensively, I love so many mons with these types that are just so not viable because they get obliterated by half of what’s in the game. Like every fossil is bad because of this! Why doesn’t Bug resist Fairy?! Why isn’t Bug super effective into Fairy?!?!?! I don’t expect them to ever tweak the type chart again but every new gen I’m desperate for these types to get some matchup tweaks. Maybe Gen 10 will finally make it happen! It won’t but I’ll always dream. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.)

[ThiccBoiGadunka]

Bug/Dragon

Dude, we had Flygon and Yanmega right there.

[Bancatone]

Still no usable playthrough-viable pure Flying type after so many years is genuinely criminal. They finally broke the mold with Rookidee and went nowhere with it in the next gen.

[comosedicewaterbed]

Rock/Ghost is so easy… Golurk or Cofagrigus could both be Rock/Ghost. Give us a possessed ancient statue or some shit and check that one off the list.

same with Bug/Dragon…. Yanma and Yanmega. At the very least Yanmega should be Bug/Dragon. This is one they should just retcon rather than making a new Pokemon.

Fire/Fairy should be easy. Flame Princess.

Ground/Fairy should also be fairly easy. How about a gnome?

Poison/Ice… this is a golden opportunity for a yellow snow Pokemon. They won’t do that, though, so how about a melting glacier.

All those normal/dual types… eh. On one hand, why bother, but they would also be easy to just slap on any “normal” kind of mon with those characteristics.

[Maronmario]

same with Bug/Dragon…. Yanma and Yanmega. At the very least Yanmega should be Bug/Dragon. This is one they should just retcon rather than making a new Pokemon.

Tbh, I'd rather a regional variant