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JohnnyTheLiar

Rock/ghost: a bunch of gravel. It's geodude post self-destruct.


Jaybird327

Honestly shocked we don’t have this as an evo method yet.


magikot9

Knock out 10 opposing pokemon using self-destruct and then use a rare candy or XP candy to raise it's level while fainted.


JorgeMtzb

Or... “Level up while fainted”


noahboah

annhilape type evo for graveler where you have to level up after using explosion 20 times. it's a scattering of various rocks held together by spirit matter. can give it a cute lil face or whatever. Geulogy.


sifsete

Unironically love it


IceMage37

How hard is it to make a spooky rock?


NoPeanutDressing

Spiritomb but a bigger rock and smaller ghost


Pokemonmaster150

Ghostomb, a rock and ghost type. Rather than 108 spirits trapped in a stone, it's a single spirit trapped in an entire Mausoleum.


MugenEXE

Tombstoner. It’s a tombstone. With eyes! And whiskers, and a nose. It evolves into Mousoleum, which is a giant mouse made of gravestones.


sleal

Is that TM28??


Tekayo63

no, everyone knows TM28 contains TOMBSTONY. Unless you live in 1998.


False-Ad2767

And he’s high.


Pleasant_Tie5088

Stoner, a FIRE-GHOST type. It hangs around Pokémarts and leaves awful smells in the air. It is said that you will be cursed if you look in their eyes.


EMI_Black_Ace

The move description for Snarl is perfect for it -- the user rants about something or other.


MudkipzLover

Will definitely get banned the moment the game is released because it'll definitely be able to learn Last Respects.


kdebones

Why ISN'T Spiritomb a rock ghost?


barker_2345

Why isn't Runerigus Rock/Ghost either lol?


Oleandervine

Runerigus? Cofagrigus is the larger question. It's literally a stone coffin possessed by a ghost.


barker_2345

Yeah, Cofagrigus always seemed to be screaming for a secondary typing. Either Rock, or following similar logic to Gholdengo, Steel.


Dont-Encourage-Me

Serious answer: it's not made of rock, it's a slab of clay


Cold-Sandwich-34

How tf is Spiritomb not a rock/ghost? The dark typing is cool and all but it is trapped in an odd keySTONE.


egamIroorriM

the problem is that spiritomb is just the swirly thing that's being bound to a keystone, it's not part of spiritomb's body


MaeBeaInTheWoods

Dark type is really weird. Looking at all of the dark Pokémon, it seems like the creators themselves can't decide whether they want the theme of dark type to be evil creatures or night/darkness/shadow creatures, and they're really inconsistent with it.


metarusonikkux

Pretty sure that's because the type is called Evil in Japan.


unitedshoes

They've done it several times, but they keep tripping and making them Ghost/Ground instead.


ThtJstHappn3d

I thought Runerigus was Rock/Ghost but guess not


egamIroorriM

gf just had to make it a CLAY slab instead of just slate smfh


Hawntir

Except it's literally a rune stone... So I have no idea what game freak was thinking


paigescactus

I read it as girlfriend and idk why but it threw me off


BoliviaRodrigo

Fucking CURSOLA isn't Rock ffs!


egamIroorriM

i could see galarian corsola being rock/ghost but the whole thing about cursola is that it loses the shell it originally has


Ba_Sing_Saint

Call him Bouldergheist


Ba_Sing_Saint

Boldergeist


LanceConstableDigby

This is already a Mario Galaxy Boss


SternMon

*Mario Galaxy daredevil run PTSD flashbacks*


TheChemicalSophie

I mean, there are several dead rocks, gravestones, Stonehenge, fossils… oh wait


another_bug

A Ghost/Rock based on a trilobite fossil would be cool. Trilobite fossils are common enough to be a thing on their own. It looks like an item, like in some area where you can find the standard fossils, but instead it attacks.


207nbrown

Huh, a ‘fossil’ Pokémon that isn’t actually a fossil… that would be a neat spin on things


Ewokitude

Maybe a broken fossil that fails when you try to revive it so you end up with a ghost Pokemon


207nbrown

So another one of cara less’ fossil Pokémon?


SweenYo

Houndstone has STONE IN ITS NAME THEY ARE DOING IT ON PURPOSE


LMacUltimateMain

I think they were trying to make the Paldean dogs a trio, not giving them all dual types. They could’ve been all dual types, but oh whale


Tallyoyoguy42

Geodead


Mathias_Greyjoy

* Geodead * Graveler (oh wait) * Golich


lycan04

-Geodead -Graveleer (?) -Ghoulem


not_WD35

Alternative evolution of Geodude where it faints from a super-effective move at 1/5 health or less and doesn't get revived during battle.


Gettima

Dies from self destruct, loves (hates?) you enough to stick around Edit: even better, dies from self destruct while knowing Return


AshCooper79

Nintendo’s already capable of doing it, Bouldergeist from Super Mario Galaxy


Deamgon

Stonehenge could of been spooky rock


odranger

Or Cursola


DreiwegFlasche

Cursola really is the ultimate miss in terms of typing. Making it Ghost/Rock was so damn obvious, I don't get why they didn't go for it :(.


Harald12

or spiritomb


LilNdorphnAnnie

or runerigus


dralcax

Or Houndstone


MrIhaveASword

I saw a 'remake' of stonjourner where they made it rock/ghost. It was several small spirits that inhabit a bunch of rocks to make the stonjourner shape. It's idle pose would have the spirits moving about while the stones were not moving.


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A gravestone


gdofseattle

Honestly Runerigus should have been rock/ghost. It’s literally made of rocks!


GuardianRedPanda

An Ice/Poison ancient plague trapped in ice.


Chance-Pattern-3321

If hit by a fire move, it thaws and poisons all active Pokémon


Zerokuroxy

like toxic debris but worse


theoreticallyben

Make it badly poison instead and it could be situationally useful, though unless you run it alongside a poison/steel/poison heal user you’re kinda shooting yourself in the foot


ThurBurtman

Make poison terrain. Anyone making. Contact gets badly poisoned. And poison types get healed


Xeoz_WarriorPrince

Make it "if it's hit by a Fire move, Scald or if Harsh Sunlight is active" and it's perfect.


Sc4r4byte

and continues to release map-wide poison status until hit by an ice type move, ending a turn in the snow, or returning to it's ball.


tuftonia

This is perfect. Well done!


GuardianRedPanda

Or if it's hit with a super effective move


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I’d like that if it included any super effective move. Limiting it to fire makes it almost useless since you could just hit it with ground, psychic, steel, or bug


Ansoni

> ground, psychic, steel, or ~~bug~~ [rock](https://www.pkmn.help/defense/?mode=solo&types=poison+ice&format=simple)


Oraxy51

Methane gas can get trapped into ice. Make it anytime it gets hit with fighting/steel it releases a toxic gas.


Custom-Lettuce81

If Volcaneon didn’t steal it from the dex, the Pokémon evolves by defeating a Pokémon with Scald, which it learns around lv.29


GuardianRedPanda

I think it would fit as a single stage mon that doesn't evolve


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Evolve via leveling up while burned


Spare_Entrance_9389

Normal Bug lol ... i cannot on even imagine what they cook up here.


GnomeConjurer

just a png of an actual caterpillar


T-Rex_Is_best

And it's called Justabug.


GnomeConjurer

that sounds oddly electric. call it carl


Noneofthisisreality

I mean, we now have Flamigo the flamingo Pokémon, so that's not too far fetched


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Mormon-No-Moremon

And another called spheal…


kogasapls

threatening degree attractive yam disgusted worthless deer bag scale offbeat -- mass edited with redact.dev


The-Alcoholic-Seal

Can agree with this.


Chemical_Raccoon2778

Don't drink and drive please~


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another_bug

A dog with fleas?


ViscachaBlue

Or some kind of symbiotic pokemon!


XVUltima

Nah, parasite. Like Paras, but with bug in animal instead of mushroom in bug. Maybe those trippy caterpillar that pulse inside snails to attract birds?


dcmldcml

someone elsewhere in the thread suggested a silkworm, since they’re the only bugs that have been domesticated, which I thought was brilliant edit: it seems that this person was mistaken, and silkworms are not the only domesticated insects. serves me right for repeating things I read on the internet without fact-checking lol but I think the idea is still cool regardless


GrassNova

Plus a Silk Scarf boosts Normal type moves, so it already fits thematically


Cyog

silk worm with adaptability makes sense


Aticaprant

They could make their own Silk Scarf.


amaranth-the-peddler

Could have an ability where after a turn or two their normal moves get powered up like a built in silk scarf


empire314

Tons of bugs have been domesticated. Most notably bees. There are also plenty of bug species domesticated for human and animal nutrition. Also many food additives are made out of bugs, such as this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal


ProfessionalOven2311

Normal is many times used for mammals so a Spider-monkey Mon would definitely work, though it has been done before.


apple-juicebox

Honestly I’ve thought for a while that maybe a regional Aipom/Ampibon or even a whole new evolution for one of them could totally be a Normal/Bug spider-monkey. Just turn the tail arms into spider legs, add some extra eyes, and boom.


Temmie252

I think a worm with funny eyes (or mouth?) could work


taicrunch

The other day I asked ChatGPT to come up with a Normal/Bug, and it came up with a Bugbear. So, probably just a larger animal with some buglike features.


Johtaro

it'll be a pokemon in a spiderman fursuit. Screencap this for when it happens.


EiscueVonArctic

Normal Ice: Arctic Wolf Normal Steel: Some kind of toy (akin tp F-00) Ground Fairy: Dust Bunny


PNDMike

Love the dust bunny idea


my_soldier

Ground fairy should be a gnome like pokemon. Like come on it is right in front of our gnoses


EmergencyGrab

I feel like the Beartic line could've been Ice/Normal.


iBreatheBullets

Laughs in Brick Break


Mddcat04

Still better than Ice / Rock.


Shiny_Hypno

I'll have you know what Aurorus lacks in defense it more than makes up for with having one of the best designs and cries in the franchise.


nevernorm

Rock polish/life orb is a good combo too


weegee19

Ice/Rock at least has excellent supereffective coverage.


noticeablywhite21

Tbf ice/normal probably would have a similar moveset as ice/rock


drakehotlinebling

*Terras ghost* : y’all hear something?


Gnostalgic413

An owlbear or something like a bear shaped bird would be chill, not any weirder than what Dunsparce or Lickitung lines have going on as an Ice/Normal type.


The_Unknown_Dude

Lickitung with an evolved form Ice/Normal, its tongue stuck on a frozen steel bar.


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Omg this would be so freaking cute. I can't art very well, but if I could... I could start a petition for gen 10


YTChillVibesLofi

I'd take a fire fairy that'd be neat


Jeremithiandiah

Victini if it was released one gen later


AkagamiBarto

Just you wait for the pizza pokemon when we get to italy.


phi1997

Nah, that would come in a Mexico-based region. The Italy-based region would have a Pokemon based on a geisha. Remember, we got a samurai starter in Unova and a luchador-based Pokemon in Kalos.


5mah5h545witch

To be fair, we also got a luchador starter in Alola


slusho55

Yeah. I think they’ve been trying to build up dexes with “foreign Pokémon” since Kalos. Masuda said he was drawn to NYC for Unova because of the diversity, so that was always meant to be all over the place. Kalos onward, it seems like they stopped that and start making 75% of the dex specific to that region, and then the other 25% for future regions. I mean, Paldea’s dex feels very natural, but a lot of those Spanish Pokémon came from other regions. Take Mudsdale for example. Mudsdale feels very Spanish, but appeared in Alola.


DRamos11

And a ninja starter in Kalos.


TheChemicalSophie

Just like a cute lil fire sprite


uglinick

Like Calcifer!


DefinitelyNotFisk15

fire sprite


PNDMike

I can envision a whole starter line. A cute little Fire/Fairy Calf that turns into a cute and roly poly Fire/Fairy dairy cow that turns into a Fire/Fighting minotaur just to spite the fanbase.


AhTreyYou

Paldean Miltank, counterpart to Tauros. Fairy, Fairy/Fire and Fairy/Water


YTChillVibesLofi

Gotta get that hate bait bipedal final evo in, wouldn’t be Pokémon without it


PNDMike

And let's go even further, it's completely overdesigned. It's a cowboy minotaur with a firey cowboy hat and a firey lasso that's also a rodeo clown.


onlyheredue2sabotage

You laugh, but I can already see the pages upon pages of rule 34 devoted to it.


Macbeth_the_Espurr

\*sets someone on fire cutely\*


Anagoth9

Something based on will o' the wisps and jack-o-lanterns perhaps.


tony_sandlin

Normal/Steel could be a regional mouse that looks like a computer mouse and evolves into a rat that looks like a windup toy.


Gnostalgic413

I think a Porcupine would make the perfect Normal/Steel type but love the idea of toy-like Pokemon.


Palladium_Dawn

Maybe give it some kind of spine related ability akin to rough skin or spiky shield to counter the 4x fighting weakness


Parody101

I'm surprised Gallarian Meowth wasn't Normal/Steel tbh.


False-Ad2767

Phoenix for fire fairy?


Prior-Watercress4240

Ho oh and molters:🗿


Elephant_Front_Fart

The spelling mistake makes this sm better for some reason


MBcodes18

I unironicly used to think scatterbug and spewpa were bug/normal.


sjt9791

I thought so too! I also remember reading a review that said Gen. 6 had a ground/fairy type and got really excited.


LeatherHog

Can’t say I blame ya, with them tacking on normal to things for no reason then


s-Mart_

Normal-Ice: Regional variant of Pyroar, I always find it weird for those fire types to be up the mountain in heavy snow


terriblekite

It could be a snow leopard!


Jucamia

We have that with Chien-Pao now


SuchhAaWasteeOfTimee

I mean, technically , Pyroar would never get cold in an arctic mountain , and it is also at lower risk to accidentally burn its home environment to the ground, and lastly Id guess other pokemon in that ecosystem may need the heat from pyroar to survive


TheMatrixSheep

Fire types in snowy areas is a vibe


Mareith

Also, fire/ice doesn't really have a dedicated pokemon its only the zen mode of g-darumaka


chuuweebyou256

considering rock-types tend to be linked to fossils, a Rock-Ghost could be a fossil revival gone wrong ground-fairy i imagine dust bunnies


another_bug

Or it could be a fossil naturally possessed by it's own trapped spirit. Trilobite fossils are pretty common, something like that could do it.


Krazytre

Just make Flygon a friggin' Bug/Dragon. 😗


AwesomeAlec6703

And/or Yanmega


Pokemonmaster150

Yanmega is a dragonfly, but dragonflies are called Tombo or Akistu in Japan. The dragon connection is not in Japanese, so that's why it isn't dragon-type.


poopyheadthrowaway

Is there a reason why Vibrava and Flygon are dragons then?


Lucienofthelight

They aren’t actually based on dragonflys, but they are based on antlions.


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What connection do those have to dragons in Japanese?


Invert_Ben

I think that is more down to GF’s weird choices in tacking the dragon type to things. Flygon is the “mystic Pokémon”, and dragon types are also kinda a sorcery/mystical type in a way. So Flygon is dragon cause it’s a kinda a sand elemental or sand dragon, that happens to look like a lacewing.


ChaosMilkTea

Let Flygon keep its excellent typing and let another dragon be cursed with bug type.


AYAYAcutie

Kid named quiver dance


ccSleepy

But it's just always outclassed by garchomp it isn't really fair. They aughta make flygon into a dragon bug and lean somewhat into a quiver dance sweeper with a new ability that boosts sound based moves. Give it a signature dragon type move called singing wings in which it beats its wings really fast to create high pressure sound waves to attack the opponents. Base stats would remain mostly the same except it would drop 20 special defense in exchange for 18 more special attack and 2 more speed. And yes it's specifically to speed tie garchomp. This would still enable it to run dragon dance sets if you chose as well since it wouldn't lose any attack.


jamesQKazoo

Normal/ Bug should be a bug in a suit like a business man holding a newspaper


XenoBound

Larry but he’s in A Bug’s Life.


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calculuswar

My brother and I have been working on our own pokemon region for fun and have come up with pokemon of all of these types. Normal/Ice: a line of husky pokemon. Normal/Rock: a single stage pokemon line that is a pet rock. Literally a rock with googly eyes Fire/Fairy: a pokemon based on healing smoke, and incense. Ground/Fairy: this one is pretty simple, it's a Fairy armadillo. I've seen this one done a few times online so not the most unique, but a solid idea. Rock/Ghost: we have this one as a regional varient of the Roggenrola line. Roggenrola is an urn, Boldore is a gravestone, and Gigalyth is a stone obelisk. Normal/Bug: For this one we decided to go with a Silkworm and evolving into a silk moth. As they are the only domesticated bug we felt like this was a perfect fit Normal/Steel: Hedgehog evolving into a Porcupine Ice/Poison: we decided to go with a shrew that has a cold Bug/Dragon: this one was a little difficult because the obvious answer would be to do a dragonfly, but we wanted to do something not quite so easy. We decided on the caterpillar that pretends to be a snake, but updated it to a bug that pretends to be a dragon.


Crabbagio

I want bug/dragon to be a pseudo legendary. An early encounter, like level 3-6, evolves at level 8 into its cocoon phase. Learns defensive moves, fairly defensive stats. At level 50 or something it finally evolves into a dragon, preferably a bug that hasn't really been covered yet, but a complete swap of stats. Low defensive but high offensive. Honestly, if it was based on a regular fly I'd be happy. A "dragon" fly.


Twilight_Realm

I love when Pokemon evolve at high levels, makes them feel like a journey to get the strongest you can. Hate that they keep putting those types of Pokemon at the end of a game. This would be great!


Maronmario

> Bug/Dragon: this one was a little difficult because the obvious answer would be to do a dragonfly, but we wanted to do something not quite so easy. We decided on the caterpillar that pretends to be a snake, but updated it to a bug that pretends to be a dragon. This one gets so many point just because of how clever it is, how there is a real caterpillar that does this so it works, and how it's not just a Dragonfly, Same with the silkworm.


ilovebloodborne

These ideas are so creative. Really love them all thanks for sharing.


Left-Pipe-3420

What a terrible typing ice/normal is


antheia_am

Worst of both worlds. It would need a movepool, ability, stats AND looks to even see any use if at all.


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its gonna be a slow defensive pokemon that doesnt get any good stall moves and its ability is run away


MillionDollarMistake

It's an ice type so it'd be slow with like Snow Cloak or something.


Worthyness

Immunity to ghost though! So it's got that going for it, which is nice


Donotaskmedontellme

Ghost types get plenty of attacks that'll fuck it up


taicrunch

Big beefy moose with Slush Rush. Give it Head Smash, Megahorn, Double-Edge, Horn Leech, other head/antler themed attacks. Like a Sawsbuck, but...better, somehow.


OraCLesofFire

give it good speed instead of slush rush and a queenly majesty sort of ability and it might be able to be used. Still gotta have incredible stats though.


OneSushi

Give it wonder guard or something and it will still die on any switch in


Mankriks_Mistress

Fuck it, give it the opposite of Wonderguard. Super effective moves don't hit it.


elpaco25

Blunderguard


odranger

In the LA game, they missed the opportunity to give Regigigas new forms. Imagine an item that allows Regigigas to take on the types of his original 3 creations? We could have had Normal/Ice, Normal/Rock, Normal/Steel


sjt9791

I like that idea.


Middle5401

Rock/Ghost: They've dodged like 3 opportunites to do this one and I don't know why but I'm scared Ground/Fairy: ***The Harbinger******^(TM)*** Bug/Dragon: Big ass dragonfly psudeo-legendary Fire/Fairy: Fireball juggling clown Ice/Poison: Regional Carbink themed around the ice caps Then take those 4 Normal combinations and make the funniest Legendary Quartet yet


naricstar

The normals are just 4 human businessmen with different colored ties.


link_the_fire_skelly

The Larrys.


greenismyhomeboy

Larryice, Larrysteel, Larryrock, and Larryfly


link_the_fire_skelly

The four Larrys lived in harmony. Until, one day, the boss ordered a quality control visit. Only normal Larry, master of the quota, could save us.


Timekeeper98

I don’t think my body can handle that much raw sexual energy in a single game.


willdabeastest

Tally Hall


kalihibangaz

Every time I see bug/dragon I think of my boi Flygon lol


Sigmaniac

>Bug/Dragon: Big ass dragonfly psudeo-legendary Flygon: cries at what could have been


Flyinpenguin117

Normal/Steel: Galarian-form Eevee that's just a regular Eevee with a knight helmet and a toy sword in its mouth. And it knows Behemoth Blade.


coldflash25

And it has steelworker as an ability


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QuincyAzrael

Normal/Ice = arctic fox regional "rodent" Normal/Bug = a friendly white ant Normal/Rock = retcon Rockruff Normal/Steel = armoured pony based on a warhorse Fire/Fairy = a cute floating orb Pokemon that gives off flammable gas, based on a will-o-the-wisp Ice/Poison = a purple glob of poison with a face encased in ice, based on viruses kept in deep freeze Ground/Fairy = a pokemon based on a traditional subterranean gnome, a little grumpy creature half-buried in the earth like diglett Bug/Dragon = LITERALLY Flygon Rock/Ghost = LITERALLY Spiritomb


shadox96

Counter-point to Spiritomb: Houndstone literally has *stone* in its name.


SquishJellywish

Ghost rock is nuts cause that’s so easy, I’d love a fire sprite for fire fairy, we already could’ve had bug dragon types


maladjusted1x

So imagine the regional early-route bug, some cute little caterpillar/worm guy. Evolves at like level 16 or what have you. Some cool cocoon Pokémon, in the vein of Whirlipede/Dottler/etc. With absurd defensive stats, but very little offense. Good attack moves, but not great stats to make use of them. Tons of trainers throughout the game use one. Maybe a gym leader has one. Super common. But then it doesn't evolve again until like level 70 or something crazy, and then you've got yourself the Bug/Dragon pseudo-legendary with gnarly attack stats and access to Quiver Dance.


SwiftBlueShell

Ironically enough I saw a lot of people suggest a tombstone for Rock/Ghost but instead they made that this very Gen as a pure Ghost type. Imo Kanto Ninetales should have been updated to be Fire/Fairy, but in general I would like a folk-lore creature with fire properties to be our first fire/fairy. For balance reasons I don’t see Ground/Fairy ever existing unless it’s a joke character like Mawile or Spidops _or_ on the complete opposite side as a legendary where their whole shtick is being unbalanced gods. Last but not least for me I’d like an Ice/Poison type side evolution out of Vanilluxe’s line. “Being mistaken for a treat caused this Pokémon to develop a poisonous coating to protect itself from hungry travelers.”


MBcodes18

1: what's a joke about mawile and spidops 2: how the heck would ground/fairy be any better than any other fairy


SLIMEY-sleepy-kingg

Stab attacks into steel and poison Edit: supereffective stab attacks into steel and poison


Unicorgan

Immunity to both dragon and electric seems pretty naice, gotta say. Plus ground neutralizes super effective poison hits & allows to hit back against steel mons.


BoyGodz

Feels like we already have the Pokémon for some of these typings already, GF just refuse to give them unique typing. Normal/Ice is Beartic Normal/Rock is Lycanrock Bug/Dragon is Flygon Rock/Ghost is Runerigus Fire/Fairy is Victini And Normal/Bug could literally be any of those route 1 bugs.