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[Ticonderoga]

Why the heck is flygon not dragon/flying...i mean, it has wings

[The Derpsparce]

For years I thought Empoleon was Water/Ice, being a penguin and all. The moment I realised it was Steel-type my mind was blown. x3

[Quomimi]

I love flying types, dragon types, and ice types. They're beautiful~~

I think one type that I always forget about is Shuckle. I always think it's a normal type, when it's actually Bug and Rock. And when I see Suddowoodo, I think "Yeah he's wood type.... Wait what?" XD

[Vanillite]

I always thought it was Water/Flying because it was the guardian of the seas and they live in the ocean. And it looks like a Water type because it's blue.
I learned it was a steel type just 2 months ago. It looks too small and soft to be a Steel type...
They didn't look like Poison types when I first saw them. Probably because I don't associate mammal-like Pokemon with the Poison type.

[Mars Adept Enten]

The Derpsparce, you aren't the only one who mistook Empoleon's typing. I too thought that it'd be Water/Ice, due to misreading its typing over on Serebii.net before D/P were released over here. It wasn't until I got my Piplup fully evolved that I found out I was wrong.
My thought process was along the lines of:
Yay! Prinplup's evolving! Ooh, that looks cool! *checks Empoleon's type* Wait... Steel type? What the Gehennom? It don't even look Steel type!

I don't really get the Water/Steel typing anyhow. I can't find any reasoning for the Steel typing on Bulbapedia other than its crown resembling a trident, but that seems rather weak reasoning, IMO.

[Metal Sonic]

Gyarados because when I caught it was at the Lake of Rage I was like, Yes! My first shiny! Then when it was the Pokedex entry I was like, Wait wut! It doesnt have any wings! I said that because it was a Water and Flying type, at the end of the Pokedex entry I did a facepalm.

This post has been edited by DarkPikachu732: Aug 21 2012, 09:51 AM

[Laurence the Mag...]

well, i would say the fact that swampert is part ground type, when i found out i was like O.o

[Andreutzu]

why the hell is lucario a steel type?

This!

[labtech9999]

Rawr

[Nikki girl789]

• 
• Suspected Type -
• Reasoning - Azurill, being a part of the Marill, only made sense to think that it was a Water type. Boy was I ever surprised to find out it was a Normal type!

I agree with the Azurill Pokemon one; I figured this would be water since the other two were I believed. Confusing.

[pinkriffic]

Jynx.

I just... I couldn't even guess the type of Jynx. Just, what? With Jynx, I wouldn't have been surprised it was Rock type, seriously.


Although, tbh:


Type: Nicki Minaj

[Mars Adept Enten]

On Jynx's typing: Odds are, if aspects of certain fanon opinions are right, Jynx being an Ice-type has something to do with her being either a Nordic princess/Norse Underworld goddess Hel, or a facsimile of. Other common interpretations are that her design is based off of the proverbial 'fat lady' in opera (as in the saying, "It's not over until the fat lady sings."), the Japanese fashion trends of Ganguro (Lit. 'Face black') or Yamanba (a corruption of Yama Uba, mentioned later), (this possible origin triggered cries of Jynx being a racist stereotype, even though in Japan, there is no stigma attatched to the blackface in performance arts, unlike here in the United States), the mythical Japanese Yuki Onna (lit. 'Snow woman', this is also the origins of Froslass), or the Yama Uba (lit. 'Mountain crone'.)

Information on Jynx from the following pages:
On the Origin of Species: Jynx (Bulbanews/Bulbagarden)
Jynx (Pokémon) (Bulbapedia)

This post has been edited by Mars Adept Enten: Sep 29 2012, 10:37 PM

[Yung]

Mars - I definitely agree with you in regards to the origin of Jynx's Ice type origination. I had did an entire paper when I was in High School regarding the goddess Hel and nearly ever source I found had included Jynx as a modern day reference to the goddess.

In regards to the original topic, I'll agree that the Red Gyarados was the first one that just blew my mind. I remember staring at him for hours trying to figure out the Flying aspect... he lives in a lake!

[purple umbreon]

[*]Relicanth. At first I thought it was a pure Water type, and when I found out its history I was like "Why can't it be classed as a fossil Pokemon and make it exceptionally hard to find?"

If I remember correctly, Relicanth is actually based on a fish, the coelacanth. They say that fish still looks the same like some million years ago.
I only know that from fishing for fish in Animal Crossing.

And now for me:
*I was surprised when I found out seel and shelder wheren't part ice like their evolutions.
*Sudowoodo being stone instead of grass never really surprised me that much but it did in the beginning.
*Azurill is a normal type? O.o I never knew that.
*I always thought shuckle was a rock/ground type but it's a rock/bug type.
*I thought shieldon was a pure steel type. I should have known it was part rock because all fossils are part rock
*Drapion being a poison/dark type instead of poison/bug type
*Serperior only being a grass type and not part poison like I first thought.
*Tynamo is an electric type, I thought it was also a water or ghost type.
"Haxorus is a pure dragon type? I'm not used to that.
*Stunfisk is a fish, but no water pokemon?
*Mienshao, why aren't you a psychic type?
*Golett is partly ghost type....
*Didn't expect lugia to be Psychic/flying. I also thought he would be a flying/water type
*Keldeo is part fighting. Didn't expect that.

This post has been edited by purple umbreon: Oct 3 2012, 11:11 AM

[Yung]

In all fairness I had honestly thought that Shuckle was a water type.

[dareco]

I still don't get why Gyarados is a water/flying type
It should have been water/dragon.

[Mars Adept Enten]

To add to purple umbreon's comments on Relicanth's origins, the particular species that Relicanth is based upon is Latimeria chalumnae.

Edit: And as for Shuckle's odd typing, that comes from the most likely origin of its design, endoliths, which are creatures that live in porous rocks or animal shells. Fungi, which are common endoliths, are also known as molds, which might possibly be the derivation of its species, the Mold Pokémon. Other possible origins are abalones (a type of shell, which belongs to the order Archaegastropoda, genus Haliotis, and is found on the western coast of the US), scale insects (small parasitic insect pests that attach to plants and produce a substance known as honeydew; they belong to the order Hemiptera, superfamily Coccoidae), and tortoises/turtles in regards to its appearance. Looking at the Japanese name derivation listed by Bulbapedia (壷 tsubo (lit. 'jar') and 富士壺 fujitsubo (lit. 'barnacle'), it quite possibly draws inspirations from barnacles as well.

Information on Relicanth courtesy of http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Rel..._(Pok%C3%A9mon)
Information on Shuckle courtesy of http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Shu..._(Pok%C3%A9mon), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abalone (for genus clarification), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_insect (for order/superfamily names)

This post has been edited by Mars Adept Enten: Oct 20 2012, 01:51 PM

[MrFuckUp]

Stunfisk
Tynamo + Eelektrik + Eelektross
Smoochum + Jynx
Victini
Lucario
Shelmet (should have been Bug/Steel)
Golett - Golurk (should have been Steel/Ghost)
Serperior (COULD have been Grass/Dragon)

[Chrome]

I wonder why Lucario is a Steel/FIghting type sometimes... O_O
It's a wolf, not a robotic thing. I get the whole Fighting but Steel?

[Yamper]

Never understood why Gyarados was part flying.. Water/Dragon for it would've been better >_>