These are the only type combinations that have never been used.

smash smash
smash smash
pass smash
smash smash
pass

>>57907658 (OP)
If I had to guess, I feel like Normal/Rock or Normal/Ice would be next. Maybe its because of the Normal-type component, but both of those seem really easy to slap on a Pokemon and call it a day.

>>57907720
Rockruff looks like could have been that

Steel /normal seems like the hardest to make work
They’d probably have to force it like they did with Revavroom

>>57907720
Normal/Ice Furret based on the winter coat of stoats and ermines.

>>57907720
shame gamefreak won't allow that

>>57907661
Why would you smash a Ground Fairy, but not a Fire Fairy?
>>57907720
How is a Naked Molerat a Fairy?

>>57907658 (OP)
Do you really want this? It's actually worse than Frosmoth

>>57909922
>>57907658 (OP)

>>57907658 (OP)
What actual reason was there for Runigerus to be ghost/ground and not ghost/rock? I can understand Golurk being ghost/ground as traditionally golems were made of clay and its body is smoothed down like pottery. But Runerigus is based on runestones, which were carved onto rock. Yet despite being able to easily pass for rock being grey and angular the dex goes out of its way to classify it as a clay slab.

>>57907658 (OP)
>blacephalon isn't fire / fairy
>wyrdeer isn't ice / normal
>spiritomb isn't rock / ghost
fuck gamefreak

>>57907658 (OP)
>HoundSTONE
>Not rock type

>>57909487
Couldnt it just be a rat who picked up a sword something?

>>57907658 (OP)

Fire/Fairy can be Ukobach.

>>57907720
>fire fairy
Do you want to destroy my dick or something?

>>57907658 (OP)
IMO this is the greatest opportunity for a Normal legendary group.
>Normal/Ice
>Normal/Bug
>Normal/Rock
>Normal/Steel

Lore is simple. They became busted mofos on their territories on their own. Not seales evil creatures, deities or something like that. But an avarage mosquito became this powerful mon that rules the designated forest area etc.

>>57907720
>naked mole rat centipede
Thanks I hate it.

>>57910383
Ground/Fairy should be a gnome, a pink fairy armadillo or a star nosed mole (could be another Diglett, Dugtrio form)

>>57910344
>Ability: Normal Surge - sets Normal Terrain for 5 turns
>Normal Terrain: Effected mons deal x1.5 damage with Normal moves and take 3/4 damage from SE attacks

>>57909581
If anything a naked mole rat should be the Normal/Bug because they're the only eusocial mammal. They have a queen who constantly shits out babies and a worker caste system and everything.

>>57907658 (OP)
Reminxer that Bug/Ground still only has Nincada

>>57910485
That freaking shit grinding scrab should have been one. With Water immunity as an ability since the dungball would just absorb that.

>>57907720
i've always wanted a desert rain frog ground/fairy
and an ice/poison mon themed around the common cold's morphology is pretty obvious, and could easily be a regional koffing w/an evolution called sneezing

>>57907720
fire/fairy and rock/ghost are TOP TIER. norm/bug is terrifying. bug/dragon not being flygon is infuriating but also funny.

>>57910045
technically the rock is simply a container for tomb, but I wouldn't be mad at the change.

>>57907720
Normal bug should be a rat with fleas that evolves into poison/bug

>>57912051
>normal/bug peasant rat with fleas
>poison/bug Rat King with a little crown riding a giant flea
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>>57907658 (OP)
>Normal+Ice, Rock, Steel
All functionally useless combos. At best they'd be gimmicks and not very good ones without some particularly busted abilities.
>Normal+Bug
Has a niche for neutralizing Fighting and giving an otherwise Normal-type Pokemon some resistances, but instead of having one common 2x weakness it now has three common ones.
>Fire+Fairy
Actually really interesting defensive options here, lots of resistances. Only issue is it has some relatively common weaknesses including ground so it'd have to be fast or insanely bulky.
>Ice+Poison
Maybe a decent Fairy/Dragon killer? But that's super niche and these two types are always in exact opposite speed tiers meaning this would probably be in a very awkward middle ground with the benefits of neither.
>Ground+Fairy
Completely inoffensive combination but also not exactly inspiring any potentially interesting set-up here.
>Bug+Dragon
It should've just been Flygon but we were robbed. But also would be comically suboptimal with FIVE FUCKING WEAKNESSES. Only real compensation is it has some solid resistances.
>Rock+Ghost
Kinda has some sauce with an interesting defensive niche against Fighting but six weaknesses is BRUTAL. Especially if it ends up veering slow or an awkward middle ground of speed tier like Ice+Poison would be.

I think we've kinda hit the maximum capacity for interesting type combinations. Fire+Fairy and Rock+Ghost could be done in one generation and I doubt they'd really shake the meta or be particularly memorable besides their type combos.

>>57912083
>But also would be comically suboptimal with FIVE FUCKING WEAKNESSES
Hasn't stopped Rillaboom

>>57912067
I have more ideas
>Ground Fairy is a Gnome Rotting Log with big ears based on Jew's Ear Fungus
>Makes fairy rings that double as boxxing rings and you can only leave the ring by fighting it
>Ice Poison is a Wendigo Bacteriophage thing
>Bug Dragon is a Monarch Butterfly that's middle stage is a rocket chrysalis and it's from space

Ice types should get a defensive change for the better. Only being able to resist itself is fucking crazy.

>>57912083
>>ground/fairy
>>Completely inoffensive combination
>>Ground and fucking Fairy
campaignshitter only looks at resists, and doesnt notice the combo is only resisted by Fire/Flying, Steel/Flying, and Crobat.
Speed at 100, attacking stat at 120, any remotely viable ability and this thing is OU.

>inb4 fanfic
Oh it tears VGC a new one too. Especially if it's physical. At least until the legendaries are allowed (assuming it isnt one)

>>57912140
Grass types too, but something that doesn't help Amoongus

>>57912112
>Busted ability minmaxed busted signature move busted movepool busted glassy glide
Flygon doesn't have any of these either

>>57912162
Levitate and Uturn/Earthquake are pretty busted in their respective categories. I wouldn't call Rillaboom's stats exactly minmaxed but they're definitely moreso than Flygon's... but let's be frank, even with his current typing Flygon's not exactly tearing things up.

>>57912083
God you're retarded and you type like a complete faggot too. How the fuck is Ground/Fairy "inoffensive" what the fuck does that even mean? Play the game retard

>>57912127
>jew's ears
>scientific name: jew's ears
Yeah that's gonna be a hard sell to TPCi

>>57910064
Returning because I’m bored and want to see what I can come up with
>Normal Steel
Mouse or rat musketeers. Might evolve into a king with a big crown and more armor.
Alternatively a regional form of Mareep where it’s covered in steel wool
>Normal ice
Animals in winter coats. Any of them. Penguins.
>Normal bug
A house fly, a silverfish (even if we already have one), a mosquito or a cockroach.
>Normal rock
A chicken because it eats rocks and pebbles.
Some sort of living kitchen salt, or an animal with salt on it.
>Fire Fairy
Theres so many options for this one. a fire sprite.
Could also be a lightning bug/firefly. Living fairy lights.
>Ice poison
Maybe something based off the Snow Queen fairy tale, or a jynx evo. Maybe a leopard seal crossed with a snake. Maybe a Portuguese Man-o-war crossed with a glacier
>Ground fairy
Earth sprite. Could be a cool sandshrew forme too
>Bug dragon
Flygon and yanma formes. I feel like you could also combine a wyrm and a caterpillar for something cool, or maybe a scorpion dragon.
>Rock ghost
Anything made of rock thats been possessed. Those lion dog statues they have in china that come alive to protect places would be cool.

>>57912278
>Ice/Poison

Most thematic thing I can think up is something like cubchoo of a sickly mon suffering from a cold. Maybe a variant split evolution to cubchoo were the cold gets worse as I like cubchoo but hate beartic.

>>57912282
Beartic’s design is such a let down yeah, would love a variant that didnt suck.
When I’m thinking ice poison my mind goes more towards arctic predators (bacteria on their teeth) and fantasy characters (snow queen poisoning the hearts of children with her ice, norse mythos, etc).
Could maybe do something with poisons that kill by lowering internal temperatures too I guess

Going to be a bitch and double post because I just got an idea:
An ice/poison hydra, naga, or medusa that turns people to ice rather than rock.

>>57907658 (OP)
I want Normal dual types for the sake of gaining Ghost immunity while barely changing the rest of the type matchups. x4 weaknesses always suck but Steel is at least good defensively so it makes up for it. Bug is resistant to Fighting so it would have only two weaknesses instead of three and it's now immune to something
>>57907720
love the Bug/Normal and Rock/Ghost concepts
>>57910485
what was up with gen 3 taking new (at the time) Bug dual types only to evolve into more Bug/Flying types? I still love Masquerain though

I'd like the first Ground/Fairy to be a gnome or other fae creature (lots live underground)

>>57912083
Normal Steel would be an improvement over pure Steel unless the pokemon's role is tanking physical attack (and even then it may still be). If that's not their role, their still scared shitless from Close Combat. Maybe that turns 1 or 2 would be 2HKOs into OHKOs from pokemon that get it as coverage in whatever meta its in. The benefit of a Ghost immunity outweighs the Close Combat weakness. Barely any type combos resist Fairy+Ghost but this would. If the pokemon is more specially bulky, then it would absolutely benefit. If it's an offensive pokemon, then an immunity provides more switch in and set up opportunities than the weakness would. If its offensive, it would also gain essential neutral stab damage against Water and Fire types which would otherwise counter a Steel type. Normal sucks on it's own, but compared to a single type, its almost always an improvement if added.

>>57912472
Better way to explain it: Normal Steel is a Dark Steel with slightly better defenses but slightly worse offenses. Bisharp, even before it got an evolution with a cheat ability, the best physical move in the game, and defog spam that triggered defiant, was still UU with, honestly, unimpressive stats. A Normal Steel with reasonable tools that other good pokemon get, could be great not inspite of but also because of its typing.

>>57912344
>only two weaknesses instead of three
nevermind it would still have three weaknesses. no idea how I made that mistake

>>57907658 (OP)
...For good reason!

Gurdurr should be normal steel

>>57907658 (OP)
guys I just had an idea charizard but hes a fairy

>>57912487
Normal/grass >normal/steel >normal/rock

insane type changes

>>57907658 (OP)
Hot take: Normal should have never been combined with Elemental or Specialist types. That should be a trait - indeed a feature! - of the type.

>>57913841
>bug Charizard

>>57910485
I can't say I blame you for forgetting about this thing.

>>57912423
shame he redesigned them and sold already

>>57914288
Its not perfect but like the older design better honestly
>>57910485
>>57914006
Its still bizarre as fuck that Bug/Ground types are so fucking rare

>>57912489
Fairyzard

>>57907658 (OP)
what do you mean, OP? We already have all of those
>Normal/Ice
Delibird
>Normal/Rock
Rockruff and Lycanroc
>Fire/Fairy
Victini
>Ground/Fairy
Wormadam
>Rock/Ghost
Runerigus and Houndstone
>Normal/Bug
Scatterbug and Spewpa
>Normal/Steel
Galarian Meowth, Perrserker, and Bloodmoon Ursaluna
>Ice/Poison
Cubchoo
>Bug/Dragon
Yanmega, Vibrava, and the Applin line

Why isn't there a single bug/dragon let alone dozens of them? They could have such cool designs, think about. Insects and dragons. Two of the coolest groups of creatures, the possibilites are infinite.

>>57915437
TIL there are exactly zero good trapdoor spider fakemon designs

>>57907658 (OP)
Ice/normal based on weird sounds ice makes.

>>57909957
Because clay is ground not rock.
Its a CLAY tablet in pokedex e

>>57910405
Fund it.

>>57907720
>Misdreavus/Mismagius
I... approve?

>>57916378
Reading comprehension anon. That was literally brought up, the question is why even make it clay when the thing it is based off of is rock and it can completely pass for rock with no design changes.

>>57915506
>Delibird
flying makes sense for a bird pokemon
>Rockruff and Lycanroc
no need for normal types,pure rock is a correct type
>Victini
fairy type wasn't announced until 2011.
>Wormadam
steel/fairy and grass/fairy makes no sense for a bug type
>Runerigus and Houndstone
don't forget cursola
>Scatterbug and Spewpa
pure bug is fine, no ned for adding normal type
>Galarian Meowth, Perrserker
based on steel balls, no need for normal type
>Bloodmoon Ursaluna
just an ability , no need to lose the ground type
>Cubchoo
no signs of poison on cubchoo, just a ice drop.
>Yanmega, Vibrava, and the Applin line
Yanmega is based on a ladybug, no need for dragon typing, same with flygon and its megs, and applin is more an apple than a bug.

>>57907720
Ice/Poison
Partially based on the deadly cone snail

>>57917282
Another idea for an Ice/Poison, the design is so ugly, but it has a certain charm.

>>57910344
I like this idea. Would also be an opportunity to showcase that no typing is bad if you do it right

>>57907720
>rock/ghost stegosaurus
PLZ

>>57912083
Fuck off, comp fag.

>>57912169
>>57912141
Did you anons consider they might have meant "inoffensive" as in "unobjectionable"?

Is anyone surprised they haven’t had steel / normal THIS far in the franchise
Literally just have some rodent or dog or whatever pick up a sword or axe and call it a day

>>57917282
Very cool fakemon, no pun intended.
>>57917291
I want this. He looks so goofy

>>57907658 (OP)
FIRE FAIRY GET

>>57907658 (OP)
Legitimately HOW has bug/dragon never been used

>>57918099
I as the second post, yes I did. Ground/Fairy is one of the best offensive type combos possible in the game. It's not "unobjectionable", unless they give it complete shitmon stats it WILL make waves.

>>57907658 (OP)
They should add the Fairy type to Victini.
There should be an egyptian sphinx-like pokemon rock/ghost.
Normal/bug some creature that appears like a regular woodland critter but in reality is formed by hundreds of bugs.
That's all I have.

>>57918238
MEGA DELPHOX CHADS WILL WIN AGAIN

>>57907661
underrated

>>57917282
Ice/Poison could be a greenland shark