Why not pure fire

>a lion that normals

>inb4 that one anon who goes on a evangelical crusade about cartoon animals

It's mostly a normal animal, it just happens to have some fire on it.

Because they re-typed a lot of old normal types to Fairy in Gen 6, so to compensate made a selection of new additions part-normal to not lose the overall number of normal types.

>>57916000
No normal animal have fire on them though

>>57915788 (OP)
being Immune to Ghost is nice

>>57916000
Ok, then why is Ponyta/Rapidash pure fire?

>>57915788 (OP)
To give us our first unique typing as opposed to our 100th pure fire typing

>>57916198
Ponyta has biological fire spilling out of its body. Pyroar doesnt have any flames on it's body and it might not be able to biologically create fire. Could be making it in a similar way non fire types create fire type attacks. But since Pyroar is weak to water its classified as a fire type.

>>57915894
vs a lion that DOESN'T normal

>>57916198
Rapidash is more on fire than Pyroar is.

>>57917484
What about Arcanine?

>>57916198
Rapidash has a horn. That’s not normal.

>>57915788 (OP)
at least heliolisk's part normal typing makes sense since it has to generate its own electricity via solar power, i have nothing for pyroar

It was an arbitrary decision so a Pokemon with this type combination could exist for purposes of variety and worldbuilding.

>>57915788 (OP)
Lions are normal in Kenya.
Unlike other animals and countries which are not normal, and therefore shouldn’t be normal types

>>57915788 (OP)
Lyon's roar
Sound attacks are normal

Jesus christ you guys are so lost.
Lots of normal types are normal because of this

Exploud, Drampa (scream), Jigglypuff, Meloetta (sing)

Arboliva is the one that loses me

>>57918246
olive oil is basic ingredient in cooking

see if its a "boring mammal" it should be normal. heliolisk is an electric frill neck that channels three different weather effects. Befitting its environment.

Normal is the least offensive type combo to add to a pokemon. Both literally in the sense of coverage and figuratively in the sense that nothing about a pokemon needs to change when you design it with the normal type.

>>57915788 (OP)
because its brown

>>57918246
>Arboliva is the one that loses me
it's dryad, its half human