Choose your allegiance.

>>57970458 (OP)
Bug/Dragon would just turn flygon into an even bigger shitmon

>>57970458 (OP)
I choose the better design in Trapinch

>>57970458 (OP)
Bro we have like one bug/ground mon and bug/dragon won’t happen until Gen 12 probably

>>57970458 (OP)
I think bug dragon fits thematically, but when we do get bug dragon, I want it to be good. Not a shitmon. I think with compound eyes, a bug dragon could be great with a bunch of powerful but innacurate attacks. Mega horn, dragon rush, stone edge, and iron tail/gunk shot for fairy coverage.

>>57970458 (OP)
Ground/dragon

i like him the way he is

>>57970458 (OP)
bug/dragon has horrible synergy

Flygon would be salvaged if they made it a special attacker
>+15 Special Attack
>Quiver Dance
>Tinted Lens

Bug/dragon
I'm still mad that ORAS didn't give us mega flygon

>>57970458 (OP)
Dragon/Flying

>>57970458 (OP)
All of the above.

>>57970820
Redux never beating the ugly Fakemon allegations

>>57970458 (OP)
Ground/Flying with an ability that gives him STAB on Bug and Dragon attacks

>>57970458 (OP)
Ground/Dragon. It really doesn't look like a bug.

>>57970895
Looks more like a bug than anything to do with "Ground"

>>57970458 (OP)
Ground/Dragon for Flygon and any potential Mega Flygon.
Bug/Dragon for regional form or lookalike line.

>>57970458 (OP)
Ground/Dragon. Just make Levitate an innate ability for Dragon and Ghost like Flying type, freeing up the Ability slot. Giving it a good/unique Ability is the only real way it's ever going to find a niche to compete with Garchomp without reworking its stats or move set.

>>57970458 (OP)
Flygon looks nothing like a bug and I hate this bug/dragon meme, it’s entirely bugfags desperate to get a kewl dragon mon.

>>57970458 (OP)
bug/flying

>>57970676
are you on meth? Earth Power+Draco Meteor/Dragon Pulse kills pretty much everything if you have 105 special attack. Blissey can't even thunder wave you. I think this would just be a better Volcarona as it doesn't give a shit about hazards and can run it's own item and wouldn't need to tera except defensively.

>>57970458 (OP)
Bug / Ground makes by far the most sense
It's the sand spirit pokemon
It evolves from an antlion
It's also the most kino typing, bug/dragon is gay and dragon/ground is cucked by chomp

>>57971213
>>57970895
Trapinch
>Trapinch appears to be based on the larval stage of the antlion, which live in conical sandy pits before maturing into winged adults. Its head resembles a cartoonish depiction of foothold traps.
Vibrava
>Vibrava appears to be based on the adult stage of an antlion, though it seems to draw more visual inspiration from mayflies, possibly nodding to the Japanese word for an adult antlion, usuba-kagerou, or "thin-winged mayfly". Combined with an antlion's resemblance to a dragonfly, Vibrava's typing suggests that it may also draw inspiration from sanddragons. Its tendency to create harsh noises with its wings is similar to that of a cicada.

>>57970458 (OP)
Gotta keep it how it is, but if I had to choose, Ground Bug is slightly more interesting as it is a fast U-turn user with moderate bulk that can switch in and out a bunch thanks to levitate while Ground is always useful on such a fast mon. I'd much rather have something be walled by flying types than by fairy types.
>>57971034
Ninetales is honestly fine as it is competitively, but Fire/Ghost is really over done by this point and Fire/Psychic (especially on a fox) is wearing a bit thin too. Fairy might be nice and interesting (assuming it at least gets dazzling gleam), though it might end up being too good of a weather setter, though I suppose that'd be in line with it's counterpart.
>>57971165
I do really like the thought of having a ghost and rock type, but I don't think Cofagrigus could pull it off even with Power Gem. Just too many things it's weak to.... but I think Ground is too saturated. So with Steel, we'd be trading in a Poison quad resist into an immunity and one to the condition, a Water weakness for a Fire one, and nothing for the Grass resistance. I'd maybe say Steel, but if access to Stealth Rock is on the table, then Rock may actually win out. It is a fairly good offensive combo though, just not something that'd make it as clear cut as it would be on a different stat spread. So pure Ghost is preferred, but depending on the access to SR, I'd give it to Steel.

>>57971167
Ghost/Psychic is actually a fairly interesting type when you're not slow as shit. Psyshock stuff maybe access to Psychic Noise would all be pretty cool. Flutter Mane but worse, isn't really an interesting concept.
>>57971171
Steel/Fairy is way too good to give up, though obviously Dark/Fairy is a (far) second place.
>>57971174
Nothing is gonna change their absolute shitmons status. However, if we're talking about evolutions, I actually had a concept (before gen 9) about both of them over adapting to each other. Zangoose goes futuristic and cyborg-like becoming Normal/Steel to get an immunity to the Poison attacks. Seviper would seek out ancient arcane knowledge and ascend to a Poison/Ghost to get an immunity to the Normal attacks. Zangoose gets double immunity from Seviper's stabs, but Seviper can always Fire Blast Zangoose to smithereens.

>>57970458 (OP)
considering there are no actual decent bug/ground pokemon (nincada loses it upon evolution, and wormadame is a shitmon), it sounds like the most interesting type.
Bug/Dragon sounds cool on paper, but the more you think about it, the worse it gets.

Alternatively give its meme mega an ability that is bug stab + levitate combined, so you get your "3 typed" bug Flygon, without losing anything other than your dedicated mega slot.

>>57971034
I always thought it was Fire/Psychic until Alolan version came out
Psychic is more of an alluring type while Fairy is the cutest type so I'd say Psychic is more fitting
>>57971165
Thought it was Ghost/Steel
competitively it gets a big boost too
>>57971171
not sure why it's Steel so Dark/Fairy
>>57971174
Normal is fine for Zangoose, but Poison/Dark for Seviper

>>57970836
They're not all hitters to be sure, but I appreciate most of them. I'm not too picky though

>special snowflake bug dragon faggots
>sandstorm Pokémon thematically about living in deserts with sandstorm while also whipping up sandstorms
>even comes with its own specially adapted eye goggles so it can see
>takes damage from sandstorms
>but if it's given a thematic ability like sand rush, sand force, or sand veil you faggots would whine because it's not a special snowflake bugiate ability for bug boomburst or compoundeyes
>don't want bug ground because he's not a cool dwagon anymore
Ground dragon but with the compromise that it can have abilities that aren't levitate is the only correct answer

>>57970458 (OP)
Grass dragon obviously.

Rock/Bug

>>57972103
>tfw still no butchy boy pokemon

>>57971317
Flygon
>...

>>57971317
Having a lifestyle similar to antlions =/= looking like antlions =/= being antlions

>>57970836
The ice mega Flygon looks great, what are you on about

>is a dragonfly
>which is a bug
>that flies
>not a bug type
>not a flying type
explain?

>>57971764
thread

>>57970458 (OP)
Bug/Dragon if it gets a way to nullify sand damage. Why doesn’t Flygon get Sand Stream anyway?
>>57971034
Fire/Ghost easily. Fire/Fairy is really overdone and Ghost fits really well considering Ninetales is based on a kitsune.
>>57971165
Ghost/Steel is objectively cool as hell and thematically makes sense.
>>57971167
Ghost/Fairy. Sure, it’s just shitty Flutter Mane, but it’s still a solid buff for Mismagius that thematically makes sense.
>>57971171
Hear me out - Dark/Steel. Mawile was made for STAB Crunches, it just works too well. It can still have Fairy coverage though.
>>57971174
Normal/Fighting Zangoose and Poison/Dark Seviper. I feel it’s hard to make these two have advantages and disadvantages against each other.

>>57972210
>>57972219
(You):
>mightyena isn't a dog!! just because it looks like a dog and the dex entry is like a dog and the name is like a dog and it lives like a dog and it evolves from a dog pokemon doesn't mean it's a dog!!!
Bug/Ground is objectively the correct typing.

>>57972331
>but what about [completely unrelated mon]
I accept your concession

>>57971237
Fine, it just gets Quiver Dance and nothing more. I just want to make use of that humongous special movepool it has

>>57970475
There's objectively nothing wrong bug/dragon types

>>57972476
Neither STAB is neutral on fairy or steel
It goes from resisting sneaky pebbles to being weak to them
It has more glaring weaknesses than ground/dragon

>>57972482
None of this is true though. You're just hating on the type because you're a fairy and steel glazer.

>>57970820
>The stats are still garbage
lmao

>>57972482
don't care, give me cool typing that fits thematically

>>57972331
Flygon isn't a bug. It doesn't look like a bug, It isn't referred to as a bug in the dex. I agree that Trapinch and Vibrava should be Ground/Bug, but Flygon has evolved away from its bug origins and become a dragon, while retaining its line's affinity for sand. Thus, it should be Ground/Dragon. This is a more interestng progression, where a type that performs well in the early game but typically falters in the late game gets to evolve into a type that typically does well in the late game, rewarding trainers who stuck with a "weak" Bug type without having to fundamentally change the Bug design philosophy.

>>57972523
A regional form with Tinted Lens would be decent
The beta could be used for design

>>57971764
Correct. Let's see this thread end here now

>>57970458 (OP)
Bug/Dragon for sure and it should be pseudo legendary to give Bug-type one.

>>57972523
Flygon already has that

>>57971034
Fire/Psychic
>>57971165
Ghost/Ground (and Ghost/Rock for Runerigus)
>>57971167
Remain Mono Ghost
>>57971171
Dark/Steel
>>57971174
Normal/Fighting and Poison/Dark

>>57970458 (OP)
Trapinch: Bug/Ground
Vibrava: Bug/Dragon
Flagon: Ground/Dragon
It’s special thing would be changing types twice through evolution.