ALL Unused Type Combinations in Pokémon Ranked by Probability

[@GurrenPrime]

For a lot of the normal type combos, I can imagine a Pokemon starting off as a pure normal, then gaining the extra type after evolving into their final form.

[@jmurray1110]

You mean litleo

[@porakiyadraekojin3390]

Beduf to Bebarrel, pure normal to normal/water (please excuse me if I typed the names wrong)

[@GurrenPrime]

@@jmurray1110 yeah, like that. It’s probably the easiest way to get those unused combos in.

[@emperorcubone]

I'm pretty sure Litleo is a Fire type too, but that is a good idea; like Bunnelby gaining Ground only after it evolves.

[@zarthimusprime]

I could see a regional rodent evolving from a Normal Hedgehog-like ‘mon to a Normal/Steel porcupine.

[@TiagoNomad]

If Houndstone were Rock/Ghost, it could’ve been the signature Pokémon of both Tyme and her sister Ryme. It’d make sense.

[@Joey15811]

Rock/Ghost looks like Stonjourner should have had it design wise.

[@RabblesTheBinx]

I feel like SV already has enough pairs that share an ace, especially now that the DLC dropped.

[@gentlepeeps3351]

Most likely needed a pure ghost type for dex reasons

[@lipika2841]

& if regular Marowak was also Ghost, it'd be used by both Agatha & Bertha. Tho they can still trade each other's differently typed Marowak to have more team diversity.

[@Mynameishassan0]

@@Joey15811definitely runerigis or cursola

[@Vahria-2_Rivaha-4_]

Fire/Electric would be a plasma pokemon. Would be fitting for Gen 5 Remake.

[@lorekeeper685]

Rotom heat

[@masterfury]

A "Plasma" mon is how I've seen that type combo work for a long time. Even an ability to have fire and electric moves hit as the type that is most effective. IE a fire move hits a water type as electric damage, or an electric move hits grass type as a fire move

[@mikeleddyphoto]

@@lorekeeper685watch the video to find out why they’re commenting about fire/electric

[@Compucles]

I've always imagined it as relating to an electrical fire, like if the design included broken cables.

[@marktan6427]

​@@Compucles same

[@alexgrissom3513]

Since normal is often seen as the pseudo sound type by GF, I think Kricketune is a great retro fit option for a bug/normal type

[@emperorcubone]

I could accept that; it works especially well since the only attack Kricketot could learn in Gen 4 was Bide, a Normal type move...

[@redjirachi1]

I think a stick insect could be Bug/Normal. The gimmick being that as a stick insect it's a bug trying to come off as a NORMAL stick

[@alexgrissom3513]

@@redjirachi1 ha, get stick bugged

[@WingedFish66]

It fits even more than usual because of the line's penchant for sound/music, which tends to be a Normal type trait (since there isn't a Sound type)

[@alexgrissom3513]

@@WingedFish66 …yes

[@RoninCatholic]

The fact that the Vulpix line weren't retroactively given the Fairy type when Fairy was added is a crime. A double crime when they added the Fairy type to the Ice variant from Alola!

[@Dan_-]

The fact that they weren't Ghost from the get-go.

[@RoninCatholic]

@@Dan_- That too. Ghost even fits their style of magical curse better than Fairy does. IMO Marowak (but not Cubone) should have also been Ghost from the start. Not Ghost/Fire, but Ghost/Ground or Ghost/Rock. Cubone could've been a Normal/Rock or pure Rock with Bone Club and Bonemerang being Rock moves instead of Ground, even, though I can see reasoning for the line being Ground type.

[@lukeblack8146]

Normal Rock/Ice/Steel could be used for a variant of the classic regis which makes them close to regigigas. It could also give the classic regis a signature move.

[@emperorcubone]

Huh, I didn't even realize those were all the Regi types; that could actually be a great way to cross them all off the list!

[@umwha]

Maybe they could be Past-Forms, that show that each Regi was actually originally a Pokemon or Person. You'd be able to see the organic body beneath the armour of rock, ice or steel, partially transformed.

[@HTheHunter]

Or maybe Regigigas could fuse with the classic Regis to othercome a big threat.

[@wingedbluj1674]

Or possibly make them common Pokémon that are Regigigas' various attempts in creating the Regi's we know now. You know, flawed prototypes.

[@brendanboomhour7606]

​​@@wingedbluj1674could see them being found in a ruin in fairly large numbers, in one of the regions bordering Sinnoh, sealed away because of their unstable nature

[@blue-eyed-thing1511]

Another one that is "technically" covered but needs more, fire/water. It's just on Volcanion, a mythical that you can't really get anymore.

[@emperorcubone]

Yeah, I just count that as a "super hard to get" kind, like Dragon/Psychic. It's there, but never really accessible. To me that's still an issue, but can be addressed after we get all the other types checked off...

[@XenithShadow]

@@emperorcubone Dragon psychic is a fair bit easier to get than fire/water currently. As there is two of them and they come back literalyl every generation unlike the mythcials.

[@RyuuSix]

Kind of a missed opportunity to not introduce a Fairy/Ground Pokemon for Lacey, a Fairy type specialist, who is the daughter of Clay, a Ground type specialist.

[@scientificallyaccuratespino]

Ground fairy typing might be the most powerful type combo to exist, so maybe it’s better that we didn’t get it (ground covers all of fairy’s weaknesses, and fairy is a great type on its own)

[@RoyvanG]

I think Normal/Steel could be an animal-like Pokemon that gathers scrap metal to coat itself (kinda like the Burmy line). That way both types get represented without resorting to an animal made of steel. Maybe it could get a unique ability where if it's below 50% of its max HP, it loses the armor, as well as the Steel typing, but gains a speed boost in return? The Normal/Rock combination could be similar, perhaps even a branched evolution of a pure normal base form.

[@DaSquyd]

Yea the idea I had was like a dog with knight armor lol (metal coat evolution?)

[@mateusfranco5938]

I think we could fuse both of your ideas. Perhaps an animal that lives in the wild, rock/normal, using rocks to coat itself, then it could evolve in an industrial environment, trading the rocks by scraps of trash when evolved.

[@vittoriopugliese3352]

Normal Steel I think is a blacksmith dwarf

[@Pizza7478]

Sounds like a possible Hermit Crab mon, not unlike Crustle.

[@matthewaaron2724]

4:26 Oh hey, DragonTales! I remember that show! Wasn't expe--- 4:30 A NEOPETS REFERENCE TOO?!? Wow. Two unexpected references I appreciate... in the same video.. in the same section... over the same type combination? I don't normally comment on these videos, but I had to stop by and say thanks for making my day - *twice* - in the span of *four seconds*. That was amazing. :D

[@domidoodleYT]

In addition to all these, I’d also like to see all the legendary exclusive types be used on more easily available regular Pokemon

[@emperorcubone]

Justice for Fire/Water!!

[@domidoodleYT]

@@emperorcubone exactly 🫡

[@ellie8272]

​@@emperorcubone Some sort of hot spring or kettle inspired design would be so simple to pull off

[@temple475]

9:52 Rock type does not work on Runerigus, as it and Galarian yamask are supposed to represent the clay runes and since clay in Pokémon is associated with ground thus it's a Ground/Ghost type

[@TheChefCain]

Some combos really need revisiting, like Arctozolt being the only ice/electric pokemon. That combination has so much more potential than what Arctozolt is.

[@emperorcubone]

That is true, but it is at least decently accessible unlike say Fire/Water or other Legendary exclusive typings...

[@rosstastic5213]

i don’t wanna be that guy, but arctozolt isn’t the only ice-electric type! rotom frost has that typing too

[@TheChefCain]

@@rosstastic5213 i basically dont count rotom

[@Blanktester685]

"I don't count zard as fire flying because I don't like the pokemon"

[@umwha]

A 'Rhinoserous beetle' is a great idea for a Bug-Normal!

[@ericriley1985]

Heracross.

[@SmellyNerd]

I'm surprised the DRAGONfly pokemon isnt a dragon

[@ericriley1985]

@SmellyNerd "Dragonfly" is an English word. The Japanese words トンボ (tonbo) and ヤンマ (yanma) have nothing to do with dragons.

[@indy63_24]

Hey high key kind of depressed right now. I just want you to know that just hearing this intro music and your chipper voice really gave me a boost. Thanks for posting such great content

[@princeflame295]

Dude all the references in the cutaways are so good! Digimon, yugioh, neopets? I love the effort you’re putting in with all these Easter eggs. Great work!!

[@DogOnExtendingLead]

I still don’t count the Rotom forms purely because when they came out in gen four they were all ghost electric and just gained a move. They don’t stop being ghosts to me. And also I badly wanted steel and poison and even with scarlet and violet giving us this and I am still sadly left wanting.

[@emperorcubone]

I agree 100% about Rotom; I didn't count Electric and Grass until Hisuian Voltorb came out. As for Revavroom... I understand your disappointment.

[@DogOnExtendingLead]

@knucklesmcgirk7190 I totally agree the typing makes sense and the design was very creative it just wasn’t sadly what I had visioned for the type. I still used it on my entire play through as I wasn’t going to pass up on the opportunity to use the type. I think sadly because there was so many really Kool fan art of what that type combo could have been this just wasn’t it for me. It has grown on me a little since I shiny hunted for one.

[@supersaiyaneevee1573]

I wouldve liked Revaroom more if we could modify it in some way to the starmobiles. Like if there was some mechanics workshop class that we couldve joined. Maybe have it keep the Poison/Steel typing across all forms but have an ability that gave it STAB to a certain type depending on what form it is. Idk. Seeing the starmobiles was cool... i just wish they were actually usable.

[@tyrantneptune3202]

Normal to me has always been somewhat of a "Beast" type, like mainly mammals, along with a few birds (WINGED Beasts), but I think it is still very possible to fuse such things with bugs, like some parasitically-infected aardvark/anteater or something

[@Nako3]

If they make Normal/Rock they better give the mon an ability that makes it immune to fighting type attacks.

[@emperorcubone]

Or at least mitigate it, like Filter...

[@lipika2841]

There's no ability that gives immunity to Fighting so it'd be a first.

[@jeffreygao3956]

I'd call it Diplomatic Immunity.

[@igorstark9514]

It could be easily solved by giving the Pkmn Invisibility.

[@Toadiferous]

Normal/Bug would be cool as a bug based on the Hemiptera order of bugs, also known as "True Bugs" Also we should note that GameFreak clearly isn't just trying to check type boxes off (otherwise there would be less combinations left), so I don't think something like Rotom-Heat or Mega Altaria existing makes another that share their type any less likely than something they weren't gonna put in anyway. It's cool though how the Ultra Beasts and Paradox mons have really expanded some of the less common combos into permanent mons. PokeDoku has really made it clear how many new mons there are of previously unique typings.

[@VCV95]

Imo Pinsir would have made an excellent Bug/Normal. It appreciates the STAB, and it makes it more of a counterpart to Heracross

[@purplepango8866]

Normal works as the sound type so I think any bug types that have sound in their design work, for example Kricketune.

[@skynet3]

1:22 there are 2 Normal/Dragon Pokémon, so this reason is invalid somehow

[@blakdeth]

I feel like ice poison would be a good fit for a more humanoid pokemon. Something with ninja/kunoichi vibes perhaps.

[@k91flynn]

I'm curious why there hasn't been a dragon/psychic that isn't a legendary yet. It feels like a lot of legendary combinations have had nonlegendary combination versions, but this type seems to be locked in for legendary only.

[@supersaiyaneevee1573]

Im pretty sure Volcanion is still the only Fore/Water type and Lunala is the only Psychic/Ghost type. Just a couple other "legendary only" typings. But yea, imagine a pseudo thats dragon/psychic. That would be so cool.

[@XenithShadow]

Dragons are rarish, with some intermitiently release each generation + the pseduo legendary being a dragon in all but 1-2 generations. Most of the legendaries with very unique typing likely dont have non legendary versions.

[@supersaiyaneevee1573]

Lol with about 10% of the pokedex legendary pokemon dont feel so "legendary" anymore. So it should be fine to disburse those typings to others.

[@k91flynn]

@XenithShadow except most of the legendary type combos do become a normal type combo with the exception of a few.

[@Volkaroar]

I get that you want to base Normal type mons mostly after animals, but maybe try concepts as well? Like take a superhero and sidekick concept and pair it with physical toys (as we move on towards more technology for kids to play with these days). Could easily make a Rock/Normal or Rock/Fighting kind of combo out of that

[@jasond.b-w]

By that standard, Spidops could be Bug/Normal! It’s apparently based on a doll or marionette (toy/object) and a special operations CU (human ‘character’/hero type.) I always felt like being so humanoid alone could make it part Normal, tbh. I think it could work!

[@TheTumbleFever]

Idk what I expected.. but ranking just based off your random line of thinking isn’t what I thought this would be. It’s genuinely not that complicated

[@nicolasgalvis457]

Filling the remaining 9 unused type combinations with existing Pokémon: Normal/Ice = Cubchoo & Beartic / Sawsbuck Winter Form Normal/Rock = Rockruff & Lycanroc Normal/Steel = Galarian Meowth & Perrserker Normal/Bug = Dunsparce & Dudunsparce / Ledyba & Ledian Fairy/Fire = Delphox / Victini Fairy/Ground = A regional variant of Sandshrew & Sandslash based on a Pink Armadillo (can't think of an existing Pokémon that fits into this type combo) Bug/Dragon = Vibrava & Flygon / Yanmenga Poison/Ice = Hisuian Sneasel & Sneasler Rock/Ghost = Golett & Golurk / Galarian Yamask & Runerigus / Galarian Corsola & Cursola

[@emperorcubone]

I think Granbull might actually be a candidate for Fairy/Ground, out of all the existing ones...

[@DisturbedBroski]

Never been this early to a Cubone video! Thanks for all your hard work!

[@emperorcubone]

Thanks for watching! :)

[@Watch-0w1]

Normal type is great second type if u can neutralize the fighting type. Normal steel armadillo. Sound legit. It gets a quad weakenst to fighting but immunity to ghost. Lycanrock should just be normal rock. It know for being fragile anyway, and immunity make easy switch in

[@nickdentoom1173]

I don't think they will give us a Normal/Steel Armadillo, since we essentially already have a part Steel Armadillo in Alolan Sandshrew, which in itself is already quad weak to Fighting. Like, if we get a Pokemon based on the same animal, conceptual, they are all different. For example, we have 4 Duck Pokemon lines (Psyduck, Farfetch'd/Sirfetch'd, Ducklett/Swanna and Quaxly line). While all being based on a Duck, conceptually they are all different.

[@Watch-0w1]

​@@nickdentoom1173I was thinking a 4 legged armored armadillos. Plus in sandslash also a porcupine, / hedgehog and we have we have the pika clone hedgehog

[@Eduu_humores]

I feel like most normal combinations can represent sound/music theme pokemon

[@emperorcubone]

I could see a musical Bug using that. Or maybe some sort of Steel instrument could have Normal too...

[@igorstark9514]

The unused type ranking from the least likely combo to the most probable one: 1:11 Bug/Normal 2:01 Steel/Normal 2:37 Fire/Electric 3:12 Normal/Rock 3:49 Fire/Ice 4:15 Dragon/Fairy 4:41 Normal/Ice 5:25 Ground/Fairy 6:16 Poison/Ice 7:18 Fire/Fairy 8:18 Bug/Dragon 9:32 Ghost/Rock

[@lasercraft32]

Runerigus would have been the perfect fit for Ghost/Rock. I dunno why they made it ground instead...

[@lasercraft32]

You kidding? Fire and Ice would make for an EPIC Pokemon... Imagine if it was like a magical themed Pokemon, like an elemental wizard dragon. Would make a great Legendary or Mythical Pokemon.

[@andysauro1500]

Normal/Ice could start off as a Normal type with an evolutionary requirement of leveling up in a blizzard. Fully evolved form visually would be encased in Ice.

[@grizzgo]

Idea for Rock/Normal and Rock/Ghost. Bring back fossil resurrection, have one fossil (Horn Fossil) and there is a small chance that process will fail and create Ghost type variant of Fossil Pokemon. Maybe a Woolly Rhino.

[@emperorcubone]

This is an amazing idea!!

[@angeldiselatcia]

8:36 Emphasis on the rhino part of it because they're... reptiles/dragons? What?

[@GoinGreninja]

I guess that dragons are as tough as rhinos? I'm just as lost as you are.

[@redjirachi1]

I'm surprised that despite being the newest type only one Fairy type combination hasn't been done yet. I'm also surprised in hindsight that they didn't retcon Ninetales as Fire/Fairy considering its blatant kitsune inspiration, or how Alolan Ninetales is part Fairy for similar reasons

[@DilanQuill]

I had an idea for a regional variant trapinch that you find in the forest and it's a bug type. It evolves into a bug/flying vibrava at 35, and then into a bug/dragon flygon at 45.

[@supersaiyaneevee1573]

I like this idea but i wish this is what the real Flygon line was lol. Also, Trapinch could be Bug/Ground.

[@attilaszanto2275]

8:12 Nice idea, but Fire resists Steel, so Fire/Fairy would be neutral to Steel.

[@XVYQ_EY]

So many flying types are combined with normal because they're just birds. This should apply to Normal-Bug as well. They can use some kind of mimicry, like a furry caterpilar.

[@emperorcubone]

It would make sense, it would just be weird to do now after decades of NOT doing that. But I agree that's no reason to shy away from it...

[@cynthiasitri]

Convergent Furret: Scurret

[@SangoProductions213]

Poison Ice would fit a Russia area for one reason: Spy flicks and spy weapons. We already have a James Bond, so don't know if we'll get anything else, but a poison needle that melts after use to be untraceable was not an uncommon "myth." (I say myth not to suggest that it wasn't done, but that it didn't see much if any actual field usage. Definitely not to the degree that it was depicted. Because it's just a kinda cool concept.)

[@chrisjohnsen8448]

Psychic/Dragon is also covered, but only with Legendaries. Plus the few Paradox only combos should also get regular Pokemon so we can use them more actively throughout our adventures.

[@emperorcubone]

Oh I agree; Fighting and Fairy really needs to be obtainable earlier in some future game!

[@supersaiyaneevee1573]

What about Ghost/Psychic? Off the top of my head, i can only think of Lunala that had that typing. I imagine something that has Psychic Surge to set up terrain so it isnt immediately ohko'd by sucker punch or shadow sneak lol.

[@cobaltcorsair592]

​@@supersaiyaneevee1573there's also Hoopa and Shadow Calyrex for ghost psychic, but that's still legendaries.

[@supersaiyaneevee1573]

@@cobaltcorsair592 oh snap. Youre right. Completely forgot about them lol. Thank you.

[@pedrohenriquemonteirodacos3224]

I remerber one day to searching of fakemons and i found a relly cool Normal/Ice fakemon that reseambles a Caribou/Raindeer. Also, i can easely see a Pink Fairy Armadillo based pokemon begin Ground/Fairy Type

[@TomAmit42]

03:12 I really wanted Rockruff and Lycanroc (at least the Midday form) to be Normal-Rock type.

[@Robin280497]

Yeah, while Midnight Lycanroc is Rock/Dark and Dusk Lycanroc is Rock/Fighting. No longer exclusive to Tyranitar and Terrakion.

[@TomAmit42]

@@Robin280497 My thoughts excatly!

[@BobzBlue]

Should Regice be able to learn fire moves? given the control over temperature theme.

[@wesleyhughes1386]

I still haven't forgiven them for not slapping firey wings on Rapidash and making it a regional, fire-fairy alicorn.

[@TomAmit42]

Rock & Steel & Ice can be easily combined with Normal in 2 ways: 1. Make the Gen 3 Regis have weird fuisons with Regigigas. 2. Make some simple Normal Type mammal that gains an second type upon Evolution (like Bibarel and Diggersby did).

[@Xachpro5475]

Also because you made the if even gen 9 pokemon were duel type before the dlc what would the dlc mons be if they had 2 types and also give them a rating

[@emperorcubone]

Well the thing is, literally none of the new Pokemon are mono-typed except for the "mascot" ones Ogerpon and Terapagos. So for Ogerpon I'd probably say Grass/Fairy, but only like a 1 star, and the Terapagos I think would honestly fit to be every type at 3 stars, but if that's cheating I'd say Rock (because it's made of crystal) at 1 and 1/2 stars just because we don't have that combo yet...

[@christianpena7748]

Fire and Electric is not that hard, especially if you focus on Speed due to lightning being so quick. Scorbunny could easily have gained Electric on evolution due to its blazing fast speed lore. Plus, more than one fakemon artist has made a snake starter that ends up Fire and Electric. Just a fast mon with a flame motif would def satisfy being the dual typing, I’d just hope it would be a Special Attacker lol

[@supersaiyaneevee1573]

I was legit hoping that Cinderace was going to be Fire/Electric type before sw/sh dropped. Rillaboom couldve also been Grass/normal so it could get like boomburst stab. But thats a different subject.

[@annmarie6675]

Fire/fairy should be easy to do. Same with bug/dragon. I don't know why they haven't done those yet. Houndstone should have been ghost/rock...what a missed opportunity there.

[@jgr7487]

I'm a bit more of an extremist than our good Emperor: I don't count types that are exclusive to Legendary (& Mythical) pkmn as types that have been fully crossed from the list. Delelewoop should have had the Normal type, as so many sound moves are of that type. I get Hounstone being a Ground type pkmn, as it's a Dig pkmn, but Runerigus is a goddamned slab of stone posessed by a ghost!

[@wikiuser92]

They have been used, regardless whether you count them or not.

[@jgr7487]

@wikiuser92 so have the ones that are locked behind forms, such as Ice/Fire, but you don't have easy access to them.

[@wikiuser92]

@@jgr7487 "No easy access" does not equal "no access" or "hasn't existed".

[@outbackranger1088]

Seeing the Mosquiphant again really brings back memories from my childhood.

[@emperorcubone]

I got that book for Christmas last year; I loved reading it as a kid, I checked it out of the library for 3 months solid...

[@outbackranger1088]

@@emperorcubone Could you just imagine Pokémon based on the creatures from that book?

[@grinbrothers]

There's a fair few type combos that make you think "how has that not happened yet?" an I wonder if them being passed on despite good opportunities for them (like Rock/Ghost and Bug/Dragon) makes them more or less likely. 0:54 - Indeed, with Mega Evolutions not being a thing in modern games, I feel they definitely should be on this list. Alternative form and Legendary only types only if you have spare time; they are pretty exclusive and rare as a result. 1:27 - I recall a video giving Kricketot/Kricketune the Bug/Normal type combo and I feel the idea made a lot of sense. Normal as a stand-in for Sound (which doesn't exist but a good chunk of said attacks are Normal) and I feel it's a decent enough type combo. It turns one of Normal's only weaknesses into a neutral aspect, gives immunity to Ghosts and STAB for the wider array of Normal type attacks that exist. 2:19 - Now there's a Pokémon whose typing never made much sense; why is Lucario, Steel again? A Pokémon in armour makes the most sense for a Steel/Normal Pokémon. 4:55 - I like how easy it is to benefit Ice with the Normal typing here. If they were to bring back an old Pokémon design, the scrapped Urufuman/Waaurufu would fit very well with Normal/Ice. 6:57 - Poison types finally received some love again. Now if only Ground types could get some appreciation outside of regional/paradox forms. 8:58 - That would be so cool and a nice twist on their usual formula with the starting Bugs. That said, they've passed tons of opportunities for this type combination; Yanma, Flygon, Goomy. They seem to be against this type combo existing. 9:54 - Houndstone was bad enough, not made a Ghost/Rock because they wanted to keep to all three dogs being single types to match. How on earth is Runerigus not Ghost/Rock though!?

[@skibbitybebop]

Honestly was never a fan of the Normal + other typing, other than Gyrafarig to negate Ghost weakness it just felt dumb Pyroar, Helioptile just feel like they should be mono fire and electric - it's hard to imagine something capable of spewing molten lava or shooting lightning bolts, looking at it and saying 'oh yeah that's normal' lmao Even the birds like Pidgey line should've just been mono Flying imo

[@vittoriopugliese3352]

I always disliked to see Normal combined with other types: Normal is the Pokémon equivalent of non-elemental so seeing something part non-elemental and part elemental seems weird to me. The only type I think Normal can be combined with is Ghost, and even then, only for some legendary meant to be at the same time made of ordinary matter and antimatter or some Schroedinger's Cat-like existence that is both alive and dead at the same time. Except in that case, Normal combined with something else defeats the purpose of Normal

[@GoinGreninja]

​@@vittoriopugliese3352I get the sentiment, but the Normal type is pretty useful in terms of neutral damage and it's always nice to have more punch to their attacks. So it makes sense from a battle perspective, at least.

[@vittoriopugliese3352]

They literally introduced the Stellar type to be what Normal is supposed to be, since they made Normal, like, pretty much not non-elemental. I think Normal should even be made to hit everything neutrally except Ghost (which is its natural opposite).

[@Sparrowhawk90]

For normal/rock, ice, steel, i can imagine a Pokemon based on bowling. Have its typing change depending on where you get it. It bowls hunks of crystals if found in caves, it bowls hunks of ice if found in icy areas, if found next to construction areas it will bowl hunks if steel. You could also give it an abilities that turns all ball based moves to physical attacks and boosts their power.

[@robingarcia4778]

I think a Normal/Bug Pokemon could be based on the naked mole rat, which is the only eusocial mammal.

[@vomitshot2896]

i’m surprised they ever did a dragon fairy

[@suicidesquats9325]

How many of these videos do we need lol.

[@LeoBeastmode]

Normal/Bug concept is easy. Have a mammal/dog with fleas. The actual bug can be its own pokemon while the mammal/dog will attract the bug. It's ability or evolution or pokedex entry can reflect this interaction. It could even be a mutual symbiotic relationship...like the mammal/dog's fur is bristly and itchy so the bugs live in the coat, comb, soften and scratch the mammal's scalp and use the fur for protection. It also give a concept for the bug as some sort of fur-grooming bug that uses combs or something.

[@emperorcubone]

I actually really like this symbiotic relationship idea! It's like Dondozo on steroids!

[@Jorakful]

Ghost/Rock sounds really interesting, it could start as a marble Bust you can find in a anbandoned Mansion with its first evolution being some sort of marble doll until finally evolving into a Gargoyle or Weeping Angel, give it some sort of ability that it attacks Pokemon that are changed out or in because those Pokemon aren't "looking" at it or something.

[@coolpig3859]

A really cool animal to base a ground/fairy type on would be the fairy armadillo

[@emperorcubone]

It just makes too much sense!!

[@TheFlashzap]

5:26 I have a Ground/Fairy Pokémon pitch First stage is “Gnomad” a tiny clay gnome with a pink bulbous nose that wanders around urban homes and sometimes tend to gardens enriching the soil. Next is “Gnomely” which grows a long beard and a drooping hat like protrusion. They slip into people’s houses to rummage for better food and shelter but misplaces objects in the middle of the night. Lastly it becomes “Gnomebound” which has a hefty cloak that actually is a mossy dust covered beard and mustache that it wraps itself in, once you get a Gnomebound in your house they never leave, if you feed it they will do little chores and protect your house from any damages.

[@emperorcubone]

Excellent puns, I'm onboard!

[@jaschabull2365]

Yeah, I always thought a gnome would be a perfect inspiration for a ground/fairy type.

[@GammaMelon]

Does anyone know the song in the background at around 4:30? Sounds like something from gen 5 or 6 but I can’t remember what exactly it is

[@emperorcubone]

I believe that's actually the Poni Plains theme from Gen 7.

[@iTrapa]

A cute chubby Tardigrade mon with insane bulk could work as a Bug/Normal. Sorta fits the "beginner mon" slot since it's also called "water bear".

[@alyx5491]

For a normal/bug type you could make a bug imitating a mammal and eventually gaining the normal type.

[@Spphy]

I could see fire/electric be a plasma pokémon or even a blue fire electric phoenix type pokémon, if that fancy maybe even as a pseudo legendary or something. Creativity knows no bounds, I am sure we will see them at some point

[@jeffreygao3956]

Interesting. My ideas were... Bug/Normal-A Ptilocnemus lemur assasin bug. Steel/Normal-A destier. Fire/Electric-Some elemental beast. Normal/Rock-A brontothere. Fire/Ice-A George R. R. Martin caricature. Dragon/Fairy-A peacock. Normal/Ice-A polar bear dog. Ground/Fairy-A fairy armadillo. Poison/Ice-An ice themed balrog mixed with Ungoliant's venom. Fire/Fairy-A hot sorceress. Bug/Dragon-A griffinfly. Ghost/Rock-A Chinese stone lion.

[@fullmetalshrimp2513]

well this is me learning that spiritomb is NOT a rock/ghost type. i've never used one before but also just assumed it was rock/ghost.. it's literally a ghost that lives in a rock?? the item it's in is literally called a keySTONE and it is a SPIRITomb.. but apparently it's actually dark/ghost.

[@9Destra]

Pokemon Cloud and Soil’s Fire starter turns into a Fire/Fairy type called Sorceram. It’s apparently based on the Agni, the Hindu god of fire. EDIT: Fire/Fairy is actually a really good combo both offensively and defensively. 8 resistances/immunities, 4 manageable weaknesses, and those 2 types pack a lot of neutral coverage together

[@georgewashington4866]

I had a dream about a 3rd DLC coming out to S/V featuring a new convergent species based upon a cross between a spider and a wolf that is convergent of the Spinarak line but in only 1 Pokemon. Spinados Friendly Pokemon Does Not Evolve Bug/Normal "This Pokemon is friendly with mostly children but scary to adults but if anyone hurts a friend of this Pokemon, it will hunt down the one who it's friends to force them to give their friends a heartfelt apology." Looks similar to Ariados but small like Spinarak but with only 4 legs.

[@JanizMakudomaru]

I'm sorry, but we just had a generation with a Pokemon line that could've definitely been Bug/Normal and it's Tarountula's line.

[@rockowlgamer631]

I made an Ice/Poison type pokemon that was ice and snow interacting with radioactive sludge to create a little golem.

[@emperorcubone]

That could be pretty cool!

[@tjamanirlong6159]

isn't Dragon/Fairy also not 1 were missing? thought this would be a good 1 for regional form for dragonite

[@supersaiyaneevee1573]

Rockruff and Day Lycanroc really should've been Rock/Normal. Idea for another video: type combinations that have 2 or less lines. I would love to see more Fire/Electric and Dragon/Fairy types! Also more Normal/Ghost and Fire/Water types.

[@JurassiChaos_2000]

Ground/Fairy would be Zekrom and Miraidon's worst nightmare.

[@lipika2841]

Miraidon needs a solid counter anyway cuz it's wreaking havoc.

[@markosmywords9202]

Here's a few concepts for some unused combos that I came up with: Raccuum- The Pilfering Pokemon. (Name is derived from Racoon and Vacuum) Normal/Steel Ability: Pickpocket, HA: Mischievous

[@lipika2841]

These ideas are pty much conceptually one & the same with given official mons, the only distinction naturally being their unique typings. The robber raccoons are essentially G-Zigzag/Linoone, who also have a tendency of picking & making gatherings of things they found from wherever possible, even if belonging to someone else. In addition, your raccoons get Dark STAB with the help from custom ability Mischievous that you thought of as well. Gogoat would be a distinct cousin of Carabilly, as the 2 are mountain-climbing goats. Not dismissing your ideas (& the names are good too), just mentioning that they can be a whole lot more novel if different animals are chosen instead.

[@rue8638]

I think Fairy/Dragon should make it on these kinds of lists more, I would argue having a barely used mega form counts as an unused type.

[@supersaiyaneevee1573]

Correction: a no longer usable mega form. Lol Totally need a whole line of this. Base it off a luck dragon or something like in the fan game Pokemon Infinity. That would be pretty cool to see it on a real pokemon.

[@rue8638]

@@supersaiyaneevee1573 im a dungeons and dragons nerd and theres straight up a creature called a faerie dragon!! it feels like a missed opportunity that pokemon hasnt made any lines with the two most high fantasy mythological types yet!

[@andreihlen7597]

I could see normal + steel working if it starts off as a normal type and gain steel typing as it evolves, for example like you stated, with some sort of armor or whatever

[@addrock00]

The scorbunny line could've been the fire/electric type combo. The trailer for shield and sword showed scorbunny charging up before running off

[@NeverwascooL]

I was thinking recently that the Normal pairings could be the next legendary group pokemon and knock them all out at once would be really cool

[@tomagray1811]

Fire-ice, fire-electric, dragon-fairy seem like must haves. All literature lends itself to it

[@douglasandrews8977]

I have a great idea for a Normal/Bug-type. I have also sought for every type combination to be represented, but also for every Egg Group combination to be represented, and for every type to appear within every Egg Group. This idea can work towards all three. There are goats that have had spider genes injected into them so that they can produce silk when milked. (There actually is a practical purpose for this; spider silk is very strong, but spiders are too territorial and cannibalistic to be farmed.) Perhaps we can have a goat Pokémon that was originally pure Normal, but had the DNA of a Tarountula (the spider in question is the orb-weaver spider, one of Tarountula's inspirations) injected into it and gained the Bug type. These genes could also place it in the Bug Egg Group whereas previously it would have only been in Field, this being the only way how I could see these Egg Groups paired, and also the only way how I could see a Bug-type Pokémon in the Field Egg Group unless it gets an Eeveelution (and in fact, Bug is the only type still lacking Field representation) whereas I could only see a Normal-type Pokémon in the Bug Egg Group if it was also Bug (although Ground, Dragon, and Dark did admittedly get representation in that one before they were paired with the Bug type.) Yes, it would be able to learn Megahorn; I would be remiss to introduce a Bug-type goat and not give it Megahorn. Its Bug-type learnset would be limited otherwise, however, although it could certainly learn Lunge and Pounce (which debuted in Generations VII and IX respectively, for anybody who has not kept up with recent games.) As for Fire-Ice, I think that we could have a thermometer. I have imagined that such a Pokémon could summon either sun or hail (can we all agree that hail was better than snow?) if hit by a Rock-type move, although admittedly I singled out that condition because Rock would do quadruple damage to it. The Ability probably ought to have a different trigger. I do not always have a problem with Pokémon based on inanimate objects; it usually depends on what they are. Steel-Normal has in fact happened before, but not on a Pokémon, per se: on the Pokéstar Studios opponent F-00. Maybe something similar could become a real Pokémon with the type. Also, your top two picks have been covered on DeadBedSpread's channel in Shorts; he has actually done two for Rock-Ghost. Have you seen him yet? You ought to watch them. The Bug-Dragon Short has a hilarious end that must be seen to be believed.

[@dmancluster2631]

For bug/normal, my sis has said a while back that there's some kind of bug in the world that uses dirt to put on clothes for itself. Thus, a pokemon could be inspired from that to be a bug that wears regular human clothes.

[@OTHERMRBABCOCK]

For ice and poison, I had always envisioned it being similar to an Eastern Indigo snake or a snake that lets freezing air from beneath its scales. For Rock /Ghost is easy a cursed diamond with a spirit trapped inside. Or in general a cursed jewel.

[@arthurbuffon430]

Rock/ghost is the only one so far i could imediatly think of something that would work and be intresting. A likely mythical pokemon capable of changing it's form acording to the fossil item it holds, regularly it would just be ghost and dark type, like a shadow.

[@jamcalx]

Bug/Dragon is giving me some Legend of Dragoon Feyrbrand the green tusked dragon flashbacks, Specifically because it was mantis like a used status inflicting slime attacks.

[@Wailerman]

hey, i have a question: is the KZbinr Odyssey Central your brother? you both give off sinilar energy, and he said that his brother is a big Pokemon fan, and my first thought was you, so i just thought i would ask

[@emperorcubone]

Haha, no. There's no relation that I know of, but I do watch most of their videos and enjoy their content so I'll take it as a compliment!

[@errorcode1815]

I would like to see a usable Grass / Rock pairing. I love the grass type, but it's pretty middling to say the least. Rock is cool pairing and could make grass much more usable, if the right pokemon came along.

[@emperorcubone]

If you've not used Cradily it's better than you might expect, but there's a reason I gave my Ogerpon the Cornertone mask! Only Grass/Rock type since Gen 3!!

[@Watch-0w1]

We have a great fossil Pokemon with those type. The type combo actually help rock neutralize alot threat, like flying, fire, ground, water

[@errorcode1815]

@emperorcubone that's my thinking! Feels long overdue for a fresh take on Grass/ Rock, especially with power creep and Gen 3 being so long ago. The combo may have been used before, but in 1 line isn't much to shout about.

[@Chatterbox1237]

Okay,a few ideas for these: Fire type that has ice parts on their body to cool off. Poisonous smoothie/milkshake Rattlesnake with a scorpion tail. Rock/normal pet rock Pokémon that evolves vie friendship into a giant golem. Ghost that uses a grave with a smiley face to cover its real face,both the grace and ghost’s faces look like stereotypical theatre masks

[@jasond.b-w]

Fairy/Ground NEEDS to be a pink fairy armadillo! How do we not have one yet? They look much more like Pokemon than real animals already (and they’re super cute. Def recommend looking them up of you haven’t seen one!)

[@enzoforgets9456]

My fave types are dark and electric dark being 1st You can imagine my dissapointment when morpeko was revealed Edit: bug normal actually seems very likely, but only on stage one of its evo line as it would be the most normal looking bug

[@emperorcubone]

Haha, I'm so sorry! I hope you get a real representative for the type one day. I feel your pain because my favorite types are Ground and Electric, so I got Stunfisk...

[@enzoforgets9456]

@@emperorcubone tyty Altho im a massive fan of stunfisk it was not the best choice for that type

[@jmac28211]

I appreciate all the Digimon references in this video

[@ChaoticTeal]

I constantly misremember Yanmega as a bug/dragon type. Honestly a crime that they made a proto-dragonfly Pokémon and it *isn't* bug/dragon

[@michaelelmore1678]

In my fake region the regional bug is a bug/dragon type, but it doesn't reach it's final evolution until level 45 when it gains the dragon type

[@coreyclark-uw2zp]

for normal/rock type, maybe they could lean into the high physical defense of both types and make a new tanky pokemon? like a statue shaped like a Snorlax or a turtle pokemon with a shell made of rock? the point being it would still really weak to fighting types but would have a high defense to compensate.

[@Primarina.]

a poison/ice type can be some sort of extinct virus (pure poison) but thawed out from an arctic region, adopting the ice typing. might as well be a fossil pokemon for a future gen too

[@trustyourforce4041]

Ghost and Rock are my two favorites types so I'd love to see them finally be together.

[@srnght]

I gave Cricketune the Bug/Normal type in my rom hack because it's a very vanilla bug character with a lot of sound based techniques which are normal type.

[@IAmNotAFunguy]

I had an idea for a Fire/Electric type Pokémon based on firecrackers & fireworks, and an Electric/Fire WOULD be most likely to be based on plasma as a concept which IS what fireworks technically are.