TSR PokeDex Project

[TomGuycott]

Except water would do neutral damage to the grass/rock

I counter that by saying that Infernape can do neutral damage to Empleon, but Empoleon can still do super effective damage with water while Infernape can do super effective damage with Fighting. Torterra mixes things up even further by being immune to electric, weak to Infernape's fire, super effective with ground moves against Infernape's Fire and Empoleon's Steel, while being normal damaged by Empoleon's water and RESISTANT to Empoleon's Steel, yet 4x damaged by Ice, a common TM move type Empoleon can learn.

I guess my point is, unless you stick with Grass/Fire/Water, there's no real balance in typing alone, and they've screwed it up since the beginning with Grass/Poison and Fire/Flying, but admittedly Type effectiveness was different then SLIGHTLY. Another thing is that the example I chose of Generation 4's starters (who I liked a lot and thought had interesting typing) isn't as balanced as Fire/Flying, Grass/Rock and Water/Bug in relation to each other. However, that's just with EACH OTHER, not with every other type combo, so overall balance I'm not entirely sure of, but are we really going to get THAT far into it?

This is getting overcomplicated, but let me link to three pokemon that actually HAVE these type combinations and I'll let YOU be the judge:

Bug/Water: Surskit
Fire/Flying: Charizard
Rock/Grass: Lileep


NOTE: I JUST realized that Fire/Flying is 4x weak against Rock, but I'd say it is still okay for the reason that it'd also be 1/4th damage from Grass. Besides, are there REALLY that many incredible Rock type moves? I'm talking like 120+ damage.