- Joined
- May 25, 2013
A few years ago my best friend and I were on a Pokemon kick, and we went back and played some of the older games. I was playing LeafGreen and I let him borrow Blue to play. We played a lot at work since we worked together and had a lot of free time while working at night.
One day he mentions how it's weird playing the original games since all the Pokemon only have one type. I think he's crazy and tell him dual-type Pokemon have always existed. I did not remember Red and Blue Pokemon only being single-type. Well, he's playing Blue right there, so he shows me. And he's right. He shows me his Charizard; it's only Fire, no Flying. He shows me his Zapdos; it's Electric, no Flying. And so on. He proved it to me further by using Thunderbolt on the Charizard you fight in the Elite Four. It was not super-effective. Charizard was not a flying type.
I was shocked that I had never realized this. I did some googling and found that the original games only had single types, but dual-types were introduced in Gen 2 (Gold/Silver) and many of the Gen 1 type Pokemon were updated in that game and subsequent games to have two types. He was right.
Yesterday I saw a Reddit comment asking if dual-types existed originally, as he didn't think they did. I replied, telling him that they didn't in the original games, but Gen 1 was updated in later games to have dual-types. I was downvoted, but one guy replied saying he remembered it as I did.
Since I was downvoted, I figured people just don't remember it correctly, so I tried googling it, but found nothing on the topic. I asked on r/pokemon and was basically called an idiot by everyone and told dual-types have always existed. I decided to look up a Pokedex guide on Gamefaqs for Blue, and it indeed listed them as dual-types.
However, I, as well as two other redditors, seem to remember dual-types originally not existing. Maybe there are others who remember this as well.
fuck you and your neggies, it is you who is wrong and not me










