Summary
One of the key mechanics that makes thePokemongames so compelling is understanding the typing system that grants each Pokemon and their attacks the unique elemental characteristics that make them super effective against some, or completely useless versus others.
With all the various Pokemon types running around, it can be a bit confusing on exactly how many there are, what they’re weak and strong against, and what each typing does when they’re joined together. Let’s take a look at just how many Pokemon-type combinations there are and how they affect the Pokemon in the games.
How Many Types Are There In Pokemon?
There Are 18 Unique Types Of Pokemon
When Pokemon first debuted back in 1996,there were fifteen Pokemon types. In the many subsequent generations, three more have been added to the list, diversifying the pool of Pokemon and adding more balance to the more powerful types that were just a little too strong for their own good.
This chart breaks down all eighteen Pokemon types and everything that they are super effective against, dealing twice as much damage to, what they’re weak against, moves that deal double damage to them, what types they resist, so they take half the normal damage amounts,and then what they’re weak against, where damage they take is amplified by two.
Fairy, Ice, & Rock
Electric, Fire, Steel & Water
Bug, Dragon, Fairy, Flying, Grass, Ice, Normal, Poison (No Effect, Psychic, Rock, Steel
What Are All The Pokemon Type Combinations?
There’s A Grand Total Of 171 Type Combinations
Now that we have all the various types a Pokemon can be,all eighteen of them to be exact, let’s hit all the possible combinations. There are a ton of possibilities for Pokemon types to be, and that’s including the 18 single-type options.
Which Pokemon Type Combinations Haven’t Been Used?
Only Time Will Tell How Long Until Pokemon Uses Them
Nine Pokemon Type combinations haven’t actually been used for any Pokemon, even across different forms, mega evolutions, terastalizations, regional forms, and more. Those types are:
As more games are released, the odds are that those unused types will pop up on new Pokemon and on those who get a unique form. It’s only a matter of time before all the type combinations are represented in the Pokemon games.
