This leaves Grass, Water, Poison, Normal, Psychic, Electric as possible secondary types...all of which look potentially cool (besides Electric lol).
I don't know, I think Fire/Electric sounds cooler than Fire/Normal, but... *see below*
I dunno, I'm not really a fan of Fire / Electric; Electric only covers Fire's Water weakness, and Fire doesn't help Electric too much besides adding even more of a weakness to Ground.
Fire / Electric I guess is already done for us since Manectric could use an evolution, is an Electric and already learns Fire-type moves.
I agree with this statement. Electric doesn't remove any of Fire's weaknesses, but it does add a couple more resistances. If Manectric were to be used, he'd need an ability overhaul to replace Lightning Rod, and likely a movepool overhaul as well.
Resistance:
- x2 Bug
- x2 Electric
- x2 Fire
- x2 Flying
- x2 Grass
- x2 Ice
- x4 Steel
Weakness:
- x4 Ground
- x2 Rock
- x2 Water
Fire / Grass on the other hand seems really cool. Grass covers Fire's weaknesses perfectly in the offensively and only Rock is not made neutral defensively. Fire also helps Grass out offensively and defensively.
However, what "real-life representation" could a potential Grass / Fire have? I don't know of many Flaming Bushes.
I like both the Prairie Dog and Chili Pepper ideas. I've wanted a Prairie Dog Pokemon for years, and Fire/Grass actually works. Think "Brush fire", with Grass not specifically being grass but more of "nature", with fire being more "heat" than "flame". It would have orange tinted fur, with embers glistening off it's fur. It doesn't have that many resistances, and they're relatively less used types, but it's weaknesses are somewhat unused other than rock.
Resistance:
- x2 Electric
- x4 Grass
- x2 Steel
Weakness:
- x2 Flying
- x2 Poison
- x2 Rock
Think about this little guy (with the above description), running around in this:
Fire / Poison is done easily with some sort of Volcanic creature implementation, like an evolution for Torkoal or something to that extent.
Similar to Electric, doesn't really help it any. In fact, helps it even less, because the only thing Poison hits Super Effective is grass, which Fire already does. In fact... this could maybe be one of the worst typing combinations for fire.
Resistance:
- x4 Bug
- x2 Fighting
- x2 Fire
- x4 Grass
- x2 Ice
- x2 Poison
- x2 Steel
Weakness:
- x4 Ground
- x2 Psychic
- x2 Rock
- x2 Water
Fire / Normal could be that lion or Prairie dog that people are referring to, since a lot of animals in GF's game seem to be normal (Zangoose / Dodrio / Tauros / Miltank)
Doesn't change much for Fire, in fact only adds fighting weak and ghost immunity. It wouldn't be "bad", but it's not really helping anything either. I see what you mean about normal types being animals, but we do have others that aren't (Arcanine, Feraligatr, Infernape, etc).
Immunity:
- x0 Ghost
Resistance:
- x2 Bug
- x2 Fire
- x2 Grass
- x2 Ice
- x2 Steel
Weakness:
- x2 Fighting
- x2 Ground
- x2 Rock
- x2 Water
Fire / Psychic I'm not sure of either, but it definitely seems to have "cool" potential.
This is an interesting typing, and I figured before DP came out that Infernape would end up this way. Has a lot of weaknesses and resistances, but the weaknesses seem like more used types. Psychic does hit fighting Pokemon hard though, which is good.
Resistance:
- x2 Fighting
- x2 Fire
- x2 Grass
- x2 Ice
- x2 Psychic
- x2 Steel
Weakness:
- x2 Dark
- x2 Ghost
- x2 Ground
- x2 Rock
- x2 Water
Fire / Water is another weird one like Fire / Grass, but I really have no idea here.
Interesting spread here. This is my second favorite typing combination here, behind Fire/Grass. This one could be the "Steam", "Vapor", or "Mist" Pokemon.
Resistance:
- x2 Bug
- x4 Fire
- x4 Ice
- x4 Steel
Weakness:
- x2 Electric
- x2 Ground
- x2 Rock
