Pikachu315111
Ranting & Raving!
Ah, so an air bender like character. I see what you mean, on the surface it would certainly seem strange and could be causing a subconscious bias with Flying-type design where they need the Pokemon to have a flying/gliding/jumping theme to it. This actually reminds me of a fakemon I made which was a Flying-type but it was essentially a snail combined with bellows which inflated its shell with air and then collapse its shell to release a tornado (think sort of like Sandaconda but a bellows instead of shotgun). Sure, odd to call it a Flying-type as it's a bellows snail that create tornadoes, but looking at the Flying-type moves I can see it getting many Flying-type moves like Defog, Hurricane, Gust, Tailwind... well, okay pretty much these four but hey Defog & Tailwind are good utility moves, Gust is a nice low level move to start with, and Hurricane for a high level move (not to mention potential for its Ability or getting a Signature Move).Pokemon that straight up cant fly would be one. Controlling the air doesn't actually correlate to flying, and flying doesnt correlate to controlling the air (just like swimming doesnt mean you have a mastery of water or being able to use one move from a fighting style doesnt mean you have a mastery on it). Sure they would often be found together, but they wouldn't need to. Kinda like that two circles diagram with the middle being the overlaps. Its 2 am and I can't remember the name please give me a break
So, yeah, it's not impossible to make a non-flying/gliding/jumping Flying-type, but it's a known issue that with Flying-types if it doesn't have wings or a beak it's going to struggle getting some decent Flying-type STAB moves. And I don't know how my snail bellows is immune to Ground-types.