Stereotypes concerning typing in Pokemon

[KingHeracrossTheBug]

Simple, really. Zigzagoon and Linoone both curl up and pound on their bellies with their tails. Wooper, on the other hand, falls face-first and rapidly belly-flops. Wooper then stands back up and proceeds to Ice Punch that Salamence over there...

...Except Salamence didn't exist on Gen 2. Good point though.

 

[stage7_4]

Zigzagoon would like to talk to you two(how does it even use Belly Drum?)
edit:Oh, and Wooper too. According to Bulbapedia, it got Belly Drum from an event in gen 2(again, how does it even use Belly Drum?)

I really don't know how Zigzagoon and Linoone do it either. Although, they are based on a raccoon and a badger,

...guess they look fatter curled up like that.

 

[Mulan15262]

Good examples would be Cawmodore, being a Steel-type sweeper

Steel-type sweepers aren't too unique.
Lucario and Mega-Lucario, the latter being banned to Ubers.
Excadrill, who was an uber in Gen V.
Genesect, who was an uber in Gen V and still is.
Durant, with its somewhat good Attack and Speed.
Jirachi, who can do all sorts of things.
Scizor, and its feared STAB Technician Bullet Punch.
That is 6 steel-types of 42, or almost 15%.

 

[AOPSUser]

Steel-type sweepers aren't too unique.
Lucario and Mega-Lucario, the latter being banned to Ubers.
Excadrill, who was an uber in Gen V.
Genesect, who was an uber in Gen V and still is.
Durant, with its somewhat good Attack and Speed.
Jirachi, who can do all sorts of things.
Scizor, and its feared STAB Technician Bullet Punch.
That is 6 steel-types of 42, or almost 15%.

Yeah, the only "sweepers" out of those mons are Lucario and Gen V Excadrill, and Lucario is a Fighting-type, which is known to have lots of sweepers.

Heck if that's your definition of sweeper I can go ahead and call Slaking, Darmanitan, and Victini sweepers.

.........wait, Wooper learns Belly Drum? lolwat

 

[Tortferngatr]

Going through every type, here's the first thing I think of:

Grass: tend to be bulky and chuck status conditions around
Fire: glass cannons
Water: really diverse, but generally bulky
Bug: tend to be weak all around, but Quiver Dance and Sticky Web help I guess
Normal: jack of all trades, master of none
Flying: not even really a proper type, almost everything is secondary flying and primary something else
Poison: bulky if anything, often weak
Electric: good scouts due to speed + SpA + Volt Switch
Ground: powerful and bulky, but slow
Fighting: battering rams
Rock: very double-edged, tend to be somewhat blunt instruments
Psychic: a diverse bunch, huge movepools and good stats but held back by weaknesses to U-turn & Pursuit
Ghost: lethal in the right hands, dead weight in the wrong ones
Ice: glass cannons, more even so than Fire- and Electric-types A conflicted type Game Freak decided to give the shittiest defensive capabilities in the game but also decided to shoehorn 90% of its mons into the "bulky and slow" archetype, to the point that the goddamn 700 BST Ice/DRAGON-type cover legend with better Attack than Rampardos but without usable coverage is actually struggling to stay afloat in OU.
Dragon: Pokemon's equivalent of the standard Mage class - really strong eventually, but it needs a lot of levelling to get there
Dark: very specialised, most Dark moves are generally weak but powerful in the right situation
Steel: best defensive typing evar
Fairy: a perverse type weak against all the worst types and strong against all the best ones

FTFY