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Do you prefer the newer, simplified types or the older, more complex ones?

Older types for more nuanced battles50%

Newer types for streamlined team-building25%

Wait, they changed?25%

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Do you prefer the streamlined Pokémon types or the more nuanced ones?

I'm really enjoying Pokémon TCG Pocket but the simplified Pokémon types are confusing! They've merged them but kept the old type advantages/disadvantages.

For example Geodude used to be Rock. Rock types are weak against Grass and Water types. Geodude is now a Fighting type, and Fighting types are not weak against Grass or Water. Even though Pokémon TCG Pocket has Geodude as Fighting type it's still weak against Grass and Water!

It keeps throwing me off 😱

Pokémon TCG Pocket types

blurred background — They've reduced the number of types and grouped Pokémon into them

Screenshot of Pokémon types in Pokémon TCG Pocket mobile game — They've reduced the number of types and grouped Pokémon into them

Pokémon types in other games

Grid showing Pokémon types and their advantages over one another — Pokémon type advantages. Source: https://pokemondb.net/type

Created at 1:43pm, 4th December, 2024. Page last updated at 7:52am, 30th November, 2024.

Ford JamesMod11/29/2024, 2:04:36 PM

They haven't changed anything from the TCG, this is how it's always been. I'm not sure why it differs from the video games, but rock and ground-type have never existed in Pokemon cards. It takes some adjusting to if all you know are the video games, but it would've been way more confusing if they suddenly introduced types to match up to the video games. Same goes for ice-types being grouped as water-types, flying as normal (or colorless, as it's officially called), bug is grass, etc.

Also, steel-type is known as metal in the TCG, and electric is lightning. And fairy-type cards are yet to be introduced to PTCGP! Why the discrepancies? Who knows, if I had to guess I'd assume it's a translation job, as Pokemon cards are always produced and released in Japan months before they make their way to the west.

BoomerMod11/29/2024, 2:37:48 PM

Ford James

Thanks Ford, I hadn't realised! I used to collect the cards a long time ago but the games are my main frame of reference. There are some types in the games that make sense when combined, e.g.: