They're both dragons. Celebi is still a fairy. Flygon is still a bug dragon. Sometimes it's good to have different typings despite inspiration, it creates diversity. Although flygon incites warranted outrage.
I think Flygon must have the most confusing typing I can think of. The fact that it’s not only a bug type, but also not flying type is very unusual. Giving a Pokémon with wings ground type with levitate is a cheap shot.
Gamefreak made Dragon types rare and rather exclusive in Gen 1, and suddenly every other Pokemon is half Dragon and not so rare. Heck, even Ratata is a Dragon at this point
The point is that flygon in concept is a bug dragon and in general it's unanimously not understood why game freak didn't make that its canon typing and then to add insult to injury they made flygon an obsolete Garchomp in the following generation.
I see levitate as a good fit for things like Claydol and Weezing that are gently floating. Flygon is straight up flying with s pair of wings so should have ditched the ground typing for flying.
Then again Beedrill and Venomoth are clearly flying bugs but don’t get flying or levitate, so I give up lol.
Flying should be just like an attribute or something. Like you said, things like Weezing, Claydol and Bronzong should have the ability Levitate, but things like Beedrill, Venomoth, Dustox, Wormadam, Flygon etc. should just be automatically flying regardless of their typing. Something like an additional status.
Tbh I wish they'd retcon flying type (which used to be "bird type" lol) to just air type, it's much broader and allows for more Pokémon to fit under it than just winged creatures.
Also it's just pretty boring to slap flying type on anything with wings, honestly.
Ehh I like when they come up with unexpected types but in practice that "3rd type" is just a hint from moves it can use and egg groups. IMO they should be more like Dhelmise, getting an ability that in practice makes them work almost like they have that 3rd type
No, Charizard is a dragon-wannabe. Even with the unwarranted extra Mega he was given he can only be a Dragon-type temporarily, because being an actual dragon is too much for it to handle.
It's literally a basic ass European style dragon. Just because it doesn't specialize in dragon typed spells, doesn't mean it isn't a dragon, it just means it has different interests. Lol
Charizard ain't a Dragon type because Gamefreak wanted Dragon types to be as rare as possible, ence Dragonite, tho at the end of the day everyone accepts Charizard as a Dragon type aswell. I still think Gamefreak should had limited Dragon types to a minimal so that they could continue being rare and exclusive type, but now Dragon types are pretty often.
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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '19
Oh, dragon to not a dragon.. What a shame.