It is a truth universally unacknowledged that Pokémon types are incomprehensible bullshit, to the degree that it would be easier to develop an entirely new system than to fix it. The taxonomy is a mess, for one. About half of them are roughly elemental — Fire, Water, Grass, Electric, and so on — which makes perfect sense, at least aside from Ground and Rock being separate types for some reason. But why are behavioral traits like Flying, Fighting, and Psychic put on the same taxonomic level? How about types that describe the physical nature or appearance of the Pokémon in question, like Bug, Dragon, Fairy, and Ghost? And where on … Continue reading Jorge Luis Borges’s New and Improved Pokémon Type System