MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT!
While waiting for Bulbapedia to finish up their pages for the new Pokemon to see if they spot any origin inspirations I missed above, I have gone ahead and updates the Type Combination List and Super Form List (yes, I changed it's name and it actually got quite the number of significant changes I'll explain later):
Type Combination List Changes:
Removed from "
Not Done Yet" and moved to "
Done Only By One Family":
- Bug/Psychic
- Poison/Electric
- Dark/Fairy
- Bug/Ice
- Dark/Electric
Removed from "
Done Only By One Family":
- Pure Flying
- Rock/Fire
- Grass/Dragon
- Bug/Fire
- Normal/Dark
- Psychic/Ice
- Dragon/Electric
- Electric/Ice
- Steel/Dragon
- Ghost/Dragon
With the changes done there's quite an interesting bit of trivia now easily seen.
For "Not Done Yet", the following Types only need one more pairing to be completed: Grass with Fire, Electric with Fighting, Psychic with Poison, and Dark with Bug. The same isn't true vice versa. The Type that has the most other Types it needs to be paired with is Normal with 6; though that's not a surprise so if we exclude Normal it's then a tie between Poison and Fairy with 5 each.
There's nothing in "Done Only By One Family" that really stands out. Though it was the list that had the most removed from it, even with the 5 new additions there's still 5 less Type combinations on it now.
Super Form List Changes:
So, as some of you might remember, before this list's name was much larger: The Mega/Ultra/Super Form List. But with Gigantamax I decided to just drop the other prefixes and refer to all of them as "Super Forms". In the description for Super Forms I added a list of mechanics which are counted as such, it's all the ones you think EXCEPT I excluded Eternamax as it's unobtainable (at the moment).
But that's not the only change I done. With Gen VIII introducing Regional Evolutions I decided to make Regional Variants their own species. A Regional Variant will be listed alongside it's original counterpart for sake of simplicity (so Kantonian Raticate is next to Alolan Raticate). That is unless they have a Regional Evolution which in that case the original counterpart, which would still be specified from region it's from, won't have the regional variant next to it but rather its Regional Evolution will be listed in the generation it was introduced (so Kantonian Farfetch'd is in the Gen I list by itself while Sirfetch'd is in the Gen VIII list).
I've also added the Gen VIII Pokemon.
And one last small change, in addition to adding in Gigantamax I also included the Bond Phenomenon which removes Greninja from the list. My reasoning for this is that Ash-Greninja is a temporary transformation like Mega Evolution and Gigantamaxing. But, considering Charizard and Gengar both have a Mega Evolution and Gigantamax now, obviously this doesn't mean vanilla Greninja can't get another kind of Super Form later on. But for the purpose of my list which is about showing all the Pokemon which don't have a Super Form, Greninja has been checked off now.
After looking through the list of Gigantamax Pokemon I'm disappointed to still see the massive Gen I pandering. Now yes, there are more Gen VIII Pokemon that got Gigantamax (which is good as this is their generation so many of them should get access to the major new mechanic *looks at Diancie, the only Gen VI Pokemon to get a Mega Evolution*) and Garbodor is a very surprising non-Gen-1-or-8 to get a Gigantamax (not sure whether Melmetal counts as Gen 7 or 8). But still, the other 10 Gigantamax Pokemon are from Gen I; 2 of which already had a Super Form (one of which had two Super Forms) and 3 being not fully evolved Pokemon who can now no longer evolve because of having a gimmicky Gigantamax. At least the Regional Variants were allowed to expand further out.