Well, all the talk about the new Diamond and Pearl games has got me thinking about Pokemon types. We've had some odd combinations in the past, like Gligar (Ground/Flying), Chinchou/Lanturn (Water/Electric), Aerodactyl (Rock/Flying), and so on. But when you think about it, there are 136 possible combinations for dual-type Pokemon like these (272 if you consider a/b and b/a to be different). So obviously, there are a lot of combos we haven't even touched yet.

I'm curious about the wackiest, most nonsensical type combinations you can come up with. (Bonus points to people who figure out ways to make those combos work!) What set of types do you think would never happen... and how could they actually come into being?

As for mine...

Obviously something like Ghost/Normal would be nutty, since Pokemon of each type are immune to attacks of the other type. I'm not even going to begin to think about that, because I'd drive myself insane. But I could see something like a Fire/Water type. Lots of fish and aquatic mammals live near volcanoes, for instance; consider the areas around and within Hawaii. So a tropical fish could incorporate a Fire element if you got creative with it. Fighting/Flying seems off-the-wall, but we've had just about everything else with Flying, and in RSE Fighting was paired with, of all types, Psychic (Meditite/Medicham). I could see something like a flying squirrel, which would be absolutely nuts. XD

What ideas do you have about type combos? C'mon, tell the world!