To provide an energy type filter on the Pokédex screen, we needed to narrow each Pokémon’s type based on both the video games and the trading card game. Below is a general mapping table that covers most cases.
Video Game Type | TCG Type |
Grass | Grass |
Bug | Grass |
Fire | Fire |
Water | Water |
Ice | Ice |
Electric | Lightning |
Fighting | Fighting |
Rock | Fighting |
Ground | Fighting |
Psychic | Psychic |
Ghost | Psychic |
Fairy | Psychic |
Normal | Colorless |
Flying | Colorless |
Dark | Darkness |
Poison | Darkness |
Steel | Metal |
Dragon | Dragon |
Fairy | Fairy |
Examples
- Kleavor is a Bug/Rock type in games, so it must have Grass and Fighting type in Dex.
- Vulpix is a Fire type in games, therefore has Fire type in Dex. But Alolan Vulpix is Ice type, therefore Vulpix has both Fire and Water types in Dex.
- Iron Valiant is a Fairy/Fighting type in games, so it must have Fairy, Psychic and Fighting in Dex. Iron Valiant was released after Fairy TCG type was discontinued, however, it still should be listed as a Fairy type (even though here are 0 Fairy cards assigned to it).
- The existence of outliers, such as a Lightning type Charmander card (EX Crystal Guardians 49), does not change the fact that Charmander is considered solely a Fire type. Special attributes like Tera and Delta Species are not taken into account. For a Pokémon to be assigned a type based on its cards, a significant portion of its cards must match that type, and other printings of the same card are not counted toward this percentage.