that post about gym leaders tweeting that rock and ground are the same type is funny but do you think this has ever been like a point of contention for biologists in the pokemon world. like the way the fairy type wasn’t discovered until recent years and was misclassified as normal type for most of history. do you think professors in the pokemon universe argue over whether certain pokemon have been mistyped or if certain types may actually not exist at all
professor sycamore when his hypothesis on the 18th type was confirmed after his findings were repeatedly rejected and laughed at by the heads of the kalos institute of pokebiology for over a decade