This really should be announced on the site, but WordPress is being extremely uncooperative...
For years, there has been a half-formed feature sitting in the left sidebar of the Pokémon Factory. Now, however, it is half-formed no more! In honor of suggestions re-opening, the Type Reference Engine (sidebar link: "Type Lookup") is fully online! This feature lets you search our enormous database of every Nintendo-official pokémon and every PF pokémon that has been archived so far, to find pokémon of any given type. Want to know if there's already a Dark/Dragon-type? Can't remember the name of that neat Ice/Bug-type? Or maybe you already know that we have a Rock/Magic Stonehenge pokémon named Stohnge but you can't seem to find it in the Archives. Just look up Rock/Magic-types and the list will note that Stohnge is #PF189. Should be easy to find now! The Type Reference Engine also helpfully lists the strengths and weaknesses of a given type, so if you're not sure how your idea for a Light/Fighting-type would fare in battle, the listing for that type can clue you in. (By the way, if you look up that type you'll see there is no such pokémon...yet!)
Some notes about this wondrous device:
For years, there has been a half-formed feature sitting in the left sidebar of the Pokémon Factory. Now, however, it is half-formed no more! In honor of suggestions re-opening, the Type Reference Engine (sidebar link: "Type Lookup") is fully online! This feature lets you search our enormous database of every Nintendo-official pokémon and every PF pokémon that has been archived so far, to find pokémon of any given type. Want to know if there's already a Dark/Dragon-type? Can't remember the name of that neat Ice/Bug-type? Or maybe you already know that we have a Rock/Magic Stonehenge pokémon named Stohnge but you can't seem to find it in the Archives. Just look up Rock/Magic-types and the list will note that Stohnge is #PF189. Should be easy to find now! The Type Reference Engine also helpfully lists the strengths and weaknesses of a given type, so if you're not sure how your idea for a Light/Fighting-type would fare in battle, the listing for that type can clue you in. (By the way, if you look up that type you'll see there is no such pokémon...yet!)
Some notes about this wondrous device:
- Nintendo's pokémon have been given ID numbers that include two letters, in order to look good alongside ours. The two letters of a PF pokémon's ID# indicate the game generation in which it was introduced, such as #RB001 Bulbasaur, #GS249 Lugia, and #DP493 Arceus.
- As you'll soon learn if you don't do so, you must use both dropdowns in order to get the Engine to work; the "Pure-Type" option in the Type2 dropdown is available if you want to look up pokémon of a single type.
- Also, the order of types doesn't matter in the Nintendo games, but it matters here, because we have some moves that relate to a pokémon's Type1. Because of that, the Ground/Rock Rhyhorn family won't show up if you look for Rock/Ground-types...but I've included a link at the bottom of the page to take you straight to the reverse type if what you wanted to see isn't there.
- You might notice that neither dropdown actually lists all of the types. Type1 doesn't list Flying, and Type2 doesn't list Normal. That is because the Pokémon Factory does not allow pokémon with a Type1 of Flying or a Type2 of Normal. Then again...certain pokémon have the ability to become pure Flying-type under the right conditions...if you want information on those pokémon, this link might be useful.
