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[plasticasshole]

[Connor is certainly more cheerful in this video than he was in the last one. His usual polite smile is back, and as ever his Magnezone is hovering in the background.]

I was just thinking about the Type: Null Pokemon again. I haven't met anyone who has one. So I was wondering - if you do have one, what type did you get and why? Or if you don't, which type would you want? I'd like an Electric type one, myself.

Does it evolve at all? Is it friendly? Is it good in battle? ...I realise I'm asking a lot of questions, but I'm very curious.

[And also he's pretty excited to get his sixth badge and apply for one. Being a man-made prototype himself, he's very interested to see what each individual Type: Null is like.]

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[pikapikajankenpo]

I don't think...? It evolves? Question mark?

But I'm sure you can change its type after all with disks that adapt it to different abilities. It's something like that if I'm not mistaken.

[plasticasshole]

Maybe that's how they change its type to suit your preference, but I'm pretty sure you can't change the type once you acquire it. At least, it didn't sound that way on the broadcast.

[He doesn't mind if it doesn't evolve, though. He's just curious to know what to expect from it.]

[pikapikajankenpo]

That would make sense. Being able to change it all the time would make it overpowered as a Pokemon.

That would probably be for the best.

[plasticasshole]

Right. You wouldn't need to train many different types of Pokemon if you could just change the type of the same one whenever you liked.

[It would be, as Yayoi said, overpowered.]

I'm not sure why you would want to only use one Pokemon, though. Training lots of different ones is quite rewarding.

[pikapikajankenpo]

I'm finding it challenging to train a nearly mono-type team too. Everyone has their own specialties and abilities too. So there's challenge in that too.

[plasticasshole]

Yes, I can see how that would be difficult. I favour Electric types, but I have a lot of other types too. It would make some of the Gyms very difficult if I limited myself to just my Electric types.

[And having so many Pokemon may be hard work, but he finds it a joy to get close to each one of them.]

[pikapikajankenpo]

My kids are also dual-types, like Golem is an Alolan so he's immune to electricity while at the same time able to use ground and rock attacks. And Rapidash is the wild card, along with Mimikyu and Pikachu has psychic abilities. We're not completely dead in the water if someone decides to throw a type-battle at us.

So far we've made due.