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{{p|Arceus}} has the Ability {{a|Multitype}}, which changes its type and appearance depending on the [[Plate]] it is holding. Likely as a precaution for Arceus hacked to be ???-type, a ???-type sprite of Arceus is present in {{5v|Diamond|Pearl|Platinum|HeartGold|SoulSilver}}; however, it is never used without hacking. It is also likely that this ???-type Arceus was made so that Arceus wouldn't crash the game whenever it tried using Multitype to change its type, | {{p|Arceus}} has the Ability {{a|Multitype}}, which changes its type and appearance depending on the [[Plate]] it is holding. Likely as a precaution for Arceus hacked to be ???-type, a ???-type sprite of Arceus is present in {{5v|Diamond|Pearl|Platinum|HeartGold|SoulSilver}}; however, it is never used without hacking. It is also likely that this ???-type Arceus was made so that Arceus wouldn't crash the game whenever it tried using {{a|Multitype}} to change its type, although this is probably not the case due to the lack of a ???-type {{p|Kecleon}}. | ||
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Revision as of 15:40, 21 April 2014
For other uses of question marks in the Pokémon games, see Question marks.
The ??? type (Japanese: ？？？タイプ ??? type) is a type which exists in the generations from Generation II until Generation IV. It is not present from Generation V onward.
Battle properties
| Offensive | 
|
Defensive | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power | Types | Power | Types | |
| 2× | None | ½× | None | |
| ½× | None | 2× | None | |
| 0× | None | 0× | None | |
Characteristics
The ??? type does not exist in Generation I. It exists only in Generations II, III, and IV solely to be the type of Eggs and the status move Curse. Unlike other types, the ??? type does not have any weaknesses or resistances.
Issues arise if damaging moves are hacked to be of this type in the Generation II or III games. Since it was considered neither a physical nor a special move, the damage dealt by a ???-type move was minimal[citation needed], even if the move had the highest possible base power.
In the games
Curse
The move Curse was given the ??? type when introduced in Generation II, likely because of its mysterious nature: it is so far the only move which completely differs in its use between Pokémon of different types. It was retyped as Ghost-type move in Generation V. It is a Normal-type move in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series.
Eggs
Pokémon Eggs are displayed as being ???-type in Generation III on their status screen; this is likely because, like all other data, information about a Pokémon Egg is supposed to be sparse, including its original Trainer and ID number. This information does not appear in Generation II, which uses a special status screen for Pokémon Eggs that is different from that of Pokémon, and was removed in Generation IV, when the section of a Pokémon's status screen that displays type was separated from where it was met. From Generation IV on, Eggs are counted as Normal-type Pokémon by the game.[citation needed]
Weather Ball
Weather Ball's type changes depending on the weather condition. If Weather Ball is used when the field is under effect of Shadow Sky, Weather Ball changes to a ???-type move. Despite this, if a Pokémon with Color Change is hit with this move under these conditions, it will be changed to a Normal-type Pokémon.
Arceus
Arceus has the Ability Multitype, which changes its type and appearance depending on the Plate it is holding. Likely as a precaution for Arceus hacked to be ???-type, a ???-type sprite of Arceus is present in Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, and SoulSilver Versions; however, it is never used without hacking. It is also likely that this ???-type Arceus was made so that Arceus wouldn't crash the game whenever it tried using Multitype to change its type, although this is probably not the case due to the lack of a ???-type Kecleon.
Type change
In Generation IV, if a pure Flying-type Pokémon uses Roost, it becomes a ???-type Pokémon until the end of the turn. However, in Generation IV, all Flying-type Pokémon have two types (except Arceus, which is unable to learn Roost). To obtain a ???-type Pokémon, the player must change a Pokémon to be a pure Flying-type Pokémon (with Color Change, Conversion or Conversion 2), followed by using Roost. In Generation V, if a pure Flying-type Pokémon uses Roost, it becomes a pure Normal-type Pokémon.
The game will not allow the player to use Conversion to convert to the ??? type. Curse, the only move of this type, will be ignored by Conversion, so that a Pokémon with only Curse and Conversion will result in Conversion failing.
Other uses
Unrevealed types
On official material, the ??? type is often used to denote a type that has not yet been revealed. Leading up to the release of Pokémon X and Y, Sylveon's type was listed as ??? on official material until its actual type was revealed to be Fairy.
Retirement
The ??? type is not present in the coding of the Generation V games. This was possibly because making exceptions for a type that is used solely by a single, non-damaging move in the case that hackers would alter a Pokémon or move and crash their game had become tiresome. Considering that the only other "official" uses of the ??? type had been the unavailable form of Arceus and the typing of Eggs in Generation III, the type itself was essentially useless.
Trivia
- This is the only type to not have any Pokémon with it as a type.
- This is the only type to have been retired.
