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::'''''???''' redirects here. If you are looking for other uses of question marks in the Pokémon games, please see [[Question marks|this article]].''
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The '''??? type''' (Japanese: '''<span lang="ja">???タイプ</span>''' ''??? type''), unlike the {{type2|Bird}}, is an elemental type which existed as a non-[[glitch]] type from [[Generation II]] onward. However, no [[Pokémon]] bears this type. [[Pokémon egg]]s are typed solely with this before they hatch, and by extension, [[bad egg]]s are also of the ???-type. The type appeared in [[Generation I]], but was at the time only attributed to the [[glitch Pokémon]].

==Weaknesses and resistances==
The ??? type has neither any weaknesses nor resistances.

==???-type Pokémon==
No real Pokémon are ???-types, however, both {{pkmn|egg}}s and [[bad egg]]s are labeled with this type.

==???-type moves==

===Vacuum Cut===
This move is exclusive to Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, and will hit every Pokémon in the room, but only by 16 or 17 points each time.

===Curse===
Introduced in [[Generation II]], {{m|Curse}} is a move with the ???-type.

Curse behaves differently depending on the [[elemental types|type]] of the Pokémon using it; more specifically, if the Pokémon is of the {{type2|Ghost}}, it will cut their HP in half and place a curse on the target Pokémon, while for any other type it will merely lower the Pokémon's Speed to raise Attack and Defense.

There is no actual purpose in Curse being a ???-type move besides its mysterious nature. If [[cheating|hacked]] to be of any other type, the move will still work as normal.

===Shadow moves===
[[Shadow moves]] are another kind of Pokémon attacks with the type ???.

In [[Pokémon Colosseum]], [[Shadow Pokémon]] have the move {{m|Shadow Rush}} until they are [[Purification|purified]]. In [[Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness]], more Shadow moves are introduced. Starting in Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, these moves are super-effective against regular Pokémon and not very effective against other Shadow Pokémon.

???-type moves do not run exclusively off of the user's Attack or Special Attack stat, instead depending on the move. This would later be extended to moves of the rest of the types in [[Generation IV]].

===Non-Shadow moves===
In every other game, ???-type offensive moves, although none exist, can be hacked in. Even with a base power of 255 (the highest that the game allows) the move will do almost no damage.
[[Image:Spr 4d 493-Unknown.png|thumb|right|Sprite for ???-type Arceus]]

==Arceus==
{{p|Arceus}}'s {{a|Multitype}} ability allows it to change types based on which [[plate]] it holds. Although there is no known plate that will make it a ???-type, the code for {{game|Diamond and Pearl|s}} has a sprite for ???-type Arceus. This could suggest that there may be a way to get a plate that will change Arceus into this type via a future [[Nintendo event]], although this is unlikely as no such [[plate]] exists in the code for Diamond and Pearl. However, it is likely that this sprite was included to prevent the game from crashing in the event that its type was changed, either through a flaw in the code or due to external tampering.

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