Nevermet shippings

• Both May and Ritchie own a Template:Type2 starter Pokémon: Blaziken and Charmeleon, respectively. However, it is still unknown if Ritchie actually started with Charmeleon. Also, they both own Bug/Flying Pokémon that happen to be based on butterflies: Beautifly and Butterfree, respectively.
• Both traveled through time and changed the course of the future for someone else by altering the past.

• Both are big fans of Professor Oak, albeit for different reasons.
• They are the only ones of Ash's friends who are only children*.
• They are the only ones of Ash's friends not to be part of a Gym Leader family*.
• Both have been shown to have artistic skills: Tracey draws Pokémon while Dawn designs clothes.
• Both have used a Dodrio at one point.

*This is only an assumption as there is no information on Tracey's family.

Alternate names

• OrangepearlShipping (unofficial)

Name origins

• Beam is derived from Dawn's Japanese name and Tracey's personality. Hikari means light, relative to the term "beam of light," and Tracey is a positive person who smiles to the point that he often 'beams'.

• Both Gary and May received a Squirtle from Professor Oak, although Gary received it as his initial Pokémon while May didn't.
• Both have each obtained an Eevee along their journeys. Following, both Eevee evolved into an evolution that would debut the generation after its Trainer did. Gary (I) evolved his Eevee into Umbreon (II) and May (III) evolved her Eevee into Glaceon (IV).

Alternate names

• ShellShipping (unofficial; official name for Blastoise/Wartortle/Squirtle)

Name origins

• Brunett is a misspelling of both 'brunet' and 'brunette', disallowed to be corrected to the latter when it was pointed out it wasn't spelled correctly, because BrunetteShipping was listed as Delia Ketchum and Jasmine prior, and the acknowledged misspelling went through.
• Shell is the prefix used for the shipping of Squirtle/Wartortle/Blastoise. In connection but not relation, all three were shown in the on-screen ownership of both Gary and May as of DP077: Blastoise for Gary and Wartortle for May.

• Both appear to have an affinity for Psychic-type Pokémon: four of the Pokémon Max befriends are either Psychic-types themselves or are capable of Psychic attacks, and Mira not only owns the entire Abra line between the anime and games, but more than not, the Pokémon she uses in the games fall under the same specialties.
• Both initially tricked Ash when he first met them: into thinking Max was the Petalburg City Gym Leader, and to helping Mira out for something that was essentially a fib.

A surprisingly popular nevermet of moderate following, NovelShipping appears to have the same charm as Template:S without the hints, or Gary's suave arrogance, when it comes to its support. Misty's temper in the face of stubborn obstacles is key to her character, and where Gary and Paul are the types that make Ash mad (demonstrating their affect on him), it's theorized by supporters that Paul is the unmovable type (unlike Gary, who has shown to be capable of setting aside hard feelings early on in the series) that would incite the same kind of reaction in Misty that Ash often times does to her. Triggering that sort of response is also part of the Template:S appeal as well, rather leaving a fine line between particulars with the interconnections.

Name origins

Novel comes from the belief of the coiner that the couple was, at the time, a "novel idea". Retroactively from the coiner, one can say the characterizations between Misty and Paul are some of the same types to be found in romance novels, and would take a similar plot to get them together.

Another surprisingly popular nevermet, seemingly more so than NovelShipping, OutcryShipping is heavily seen in AMVs and artwork across the net. Otherwise, there is little basis aside from, "They're so cute together," or they're the "ideal couple" from supporters.

Alternate names

• FarawayShipping (unofficial; the majority name)

• In the beginning of the Diamond and Pearl series, two of Dawn's Pokémon were Template:Type2 Pokémon. Also for a while, she was the only one in the group who owned Water-types. Misty's Pokémon are mostly Water-type and she was the first of the original group to have them.

Hints

• In Buizel Your Way out of This!, Dawn was interested in Misty and her lure and seemed annoyed when Ash didn't let her use it.

Name origins

Oyster is derived from the fact that, not only are oysters aquatic creatures, akin to the type Misty trains, but oysters produce pearls, a word that is related to Dawn throughout the Shipping fandom, due to Template:S.

• They are both main characters in the Pokémon games (May is the female playable character from Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald, while Lucas is the male playable character from Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum).
• Both generally wear red items of clothing, like Lucas' scarf and May's top.
• Both wear red headgear branded with the Poké Ball logo (Lucas' cap, May's bandana).
• Both sport predominantly red tennis shoes.
• Both use yellow packs to store their belongings.

Name origins

• Ruby comes from their debut color schemes of both Lucas and May's outfits, as both wear red in their first publicized game versions.

Trivia

• Lucas makes a cameo appearance in Giratina and the Sky Warrior, in a battle against Brendan, May's rival in Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald.

• They are both members of Team Rocket.
• They have both met Jessie, James and Meowth.

Alternate names

• TeenagerocketShipping (derivative)
• NeoNeoRocketShipping

Name origins

• Teenrocket and Teenagerocket are from the original belief that both Domino and Mondo are in their teens.
• NeoNeoRocket is the newer-newer version of RocketShipping, following NeoRocketShipping.