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this should really be in the trivia, Gyrados was origonally intended to be a dragon type rather than a flying type but due to its typing  and the only gen I dragon type move being a set damage move gyrados woukd have had no weakness so they changed it to a flying type {{unsigned|Piexd}}
this should really be in the trivia, Gyrados was origonally intended to be a dragon type rather than a flying type but due to its typing  and the only gen I dragon type move being a set damage move gyrados woukd have had no weakness so they changed it to a flying type {{unsigned|Piexd}}
:Do you have any '''proof''' of that claim? And sign your comments with four tildes. [[User:Ataro|Ataro]] ([[User talk:Ataro|talk]]) 22:15, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
:Do you have any '''proof''' of that claim? And sign your comments with four tildes. [[User:Ataro|Ataro]] ([[User talk:Ataro|talk]]) 22:15, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
:It's unlikely that Gyarados was "originally" intended to be a Dragon-type, since Dragon type seems to have been a late addition to the original Pokémon games.  Heck, Gyarados might have even been programmed into the game (as a Water/Flying-type) before the Dragon type itself.  If you look at how the type chart in Red/Green/Blue is programmed (using a hex editor and one of the ROMs), every weakness/resistance related to the Dragon type is crammed in at the very end.  Fire/Water/Electric/Grass being not very effective vs. Dragon and Ice/Dragon being super effective are the very last entries in the type weakness/resistance data section, rather than being programmed in earlier (such as in the section where they have every Fire weak/resist listed, then every Water, and so on.)
: You'll probably never get an official statement saying "Dragon was a last-minute addition" (though I could be wrong, they have admitted that Mew was basically stuck into the first empty Pokémon data slot at the last second before release! XD), but the evidence for it is right there in the game.  That's probably why Gyarados was never Water/Dragon, more so than "it wouldn't have any weaknesses."  I mean, Psychic-types essentially had no weaknesses in the 1st-gen games due to how weak Bug attacks were back then, and if the Ghost-types weren't part-Poison they would only take "super effective" damage from ''Lick'' of all things. --[[User:FnrrfYgmSchnish|FnrrfYgmSchnish]] ([[User talk:FnrrfYgmSchnish|talk]]) 23:02, 10 July 2013 (UTC)