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A Bug Normal type Pokémon
I was thinking about the 9 remaining unused type combinations, and I had a funny idea for Bug Normal.
It's a house fly. That's it, just a little navy/black speck, the smallest Pokémon there is. I'm calling it Blyght.
It's got like 200 BST: 1 Health, 1 Atk, 1 Sp. Atk, 1 Def, 1 Sp. Def, 195 Speed. It's utterly pathetic, but fast, just like a real fly.
But it's gimmick is with its evolution, Paraflyght, which name means Parasite + Fly + Flight.
Paraflyght is a cloud of 100 Blyghts, with the exact same BST, except each Blyght is considered a separate Pokémon and you need to knock them all out individually. This means that even if you attacked Paraflyght with your strongest Pokémon using their strongest move, you'd need to do that again 99 times. This would effectively give Paraflyght the highest Def and Sp. Def of any Pokémon, but you can't really heal it unless you want to use Revives so it still has 1 Health, but stacked 100 times.
And also because each Blyght is its own Pokémon as a part of Paraflyght, they each get their own attack, meaning Paraflyght gets to attack as many times as it has Blyghts left, so at full health it has 100 Atk and Sp. Atk that will slowly be lowered over the course of a battle as it loses more of the swarm.
The only counter are moves that hit multiple times, such as Double Hit or Twin Needle, which would be able to knock out multiple Blyghts from the cluster at once.
Or you could use Earthquake and hit every Blyght at once, taking out the entire cluster in a single hit.
This is entirely a joke suggestion though, otherwise Wolfey might find a way to teach it Follow Me in a tournament and he'd make a video about winning with nothing but a cloud of flies.