If Overwatch characters had Pokemon types, what'd they be?

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Tank:

  1. D.Va is Flying Steel. I don’t think I need to make a case for this.
  2. Doomfist is either Dark Fighting or Steel Fighting. Steel Fighting might step on Rein’s toes.
  3. Junker Queen is Electric Poison. She has her magnetic gauntlet and radiation poisoning, plus she shares a type combo with Toxtricity, the Punk Pokemon.
  4. Mauga is Normal. IDK, he’s kinda just some guy with guns.
  5. Orisa is Steel. Couldn’t really think of a dual typing outside of maybe Bug or Grass.
  6. Ramattra is Dark Steel. Dark is sort of the evil type, plus it perfectly mirrors Zenyatta’s types.
  7. Reinhardt is Steel Fighting. Fighting is technically a heroic, noble type (and also the type that just likes to kick people in the face or train rigorously).
  8. Roadhog is Poison Ground. Despite his steel hook, he seems very grounded, both in personality and trapping.
  9. Sigma is Psychic Rock. Unfortunately there is no feet type… :cry:
  10. Winston is Flying Fighting? If you saw a Gorilla jumping at you from the upper atmosphere, ready to turn you into a statistic, you’d probably agree he’s flying into a fight.
  11. Wrecking Ball is Steel. Just steel, all roll.
  12. Zarya is maybe Psychic Electric? Her blackhole cannon kinda falls under the Psychic territory, plus she wears literal power armour to charge her gun.

DPS:

  1. Ashe is Normal Fire. Not particularly abnormal, and she doesn’t embody the fire type enough to be a pure fire, but she still has her dynamite and personality that’ll burn you.
    1.5. B.O.B is Steel. Couldn’t leave the actual hero out of this list, could I?
  2. Bastion is Grass Steel, it just works too well.
  3. Cassidy is Normal, moving on.
  4. Echo is Flying Electric, I think that’s pretty self-explanatory. Maybe someone could talk me into making her a Flying Fairy.
  5. Genji is Steel Dragon.
  6. Hanzo is Dragon. I was going to make him a Normal Dragon, but he’s probably too powerful to be relegated to the Normal type.
  7. Junkrat is Poison something. I guess Poison is secretly the Australian type then, but he’s missing something. Poison Ground matches Roadhog, but maybe Poison Fire instead?
  8. Mei is Normal Ice. Just a Normal gal with an Ice gun.
  9. Pharah is Flying Steel, again don’t think I need to explain this. If she could have a third type, it’d be Fire though.
  10. Reaper is Ghost Dark, obviously.
  11. Sojourn is Normal.
  12. Soldier: 76 is Normal. Both are boring, but still capable
  13. Sombra is definitely a Dark Electric.
  14. Symmetra is a Fairy type, and I don’t want to overuse Steel. Symmetra likes Dragonflies though, so maybe having a Dragon type outside of the 3 Japanese characters could be cool?
  15. Torbjorn is Fire Steel, don’t really need to explain that one.
  16. Tracer is pure Electric. Bit of a cop-out, same type as Pikachu, whatever. Electric Flying if you’re so inclined.
  17. Venture is Rock Ground. Release a Venture skin dammit!
  18. Widowmaker is difficult, she’s definitely a Bug, Ice or Poison type, but I can only pick 2. Maybe I’ll make her an Ice Bug, since there’s no other Bug heroes and Ice only has one.

Support:

  1. Ana is Normal Poison. Still lethal, but boring outside of her poisoned bullets or whatever.
  2. Baptiste is Normal, same as Ana, except he doesn’t throw Jarate at people.
  3. Brigitte is Steel Fighting, she’s just a Reinhardt Lite.
  4. Illari is Fire Fairy. It was either that or Fire Psychic, depends on how you’re feeling that day I guess.
  5. Juno is Psychic Fairy. I think her abilities are beyond just being Flying.
  6. Kiriko is Dragon Fairy, she basically has Hanzo and Genji’s spirit whatever, but it’s like even more though? What a garbage, fanfic character, “I HAve tHeSe cHArACteR’s POwErS BuT bEtTeR” type rubbish.
  7. Lifeweaver is Fairy Grass, I don’t really need to explain this one.
  8. Lucio is Water Grass. I just realised I have literally no Water types here, and frogs like water or something I guess.
  9. Mercy is Flying Fairy, the mafia has a gun to my head as I type this.
  10. Moira is Ghost Poison, pretty simple.
  11. Zenyatta is Steel Psychic. He parallels Ramattra’s typing, but Dark is strong against Psychic.
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I have bad news for you.

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I mean, they aren’t ALL Steel. Plus I think I was able to limit it enough to people in copious amounts of armour, or the characters that are literally made out of the stuff.

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Ayo, what? Das racist!

Honestly, I just consider him pure steel or possibly steel fire if we must add a secondary type. He has burning passion… And also fireballs.

That’s the best typing.

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Kiriko’s powers aren’t better than Hanzo’s or Genji’s, they’re just different.

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Different in such a way that makes them better.

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Ok, how? I still don’t see what exactly makes them better. Is it that she has a wider ‘spread’ to them - swift step/teleport, climb walls, summon animal spirit for heightened strength, speed, etc?

In any case, I think calling her garbage is a bit much.

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A Kitsune is much more magical than a dragon.

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Off topic(ish) Ninetales is inspired by a Kitsune :exploding_head:

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Widowmaker’s clearly an Arbok kind of gal. :snake:

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She would definitely be Jessie/Musashi in a collab.

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She already has the hair.

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Soooooo spot on!

I made a similar post (although no where as detailed) about a fantasy Pokémon collab. The only one I would change is Junkrat being a Fire or Flying.

But damn, wow :clap::trophy:

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I clicked on this thread to check something

and there it is.

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Voltorb nothing else matters

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Skarmory

Lucario

Toxtricity

(also this is a fairly good and apt description of Junker Queen, considering she has an electric guitar sound effect for Carnage).

Snorlax seems apt.

Closest ones I can think of would be something like Cobalion, which is actually a legendary and a Fighting/Steel type.

Dark/Steel would only belong to Bisharp and it’s Scarlet/Violet successor evolution, Kingambit. Does fit well.

Aegislash is the closest approximation, but that’s Steel/Ghost. Otherwise you’re looking at Aggron.

Nidoking or Clodsire would be the only ones that could work, I guess.

Metagross fits.

There’s a few simian pokemon. Closest I can think of Rillabloom, who is a grass-type.

Steel electric, and notably Togedemaru has a very similar appearance too.

Psychic would work, or Ice type would work too. They’re not quite as fragile as they used to be.

Fire works.

Psychic/Electric and only the Alolan Raichu falls into this. Could also be Flying Fairy, that’s true, or Steel Fairy.

Magearna, a legendary would be the closest fit.

Closest is Duraludon, or Dialga a legendary exclusive. Doesn’t seem to fit.

With all her cybernetics, would favor Steel typing.

Given the spider motif, she’d definitely fit Bug and Poison typing.

Rock and Ground do exist.

Fire Psychic only has one, Victini, who is a legendary (and quite broken).

Flying fairy would also work.

Altaria is the only typing of this; doesn’t feel like it quite fits.

Could also just be Grass. Not everything needs a dual-typing.

Given his sound motif, Water/eletric or just electric would work too.

Ground Steel also works.

Fire Ground typing… I don’t exists, though.

Kiriko also uses a fox, not a dragon. And there are a few foxes of various typings too; including Fire.

They’re equally seen as magical. Foxes are tricksters, and dragons originate from the water in eastern myth.

So does Delphox.

Zoroark, and Eevee are also foxes.

Spider.

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She will have Abomasnow because she likes yetis and it has it can create it’s own blizzard, Vanilluxe, based on her Sprinkles outfit, Snowrunt because she thinks it’s sooo cute! Cubchoo same reason and she’ll have plushies in her room, Eiscu because she finds the tiny head funny she tries not to laugh out of being polite going by Scarlet and Violet rules, her ace would Blissey with a ice tera type or an Audino with the same tera type since defeating those would give her opponents extra exp points since she’s very apologetic this is her way of saying sorry for hurting her opponent’s Pokemon. And they fit her personality.

Mei’s gym would a maze of moving ice walls.

Bonus update!!! She could have a Magnamite that as an ice tera type. Why? She’s a Climatologist Pokemon that effect weather patterns would be her primary interest annnnnnd that Pokemon would her stand in for Snowball, But chances are Snowball would exist as he always does.

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Here’s what I would change.

Doomfist = Electric Fighting

Mauga = Fire

Roadhog = Ground Poison

Winston = Electric Flying

Wrecking Ball = Fire Steel or Electric Steel

Zarya = Fairy Psychic

Echo = Water Flying or Water Fairy

Junkrat = Fire Ground

Mei = Ice or Ice Fairy

Sojourn = Normal Water

Symmetra = Water Fairy

Widowmaker = Bug Poison

Ana = Poison Normal or Poison Electric

Juno = Flying Fairy or Water Flying

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Dark is also seen as the evil type, a sort of opposite to Fighting.

And Reinhardt only has his Firestrikes, but I think a case could be made he should be Steel Ground because of his Earth-Shatter, and the fact that flying characters are immune to any of his attacks.

I’m not really comparing Overwatch heroes to specific Pokémon, others Hanzo would be Decidueye, Genji would be Greninja, Kiriko would be Garbodor, etc.

Plus there’s already types which overlap between regular and legendary Pokémon. For example, Charizard is Fire Flying, as is Moltres and Ho-Oh, or Lucario is Steel Fighting, like Zamazenta.

Sigma Mega Metagross would go HARD!

I made Ashe a Normal Fire instead of pure Fire, like Pyroar, which is just a regular lion that can breather fire, as opposed to say Arcanine, who embodies fire through its veins or whatever.

It was definitely a hard choice, but I went with I’ve because of her blue skin and slowed heart rate, meaning she’s probably colder too. Poison Bug just seemed too obvious.

Altaria would look good on Juno IMO, but again it’s just about what typing feels good, instead of what Pokémon they look like.

Also isn’t only Mega Altaria Dragon Fairy? Regular is just Dragon Flying I think.

I just thought since they all have spirit magic or whatever, and Hanzo and Genji both have the Dragon type, I’ll just say that the Dragon type is also the spiritual type in this instance, like how types like Dark or Fighting have dual meanings normally.

I am very aware that foxes are not dragons.

Wait, how the actual Hell did I forget Mauga could set people on fire? In that case maybe Dark Fire, because he’s evil and also he pretends to be dumb, an illusion created by someone like Zoruark.

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