Some crazy math someone threw on me at work.
There are 17 “types” which Pokemon can be categorized within (i.e. Fire, Water, Psychic, Dark, etc). Of these, up to two can be combined in a set: Fire/Dark or Water/Ice for example; however many are just one type (Normal being the largest group IIRC).
As of this moment, there are 493 Pokemon, all of which fall under 72 type combinations. There is a possible 136 combinations.
My god… what a beast Nintendo has created. This is assuming of course, they don’t introduce new types (Dark and Steel were invented during the “second generation” of the series). :shock: