I am very much enjoying this Pokémon X and Y image macro.
A pokémon’s type is usually pretty obvious just by looking at it. Hell, most of them are even colour-coded for your convenience. Charizard (on the right) may be a dragon in appearance, but it is not actually a dragon-type pokémon. This is because in the first games, Pokémon Red and Blue, dragon-types pretty easily outclassed most other pokémon. As such, there were only three in the game (and all in one evolutionary family, at that). Charizard was the final form of one of the available starter pokémon, Charmander, and it would be more than a little broken if you were given something so overwhelmingly powerful right from the start. As it is, Charmander is typically the starter you choose if you want the early game to be a little more challenging.
Goomy, the little blob on the left, is a new pokémon introduced in Generation VI. He’s a straight-up dragon-type, and eventually evolves into a somewhat dragon-esque thing, but really it looks like some kind of horribly mutated Yoshi. I don’t know, I think it might be this generation’s joke pokémon? Only it doesn’t suck? Who even knows what Game Freak is thinking anymore.
This has been your Pokémon Fact of the Day. We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.