Is Pinsir supposed to resemble a fighting type just as Gyarados resembles a dragon type?

Dec. 24, 2010

Since all of the moves pinsir learns by leveling up are fighting and most dragon type users have gyarados

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Pinsir is based off of the Stag Beetle, specifically the Prosopocoilus inclinatus, popular in bugfighting, a sport of sorts in which two bugs are made to fight each other. While almost unheard of in America, it is practiced in some parts of Japan. Since it is based off a popular bug for bugfights, this probably accounts for all the Fighting type moves it can learn. However, it does not look like a Fighting type, which is why it isn’t the Fighting type.

As for Gyarados, it was intended to have been a Dragon/Water type if not for the fact that that type in Gen 1 would be incredibly hard to beat as said before.