Should Yanmega be a Bug/Dragon type?

For a long time, I've been a Bug type trainer, relying on their unique strengths, ones that most people just don't see or want to see. I often see bug types being abused and used for nothing more than Dex space. Out of them all, I think Nintendo should be ashamed for giving certain Pokémon types that make them weaker than what they appear to be. In this poll, I'm looking to find out what the rest of you think...

Should such a powerful sounding Pokémon like Yanmega be reduced to the weakness of Bug/Flying like all the rest, or should it embrace it's true characteristics and be classified as a Bug/Dragon type. You decide. I say it's unfair how Nintendo treated Yanmega, describing it as being powerful, and then giving it horrible stats and a weak typing.

I think a dragonfly should be as it's name states..a Dragon Fly..a Bug/Dragon.

 

Most aren't part dragon because they don't relate to dragons, plus they are often already powerful enough as it is...but Yanmega is a bug type, and as we all know most people consider them to be the weakest, and that is somewhat of an insult. Yanmega's descriptions give us these ideas of it being immensely powerful, but when in use it shows none of these strong triats, and for this I think Nintendo made a huge mistake by not only having it's stats low, but also by making it like every other bug, in which it is supposed to be different. It's design tells of it being related to that of the fossilized Pokémon, yet it clearly lacks those traits in it's stats. It also gives most bug users this idea of a powerful dragonesqe bug creature, and what do we find, just another Bug/Flying type like Butterfree. To me, Nintendo has insulted this creature in far too many ways.

I study bugs and bug Pokémon, and the characteristics of Dragonflies are actually quite relatable to the dragons of mythology, yes they aren't as large as the lizards their names come from, but if you take a closer look you can see why they got their name. Beetles are often my favorites of insects, but dragonflies are more interesting.

This topic itself hasn't much to do with the type changes thread, but more to deal on a personal level. I'm doing this to see what sort of results I can get from this poll. This topic has been discussed elsewhere, and I'm wanting to see what the majority of this site thinks about such a unique Pokémon.

 

Speed boost is great, and the SpAtt is ok, but when going up against other foes his defenses and moves don't allow him to do the right amount of damage before falling. Also, I don't see Protect as a good move, it just seems useless because you're only delaying the inevitable. The only moves it's good against are Hyper Beam, Solar Beam, and any other move that requires charging..other than that, when you use protect you'll still probably get hit on the next turn. I agree, his move pool isn't all that great, except for the TMs he can learn, but still, it needs more.

 

That being said, still, as we both know, no matter how fast he gets, it still won't matter if he gets hit the next turn by a extremely powerful move. His speed boost allows him to be faster, but his stats make his offense not strong enough to do the job, and then when he gets hit after taking his turn it's a good bet that he either won't survive, or he'll not have enough health to finish the job. Yanmega as he is, is perfect for double and triple battles, but needs to be able to battle alone without fainting after 2-3 hits. His offense and deffense needs to go up, and he needs be stronger against certain types, which is why I think making him part dragon would do him some good.

 

True, but atleast Charizard's attack stat resembles that amount of power, besides it said it could melt boulders, not Rock Pokémon, whereas Yanmega's say:
"This six-legged Pokémon is easily capable of transporting an adult in flight. The wings on its tail help it stay balanced."
"The beat of its wings is so powerful that it accidentally dislodges full-grown trees when it takes off in flight."
Yet it can't learn Fly, and it's attack and defense stat don't resemble anything from it's decriptions. It's supposed to be powerful, yet it can't learn a whole lot of good moves and it's stats are low, meaning somewhere in there someone got something mixed up between what it's suppose to be, and what it ended up as. If it's suppposed to be a long lost Pokémon from the fossilized past, then why can't it fight like it?

 

I didn't mean that I thought the were weak, but others see them as so, and often they can't take too many hits without fainting, which I think isn't right. Yanmega has only two things going for it, it's Sp Atk and Speed Boost, but judging from it's looks and the description the Atk, Sp Atk, Def, and Sp Def should all be much higher than that. I use Yanmega, but I'm displeased that it can't take too many hits...the move Ancient Power tells us that it is a fossil Pokémon, yet it's got far too many weaknesses, and that should be dealt with. To me, the two ost powerful types are Bug and Dragon, so why not put them together.

Scizor and Forretress are Bug/Steel, and are extremely weak to Fire, and Volcarona is Bug/Fire, removing some of the weaknesses. However, I see far too many Bug/Flying types in the Pokédex, I mean, other than Bug/Poison, that's almost all Bug types have been given to work with really. They are supposed to be strong, yet their stats often say otherwise. I'm a bug Trainer, and I always have a Bug type at the head of my team, but often times when I use them against Pokémon that have weaknesses to Bug attacks they often end up having moves that wipe my bugs out, which means the defenses are far too weak, and certainly bug are tougher than that.