Types

Every dinosaur in the Arcade Game (only starting with the Japanese 4th Edition and its equivalents) is given a Type. Types can be thought of as in-battle perks for each dinosaur. With every new named collection of card releases (2006/Series 1, 2007/Series 2, Gekizan, Kakushin, and the special Kakushin 6th), dinosaurs will generally be given a different Type than they had before, often from a group of newly-introduced Types.

The image on the right shows the introduction of a dinosaur before battle in the English arcade. Notice the Type Section on the top right corner.

In the arcade game, it can be noted that there are version changes. The following only shows the Types found on the all language versions of Dinosaur King in the world. Since Japan received more updates than other nations' versions, they alone gained newer Types (though Taiwan began using the Japanese version for those releases).

Original Types

	Description	Exclusive?	Example
Attack	Higher power in Moves, and a stronger Critical Move.	No	Einiosaurus
Tie	Gets lower damage during a tie.	No	Lambeosaurus
Defense	Lower power in Moves, but has more health.	No	Dilophosaurus

New Types

These Types appeared when the 3rd update of the Arcade Game was released.

	Description	Exclusive?	Example
Counter	The Dinosaur will become stronger after a loss.	No	Corythosaurus
Blitz	If any button is pressed at the 10 second count, then the dinosaur's strength will be boosted.	No	Deltadromeus
Crisis	The dinosaur will become stronger when it has low energy.	No	Altirhinus
Hunter	Moves become more powerful once the opponent has a weaker health level than the player's dinosaur.	No	Ampelosaurus
Charge	The opponent receives more damage than normal in a tie (Tie Attack can, perhaps, boost this effect).	No	Yangchuanosaurus
Heroic	The sign that can be beaten by the opponent's Critical Move is stronger than other moves.	No	Tarchia
Death	Allows the usage of Death Fire when energy is low without using its card.	Yes	Black Tyrannosaurus only
Revival	Can revive once if death occurred in a tie, the energy revived being the minimum amount of energy possible.	Yes	Fossil Cards only (i.e. Saurolophus)
Poison	The dinosaur has a chance to poison their opponent, taking a small chunk of their health. The poison effect will reside after three rounds. This effect will not kill the opponent, instead stopping once the opponent is at minimum health. This effect is similar to Venom Fang, and can be negated by Recovery Moves.	Yes	Alpha Dinosaurs only (i.e. Super Alpha Allosaurus)

Japanese-only

These Types are only available in later Japanese gameplay.

	Description	Exclusive?	Example
Reform	When You Win Many Times, Your Power Will Get Stronger	No	Megalosaurus (Gekizan 1st Edition)
Tie Defense	After multiple ties in a row, new ties won't give damage.	No	Apatosaurus (Gekizan 3rd Edition)
Recovery	A Recovery effect will activate after random wins.	No	Spectral Armor Brontikens
Strength		No	DinoTector Chomp
Lucky 7	Raises Technique when the move button is pressed at 7 seconds remaining.	No	DinoTector Spiny
Will Power		No	DinoTector Tank
Super	Type for all Super Dinosaurs.	Yes	Super Dinosaurs only (i.e. Super Tyrannosaurus)
Lethal		No	Apatosaurus (Kakushin 3rd Edition)
Rock-Rock	Raises Attack after multiple uses of Rock.	No	Indosuchus
Scissors-Scissors	Raises Attack after multiple uses of Scissors.	No	DinoTector Carnotaurus (Kakushin 6th Edition)
Paper-Paper	Raises Attack after multiple uses of Paper.	No	Spectral Armor Maximus (Kakushin 6th Edition)
Other	Sometimes forgets their Moves.	No	Pawpawsaurus (Kakushin 3rd Edition)
Warning		No	Megalosaurus (Kakushin 3rd Edition)
Tie Recovery	The Dinosaur will get a Recovery effect after a tie.	No	Eocarcharia

Trivia

• Types seem to be assigned to dinosaurs in a pattern. (Tyrannosaurus - Attack, Spinosaurus - Tie, Styracosaurus - Defense, Saichania - Tie, Parasaurolophus - Defense, Carnotaurus - Attack)