[ He should've actually asked for even more clarification, which only comes to him when the man asks. Types by - abilities? Species? He'll try and answer them both to cover it. ]

If you mean species, there's hundreds of those. But if you mean like Pikachu's electricity, there's [ a tiny pause ] about seventeen discovered by now. Electric's one of them -- and steel too.

[ He adds it, just because. Well. Kind of relevant!? The pokédex packed away again, he sits the bag beside himself, keeping it close to him by putting the straps around his arm. ]

I don't know how easy typing is to understand when you're not used to pokémon, but... [ He thinks a second. ] Some of them you can guess looking at the pokémon - like airborne pokémon being flying types. But not always.