I don't know, Fire is pretty good as a Type. I just don't think Fire has enough Pokémon.

Of the 3 Starter types, Fire, Water and Grass, here's how the stack up:
48 Fire types
109 Water types
74 Grass types

Water takes up about 1/6 of the Gen V National Pokédex.
Yeah, Fire needs more love. And Water needs for punishment from Electric and Grass.

Water getting the majority of Pokemon makes sense considering how the world works.

It's still ridiculous that a generation will introduce 49 new Water types and 9 new Fires *Glares at Gen III*
But the relative scarcity whilst not being absolutely barren is part of the appeal of Fire Types.

Oh, and nerf Stealth Rock. Seriously. That bullshit is getting old. 25% health for nothing? That's stupid (Talonflame will NEVER be used because of this. Losing 50% health on incoming is going to lessen it's appeal unless they seriously do something about Stealth Rock). At least Spikes need multiple layers and Poison Spikes can be soaked by Poisons and can be beneficial for a mon with Guts.

Here's the full breakdown of types, in case anyone cares:

109 Water
97 Normal
84 Flying
74 Grass
67 Psychic
63 Bug
59 Ground
57 Poison
48 Fire
47 Rock
41 Fighting
39 Electric
39 Dark
38 Steel
31 Ice
29 Dragon
27 Ghost

And now Fairy...

Just when I needed to surf the other day in HeartGold, got another call from the Mother. Went to the PokéMart and what did the deliveryman have? A Moon Stone. Just what I needed! So my Nidorino nicknamed PuToTyra is now a Nidoking, and I was able to get things done lol.

I can only think of 6 fire types introduced in Gen III
Torchic
Combusken
Blaziken
Torkoal
Numel
Camerupt.
If there are three more then I can't think of them.

Gen III also only introduced four new electric types and in the national pokedex they all follow one another.

Ah. I must have counted available fire types, not just introduced ones (Though, technically, Castform becomes Fire during Intense Sunlight).

I freaking love Ash's new design for the X and Y anime.

I guess attaching an image was too tall an order.

It actually is considering i'm using the 3DS browser.