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Types You Just Don't Use
Does anyone else have types that they just don't ever seem to use? For me, it's the Rock and Steel types. I also have a weird aversion to having both a Fire and Electric type on my team. Unless I choose the Fire starter, I almost never have both on my team. It's either the Electric type OR the Fire type. Not both.
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I hardly ever use Rock, Steel or Dark type Pokemon, I guess I don't really like any with those typings. The last Steel type I used was Steelix in HGSS and I seriously can't even remember what my last Rock and Dark types were (ironic as my favourite Pokemon is Zorua).
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Definitely Steel. The only time I ever use them are when I'm purposely trying to use Pokémon I've never used/used much, but they always get boxed in the post-game. Most of them are also really slow and I prefer battles to go faster. Least-favorite Type for sure.
I do plan to use Alolan Sandslash, though. Its Typing isn't the greatest and I think I read that its Speed was lowered, but I've always liked Sandslash's design and I think it's awesome that it gained my favorite Type (Ice). I don't use Dragon-, Rock-, or Fighting-Types much, either. Just not many of them that I like and the few that I do are either hard to get or not very reliable. |
Rock Types weren't my cup of tea in terms of usage, barring mons like Tyranitar, Aggron, Omastar, and Archeops.
Mainly because a lot of Rock Type Pokémon are slow, and most Rock Type attacks can easily miss due to poor accuracy. They also tend to sport a lot of weaknesses, which didn't help at all. |
To me, there's almost no point in using a Rock-type Pokemon if you can just teach a non-Rock type with high attack Stone Edge. Makes the type basically useless, especially since without Rock moves, the type becomes a matter of "anything I can do, the Steel-type does better". Unless you're Tyranitar, of course.
Same with the Ice-type. Why have a whole Pokemon dedicated to the worst defensive typing in all of Pokemon if you can just teach your Water-type Ice Beam, which is arguably the best Ice-type move of all? "But you're missing out on dat STAB tho, Imperishable you fool!" Nonsense, I'd never use a Walrein, Glalie or Vanilluxe. Even then, Mega Glalie uses its ability and Normal-type moves instead of its definitive Ice typing. I don't use Grass-types because it's just a super boring type to me, not because you have other options that can make you completely avoid the type altogether. I just don't like Grass, lol. |
For me it is Steel type and Fairy type. I have caught steel types in such a less amount that i even remember them -
Lucario (my first) Dialga Elgyme (sorry for spelling if it is wrong) Escalavier Since i'd not played gen 6, i'd never used fairy type. |
Bug I like the least so I use them the least usually.
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The type that stands out most in my mind for this topic is Poison.
It's because in older games, there wasn't much point to having one as I usually already have a Pokémon of a type that beats the types Poison does & more. & In the newer games, there were still not any Poison type that I especially liked. WARNING: READ THE FOLLOWING ONLY IF YOU KNOW THE LEAKED CONTENTS OF SUN/MOON. Spoiler:
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I've come out of my shell a bit and used a Dark-type Pokémon in Sun. It hasn't been super useful, but I don't have anything else yet that deals with ghosts, so whatevs. It's Umbreon, which is also a pretty good tank.
Besides that, just been using my usual types. I wanted to do more unusual stuff in S&M but it didn't really happen :/ |
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure I've never had a Fighting-type in my main team.
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I barely use rock-, bug-, steel- or ground-type Pokemon. Maybe it is because most of them don't appeal to me that much?
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I tend to avoid ground, rock, bug, poison and normal (and now as you don't need fly from gen vii on flying) as I consider those meh boring types.
Also don't use Dragon much. |
Rock is one I don't normally use, for sure.
Bug, dragon (since by the time I find a dragon type, I usually have a team in place that I like), ice. Also ghost, the only reason I've been using ghost types this gen in my team is because of the amount of new dual-type ghosts, heh. I could probably list like half the types if I were to list all the ones I tend to not use. Rock is definitely the one I just about never use for any reason, though. |
I don't normally use Flying types for the Flying type, normally for the secondary type.
Rock types rarely make it into the team for the same reason (exception was Lycanroc) |
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Normal, Bug, and Poison. I just never had any luck with those ones.
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I really want to use Dragon-types but by the time they become available my team is always already set. I often try to cram one into the team at the expense at some other member but it normally doesn't work out and I switch back to the benched team member after a little while.
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I honestly stay away from too many dragon types, probably just my old preconception of them being overused.
Perhaps I'll trian more, now that there's a wide variety of dual typings they have, and fairies poop on 'em. |
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