great and terrible type combos

what are some of the best type combinations for battling? how about the worst?

rock/ground, while it is thematically consistent, has always seemed really stupid to me. it doubles a bunch of its own weaknesses, as well as making it weak to itself. lol. Grass/Ice also seems really dumb - it has six weaknesses and one double weakness.

I think Water/Fairy is pretty great! It's got only 3 weaknesses, which is pretty good for a duel type, and it has 6 resistances and one immunity. Way to go Primarina :)

share some more cool/awful type combos!!

Let's see
Grass/Psychic have most weakness than other type, top off with quad weakness against bug. Just how would you counter all those types.
Fairy/Electric very small weakness and immune to dragon gives it a howling boost. Only 2 weakness so far
Dark/Ghost is most common and yet the typing makes for least resistance and single weakness
Grass/Fairy don't mix well due to Grass-weakness it's combo for disaster and top it up with quad against poison-type
Fire and Poison seems interesting it's most fragile against poison and add some few weakness, just beware of rough ground-type

Grass/Bug and Rock/Ground are the two that come to mind, they can be taken down easily by multiple types. Ice/Rock is pretty frail and it seems that Ice/Bug would be too.

Ice-bug is pretty terrible, considering how much of a pivotal role fire type Pokemon or moves play in battling, you may as well just not send a Pokemon with that type combination out.

Best Combinations:
Water/Ground has one weakness
Dark/Poison has one weakness
Ghost/Dark has one weakness
Steel/Bug has one weakness
Normal/Ghost has one weakness


Worst Combinations:
Ice/Grass has 7 weaknesses
Psychic/Grass has 7 weaknesses
Psychic/Rock has 7 weaknesses
Grass/Dark has 7 weaknesses

colours said:

I've always been conflicted on Grass/Fairy as a type combo ever since Tapu Bulu's introduction. It seems to be an awful defensive typing because you're weak to a gazillion different things but like....what does Fairy even add or help to the Grass typing? Do the types even compliment each other at all? It just confuses me, really.

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That's true, I can't actually think of any ways they could combine usefully, haha.

I think Normal/Fairy might be pretty good? For a dual type, it's only got two weaknesses, and in return for that it gets two resistances and two immunities (: Probably a pretty good typing for defensive/special wall Pokémon? (I don't know the actual terminology for the different roles in battle but I think it's something like that?)

Rock/Ice would be great if they put it on something other than Aurorus

it's like, yeah, let's put 2 fantastic offensive but absloute shit defensive types on a pokemon that's not inclined to the former

like are you fucking serious

Dark/Rock-type Tyranitar with 7 different weaknesses; Fighting is the most effective type of move against it. I really prefer Tyranitar's typing to be Dark/Ground-type instead in my opinion, though.

Currently, I've been in love with the Ice/Fairy typing. It doesn't have the least type weaknesses, but the typing is so useful because you get your Ice & Fairy type all-in-one and is very effective on many types which makes it a good Pokémon to lead with

The Dark/Fighting type has to be one of the worst typings out there. The typing is a double-edge sword with it seeming very powerful at first but once in battle, it is prone to many types common on the battlefield which is such a hassle.

smocks said:

The Dark/Fighting type has to be one of the worst typings out there. The typing is a double-edge sword with it seeming very powerful at first but once in battle, it is prone to many types common on the battlefield which is such a hassle.

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Dark/Fighting seems like it would be pretty good on a fast physical sweeper kind of Pokémon, since those are two pretty good offensive typings, but weakness to two of the most common move types - Flying and Fighting - and a double weakness to Fairy, seems to make it really easy to take down : (

At least it's better than Normal/Dark. I don't understand the point that type at all. Getting an immunity to Ghost isn't worth taking quadruple damage from Fighting type moves imo, seeing as the latter seem to be a lot more common in battles.

colours said:

I love the Ice-type and I really want it to be good but maybe Game Freak just sucks at making good Ice-types?

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I was going to type more, but then realized I've done it before, and so the short answer is: yes, Game Freak sucks at making viable Ice types.

Radiating said:

Psychic/Rock has 7 weaknesses

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Not exactly, because it has 6 - Bug, Dark, Ghost, Ground, Grass and Water.

Looks like you forgot about Psychic resisting Rock's Fighting weakness.

Nah said:

I was going to type more, but then realized I've done it before, and so the short answer is: yes, Game Freak sucks at making viable Ice types.

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Agreed. This gen we got Crabominable as our only new Ice-type (I don't count Alolan Forms as new Pokemon here) and while Fighting/Ice looks like a great type for offensive coverage, the problem is it's weak to 6 types and it gets outsped by literally anything (well, except for Munchlax, Shuckle or Pyukumuku) which means it's down before it gets a chance to hit.

Then we also have the example with Aurorus - giving a bad defensive typing to a defensive-oriented Pokemon is definitely what I call a dick move because Game Freak clearly weren't thinking and applied the type only for the sake of the lore and introducing a new type combo.

And then there's Weavile... fast but gets killed by literally anything, especially if it's a Fighting-type.

I like the Rock/Grass combo. Take the two types with the most weaknesses and together they have fewer than either had individually.

Hikamaru said:

Not exactly, because it has 6 - Bug, Dark, Ghost, Ground, Grass and Water.

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*Steel

Hikamaru said:

Not exactly, because it has 6 - Bug, Dark, Ghost, Ground, Grass and Water.

Looks like you forgot about Psychic resisting Rock's Fighting weakness.

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I didn't, but you seem to have forgotten Rock is weak to Steel.

colours said:

I've always been conflicted on Grass/Fairy as a type combo ever since Tapu Bulu's introduction. It seems to be an awful defensive typing because you're weak to a gazillion different things but like....what does Fairy even add or help to the Grass typing? Do the types even compliment each other at all? It just confuses me, really.

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Neutralizes the Bug weakness I guess.

Not like Bug/Flying. Oh, Bug types, were you weak to Rock? Here, take another 25% of Stealth Rock while this typing does nothing against types Bug isn't effective against.

I always forget the Steel weakness because it's so obscure, okay you win - it is among the worst defensive types.

Fire/Fighting is pretty bad. Weak to common types. And Grass/Flying has a quad weakness to ice. Grass/Poison is pretty good because it resists Grass's most common weakness: Poison.

Water/Dragon & Steel/Dragon type combinations are pretty good. They only have 2 weaknesses; however, Steel/Dragon is weak against Ground and Fighting, which are pretty common.