Your Top 5 Types

Started by Ciax July 23rd, 2011 12:07 AM
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Ciax

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Just as the title says, What are your to 5 favourite types and if possible why?

I'll start
1. Bug - I love bugs just for one reason. They are the underdogs. Not many people like them and by stats they are not the strongest, yet they are just so cool.
2. Dark - Dark types are mysterious and cool. They are pretty stong as well and mightyena is one :)
3. Water - Water used to be my favourite as it was a great defensive type and I always choose the water starter. Now i dont love it as much but still number 3
4. Ground - Ground type pokemon are really really cool. Eartquake is a very strong move used by many competetive battlers. I love nearly everyone cept for stunfisk and claydol
5. Ice - Not sure why I like ice. Maybe it is cause they are the only good dragon killers and they are also pretty rare.

Theres my top 5, now what are yours.
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  1. Ghost
  2. Ground
  3. Poison
  4. Fire
  5. Rock

Probably in that order.

Ghost is definitely my favorite type because of how awesome the designs for 80% of Ghost-type Pokemon are. I love their Pokedex entries and Shadow Ball was one of my favorite attacks way back in Pokemon Crystal. Ground is next because my Cubone is one of my favorite Pokemon. After snooping around, I discovered that I also love Rhyhorn, Gastrodon (pink), Wooper, Vibrava, Gliscor, Claydol, (and the list goes on). I just happen to like the design on Poison-type Pokemon, like Muk and Ariados. Fire because it's one of my favorite offensive types (but I never actually use them on Fire-types, oddly). It's the absolute best when Manectric can use Overheat and Shibirudon can use Flamethrower. Rock is last because it's there to cover fossil Pokemon, which are some of my favorites, and the stony Pokemon that aren't Ground-type already.
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1. Water (my first starter was Mudkip, a Water Pokemon. That, and it has good neutral coverage)
2. Fighting (a lot of Pokemon of those types with this type have good designs, like Gallade. Also, most of them specialize in brute strength, which is one of my specialties)
3. Dragon (same with Fighting Pokemon)
4. Fire (sometimes I use the starter of that type when I don't feel like using the Water starter)
5. Steel (most have a good set of resistances)

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1. Dragon- I just love dragons, dragon is a good typing, resistant to a lot of common types, and weak to rarer ones. It also is neutral against almost everything when attacking, and they have access to dragon dance, my favorite power-up move.

2. Electric- Weak only to ground, and dominate everything else. They usually have good designs and attacking/speed stats. See: Jolteon, one of my favs.

3. Ghosts- Can't touch this! Invulnerable to 2 types, and many have levitate making it 3. Ghosts typically look awesome, and they're a little "darker" (and before dark even existed)

4. Fighting- Take any type, and add fighting. It's instantly a high attack, large movepool, bipedal, punching, "fighting" machine. Fighting types hit normal (the only 1), dark (one of 2), and steels (one of 3) super-effectively. So they're super useful. They also are more offensively oriented, which is how I like my pokemon if you can't tell by now.

5. Psychic- For old-times sake. Psychic has been kicked off its pedestal of the best type when it was weak to NOTHING. In gen 1, there was no ghost attack besides night shade, and that can't hit super-effectively. Then there were no worthwhile bugs or bug moves. Seriously, Jolteon using pin-missle was about the most a super-effective attack could do on a psychic, and you were better of using thunderbolt in that case.

honorable mentions:
fire, dark, steel

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1. Ground: Where do I start? I always thought Ground type has the best Pokemon ever, including Dugtrio, Krookodile, Golurk, etc. Groudon, a legendary Ground type Pokemon, is my favorite Legendary Pokemon. Most of them are amazingly good (Excadrill, Landorus, Gliscor, Mamoswine, etc.) That, and Ground, in my opinion, is the best offensive type alongside Fighting.
2. Rock: While not a good type in general, I'm a fan of the Pokemon. My 2 favorite Pokemon, Aerodactyl and Armaldo, are rock types. A lot of them are pretty cool and Rock is a good offensive type I suppose. Also, fossils are amazing. Did I mention that Terrakion and Regirock are one of the best legendary Pokemon ever?
3. Poison: Underrated type. Even more than Bug. So ridiculous. I always thought Poison is an amazing defensive type, only weak to Psychic and Ground. Resisting 4 types total. While not as good as Water or Steel, the Pokemon are cuter.
4. Bug: Cute Pokemon. What more do you want? I ADORE Bug and I don't know why.
5. Steel: They wall everything. That is all.

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1. Flying. I love birds and am a huge bird maniac, as well as anything that flies.

2. Dark. I dunno, just a lot of my favourites are part dark :0

3. Steel. Great walls and a lot of them look pretty awesome too (uh, hello? METAL BIRD WITH SWORD WINGS)

4. Bug. I also have a fondness for the little insects in the world, and among Pokemon this type has been getting better and better in terms of design every generation (for the most part... I'm looking at you IV)

5. Ground. It's like Steel but plays a different role. Also I like a lot of ground types :p
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1. THUNDER - They are simply shocking per se.
So many cool moves and cool Designs of Pokemon.

2. FLYING - I love flying in the air and most of the Aerial attacks are faster than any other attacks.

3. GHOST - Not all attacks can affect them. They also have cool abilities.

4. FIGHTING - Some designs may look bad....but they are willingly effective in most types but weak after Psychic.

5. FIRE - Profit dudes, Fire PKMN have the best designs and most of the Fire Starters can wipe out other gyms like in Unova, Jotho, Kanto and Hoenn.(Except SINNOH)

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My top 5 types are as follows:

1: Fighting
2: Dragon
3: Rock
4: Ghost
5: Electric

I really like the designs of almost all the fighting types and attacks, mainly due to how powerful they are and the potential for unique concepts that the fighting type has. Dragon types are just pretty great in general and the fact that Dragon moves are resisted by only the Steel Type is great as well. I guess I like Rock and Ghost for the same reasons as fighting really, although Ghosts are usually restricted to a more defensive role. The Electric type just has a lot of cool attacks and bearers of the typing, and it's only weak to one type.

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1. Fighting

My very favorite Pokemon is fighting and I'm a martial artist myself so I can understand some of the nods to martial arts in the Pokemon's dex entries. Fighting is and will be my favorite type because it is great offensively and doesn't have many common weaknesses (who uses flying and psychic type attacks nowadays?). A few examples of my favorite fighting types are Mienfoo, Hitmontop and Virizion.

2. Flying

All of the bird based Pokemon are great and flying types are handy. Since gen 5 they have all gained boosts to their move pools that have made them even better. They are elegant and fast, but can strike hard in a pinch. A few of my favorite flying types are Pidgeotto, Zapdos and Swellow.

3. Ice

Ice types have always been sleek and *chortle* cool to me. They are awesome offensively, but don't like taking a hit themselves too much! I like them because they are hard to find but well worth the search. A few of my favorite Ice types are Spheal, Froslass and Articuno.

4. Electric

I like electric types because of their speed and their surprising ability to take hits. Defensively they are average, not weak to much and not resistant to much either. Offensively they are good against water (which is rare) and can take down a few huge threats in the metagame. They are aesthetically pleasing too. A few of my favorites are Manetric, Blitzle and Mareep.

5. Dark

Dark types are cool and cunning. You can see the canny calculation in their eyes. Dark types can hit hard, but don't like receiving blows too much, like most else on this list. They can attack with a wide variety of moves and have a few cool tricks up their sleeves. (Pursuit!) A few of my favorite dark types are Houndoom, Mightyena and Sneasel.

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1. Psychic:
Psychics have always interested me. I also love how they do telekinesis, transvection and etc. They have also massive SP ATK, even the weak ones such as Solosis and Abra. Psychic types also have one of the coolest designs; such as Alakazam and Espeon.

2. Ghost:
Ghosts are amazing, they have cool designs, not much weaknesses and most can't hit them (normal and fighting type moves are common nowadays). Their Pokédex entries are really cool and creepy as well.

3. Steel:
I'M STRONG

4. Ice:
I'M COOL

5. Water
I'M AWESOME

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1. Fire
dey be sexiest

2. Fighting
'cause it uses good attacks :x

3. Ice
cause dem pretty

4. Electric
also sexy

5. HMMMMMMMM. Poison perhaps.
because toxic is like the best attack ever :(

my favoritism is weird.

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1. Fire - Well, I'm just a massive fan of fire types, most of my favourites are fire types too, so yeah.
2. Water - Theres just such a cool verity of water types in the Pokémon world, I love a lot of them too. Some favourites of mine include Vaporeon, Politoed and Keldeo.
3. Dark - Well, there are some really cool dark types in the series. I think Umbreon is a great concept. So yeah, pretty cool.
4. Psychic - There are some really cool psychic types out there if you ask me. They've always really interested me too, they seem to have some many strengths.
5. Grass - I just love a lot of the concepts for most of them. Including Torterra, Shaymin and Jumpluff.
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1) Dark
They are dark that's epic :D
2) Dragon
I love dragons just simply because they are dragons :D
3) Psychic
They are awesome sweepers =D
4) Fire
I have fire starters so I guess because of that :D
5) Fighting
My long time favorite so it needs to be in my TOP 5 though I don't like them so much now =D
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Fire (Im a pyro what else can i say, i enjoy burning things)
Dark (Dark types are mysterious and most of them hav good designs)
Ghost (I'm a big fan of paranormal things and i do believe in ghosts and spirits so ya lol)
Ice (I love the desings of the Ice types and they have great movesets)
Grass (I also love nature and the Grass types remind me of nature)

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Pretty much I like all of these types because they're useful in battle and no reason other than that.

1. Electric - Very useful in battle, and since I'm a heavy user of electronic devices IRL...
2. Ice - Cool, chilling, and refreshing
3. Ground - They're always helpful on a team.
4. Dark - I like the sinister element of it :P
5. Fire - For its sheer destructive power :)

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Flying, Water, Grass, Psychic, aaaand, I'm not too sure of the last one. Guess it's a tie between Fire and Electric. The first two because of my obsession with Hurricanes, although I've always loved Water Types and found them to be my favorite even before I discovered my love for the disasters. Grass because they need more love and I've grown to like quite a few grass types. Psychic because lol espeon I said so as well as fire and electric. n_n
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My top 5 are...

1. Water: Water types are generally good overall, it happens to be the type of my favorite Pokemon!

2. Fire: Epic moves, good offensive stats.

3. Fighting: I used to be a martial artist, so you can understand why fighting makes the list, they also have a wide range of moves they can learn, like elemental punches...

4. Flying: Fast and Deadly!

5. Dragon: One of the strongest and rarest types out there...
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1. Water. They are THE BEST type. Milotic, swampert, gyarados, lanturn, kingdra and ludicollo FTW. I'm also a wallace enthusiast who hopes to see him as a champion in one of the hopefully to be rse remakes.

2. Psychic. I usualy work at maintaining mental stability and work at keping my cool in as many situations as possible. They can learn a wide variety of moves like thunderbolt and duel screens. Gardevoir and gallade are a wonderful couple to have in a team. Lucien is my idol of psychic types.

3.Electric. They have only one weakness which can actualy be made irrelivent by pokemon like electross, emolga and galvantula. Plus a few new moves like volt switch and electro ball. (Gen 5 has been nice to them). Plus they have access to screen moves which I enjoy using. Sadly I can't find a high ranking trainer who I idolize for using this type.

4. Ground,rock and steel. That's right I like to put them all in the same team and create chaos with sandstorm and stealth rock. Then powerful earthquakes come and finish them off. Sadly they lack much special attack capability so I always have a sigilyph handy who can also be imune to sandstorms with its neat ability. Steven is my favorite trainer to have all these types though I'd admit since gen 3, sinnoh and unova have offered much more room for changes with his team.

5.Flying and dragon. Rather than thinking 100% about type matchups I use their speed as sweepers to cover their weaknesses. Sinnoh has given this type much much hope. Staraptor, togekiss and gliscor are some fine examples. Wiona, skyla and drake. (Sorry lance but I just don't like you =/.)
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