I have to disagree with fighting types not being useful in the game, they dominate team Flare, i beat them with just pangoro using karate chop/hammer arm. And then they are quite useful against 2 members of the elite four, and being able to dish out decent damage against the other 2. I never used my Lucario though, i intended too but there just wasn't enough room for him in my team. i'm currently playing my 2nd time through and still not used him i prefer machoke to Lucario.