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Easiest Gym Types?

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    we have a thread on the hardest gym types and I'm an uncreative piece of shit so here's the opposite topic for ya

    Which types have usually been the easier ones to handle in the sries?

    The first one that comeds to my mind is Rock. It's typically found early in the games, and it has a bunch of weaknesses, most notably to 2 of 3 starter types.
     
    I'd say Rock, due to the fact that they are usually the first Gym and two of the starters have a type advantage against them. Grant's probably the only one who's even a notable challenge due to his team's unique type combinations.

    Bug and Grass Gyms are usually easy as well, especially since it's easy to get a Flying-type early in the game.
     
    rock seems to be the prevailing first gym even though it actually can be quite tough if you choose a fire starter. i wonder if mitigating that is one of the reasons so many fire starters tend to get fighting as a secondary type when they reach their second stage.
     
    Rainbow said:
    rock seems to be the prevailing first gym even though it actually can be quite tough if you choose a fire starter. i wonder if mitigating that is one of the reasons so many fire starters tend to get fighting as a secondary type when they reach their second stage.
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    I think this is most likely why Torchic and Chimchar gained Fighting-type when they evolved, so that every starter can have an advantage.
     
    Rock and Ground especially if those two are dual-type which makes far easy and quick or anything that have no or little coverage which makes easy
     
    Besides the ground/Rock gyms, I've found Grass and Ice type gyms to be among the easiest gyms in the Pokemon world. With weaknesses to such common Pokemonin Flying and Bug types, Grass type gyms are an absolute cakewalk. As for Ice, it has so many weaknesses to common offensive types such as Fighting, Rock, and Fire. You are bound to have one of those types as a player by the time you reach the latter gyms or E4. Now an early Ice type would be awfully hard but since that seems incredibly unlikely at this point, Ice has become one of the easiest gyms. Not to mention it also heavily reliant on type combos to be of any challenge to the challenger. Even the combos typically only mitigate one or two of Ice's weaknesses while adding multiple others.
     
    i never struggle with bug gyms so i'd have to say those. rock gyms are pretty easy too considering how your grass or water starter can take them down with no trouble, especially early on in game.
     
    Rock gyms are always easy, as are Fire gyms. Both types have way too many common weaknesses to be threatening on a mono-team. I almost said Water gyms, but Crasher Wake always provides a challenge.
     
    I suppose all the games do typically have at least one early-game Electric-type available. I think starter types (Fire, Water, Grass) are more common and easy for the second Gym rather than the first, because by then you've typically found and trained up a Pok?mon that can type-trump it even if battling with your starter isn't conducive to doing so.
     
    Fire, they happen to be at the point of games when you have Surf, so ;p (excluding Flannery, but even she is easy with just another water type)
     
    Idk. I replayed Platinum Enhanced (basically Platinum but sort of a hard mode) and Bertha (i know i know elite 4) actually gave me a lot of trouble because my only offense against her were Rotom-W (who was electric/ghost, NOT water, and only had Hydro Miss) as well as Infernape's Grass Knot.

    If anything I'd say the easiest gym is Grass because Flying-types generally have an easy time against them, and birds are easy to get early-game. Staraptor also tends to make pretty much any gym leader a piece of cake lol. Imagine if it had Reckless in gen 4...
     
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