Is anybody here a type-specialty trainer?

[FreakyLocz14]

I would really like to know your strategy for covering up weaknesses.

Me: Psychic

Bronzong and Gallade can handle Dark-types. Gallade's Drain Punch takes down Darks while recovering HP.

Bronzong and Girafarig handle Ghost-types. Girafarig is immune and equiped with Crunch. Bronzong's Payback hits after Giratina's Shadow Force for 2x damage. And Espeon knows bite and Gallade Night Slash as a bonus

Gallade is a physical attacker for those misled into thinking lowering my Sp Atk or upping their Sp Defense will save them.

Again my Bronzong handles Bug-types and Cresselia can take some hits and recover (my whole team can recover) while hitting the Bugs. Cresselia can also heal her teamates with Lunar Dance+Focus Sash.

Manaphy's Ice Beam takes down many OUs and Ubers that are Dragon/Flying.

 

[The Apprentice™]

I used to be. Now I train all kinds of Pokemon and every single type. Lately I don't rely on just one type.

 

[FreakyLocz14]

I used to be. Now I train all kinds of Pokemon and every single type. Lately I don't rely on just one type.

What type? Just interested how other Gym Leaders like me go for the win.

 

[Oh The Places You'll Go.]

I used to go all out on water Pokemon.
They were the bomb.
Now I build a balanced team, where every type needs to be different.
I'm just way to precise like that. 0,o​

 

[Banjora Marxvile]

I used to have a team of Bug Types, however they weren't that good... I may re-use my bug team though.

 

[Mitchman]

Water consisting of the last 2 water starter chinchou Kingdra and then flygon with a random.

 

[POKéMIKE1]

I used to focus on Water types, because they're my favourite, but my latest strategy is to be well-balanced and have 10 different types on my team.

My current team is Empoleon (Water/Steel), Staraptor (Normal/Flying), Luxray (Electric), Roserade (Grass/Poison), Rapidash (Fire), and Garchomp (Dragon/Ground).

And the new team I'm working on will be Blastoise (Water), Raichu (Electric), Blaziken (Fire/Fighting), Venusaur (Grass/Poison), Staraptor (Normal/Flying), and Scizor (Bug/Steel).

Yeah, that was a boring post... :)

 

[dark_giratina]

I used to have team of fires when i got the national dex. Infernape, Rapidash, Heatran(fav legendary),Magmortar,Typhlosion(fav starter) and Torcoal, pretty good but were destroyed against waters lol :)

 

[salmence33]

I use metal types in game
my team is:
magnazone lv74
Metagross lv 87
aggron lv 79
skarmory lv 68
magnaton lv48
lucario lv82

 

[Munch Dog]

I don't, but I love fire types so I often have 2 of them on my team. I think I may try an all fire type team sometime though...

 

[Melodyfree]

I've done Psychic monotypes for the challenge.
Basically, my last team consisted of Gardevoir, Gallade, Starmie, Bronzong, Chimecho and Medicham.
There was some great type coverage on this team. :]

 

[The Apprentice™]

What type? Just interested how other Gym Leaders like me go for the win.

I used to train water types. I don't remember any strategies seeing as I did it about a year ago.

 

[Akeraz]

I've done a flying type run before now.
Make sure there's plenty of dual-types, and that my movesets offer type coverage.
And I also used Roost when I needed to get rid of flying-type to survive incoming attacks.

 

[Willis]

I specialize in Normal Type pokemon. The way I cover for my weakness to fighting is by using sheer power to overcome it. There isn't much that can stop a Belly-Drum, Salac Boosted Ursaring with Facade, quickfeet and Toxic Orb.

 

[Ayselipera]

Once I had a team of all Fire pokemon. I got pretty far too, but then I got bored.

 

[FreakyLocz14]

I specialize in Normal Type pokemon. The way I cover for my weakness to fighting is by using sheer power to overcome it. There isn't much that can stop a Belly-Drum, Salac Boosted Ursaring with Facade, quickfeet and Toxic Orb.

You could try Girafarig seeing as it's dual Psychic and Normal's only weakness is Fighting and of course any Normal/Flying

 

[revelp8]

i used to run all rock types. those were some pretty interesting battles there.

Now im going ice/water dual teams. its pretty hard, but lapras pretty much saves my life

 

[chevelleROCKER]

Well, way back when I first got Silver (Yes, silver) I tried to be some kind of "bird keeper" It worked out for the most part.... Well, I had a:
Noctowl
Farfetch'd
Pigeot
Fearow
Ho-oh (Traded I think)
And then later on, Lugia.
Some of the gyms got extremely challenging (Steel gym) So I also had help of my trusty Quilava :D

 

[Limey-chan]

The only time i've really specialised in a specific type and had a team consisting fully of Pokémon of that type are in the Monotype Challenges. Doing the Electric one was fun but I eventually got bored and never got round to completing it.

I did try once to be an Ice specialist in Blue whereby I had a Lapras and Dewgong as well as a Starmie and a couple of others, but it wasn't really a team full of Ice types as they're pretty hard to come by in Gen I and i'm not a fan of using Legendaries.

 

[SpRiTeRnInJa]

i am personally a fan of steel and dragon types but im not picky so no i am not a one type trainer