Negative Dual Type Pairings

[Zeostar]

I was thinking about pretty much any type is better if Steel is slapped on as an extra type. Besides Ice. Ice/Steel doesn't seem nearly as beneficial.

Are there any other examples?

Not just 'bad' typings, but more interesting would be types that are otherwise good but fail to pair up in a positive way.

 

[Devalue]

Electric/Poison and Electric/Steel. Considers all three of those types pretty good, defensively. Leads to a double Ground weakness for not very good returns.

Grass/Dragon. Does not really help Dragon's weaknesses. Doubles up on the Ice weakness. Cannot really help deal with Ice, Fairy, or Dragon either.

 

[Delta Crowned Sword]

Tyranitar says hello......


I guess Rock/Dark is among the worst negative type combination, granting double weakness to fighting, which is one of the best offensive type in the game. And it also brings many other weaknesses as well.

The old Ground/Rock comes with two double weakness. Not bad per say, but being weak against one of the most common type is something to look into.


And on offensive spectrum, Ghost/Psychic can be really good under good conditions, but again two double weakness exists, and that too against one of the type which the Pokémon has.

 

[Rock_Salazar]

Rock/steel. Only Aggron could make it work in its debut generation. 4x weakness to ground and fighting sucks, but STAB rock slide while no longer being weak to grass as part rock or fire as part steel is alright.

 

[Zeostar]

Tyranitar says hello......


I guess Rock/Dark is among the worst negative type combination, granting double weakness to fighting, which is one of the best offensive type in the game. And it also brings many other weaknesses as well.

The old Ground/Rock comes with two double weakness. Not bad per say, but being weak against one of the most common type is something to look into.


And on offensive spectrum, Ghost/Psychic can be really good under good conditions, but again two double weakness exists, and that too against one of the type which the Pokémon has.

Yeah, it speaks a lot to Tyranitar.

With how it managed to be so incredible across many generations with that typing.

Great stats and ability have managed to propel it forward.

 

[ReKoil]

Anything that results in the dumb thing that is double weaknesses. Normal/Steel and Dark/Steel for example. Grass/Steel. Bug/Grass. Ground/Rock.

Offensively Normal/Dragon comes to mind. A dual typing which is only super effective on Dragon types.

 

[PoryKid575]

Rock/Ground is a terrible combination that cripples a ton of Pokemon. Rock barely helps most of the time since it doesn't have many good moves it can grant STAB to, and gaining a 4x weakness to Water and Grass, 2 of the earliest types in the game is a crippling drawback that's hard to overcome unless a Pokemon has some serious upsides.

 

[Lysander]

Grass/Bug is a pretty terrible combination. Even is having STAB Grass moves helps to battle against Rock-type opponents, having six weaknesses with two of those being 4x weaknesses makes it hard to make the extra STAB moves worth it.