Pokémon types you rarely use?

I see myself rarely using Ghost Flying and Steel types

Ghost type because almost all of them besides the Duskull evolution tree has terrible defense and i really dont like the move set they have!

Flying is alright i guess but most final evolutions of the flying types has a meh stat growth
They do however got some pretty awesome moves like air slash brave bird and sky attack
Althrough that does not make up for how quick they go down in battle like
One rock or electric type attack is enough for them to go down.

Steel type ah the steel type awesome defense but weak against the common Special type attack like flamethrower They have some cool looking evolutions like Scizor and Steelix But alas they can get knocked out rather quickly If not the right strategy is used.
 
I could use Steel types more often, only one or two I can think of in my actual teams. And grass, I think in total I've used 3 or 4 mostly starters. Neither of those types ever seem to work into my teams, but I actually go by favorite Pokemon first when making my teams. Sometimes Pokemon I do like just can't fit into the 3 (or 2 with XY) games of that generation (not counting remakes).
 
I rarely use fighting types, but that may very well change with the introduction of jangmo line.
 
Thinking back on all my teams that i can remember, the only type that i basically never used was Psychic and after looking at who all the Psychic are, it kinda makes sense. I'm not really a fan of the Pokemon with that type all that much, save for Meowstic and Slowpoke (for their derpy faces). The only Psychic type I've used that i can remember in a playthrough though is Musharna and even then I boxed it around the 5th or 6th gym to make room for a different 'mon.
 
I don't have a particular type I try to avoid, but I feel like Ice types rarely make my team.
I think this is due to them generally being found in the later stages of the game, and my team tends to grow with me through game play.

After the first few routes, I get pretty lazy on changing out a member of my team for a new catch, because it would require grinding to level them up. Unless theyre a pokemon I love, or have a design cool enough that I want to use them
 
I never really got myself to use Bug type pokemons. I dont know but i don't really like them.
 
I seldom use Dragon and Ice type Pokémon because they're rarely obtainable in the first half of the game. By that time I have basically formed my final team that's going to face the Elite Four already. I don't really like swapping out Pokémon I have been training for a long time.
 
Most types that were Physical before the split in gen IV. I often find myself using a more colorful array of types -- like Fire, Water, Electric, Grass, etc. So I often forgo types like Fighting, Ground, Rock, apparently all the brown ones when you look at the color coding, lmao. Welp.
 
Types You Just Don't Use

Does anyone else have types that they just don't ever seem to use? For me, it's the Rock and Steel types. I also have a weird aversion to having both a Fire and Electric type on my team. Unless I choose the Fire starter, I almost never have both on my team. It's either the Electric type OR the Fire type. Not both.
 
I hardly ever use Rock, Steel or Dark type Pokemon, I guess I don't really like any with those typings. The last Steel type I used was Steelix in HGSS and I seriously can't even remember what my last Rock and Dark types were (ironic as my favourite Pokemon is Zorua).
 
Definitely Steel. The only time I ever use them are when I'm purposely trying to use Pokémon I've never used/used much, but they always get boxed in the post-game. Most of them are also really slow and I prefer battles to go faster. Least-favorite Type for sure.

I do plan to use Alolan Sandslash, though. Its Typing isn't the greatest and I think I read that its Speed was lowered, but I've always liked Sandslash's design and I think it's awesome that it gained my favorite Type (Ice).

I don't use Dragon-, Rock-, or Fighting-Types much, either. Just not many of them that I like and the few that I do are either hard to get or not very reliable.
 
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Rock Types weren't my cup of tea in terms of usage, barring mons like Tyranitar, Aggron, Omastar, and Archeops.

Mainly because a lot of Rock Type Pokémon are slow, and most Rock Type attacks can easily miss due to poor accuracy. They also tend to sport a lot of weaknesses, which didn't help at all.
 
To me, there's almost no point in using a Rock-type Pokemon if you can just teach a non-Rock type with high attack Stone Edge. Makes the type basically useless, especially since without Rock moves, the type becomes a matter of "anything I can do, the Steel-type does better". Unless you're Tyranitar, of course.

Same with the Ice-type. Why have a whole Pokemon dedicated to the worst defensive typing in all of Pokemon if you can just teach your Water-type Ice Beam, which is arguably the best Ice-type move of all? "But you're missing out on dat STAB tho, Imperishable you fool!" Nonsense, I'd never use a Walrein, Glalie or Vanilluxe. Even then, Mega Glalie uses its ability and Normal-type moves instead of its definitive Ice typing.

I don't use Grass-types because it's just a super boring type to me, not because you have other options that can make you completely avoid the type altogether. I just don't like Grass, lol.
 
For me it is Steel type and Fairy type. I have caught steel types in such a less amount that i even remember them -

Lucario (my first)
Dialga
Elgyme (sorry for spelling if it is wrong)
Escalavier

Since i'd not played gen 6, i'd never used fairy type.
 
The type that stands out most in my mind for this topic is Poison.
It's because in older games, there wasn't much point to having one as I usually already have a Pokémon of a type that beats the types Poison does & more.
& In the newer games, there were still not any Poison type that I especially liked.
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I've come out of my shell a bit and used a Dark-type Pokémon in Sun. It hasn't been super useful, but I don't have anything else yet that deals with ghosts, so whatevs. It's Umbreon, which is also a pretty good tank.

Besides that, just been using my usual types. I wanted to do more unusual stuff in S&M but it didn't really happen :/
 
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure I've never had a Fighting-type in my main team.
 
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