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What is the best pokemon type overall??

GeneralGuy said:
It is very unlikely for a competitive Gengar set to have Dark Pulse since Shadow Ball has the same coverage and gets STAB. :/
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It still has thunderbolt to hit it with though. I don't think it's as common but it could also use sludge bomb for stab and stuff.
 
I is saddest that everybody is assuming that the supposed best type has to be defensive in nature. C'mon, folks, there's things to be said for offensive typing.

As long as we're thinking up possible dual-typing, I wanna put in something for the idea of Dragon/Fire, which'd be mean with fair enough stats. STAB on a type combination that's really only resisted by Heatran, and depending how the stats'd be arranged, a Ground move'd take care of that. Specs Overheat + Draco Meteor. =O
 
Magmortified said:
I is saddest that everybody is assuming that the supposed best type has to be defensive in nature. C'mon, folks, there's things to be said for offensive typing.

As long as we're thinking up possible dual-typing, I wanna put in something for the idea of Dragon/Fire, which'd be mean with fair enough stats. STAB on a type combination that's really only resisted by Heatran, and depending how the stats'd be arranged, a Ground move'd take care of that. Specs Overheat + Draco Meteor. =O
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I always felt Charizard should have been Fire/Dragon since Lance for example had one or two...

I was only speculating about Machop's foresight being "Super Effective" since people worked out regardless of the "dragon" part of my Ice/Dragon type, Fire would still send it to hell with a Super Effective hit.

So I figured using those rules, a fighting type should hit super Effective against Sableye IF you could find a way to hit the damn thing, which where trusty Foresight comes in.

I wonder how Ghost/Fighting would go haha, normal types Ultimate nightmare.


In the end, I'm starting to realize dual types while learning a much wider range of moves, also get more weaknesses in general.
 
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Probably water type, it's all around versatile. If we were talking about RBY, I'd say psychic, but things have changed since then. Water is good offensively and defensively though, and can dual with many other types to gain immunities from weaknesses.
 
if a pokemon was i type i would think ??? would be the best
 
Atomic Sharks said:
if a pokemon was i type i would think ??? would be the best
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I don't understand what you mean, I'm guessing you are trying to say "???" is the best? well it's not an actual type so I don't think it counts.
 
Defensively, the best (existing) typing would have to be Ghost/Dark. Nobody really uses Foresight or Odor Sleuth competitively, so that weakness of the typing is rather irrelevant.

Atomic Sharks said:
if a pokemon was i type i would think ??? would be the best
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It could just as easily have a weakness to everything else, which would make it the worst type.
 
If you're faced with a Wonder/Spiritomb, a Miltank or Kangaskhan w/Scrappy and Brick Break is your friend. 8D

As for offencive typings, I've always wondered how a Psychic/Dark would fare. 4x Weak to bug is a worry though.
 
DeanoDance said:
If you're faced with a Wonder/Spiritomb, a Miltank or Kangaskhan w/Scrappy and Brick Break is your friend. 8D
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Ah, yes, I had forgotten about that. Still, Scrappy is only available to a specific niche of used Pokemon.
 
i think the best type is normal... cause think of wide moveset most moves are normal so huge stab thing plus their's "gimick" pokemon like castfourm and kelckeon that can change type.
 
BREAKINGBEN said:
Fighting/Flying is easily taken down with Psychic or Electric... but still, one less weakness than Dragon/Ice.

Ghost/Dark is the 'strongest' type if you look at the type chart. It has absolutely no weaknesses and three types are ineffective against it (Psychic, Normal, Fighting). It is followed closely by Water/Dragon which only has one weakness (Dragon).

If you use that theory, then technically, Sableye and Palkia are truly the "stongest" Pokemon... type wise.
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In addition to Spiritomb, you also forgot Kingdra who have the same types as Sableye and Palkia respectively.

Some people often forget however, that only Ghost and Dark dual type is the only one with no weakness. I was actually thinking about this last night strangely enough. Dragon with any type is bad because itself is its own weakness. The only type that resists Dragon is Steel, but that leaves it prone to Ground and Fighting moves both of which Dragon doesn't resist.
 
I also agree that the best types overall is Ghost/Dark because of it not having any weakness which it has a high advantage


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Ghost/Dark does have advatages, making it most likely the best type. But in some cases Normal is also a nice type to have. It isn't week against much, but the only weakness it has is Fighting. Also, not being able to strike at Ghost type Pokemon is a major disadvatage. So Ghost/Dark may be the best type, but there aren't a lot of those types around.
 
Now before I can figure which is best, I need to know something for my formula.

Does having fewer weaknesses give more advantage in a fight?
Or is having more resistances more helpful?
 
I'm curious to see how Normal/ghost would go, it's a bizarre dual type but I wonder what could possibly be a weakness for it.

I thought of a Ghost/Fighting too, but later realized psychic would murder it.
 
xiraiya said:
I'm curious to see how Normal/ghost would go, it's a bizarre dual type but I wonder what could possibly be a weakness for it.
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Dark-type moves pop into mind.
 
Kiwi Kitty said:
Ghost/Dark does have advatages, making it most likely the best type. But in some cases Normal is also a nice type to have. It isn't week against much, but the only weakness it has is Fighting. Also, not being able to strike at Ghost type Pokemon is a major disadvatage. So Ghost/Dark may be the best type, but there aren't a lot of those types around.
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Only two of them and none are really that impressive. Sableye is just pathetic compared to Spiritomb, but Spiritomb itself is really not that great either. It has only slightly better defenses, but really can't be a threatening powerhouse in my opinion.


I'm curious to see how Normal/ghost would go, it's a bizarre dual type but I wonder what could possibly be a weakness for it.

I thought of a Ghost/Fighting too, but later realized psychic would murder it.
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Normal/Ghost: see above
Ghost/Fighting: Ghost, Psychic, Flying. Nuff said

Water and Dragon is the only other good type, but it's really irritating how Dragon is the best move type in the game, yet the hardest to defend if that's the pokemon's type since it's weak against itself.
 
You guys are forgetting that grass/rock would have few weaknesses. The only ones I can think of are ice and poison, which isn't bad. No one uses Poison, and Ice weaknesses haven't stopped things in the past (garchomp, anyone?)
 
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