Question, Type combos that have no weaknesses?

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Hi all,

I was just thinking, what type combos create a pokemon with no natural weaknesses? Dark & Ghost obviously. I can't seem to think of any others.

Grass & Fire, and Dark & Psychic come to mind, but then I remembered that Dark and Psychic would be weak to Bug.
Fire & Water would be weak to Electric.

Can you think of anything?

Also, do you think it would be fair if their were and Uber pokemon with no natural weakness?
 
d.aisuke said:
Hi all,

I was just thinking, what type combos create a pokemon with no natural weaknesses? Dark & Ghost obviously. I can't seem to think of any others.

Grass & Fire, and Dark & Psychic come to mind, but then I remembered that Dark and Psychic would be weak to Bug.
Fire & Water would be weak to Electric.

Can you think of anything?

Also, do you think it would be fair if their were and Uber pokemon with no natural weakness?
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Normally, Dark/Ghost is the only type with no natural weaknesses, and even that combination becomes weak to Fighting after Foresight. However, If abilities are taken into account, Electric with Levitate and Poison/Dark with Levitate have no weaknesses either.
 
Shiny Noctowl said:
Normally, Dark/Ghost is the only type with no natural weaknesses, and even that combination becomes weak to Fighting after Foresight. However, If abilities are taken into account, Electric with Levitate and Poison/Dark with Levitate have no weaknesses either.
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What about a Fire/Water combo, if it was ever created?
 
Why is there a need to create a type combo with no weaknesses?

Pokémon is supposed to be a balanced game. All the monsters must have strengths and weaknesses or else they'll end up being broken. Either they're too strong for normal play or too weak to use properly.
 
seriously. Do we want a return to the days when Psychic-types unquestionably reigned supreme, and their only weakness was a type with pathetically weakass moves that extremely few Pokemon could learn in the first place (its other "weakness", or so as listed in instruction booklets, guides, and various other official sources, was plagued with a glitch that made Psychic completely immune to it until generation 2, and it was pretty much in the same shitty boat as the other weakness anyway). Nowadays, people would laugh at a Thunders with Pin Missile.

Geodude said:
That would still be weak against Flying and Rock.
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shame on you for forgetting a certain screwed-over type that has extremely few advantages it could boast about.
 
PDL said:
Why is there a need to create a type combo with no weaknesses?
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That and most competitive battlers I know prefer Pokémon with more resistances and possibly a fatal weakness to make switching in and out much easier. People are too predictable that way.
 
PDL said:
Why is there a need to create a type combo with no weaknesses?
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Outrage DD said:
That and most competitive battlers I know prefer Pokémon with more resistances and possibly a fatal weakness to make switching in and out much easier. People are too predictable that way.
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I don't think this is a question of there being a 'need' for a type combo with no weaknesses, just a matter of curiosity, asking 'what could be a type combo with no weaknesses?' Not everything in Pokemon has got to be about battling, you know. Sheesh.

Sigh. Done.

I'll suggest Electric/Ground. Neutrals out Ground's weaknesses to Grass and Water, as well as Electric's own weakness to Ground. It is also able to hit Flying-types, which are usually immune to Ground.
 
how does that cancel out the Grass weakness? I think you're confusing Grass's resistance to Electric as being the other way around. Also, you forgot that Ground also has a weakness to Ice (which is neutral towards Electric).

Blackjack Palazzo said:
Would Normal/Ghost have a weakness? I mean yes, a lot of stuff would be able to hit it for normal damage, but would anything be super-effective against it?
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Dark. And much like Ghost/Dark, Fighting if Foresight is used.
 
Yamato-san said:
how does that cancel out the Grass weakness? I think you're confusing Grass's resistance to Electric as being the other way around. Also, you forgot that Ground also has a weakness to Ice (which is neutral towards Electric).
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Since practically nothing carries STAB only, it's also weak to water attacks.
 
I I don't think there is a combo that has no weakness. I used the poketech app that lets you see what types are effective or not against other types in my pearl game and found none with only one super effective or no super effective weaknesses.

Normal/Ghost has (based on the poktech app on pearl):

Normal, fighting, ghost - not effective (resistant)

Fire, water, electric, grass, ice, ground, flying, psyscic, rock, dragon, steel - regulary effective

Poison, bug - not very effective

Dark - Super effective

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Ghost/Dark has (based on the poktech app on pearl):

Normal, Fighting, Psychic - not effective (resistant)

Fire, water, electric, Grass, Ice, Ground, Flying, Bug, Rock, Ghost, Dragon, Dark, Steel - regulary effective

Poison - not very effective

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I'll suggest Electric/Ground. Neutrals out Ground's weaknesses to Grass and Water, as well as Electric's own weakness to Ground. It is also able to hit Flying-types, which are usually immune to Ground.
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I also checked out a ground/Ice and found Fire, Water, Fighting, Grass are all super effective against it. Now electric/ground has water, Ice, Ground and grass which are super effective against it. SO Gras is still, along with water, super effective against it. But it can hit flying types, with electric moves which are super effective on most flying types except zapdos.

So as far as I can see, there is not type combos that have no weaknesses, if other combos were tried you'd mostly get a wider move pool for that pokemon that could hit super effective moves on pokemon it before could not.Ghost/Dark has no super effective types that can be used on it and I am not sure if thats the only one.
 
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Emerald_Dragonite said:
I don't think this is a question of there being a 'need' for a type combo with no weaknesses, just a matter of curiosity, asking 'what could be a type combo with no weaknesses?' Not everything in Pokemon has got to be about battling, you know. Sheesh.

Sigh. Done.

I'll suggest Electric/Ground. Neutrals out Ground's weaknesses to Grass and Water, as well as Electric's own weakness to Ground. It is also able to hit Flying-types, which are usually immune to Ground.
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Emerald_Dragonite said it for me. Just curious and for fun. I'm more of a contest person now anyway ;)

Yesh, Electric/ Ground would be awesome. But it'd still be able to get hit by Grass.
 
Anyway, you want a typing with no weaknesses? Ghost/Dark it is.

The only drawback to this typing is redundant type coverage with STAB, and lack of powerful offense with the two current bearers of this typing.
 
Pika25 said:
introduced in gen II already (Swinub, piloswine.)
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Ground, for some odd reason, isn't resistant to Fire (despite being Super Effective against it-- never figured that one out). It doesn't block Fighting moves, either.
 
Exactly, just because Type A is SE against Type B does not mean that Type A resists Type B. However it is true in some cases. Also many types, particularly the primarily physical ones, do ont resist themselves(ex. Fighting does not resist Fighting, Rock does not resist Rock).
 
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