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Worst Type

Normal types. I like some normal-type Pokemon, but... of all the types in the world... they had to call it "normal?" That just sounds unexciting.
 
Poison. Only 1 super effective, it's pretty much useless as an offensive typing. It does provide useful fighting, grass, and bug resistances however.
 
Normal is good. Saying it's the worst type is VERY wrong.

Poison is the wrost type. Quite useless.
 
Lycopene said:
Normal is good. Saying it's the worst type is VERY wrong.

Poison is the wrost type. Quite useless.
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I do agree with it being the wrost type. I mean, it didn't even have a decent offensive move until Gen 2, guys.
 
Neither did Ghost and Dragon. Which are both excellent types.

Worst defense is Ice. Worst attack is easily Normal and Poison. Overall I would have to say Poison, when paired with Grass or Bug.
 
I'm glad my disliking for poison isn't just me...

Most bug attacks are turrible, too, but not all. Just most.
 
I agree with everyone else; Poison is a rather bad type. It hits only 1 type for super-effective damage.
 
ground/rock. The fact that they both exist at least. They could've just made it one type called earth.
 
Earth would've sucked. That would completely void Flying's resistance to Ground, and its super-effective damage from Rock.

And...

Battle Droid said:
Neither did Ghost and Dragon. Which are both excellent types.

Worst defense is Ice. Worst attack is easily Normal and Poison. Overall I would have to say Poison, when paired with Grass or Bug.
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>_> Do you realize. That. Return... has 102 base damage when the Pokemon has 255 happiness? You know how much a stab Hyper Beam, or even Return, does, right? o.o

Normal is a GOOD attack type. Snorlax ring any bells? :P

Ice IS the worst defensive type though, that I will agree with. But I'll never agree with Normal being one of the worst attack types.
 
I think Poison type; due to lack of many good moves/Pokémon/stats.
 
Normal is the worst. Useless offensively, alright defensively but has a weakness to a common attacking type, fighting.

Poison is not very good offensively either, besides it's ability to poison. Defensively, it has more weaknesses but also more resistances, plus an immunity to poison. If paired with a good type, like dark, poison actually is pretty solid.
 
GHU Jockmaster said:
Normal is the worst. Useless offensively, alright defensively but has a weakness to a common attacking type, fighting.

Poison is not very good offensively either, besides it's ability to poison. Defensively, it has more weaknesses but also more resistances, plus an immunity to poison. If paired with a good type, like dark, poison actually is pretty solid.
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Lol normal is not the worst. I have no idea why people keep saying that. POISON is the worst. Offensively. Ice is the worst defensively.

Poison can't compete with Normal. :P
 
Lycopene said:
Lol normal is not the worst. I have no idea why people keep saying that. POISON is the worst. Offensively. Ice is the worst defensively.

Poison can't compete with Normal. :P
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Well, I understand that there is one very good normal attack (return, hyperbeam is too much of a desperation move), but it's super effective against NOTHING and resisted by two and doesn't touch one type.

Poison, on the other hand, is at least super effective against one, though resisted by 4 and not touching one. Plus it has the ability to poison AND has an immunity to being poisoned. In my experience Toxic and Toxic Spikes are very popular moves.

Overall, normal just doesn't have much going for it.
 
I say it depends on whether you're looking at them with an offensive or a defensive role. Defensively, it's Ice, no question. The poor thing gets a shitload of weaknesses, but only one resistance, that being to itself. To be fair, it gets immunity from freezing and Hail, but considering freezing (as annoying as it is) is probably the least-occurring status (which, BTW, probably makes Ice Heal the single most useless item in the game since you'll undoubtedly have access to Full Heals by the time you even reach a point where Ice-type Pokemon or moves start showing up, let alone their odds of affecting you), and Hail isn't exactly a popular weather condition since, unlike Sandstorm, Ice is the only type unaffected by it, such traits don't really do it any favors.

Offensively, one might be tempted to say Normal since it isn't Super Effective against anything, but it kinda makes up for it in the rather small number of types that resist it, those only being Rock and Steel, with Ghost being immune. Though, given the fact that complete immunities are rare amongst the type-comparisons in the first place, that really doesn't spell good news for Normal in the end (even if it is a rare type and has a counteract for it in Foresight/Odor Sleuth/Scrappy), and all in all, the lack of resistances just makes it look like a lesser version of Dragon.

Still, even with those negatives, it doesn't look like the worst offensive type. That would probably go to Poison, which is only Super Effective against one type, and has several types resisting it (including one with an immunity, and Steel is a more prominent type than Ghost)... in fact, it pretty much has problems with the same types that gives Normal trouble, plus about three others (including itself). To be fair, when the Poison-type was established, it probably wasn't being considered for pure offense, but rather as the poster child for the RPG mainstay that is status conditioning. The fact that almost every single attack of the type has a somewhat good chance (often 30%) of poisoning the opponent is pretty nice. However, they REALLY fucked this up by making Toxic accessible to pretty much everybody. If Toxic was exclusive to Poison-types, perhaps its role as a status-afflicting type would be a bit more obvious, and people wouldn't be so quick to put it down as one of the worst types in the game, but unfortunately, such is not the case. They could've at least done without taking Bug's weakness away from the poor thing (but to be fair, it lost a weakness against Bug at the same time, and the whole relation was arguably some programming error that never belonged in the first place).

On the upside, Ice is considered a really good offense, and Poison works pretty well in defense. With Ice, you can't go wrong with being able to one-shot a good number of ubers, and while Poison is weak to Earthquake, its immunity to Toxic and resistance to Fighting (with its only other weakness being Psychic) isn't something to be taken lightly.
 
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Well i must say they do have some pretty cool poison types... maybe... the biggest problem is they pair up poison with the worst types EVAR. If we look back at the 1st generation, everything was poison/and something else and usualy paired with types who had enough weaknesses as it is. Poison/bug poison/grass poison/flying. the fact that BUG was the only think psychic was weak to (and ghost but ill cover that in a bit) and every bug pokemon was poison, it was asking for death. and ghost, jesus! was paired with poison! so so much for that. and back then the only ghost move you had with base damage was lick, with a sick 15 power! and the chance to paralyze mind you =P lol. and i must agree though that the poison ability is a plus.

but poison types arent that bad. skuntank is only weak to ground, and has high attack and speed.

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GHU Jockmaster said:
Well, I understand that there is one very good normal attack (return, hyperbeam is too much of a desperation move), but it's super effective against NOTHING and resisted by two and doesn't touch one type.

Poison, on the other hand, is at least super effective against one, though resisted by 4 and not touching one. Plus it has the ability to poison AND has an immunity to being poisoned. In my experience Toxic and Toxic Spikes are very popular moves.

Overall, normal just doesn't have much going for it.
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Toxic and Toxic Spikes are HUGE moves. Everyone uses them. But you can't really call the Poison type lol. They're not attacks. Blissey uses Toxic more than an actual Poison type. So does Vappy. Toxic Spikes is used by the likes of Forretress.

The point is, the only use for actual poison type Pokemon is absorption of Toxic Spikes. I mean, really, Poison sucks. Return > Poison right there. A 102 base attack 100% accurate move is nothing to scoff over. Who cares if it isn't super effective? Not much resists it either. Having only two types that resist it and one that is immune is amazing. Normal IS a good type.

Neutral damage is a good thing, it doesn't need to be super effective to be good. And Hyper Beam is actually a good attack, if used at the right times. It's especially good at clean up.


Skiin D33p said:
Well i must say they do have some pretty cool poison types... maybe... the biggest problem is they pair up poison with the worst types EVAR. If we look back at the 1st generation, everything was poison/and something else and usualy paired with types who had enough weaknesses as it is. Poison/bug poison/grass poison/flying. the fact that BUG was the only think psychic was weak to (and ghost but ill cover that in a bit) and every bug pokemon was poison, it was asking for death. and ghost, jesus! was paired with poison! so so much for that. and back then the only ghost move you had with base damage was lick, with a sick 15 power! and the chance to paralyze mind you =P lol. and i must agree though that the poison ability is a plus.

but poison types arent that bad. skuntank is only weak to ground, and has high attack and speed.

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Skuntank is horrible. Drapion outclasses him in almost every way. Skuntank's movepool is terrible. The only thing going for him is Explosion, and the only way he does any good is by killing himself in the process. Sure, aftermath is nice for Flailing Pokemon and a Pokemon that doesn't die from Explosion, but I mean, come on. Not that much use.

I can imagine a Choice Scarf explosion though. That would be kinda cool. Taking out at least one Pokemon, or severely damaging one, unless they switch to a Ghost type. :P But even so... that's just ONE Pokemon. x.x Drapion > Skuntank.



And now BRB! DP 177 TIME.
 
well everyone says poison

i'll say poison too

and rock/ ground because its like the same type

what about steel? it might be either good or bad to have ( i dont know because i never use any steel types) but i just thought it was a random type

i love normals but what is thier weakness?
 
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