Worst Pokemon Types

The Top Ten
1 Bug

The only time I've used a bug type effectively is when it has been backed up by another type. Such as Scizor, because it has such defensive abilities with it's steel type. Or another one I prefer is Heracross or Vespiquen, but that's only because Vespiquen can avoid ground moves and has good defensive stats, while Heracross is a fighting type power house. Bug Pokemon grow quickly so they are effective against early game grass trainers and come in handy with psychic opponents. The main problem is that most bug types can't take many hits so while you're trying to fight the elite four pretty much everyone has a move that can over power a bug pokemon in 1-2 hits. Bug Pokemon are pretty unique, but they lack durability. I find Shedinja to be useful, but everyone knows how to beat it and since bug types have so many weaknesses it's special ability wonder guard is deemed completely ineffective. Bug types are interesting and fun to mess with, but they tend to let me down more than succeed in a battle.

2 Normal

Bug types need to stop getting all they hate they get. There are many powerful bug type Pokemon out there, such as heracross, volcarona, scizor, golisopod, genesect, pheromosa, etc. People just seem to hate them since they think all bug types are garbage like wurmple or caterpie. Normal types however, are GARBAGE. They may not have many weaknesses, but they have NO resistances, 1 immunity, which it can't even hit back, and is resisted by both steel and rock! And fighting type Pokemon OBLITERATE normal types! (Except dual flyings) The only normal types I would recommend using are dual typed ones, silvally and arceus.

No pokemon is weak to normal attacks... Which means that their stab moves pretty much sucks... They are immune to ghost types, which is really cool, but ghost's is immune to normal attacks too, so it dosn't matter. And finally, rock and steel types resist them, and they are weak against fighting, a common attacking type. Most pokemon's has access to a fighting move to kill them with. To sum up: Nothing is more boring than being normal.

3 Grass

Are you kidding me!
Mega Sceptile, which is a grass dragon, is a great sweeper despite having 6 weaknesses, 1 of which is a 4x weakness. Mega Sceptile can learn moves that cover for all it's weaknesses, and it is a very solid Pokemon. Lightning rod makes it so that it gets stronger when hit by electric attacks.
Mega Venusaur has a great ability which removes its fire and ice weakness, and has a massive amount of bulk. It just never dies!
Serperior has contrary, and while it can't run a good ground type move, it can get super powerful by spamming Leaf Storm to increase its special attack stat.
Not to mention grass types are immune to spore, stun spore, and leech seed. Grass types are awesome.

The only purpose of this type was to complete the weakness triangle of the starters and find a way to balance the Water starter. But at the start of the game the grass starter lacks STAB moves, while when the grass starter gets a STAB move that can actually damage your water-type starter, you can slam it with Ice Beam. Being weak to Ice and Fire, two of the most common offensive types, just makes it impossible for Grass to wall anything. Not to mention it is resisted by 7 types, and the only role it can play is status support. But Grass types are usually too frail or slow to do anything, so they usually get killed before you can do a thing. The only reason why there are so few Grass Type legendaries is because it's so hard to make one that is worthy of the title!

4 Rock

Okay, are people even taking into account things like status moves, common weakness, useless resistances, things like that? For instance, just because something has a lot of weaknesses, doesn't mean it's bad. The weaknesses might not affect it, because, for instance, the moves for that type are rarely used in competitively play. Bug can be a great type, lots of normal type moves are really useful like swords dance and substitute, grass in my opinion is the best type in the game, with a variety of offensive and useful status moves as well as really useful resistances and not many weaknesses which are used often in competitive play, poison... Okay, not a big fan of poison...
Psychic types can learn a wide variety of offensive and useful status moves, fairy based on type advantages is just straight up amazing-
And then there's rock, with the worst defensive type advantages and disadvantages in the game, which just makes all of its offensive potential completely useless. I also hate ice types defensively (although they're good offensively), and fire types have completely awful type advantages and disadvantages, but I can't bring myself to hate either of those types quite as much as I despise rock types.

5 Poison

Stat effect Pokemon? They usually count on luck to do so and their stats are horrible. Steel is immune to it. Their offensiveness is the worst in the game. At least, bug can be really effective on psychic or dark, but poison? Fairy, yeah... But Grass usually has another type to help and most of the time it's poison, so it cannot be poisoned anyway. If you want to annoy, use a Ghost-type, if you want to stall, use a Steel-type. Eally, there's nothing good about Poison-type, other types do the job better and they have also a better design...

I am not voting to say that it is a bad type. I just really wanted to comment.
1: To the people saying the designs are bad-... I will have to disagree. I find Ekans in no way ugly. I also absolutely love Arbok and Seviper. Also, look at Venomoth and Dragalge. They also have very decent designs. There are more good than bad in my opinion.

2: To the people saying they are not good because Team Rocket owns them.

I have absolutely nothing to say to you.

3: To the people who say they had bad stats.
They may not have the best stats or type advantages, but that does not necessarily mean they are the absolute worst. I mean, I beat Pokemon red mostly using a Arbok, a Venomoth, a Koffing, and a Hacked Ninetales (Yes, I know Ninetales is a fire type, I just wanted to say that) I took out Giovanni using only my level 50 Arbok. And I have done a "Gym Leader" run using only poison types in Alpha Sapphire (aside from my starter, which I switched out early in the game), and I did not have the hardest time ever. (Well, it is pretty obvious what my favorite type is, dang it)

That's all I have to say. Yeah.

6 Fairy

We didn't need this type. Dark already had balanced weaknesses and effectiveness, but then it became weak because it has more weaknesses now. I don't like Dark, but still, some Dark trainers I met are disappointed. Fighting is balanced out, which is the only good part. And Dragon, it WAS balanced too. It's only super-effective against ONE type, itself, and only weak to itself and Ice. Do we need more? No. Yeah sure it's resistant to some types, but this is silly. Next we have the designs and oh god, are they girly. Fairies were supposed to represent Angels and Valkyries that protect everyone, not some girly pet that would belong to Barbie. I swear Sylveon's design could've had angel wings instead of ribbons and smaller eyes. Same goes with the other Fairies, but M. Altaria and Gardevoir are completely fine. They CAN remind you of Angels from God. And Steel, oh boy, it had too many resistances to even get another type to be vulnerable to it. Yeah it would make it look weak like Dark is now, but Dark doesn't have many resistances. Like Steel. Poison could've been super-effective against Fighting. Period. There's no logic but meh, it's just a video game after all. But this is just my opinion peeps, I respect if you love Fairies, but I can't stand them.

7 Ice

The answer to this question depends on what you mean. Ice is a great type to attack with, being one of two common attack types that hit the omnipresent dragons super effectively (although being resisted by steel hurts it a lot) and great synergy with many other attacking types (most notably electric granting the famous bolt-beam combo).

However, Ice is unquestionably one of the worst types to actually possess. Weak to four types, fire and fighting being extremely common coverage moves, and only resisting itself. There's a reason defensive ice types are completely unusable competitively. This is why the only ice type to really see competitive usage in the past couple years is the glass cannons such as Weavile. Heck it's such an awful type defensively Kyurem-Black isn't even considered a huge threat among non-legendary Pokemon, despite it's stat distribution being game breaking for literally any other type.

So overall, while ice is really good to hit things with, the judgement for "worst type" I feel should weigh more heavily towards the Pokemon that *have* it not the ones that *use* it.

8 Flying

So, if you HATE Flying types, why do you have that Talonflame/Crobat in your team? Flying types are great for support, and is an excellent counter to Grass, if you don't have any Fire types in your team. If you think that there is just a bad Normal/Flying typing in all the Pokemon games (which is true, there is at least 1 normal/flying type), there is actually a lot of variety with flying types. Skarmory is one of my favorites, as it is a good set-up pokemon and can do the switcheroo with whirlwind. It also has sturdy, which is just vital for all set-ups/tanks. Although they can be very frail and can get KOed by Stealth Rock alone, Flying types are very fast and agile, with great support movesets. Two words: BRAVE BIRD. This move alone can just destroy everyone. Combined with an ability of Rock Head (which doesn't exist, because that would be too overpowered), would be a dream. Even though, it can still regain its health through roost. So, what do you think now?

9 Fighting

Wow fighting type, you have an amazing attack stat! *looks at other stats* And that is about it... Where is your defense? I need a magnifying glass to see that! An attack stat can only go so far against a Pokemon like shuckle, deoxys defense, steelix, aggron, and those tanks.

People say is the best offensive type is ice which makes up for its horrible defensive abilities but fighting resists 3 types and is only weak to 3 types while good against 5 types! Come on game freak make the ice type great just like the fighting type!

Fighting is kinda vague and lots of Pokemon that are fighting types are not well thought out. They just aren't original as a whole.

10 Dragon

I think I'm the only trainer who doesn't actually use this type in battle, It's not bad, but if I had to pick Dragon would definitely get my vote, EVERYONE uses a dragon type and it makes competitive battle dry and predictable. The only Dragon Type I've ever used was my Flygon in Black Two and he may have been my Ace in that game but when making a team I never reserve a place for a Dragon. Plus until Fairy type came along Dragon was Overpowered and darn near impossible to counter forcing you to use a dragon and making competitive play once again boring and predictable. I love every type of Pokemon but Geez was Dragon an overkill in competitive.

Defensively, dragon types are quite powerful with resistances to electric, grass, water, and fire, but they also have weaknesses to dragon (fairly common attack type due to normally high base power) ice (probably the most common attacking type for water except water itself) and fairy (the newest type addition, commonly seen in many move sets). Also, a few of these resistances can be factored out once the dragon is fully evolved, as most have a dual-typing. While it isn't too terrible defensively dragons are quite miserable on type match-ups offensively. They are only strong against other dragon types, but are weak to steel and fairy is immune to them. It is hard for a dragon to take full advantage of their STAB bonuses without falling victim to other, faster dragons. While dragons may boast a considerable stat pool, it is next to useless against a faster opponent that can hit you for 2x damage plus STAB (ie. Weaville who with a base speed of 125 outspeeds every dragon type except Mega-Sceptile, who still has double weakness to ice). While you are stuck hitting them for normal damage plus STAB.

The Contenders
11 Fire

Fire types are weak to water (one of the most common if not the most common defensive typed Pokemon), Rock (stealth rock anyone? ), and ground (earthquake is the most used attack in the game! ). These weakness alone are more than enough to make fire types fall from higher usage statistics. Offensively fire attacks are great, landing super effective blows on grass types, bug types, ice types, and steel types. But that isn't enough to warrant the use of many fire type Pokemon. Generally fire is relegated to coverage attacks on Pokemon who have trouble getting through the aforementioned types, like dragons who can't hit steels. Ice and rock are in a similar boat, but I vote for fire because rock at least has stealth rock, and ice hits dragons for super effective damage, making them a little more prevalent than "damn, he has a ferrothorn/scizor/skarmory, let me kill it with fire". Bug is great and I don't know why it's number 1. People keep citing butterfree and beedril (who are surprisingly both pretty bad ass in the current meta) as the only bug types and calling the type bad because of it. Just because all the newb bug catchers are in the beginning of the games doesn't mean anything, U-turn alone makes bug typing a great asset, and scizor was #1 two generations in a row remaining very relevant now that he's no longer the unhindered king of OU. Not to mention quiver dance is basically an "I win" button if your opponent can't imidietely stop it, how is one of the best types ranked as the worst?

12 Ground

I disagree. Ground actually has a type advantage to lots of other types like electric, steel, and poison. And just because flying is immune to it, it doesn't mean that ground is weak against flying. I think it is the only type which does that.

That moment when you find a shiny Geodude in a horde. Oh. Wait. That Geodude is now dead because another Geodude used Magnitude. Thanks, Nintendo!

This type is pretty bad, only good against Poison, Electric, and Fire. Oh, yeah, and it's also impossible to use on a Flying type. That sucks.

13 Steel

You're kidding me, right? Steel types have the most resistances than any other type. Sure, they are not very good in Inverse Battles, but they are still awesome in competitive play, not predictable like a Fighting, Fire, or Dragon type. They are also not as bland as a Normal, Ice, or Flying type. They may be weak to some of the most predictable and obvious types in competitive battle, but its specialization in the Defenses, and maybe even Sp. Atk or Attack, more than makes up for it.

Fighting and steel types are very common. The steel type's offensive capabilities are very limited, and even types that steel are good against can learn moves like low kick and grass knot to exploit the heaviness and slowness of this type. Steel type Pokemon have to be the ugliest, too.

I'm only voting for steel, because of how it works out in inverse battles, and not regular battles. In inverse battles, steel has more weaknesses than grass and rock do in NORMAL battles. In conclusion, steel types in inverse battles are the weakest.

14 Electric

"Name 5 defensive electric types... you can't! "

Eelektross, Ampharos, Lanturn, Raikou, and the rotom forms, except for the normal one.

2 of them have decent speed. Now here's something I want to tell you all. Don't vote this type. I would have done this for normal, but no, this needs to be said. I can respect your opinion, but, I see no other place then here to say my own. Here we go. Electric types are filled with a number of different Pokemon that can do different things. Lanturn can stall, eelektross can be a mixed attacker or a pivot, Zekrom is arguably the best dragon type in users, with a couple exceptions. Raichu is a great special attacker, and it can also be an annoying counter Pokemon. Yes, counter.

There is so much. Now the moves. Nuzzle, a better thunder wave, and plenty of non electric types use thunder wave. Thunderbolt? Highly common. Charge beam? Great stat booster. Wild charge? Good attack, or you can use thunder punch. Or magnet rise, Or thunder, or many other moves.

Now here's some types that you should vote for in my opinion.

Ground has two moves that people will actually use, instead of many.

Flying types are like normal types, but bland.

And most of them have the normal type, normal types do different things other types can.

The flying type is just making it uncreavtive, give the flying types more types.

Sigh.

And don't forget 5th gen dragon.

Those were dark times.

What I'm saying is, in my opinion, electric types don't deserve to be on this list.

And normal types also don't deserve to be... NUMBER ONE?

How...

Sigh, just, keep this comment in mind.

15 Ghost

Ghost types are the best types in my opinion because have you ever tried using Rotom? Rotom's awesome and (well at least my Rotom) has very good speed and special attack. Also Rotom has the levitate ability which cancels out one of elecktric's weaknesses.

Well, it is possible to make a completely mono-ghost team, as other sub-types can patch up the weaknesses.
But ghost types don't have very different movesets to one another, and mostly seem to be used for stat effect reasons.

When the person who added this to the list realizes Close Combat, Focus Punch, Explosion, and Self-Destruct can't touch a ghost and regrets what they've done.

16 Dark

Dark-types are tough in their own family. They're strong against Ghost- Psychic-types. But there is one exception. Defensively, they SUCK. Being defensively weak to Bug- Fairy- and Fighting types. Alright, I know Fairy is a type that shouldn't exist (there has to be at least one Pokemon that should be tough against the others, and that type is Dragon. But fairy? How can Mega Garchomp be weak to a Jigglypuff? ) and Fighting-types have a brave personality. But Bug? How can a Zoroark be weak to a Bug? Seriously GameFreak. You have to toughen up this type.

Dark types just plain suck. They were made for basically one reason - to counter the overpowered psychic types at the time - and... they do that - and that's about it. They have terrible movepools and the worst stab moves of any types offensively, with the best attacks both physical and special being at no higher than 80 base power. And pretty much the best part of every single dark Pokémon is the 2nd typing they have (if they have one).

17 Water

But in competitive it sucks.

A good mix of bulk and offenses invalidate your point. Rotom wash, swampert, m-blastoise, empoleon, greninga, palkia, feraligatr, lapras, even lanturn has good hp with stockpile. Don't make up to prove you point. Also rain is the best weather.

Lots of nice mono-types and good defensively, take ludicolo and politoed maybe even vaporeon or blastoise will make good type coverages and walls!

Lapras, Vaporeon, Suicune and Kyogre are some of my favourite water types but all the pointless water fish (Goldeen, Seaking, Remoraid Magikarp, Feebas, etc) are LAME. (Milotic and Gyrados are cool though)

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19 Psychic

Psychic is one of the worst types now. It is weak to the common dark and ghost moves and has only one really effective against fighting (who uses poisen anyway), is resisted by steel and dark is even immune to it. Phychic is weak offensively and defensively. All good pokemon that have this type are good despite them being Phychic, almost every other type would make them only better.

I don't get how Psychic is on the top 10. Psychic is my favorite type and SUPER powerful against many things. Alakazam, Gardevoir, a BUNCH of powerful legendaries (Lugia, Latios and Latias, Mew and Mewtwo, Rayquaza, Deoxys, I could go on forever), and just some of the cutest and best Pokemon ever.

This is pretty bizzare considering psychic is one of the highest damage dealing move types. And its super effective to Ghost and Fighting which can be a pain in the butt