Is Steel/Dragon the best type combo?

>>24984530
steel/fairy

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>>24984530

>>24984530
>two extremely common offensive types as weakness
It's the coolest combo, but not the best.

>>24984550
>GGGRRRRRRROOOOOOO

>>24984552
:)

>>24984530
Would normal/dragon be, or fighting/dragon?

I still think Normal/Ghost is better. Immune to 3 types, weak only to Dark.

>>24985046
4x weak to fairy

>>24986799
So it would be similar to Dark/Ghost in that regard?
>Still 2 good resists

>>24984530
Fire/Dragon is the best type combo.

It's both a very strong typing in terms of battle and conceptually badass.

>>24984530
I think Steel/Bug is best combo. Only 1 weakness. 1 Immunity and a slew of resistances

>>24984548
If we're talking defensively, it's definitely this.

Offensively, probably Dragon/Fire.

I'd say steel/flying trumps steel/fairy defensively.
You trade a weakness to electricity and neutrality to ice for immunity to the omnipresent EQ.

>>24987072
If we're just looking at offense, wouldn't a hypothetical Ice/Electric type be top tier? Or is beambolt no longer as relevant?

>>24984530
Defensively its steel/fairy and sometimes steel/flying depending on context.

Offensively its [insert two STABs with perfect neutral coverage]
Ground/Fairy
Fighting/Flying
Fire/Dragon
All examples.

>>24989936
>Skarmory
>Aegislash
>Azumarill

>>24989944
ghost/fighting
normal/fighting with scrappy
These are the only true perfectly neutral STAB combos.

Ghost/fighting goes out the door the moment there is a normal/ghost type.

Also ice/ground is only resisted by shedinja and surskit.

>>24989951
Fairy/Ghost is an excellent combo that's only stopped by Pyroar and hypothetical Normal/Poison and Normal/Steel types.

>>24984530
Unless it has levitate. No.

And levitate is often a shitty wasted ability.

>>24984551

Steel/dragon is a pretty good defensive typing, though there are better ones. And I wouldn't consider steel a good offensive typing, even now. Though it's certainly improved in gen 6

>>24984530

> mixing types

Ayy

electric is a pretty good type
and can go with alot of types and not be bad
just some pokemon dont pull it off well
Stunfisk and Rotom frost
>>24989961
Mega mismagius

>>24984530
I consider "best" to mean "cutest" so no

>>24984530
The currently non existent normal Ghost is

Electric with levitate
Tynamo is bæ

Poison/dark with levitate would be pretty strong defensively.

Using this site I have deduced the best offensive types.
http://pokemondb.net/tools/type-coverage

Immunity = 4
Resist = 2
Neutral = 1
Weakness = 0.5
Rounded up.
Lower number is best.
http://pastebin.com/cHRCCdM0

>>24990104
Top ten
Ground/Ice
Rock/Ground
Ground/Flying
Fighting/Flying
Fighting/Ice
Fighting/Rock
Ice/Electric
Fighting/Ghost
Ground/Fire
Rock/Ghost

Bottom 10 (that aren't monotype)
Steel/Ice
Ground/Grass
Normal/Psychic
Fighting/Grass
Steel/Fire
Normal/Dragon
Poison/Bug
Normal/Fighting
Bug/Grass
Normal/Poison

>>24989915
Refrigerator Rotom sucks

Ground/Fight is surely the best offensive that is currently exists
RIP Poison/Electric/Ice/Rock 4x/Steel 4x/Normal/Dark/Fire

>>24990231
> is currently exists
Meant that could exist, lol dislexcya

Offensive
Ice/Fighting Yeti glass cannon mon when?

Defensive
A normal ghost would be sweet, bug/steel is solid to


Also grass/water might be the best middle ground jack of all trades, master of none typing if that makes sense

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>>24989915
Top tier but not the best.
Regards: ghost fairy.

>>24990231
>>24990259
see
>>24990104

Regards, the reason people used mamoswine despite it being a slow bulky ice type

>>24989973
>reading comprehension
Two extremely common offensive types as weaknesses, not as types
It's weak to fighting and ground

>>24990243
>glass cannon Yeti
You know Game Freak would give it a shit Speed stat.

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>Want to use an ice type
>Remember that bullet punch exists
>Remember that every other person packs a Scizor.

>>24993011
Since it's an ice type, they'll give it a really high defense

>>24990106
>Steel/Ice
>bottom 10
Steel is such a shitty offensive type to the point it brings Ice, the best offensive type, down to the bottom 10.

...does this argument sound oddly familiar for something else?

>>24993061
Steel/Ground isn't bad. It's more that steel and ice are redundant resistance wise.
>both resisted by fire, water and steel
>flat out fucking walled by heatran or any bulky water
lmao

>>24989951
Ice/Ground would also be resisted by rotom heat, wash or fridge.

>>24993942
thousand arrows/freeze dry what now punk

>>24986986
Still not the worst thing ever. At least you'll never be caught off guard with a Hidden Power Fairy.

Normal/ghost mega snorlax when?

160
130
105
65
160
20

Ghost kind of also balances his best set of setting yp with curse. You'd have to use it before mega evolving.

>>24993942
>what is Mold Breaker

>>24990231
I this were true then Gen 3 and 4 and 5 would've seen Earthquake on more fighting-types.

The fact that they would prefer to run the weaker and less accurate Rock Slide instead proves that Rock/Fighting is vastly superior.

>>24995043

This is true. Ground and Fighting is as redundant as Normal and Flying.

Dragon/steel with thick fat.

A dragon that resists ice, a steel type that resists fire.

Also a pokemon that single handedly resists water, fire, ice, grass, electric, flying, rock, steel, poison, normal, bug, and psychic.

A dragon that hits fairies with SE stab moves and literally every dragon gets either ground or fire coverage for steels regardless.

>>24990115
Due to speed. Ice types would be great if they were speedy glass cannons like Weavile.
It's great offensively but dildos defensively. Mamoswine and Cloyster are basically the exceptions to the rule of bulky ice types being ass because one has Shell Smash (one of, if not the best boosting move in-game) to speed it up and make it a scary ass sweeper with a 125 BP STAB move, a 125 BP STAB coverage move, and another 110 BP STAB move or STAB priority depending on the set. The other has literally the best STAB coverage in-game in addition to thick fat neutralizing Fire and Ground neutralizing SR and Rock Slide/Stone Edge and multiple sets. Other bulky slow ice types are ass.

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>>24995528
I dunno, I think this bulky Ice-type is pretty good.

>>24995537
It's a good mixed attacker in OU, but it's got Legendary stats.
Dragon gives neutrality to fire and its only real niche is being a dragon not weak to ice.

>>24990106
>Ground/Ice
>Both fire and water are super effective and not neither
Great typing, shit weaknesses

>>24987067
that 4x weakness dou

>>24987067
Forretress is based af

>>24984530
One of the best defensive ones, not too shabby offensively either as its STABs have only one common resist.
>>24984548
Slightly better defensively, but STABs have two common resists, so unless you're packing four attacks set there's always going to be something walling you.
>>24984551
By that logic steel types in general aren't defensively best because half of the meta has to be specifically prepared to break through them.
>>24985046
Both combinations have bad offensive synergy while not offering any worthwhile defensive benefits.
>>24986799
This is definitely one of the best ones. STABs are walled only by mirror match and some ridiculously bad type combinations. Access to Espeed or Boomburst would definitely help making such a mon very good.
>>24987055
>>24987067
Both are pretty damn good, but have noticable flaws that prevent them from being absolute top tier.
Ground types deserve an extra mention for being absurdly overpowered offensively from typechart perspective and having a lot of types they synergise with offensively (Water, Flying, Fire, Fairy, etc). The omnipresence of Levitate is the only reason it isn't in actual gameplay.

>>24995537
think twice about ice to be number 1