What are definitively the BEST and WORST typings a pokemon can

Slow defensive Ice/Bug type when?

worst ice/rock

>>31832565
Flawed system. Weaknesses count much more than resistances with this.

>>31832488
The worst is Ice/Rock defensively.
Offensively is amazing just in STAB, since they only need either Fire, Ground or Fighting coverage, all of which are reasonable common to deal with Steel. Aurorus is shit because is slow and defensive, but if it were a glass cannon, it will be a whole other tale.

The best defensively is Steel/Fairy, that's not even a question. Followed a little far by Ghost/Fairy.

The best offensively is a little hard to point out, since what's popular is constantly changing, but the defensive prowress is a thing that stays.

Steel nerf when?

>>31832647
last gen

>>31832660
>what are fairies?

>>31832685
a vary small buff in comparison to losing dark and ghost resists?

>>31832702
it's a very big buff, fairies are basically the new and better dragons, better resists and effectiveness

steels should honestly be weak to electric and psychic
not water, despite rust being thematic it'd give waters even more power

>>31832488
Defensive
Worst ice
Best steel

Offensive
Worst normal or posion
Best fighting or fariy

Normal/Ghost is the single best defensive typing in the game considering it has 3 immunities and only one 2x weakness. Ghost/Steel is probably the second best just because of how amazing Steel is defensively, but it does have major weaknesses to Ghost, Fire, and Ground (EQ, anyone?). Third best would probably be Dark/Poison; its only weakness is Ground, unfortunately, but immunity to psychic, poison/toxic status, and being able to clear toxic spikes in competitive are all very compelling reasons to be in the top 3.

>>31834201
resists>imunities

>>31833962
>Worst normal or posion
Are you having a laugh?
Bug is by far the worst offensively being resisted by 7/18 types

Normal is very good offensively because it hitting 15 types for neutral and a lot of soud based moves being normal type for bypassing subs.

>>31832488
Defensively worst think about common coverage moves and common strong neutral STAB moves. Being weak to things like earthquake, superpower, ice beam/punch, thunderbolt/beam, stone miss, knock off, poison jab&iron head, fire blast and lastly u-turn as an aside being a common move but not really coverage. Being weak to these is inherently worse than any other type. Strong neutral hits are shit like lele's psychic and to a lesser extent latios, big steel hits from all the steels, lots of z-flys and pinsir, bunch of earthquakes. Bunch of electric spam and bunch of fairy spam.
Thus.
>ground weak is a death sentence
>rock weak hinders the ability to function as well as being common coverage
>steel is everywhere
>Fighting still pretty good high power coverage
Ice/rock is weak to all this
>super strong psychic and flying nukes common.
>Very powerful electric and fairy spam
Ice/rock resists only one (one) facet of this, and all flying nuke dudes carry one or more of the coverage types mentioned beforehand.
Of its resists only one is really relevant. Poison and normal resists are trash, all the flying moves going around are 160BP+ and do huge amounts anyway, and resisting ice is decent.

Best is always steel/flying. What if steel but immune to steels most common weakness? Skarmory will never not be OU.

>>31834201
>>31834217
Depends on the defensive role. Being able to switch in on billions of resists is what makes heatran so good, but being weak to a single type is what makes chansey so obnoxious. Different roles.
Ghost/Normal would be perfect for something that just sits around all fucking day and never fucking dies, Steel/anything is great to switch in, get something done and switch out, to switch in on another resist some time later.

>>31832600
It still got the best typing right.

Worst defensive typing has to be Bug/Ice. Just as bad as something like Rock/Ice, but it is quad weak to smogon stones.

>>31836462
Ground weak is not a death sentence since tons of stuff are immune or resist ground and you have 5 teammates to back you up.

>>31836499
being ground weak without having some other great properties like I don't know just being steel type in general is a death sentence as 70% of the game just forces you out.

Defensively the best is water/steel
Offensively would be fighting/dragon
Best overall would be steel/fairy

>>31832702
I wouldn't be surprised if they gradually gut steel's excess resists simply because of how much it tangles up any meaningful rebelance to the typing chart as a whole just because gf was shitting their pants in anxiety back in gen 2 to make sure another psychic/ normal sweep fest wouldn't happen again.

>>31836536
>Offensively would be fighting/dragon
Kommo-o would beg to differ

Bug/Grass for both aspects

>>31836690
>one unfortunate case means the entire type combo is shit
You probably think Ice/Rock is shit as a whole because of Aurorus. Dragon/Fighting would be amazing on something with a MOVEPOOL and proper STAB. Fairy would still be a thing, but the coverage it would bring would be incredible. Similar to Ghost/Fighting.

>>31836555
Unless you give the same 120 BP moves to every type, removing steel's resists for balance would be a poor choice.