Ground is paying for its sins because of Earthquake. The perfect move in gen I. 100% acc 100 pwr. Even when I was a child and gen I had no summary on moves we could feel how overpowered EQ was.

Splitting the earth element into 2 types almost guaranteed from the beginning that one was going to eventually be neglected in favor of the other

They made Garchomp and realized they need to backstep a few gens.

While they may be lacking in new members most generations, I see Ground as more a quality over quantity type. It's always been one of the better Pokemon types thanks to its strengths and resistances and the sheer power of Earthquake, such that you can be assured that any pokemon with even half decent stats that is Ground type will be at least somewhat usable. And you may claim Bug has gotten strong pokemon, but in pretty much every case they succeed in spite of being Bug type rather than due to being Bug type. The type itself has remained very lacking, with no new mechanics or type-based buffs to it since the second generation, so that it's deficiencies remain about as strong as ever.

So are we just gonna ignore the fact that some of the greatest pokemon ever made have been ground types? For years, a ground type has been the best or most used mon in competitive. For example, landorus, great tusk, gliscor, garchomp, bloodmoon ursaluna...

Only someone who sees ground as their favorite type would think it was neglected. Bug has always been the worst type, and when they finally introduced a type to counter dragons, it also resists bugs. Ground has some of the most iconic and powerful pokemon of all time. Maybe it hasn't had as many specialists, and maybe it has gotten fewer new Pokemon than some other types in recent generations, but they aren't introducing pathetic ground type pokemon that no one will ever want to use, where we get useless bug types in Every. Single. Game.

Ground is slightly neglected in the sense of new pokémon, but to say it’s treated worse than Bug and Poison is crazy. It’s consistently been a top 4 competitive type for generations, it’s matchups are so good. Excadrill, Garchomp, Landorus, Gliscor, Ursaluna, Great Tusk… I agree it could use some more moves, but Earthquake is so good that any new move they make will either be worse than Earthquake or straight OP. Ya can’t tell me Bug or Poison is doing better than that.

The Ice type needs the same kind of treatment and buffs the Bug type has had since Gen 5

The funny thing is most of the “meta” Pokemon are the ground types, so giving it less focus makes sense it was literally the hurdle before the final boss in Gen 1.

Ground is doing just fine. Sure it could use more new pokemon, but I still say Ice, Bug, Rock, and Grass are the worst off. Ice has too many slow pokemon who try to be defensive which isn't great. While Bug has gotten better, certain type pairing are terrible. Rock barely if ever has any 100% accurate moves. While Grass isn't great offensively so it has been relegated to support at best.

gotta say the last thing i expected to hear when i clicked this video was that the actual best type in the game was ignored

To me it seems more like pokemon is treating ground as a special and semi-exclusive type. Kinda like how dragon used to be. It's mostly reserved for special pokemon like legendarys and paradox. And not given out much to the common pokemon. To me that seems like good treatment, as it makes it so the ground type as a whole feels very strong. But I can definitely see why it would be discouraging if you just want a bunch of ground types

I feel like Ice should of been the type here instead of ground. It has tons of weaknesses all of which being super common in both the main game and in competitive play as well as only one resistance. They are usually slow and can’t take a hit even with their bulk. Avalugg, Aurorus, Crabominable, Glaceon, Sandslash(A), and so many others just shatter right as they enter the battlefield. Not to mention stealth rocks which they are weak to (meanwhile most ground types can utilize it). But in addition, only in super modern Pokémon games are you able to find ice types at a moderate time of the game, they are usually shafted until the very end or around the middle-end part of a play though and as a result don’t really get that much attention from players. Plus tons of water type Pokémon already have ice coverage leaving most of them without a use in battle. Ground at least is both and incredibly powerful offensive type and also only has 3 weaknesses. Leaving more room for both offensive and defensive play. While ground has not seen a whole lot of spotlight in recent generations because of how well utilized it is used by players. Ice is getting forced into the spotlight because of how BAD the type is itself. And no, a pseudo legendary with the highest attack stat won’t make the type more appealing unlike my boi Garchomp.

I feel like it's a bit if a double standard to compliment ice and dark for having regional variants in aloha, and then use that same point AGAINST ground in the latter generations. Just saying. Why do they get a pass but ground doesn't? Especially when clodsire is one of the best pokemon to be added imo. It's a fan favorite for a lot of both casual and die hard fans of pokemon.

Really can't bring myself to weep for the Ground type given it's been consistently good for years on years. This gen's OU has been dominated by several powerful ground types. Meanwhile bug in spite of getting more Pokemon has effectively been getting worse past gen 7 at least

As someone who used to like coming up with Ground type gym leader teams, I had a feeling the answer would be Ground! I seriously couldn't believe how hard it was to make a Ground gym with one Pokemon from each generation in Gen 6 😢

Meme answers to which type has been treated the worst: 1. The ??? type. This type was only used for a single move, Curse, and never belonged to any Pokémon (unless you count Sylveon in promotional material before the Fairy type was announced). The type was removed in Generation V, with Curse reclassified as a Ghost move. 2. Shadow moves. These are only in Pokémon Colosseum and XD: Gale of Darkness, and while not really a proper type, they are super effective against all Pokémon that aren’t Shadow Pokémon. 3. The Bird type (different to the Flying type). This is only in Generation I, where it is an unused type seen on glitch Pokémon such as MissingNo. What all three of these types have in common is that they all had *extremely* limited distribution and were completely removed from later games.

I mean Kalos skimped on more than just Ground, for example Bug only introduced the Vivillon line.

Poison type is my favorite and I really hate how forgotten it seems to be by both Gamefreak and the fanbase

The only big problem with Ground types, aside from the fact that it and Rock really step on each other's toes for concepts, is their anime representation. Thanks to the reaction to real world Japanese earthquakes, the anime hasn't allowed them to show attacks that shake or split the ground. As you might expect, this has been a bit of a problem for a type whose identity heavily involves doing just that. That's part of why the Ground-types on the show very rarely get to use Ground moves.

Grass/Fire/Water: starter types for each gen, while I wish there were more fire types these types will never be truly neglected Electric: Being the type of the mascot of the series, this won't be treated poorly either. Electric terrain is a recent-ish boost the electric type appreciates Normal: theres gonna be several new normal types each gen, usually at the start of the game. Also gets a bajillion new moves Fighting: its not gen 1 so I'm happy with that Psychic: ever notice how Psychic is the only type to have a legendary/mythical in each gen? Psychic is still seen by Pokémon as a strong type and will always be treated well Flying: we will always get new birds every gen forever Bug: gen 5 exists, and we've gotten great bugs ever since Poison: An underwhelming type, sure, but being able to fight fairies is a good start Steel: one of the best defensive types in the game Fairy: one of the best offensive types in the game Dragon: We've gotten legendary dragons in every gen since gen 3, also most pseudos are dragons, and they're just generally strong Dark: Almost always used by evil teams, recently got a gym leader Rock: Similar to ground, it hasn't gotten many buffs as of late, but unlike ground it actually gets a decent amount if new mons Ghost: we always get at least one mon per gen that ends up being a fan favourite, usually more, and The Pokémon company know this Ice: Obviously has flaws, but things like aurora veil and snowscape really help Ground: has been carried by earthquake since gen 1 While there are other types that could be treated better... yeah, ground has it rough

Ting Lu is not post game. You can get him so long as you defeated all the titans.

I've heard a few competitive players say that a ground type is essential for your team in 2-player mode. By the sounds of it, after the likes of landorus and garchomp showed up, the developers stopped adding a lot to the ground type because there clearly was no room for improvement with the type at that point. Though I would say it'd be nice for a proper bug/ground line to be made (the only ones with that type combination so far are an unevolved form temporarily with the type and one form of a species which can have 2 other type combos). Mono bug players would probably be really glad to have one, seeing as they apparently find volt-switch-spam a nightmare nowadays.

For the ground type, perharps they should give earthquake the toxic treatment and only give it to ground type pokemon, and ice type moves should be super effective against water type pokemon, not only freeze dry

Ice I bet. Bug at least got buffed when going to gen 2.

I live the ground type as well, but I feel like it's also the bulkiest type that has a natural immunity. If you look at the other types that have immunities, (Dark, Fairy, Flying, Ghost, and Normal) we can see that Pokémon of the types are generally frailer and easy to deal with. Ground types tend to be naturally defensive and tanky, which makes it easier to have them be overpowered, and tank hits. Plus they don't want to invalidate the Electric type, so they're making Ground less common overall. I definitely agree that there should be more love to the ground type, but it may just be more difficult to keep it balanced.

I still gotta go with bug type. Sure they've gotten some strong pokemon, but they're still mostly seen as weak in comparison to other types. Plus, add to the fact that as far as I can remember, bug still only has one elite four bug specialist.

Ground is a pretty good type. I mean, Golurk is pretty cool. As a ghost monotype trainer I have used Golurk many times. Runerigus is also pretty good and of the same type so it depends on what you are going for.

Is it not unfair to include bundle and thorns for the point about ice and rock getting new mons when you put treads/tusk/toeds as reasons that ground "barely" got any new mons?

Rock is a weird type... Because in Gen 1 there were NO pure rock type Pokemon, and almost every single Rock type in the game (except the fossil Pokemon) are part ground type. Basically when they first came out, _every_ rock type had double the weaknesses because it shares most of the same weaknesses as ground type. Its still a problem to this day and its really rather baffling.

Seeing as how a large chunk of the Pokemon player base consists of nostalgic millennials, one could argue that the earth titan being a paradox of a Gen 2 mon IS special treatment moreso than getting an entirely new one.

Bro is glazing the ground type like a potter

“You know how a lot of ghost types are physical attackers?” “You want us to add more physical ghost type attacks?” “What? Of course not. That would make them scarier than they already are. Anyway, so you know how our mascot is an electric type?” “You want us to make more flying types?” “Sure, but also try not to add too many ground types. We can’t have people hurting our precious baby Pikachu, right? We want it to live up to the hype set up by the anime and that won’t happen if there’s too many ground types.”

Ground started life as one of the stronger types and remains solid. It hasn't needed the help many other types have. The idea was to raise the others up to make things more equal in terms of viability.

You just found a way to complain about your favorite type not being given enough for over 10 minutes.

6:05 The clodsire slander is painful 😢. But totally agree. But it's really hard to bring benefits to ground that can't apply to rock. I think afar they can do in lean into the clay and bone aspects of ground to grow the divide

Ground is my second favorite type. There are so many reasons why I say Gen 4 is the pinnacle of Ground types: an E4 member, a starter, a pseudo-legend and a total of SEVEN fully evolved Pokémon. Don't get why we can't even get a few unique non-legend ground types these days.

Ground is also my favorite type But even with no new ideas in Paldea I’m glad to have some representation in the form of the Elite four and the Titan 🏜️

Bonemerang should have the ability to hit flying types with 50 percent accuracy on those types alone instead of being useless. Imagine throwing a bunch of bones only to miss half of them because the target is mobile in the air.

I’d argue grass has it the worst simply because of how it’s mostly redundant. Offensively the only real benefit it has is hitting water because water hits the same types, it’s weak to near half the game and it’s only saving graces are its resistances. When stealth rock hits near all its weaknesses for a quarter of their hp on entry and grass still sucks there’s a problem.

While I get the new mons being lacking, the lack of new Ground type attacks likely has to do with how it'll likely be outclassed by Earthquake in 99.999999999999999999999% of situations if it's a physical attack. Special attacking Ground type moves have to deal with Earth Power. So to run up why we don't see many new Ground type attacks, the endgame physical and special attacking Ground type attacks have existed for a VERY long time. So at this point the only real times new Ground type attacks are added are for signature moves and utility as even the mid-game coverage is there mostly.

The ice type was pretty good in gen 1. Jinx, cloyster, lapras, infinite freeze, and 90% accurate blizzard. It was the only generation they could shine.

I really don't agree with this take. Even if a b+ type remaining b+ in its treatment is good, ans when there is a decent ground type pokemon it does well. Bug mean while has gain a type that resist it with fairy and it is very rare when a bug type is added that it is anything but bottom in the teiring charts. Bug was a D quality type that got better in gen 5 and then got another nerf in gen 6 and has a 3rd of the useful moves/ pokemon ground has. To me quality over quantity and ground always gets quality additions unlike bug, poison, even normal and rock

As an avid Ground type fan in the Pokémon games, I have found that the ground types we have gotten, especially in later gens, were really strong in battle and excellent, design-wise. I just think there's a scarcity in Gen 9 (out of all the games I've played)

As someone who hasn't played pokemon since gen 4 this is strange to hear.

Gen 8 ryhon is technically a ground type game cuz over half of his team is ground type

At least Ground was one of the types with Sandstorm immunity at the same time the Levitate Ability (and Abilities in general) was introduced.

Counterargument: Golem, nidoking, rhyperior, steelix, seismitoad, glisor, dophan, toedscruel, flygon, gastrodon, claydol and palossand are all extremely awesome

Dig paying for its sins as it went from 100 base power and on par with Earthquake in gen 1, to an 80 base power ground type move in Generation 2 onward. Ground type got done dirty until gens 3 to 7. But for the worst type, i'm guessing it's a tie between Ice and Bug

A lot of the pokemon games I've played on my walkthroughs when it comes to ground types I often use either Quagsire or Flygon. Sometimes I may use a different ground type Pokemon from time to time to see if it's any good or not. A few that I have used were Garchomp, Claydol, Golem, Mudsdale, and the other (water & ground) types pokemon too.

Unfortunately, Ground doesn’t have it any better in the anime either. The Kanto era keeps flopping back and forth in Electric attacks working on Pokemon with the type or not and Earthquake is removed from the show entirely. Man, you weren’t kidding when you say that Ground types have it rough.

I'm not sure what this video is trying to say. It starts by saying that balance is necessary, then shifts to new ground type pokemon and moves, or lack-thereof. Not to mention that ground is one of the most important competetive types, as since gen 5 (maybe 4) there's always been a centralizing ground type at the top of OU. Not to mention that earthquake is a powerful and consistent move, so there wasn't as much of a demand for new ground moves, and it got earth power in the debut of the physical/special split. There are good points regarding the lack of new ground types in newer generations, but it doesn't fit the thesis based on balance.

You (ground) are sad because you fell, I (ice) am sad because ive never had the chance i deserved.

Ground… is offensive coverage at this point rather than defensive typing. Ice is very similar to that, but has been that way since Gen 1, so it’s not the same.

Not for nothing I've noticed that ghost types have been doing great for the last couple generations, it started out VERY restricted on number of Pokémon but now they've become almost a staple as a gym leader since gen 7, (Acerola wasn't a gym leader but you get my point) and it makes me so happy because it's my favorite type.

Who knows, maybe gen ten will introduce more ground types then gen one. Gen one had the most amount of ground types currently.

2:17 I don't think having a ground specialist would "clash" with team Magma... Ahem, Wallace and Juan. Team Aqua.

This feels like ground type propaganda

Personally I don’t even see pure flying being rare as a negative, I PREFER dual type for flying

Ice type is an offensive type. Almost all ice types are designed to be defensive. There are 3 decent offensive Ice types, chien pao, baxcaliber, and weavile. Chien pao is just a better weavile. Ice type is treated the worst.

Ground types were so good in gen 5 that they’re now being neglected for four straight generations. I get that there’s a ton of great existing ground types but they can still add a couple more every so often

Good points but I still kind of feel like bug and poison got done dirty. As for bug, for some reason have types that resist it for no reason like fairy and fighting and sorry to ground lovers not being supereffective against ground since bugs dig underground. And for poison, for some reason, is not super effective against flying and water granted it can now hit fairy with super effect of moods but come on imagine if poison can hit flying and water types.

My vote would be for ice types being neglected the most for reasons stated by others on here. But low key, I think poison type misses the spotlight a lot too. It’s represented by Koga/ Janine (gen 1 and 2) and Roxie (half of gen 5) and then…? sometimes the villains?

I think that Electric is also neglected.

The clodsire disrespect is so heavy...

Fairy is the worst treated type imo. They came out with a bang in gen 6, but since then they've been largely ignored. Look at the moves, for example. There's only one widely available Physical Fairy-Type move even in the current generation, being Play Rough; which isn't even the greatest move. 90 power is great, but 90 acc is kind of ridiculous on it, even with the small chance to drop the target's Atk. There are plenty of moves with similar or higher power that have better added effects, that proc more often in some cases, with 100 acc.

The Emperor blesses us with a 10 min rant of "Where my ground homies at?". Valid.

I agree about Levitate. The Flying type was already immune to Ground; we did not need an Ability immune to it. I would not have minded it if it made Ground-type moves do something else, like the new Earth Eater (which only Orthworm has,) but it does not, so it is pointless. (Thus I am also okay with Volt Absorb, Motor Drive, and Lightning Rod since Generation V, even though Ground is also immune to Electric.) Furthermore, most Pokémon with Levitate do not warrant the Ability because they do not, well, levitate (note that Gengar lost it in Generation VII, probably for that reason,) would be better served by something else, or both. Carnivine, for example, would resist Ground without it, and that is not even getting into it becoming redundant on Fan Rotom when Generation V made it Flying. As for Chingling, I am convinced that the thought process behind giving it Levitate was, "Well, Chimecho has Levitate, so give it to Chingling too," then later GAME FREAK realized that it did not levitate, so they thought, "Ah, just make it levitate from here on out" (Chingling does not levitate in any Generation IV games, but it has consistently done so since Generation V.) Has anybody else ever forgotten that Chingling has Levitate and accidentally used a Ground-type move on one? (On the other hand, I never forget that Magnemite's evolution cannot have it, so Ground still does quadruple damage to them, but many fans seem to be afraid to try it because they think that they can. Magnet Rise may be a problem, though.) I was not thinking about how Ground might get too little nowadays. I maintain that Bug is still cheated quite a bit. There was no need to make Fairy resist it, nor was there for Generation VIII to shed Silver Wind, Signal Beam, and Steamroller. You can make up your own mind about whether Grass and Ice deserve better treatment than they get.

The ???-type has been treated the worst, considering it got removed as of gen 5 :(

I dont get it, why is ok that alolan forms got drk and Ice types cuz i lt had fewer New pokémon with those types, but when gen 8 and 9 did the same for new "forms" while having fewer New Pokémon with the ground type is bad ?

I would argue ground got a new move in gen 9 in Headlong Rush. Sure, technically it was a gen 8 move as Hisui is technically part of gen 8, but gen 9 is the first time we can use the move in a game with traditional battle mechanics.

There was also ground and poison in gen 1 with the nidos

Feel like Ground only feels as omnipresent as it is because some good mons happen to be ground type and because everyone and their sick grandmother learns Earthquake.

I'd say ice because despite the fact that they were the only the super effective type against Dragon except itself they were so collectively bad that they had to create the fairy type because people kept Stacking dragon types and suffered 0 consequences for it

And THIS is why Runerigus should stay Ground. Not to mention Orthworm's ability. At the very least, this type you feel is the most neglected is a staple of every competitive team. Maybe that's why they're holding back on making more - it's a nerf in a way.

Wow. I never realized how bad us Ground Type trainers have it.

Ground is being treated like football players in movies for real. Back in the day, they were out here built like greek gods with Nidoking and Giovanni, and now you randomly meet them at a walmart 20 years later and they might literally look like Diggersby

people who are saying ice are forgetting ice got aurora veil in gen 7,amazing new ice types like mamoswine,ninetales alola,sandslash alola,arctozolt,iron vundle etc. also hail got changed to snow in gen 9

You definitely make a good argument. But I think the reason is because GameFreak is worried about Ground Types becoming too OP again. Earthquake is so strong and I don't even know if they can top Gen 5 with Excadrill and Landorous. That said, I'm down for getting new Ground Pokemon. They definitely need to add some more 3 stage evolution Ground Types. I didn't know it had been so long since we got one of those. I guess we don't get many new Ground type moves, because current Ground type moves are already good. As for Ground type specialist? Eh. I dunno. I don't really feel like their being neglected too much, but I see the argument. So yeah. In the end, I think we could use some more completely original 3 stage Ground Pokemon. And maybe some more combinations with the Ground type (I'd like to see another Ground/Flying type). I think we're fine on moves, unless Ground type moves are missing a certain niche that I'm unaware of. I'd just give more Pokemon Scorching Sands or Drill Run.

Man straight up forgot the Nidos were a thing in the "History of Ground Types" section. Also, Gen 9 technically is the first mainline game with Headlong Rush, which is basically ground type Close Combat.

I think Ground’s biggest weakness is that it’s niche isn’t as obvious. The elements of Earth and Stone had a similar issue in the Bionicle franchise, and ironically, Pokémon has handled the split differently. In Bionicle, Earth came to envelope the physical dirt, and Earth powers typically involved localized earthquakes and moving large amounts of ground. There was also a crystal subtheme, though that came later. Stone, meanwhile, was literal boulders and also came to incorporate sand as well. Pokémon does it a bit differently. Rock is obviously rocks, but we see it also incorporates crystals and fossils. There’s so many types of minerals, crystals, and fossils, that there’s a gold mine of inspiration (pun intended) for designing a Rock type. And then there’s Ground. What even IS ground, identity wise. Some Ground types are just mud related (like Swampert and Clodsire), some are sand related (like Flygon and Krookodile), some are clay related (like Golurk and Runerigus). But then there’s anomalies. Marowak is bone related, but why are bones Ground? Shouldn’t that be Rock because of the connection to fossils? Mudsdale is just a draft horse covered in mud, so why isn’t it Normal or Fighting in a addition to Ground? Is the mud SO integral to its identity that it can’t exist without it? Why are Claydol, Ting-Lu, Golurk, and Runerigus (and Cofagrigus as a side note) Ground anyway? Doesn’t baked and hardened clay have more in common with rocks than sand and mud? Why is Donphan a Ground type when it’s tough hide is literally described a “rock-tough” and Rollout is a Rock move? Is it because Donphan has tusks and bones are Ground for some reason?! But then why is Copperajah mono-Steel? Or how about Gliscor who learns a ton of Bug moves, canonically has Poison barbs, and sneak attacks people which is the definition of the Dark type… why is it Ground type exactly? Because it can sometimes be found in deserts and canonically clings to clifffaces? That’s so dumb that it hurts! Heck, even the Ground experts are weird, with Giovanni having no logic behind being a Ground expert, Clay working mine (which, again clay AND mining should be Rock, no?), Bertha is just a Grandma with a sweater and scarf (so no connection). The ONLY good Ground expert is Hapu. The Ground Legendaries, aside from Ting-Lu, deal with fertility in some way. Groudon, Landorus, and Zygarde all have that “guardian of the natural earth” thing going on, and what is Hapu? She’s a farmer… except all the other farmer experts are grass types, so even she’s a bad example! TL;DR, while I hate to pull the “Pokémon is running out of ideas” card, it’s obvious that this is true for the Ground type. You can only do “animal covered in mud or sand” so many times before it turns stale, and the bone or clay-related Pokémon FEEL more like Rock types. While having the Ground type is good for balance, it’s identity is so muddied (again, pun-intended), that I think Game Freak just doesn’t know what to do with the typing anymore.

Although Ground remains as one of the best offensive and Defensive types in the game, I’d say after Gen 5, the type started seeing less and less. The new Grounds aren’t bad and we got some great moves like High Horsepower and Headlong Rush. But they definitely peaked in Gen 4. Every Ground type (except Wormadam) was great in some capacity

lol i saw this video come out on my tv at 15 seconds that's crazy

As someone who ALWAYS tries to have a ground type in my team, and also tries to have new pokemons in my team if possible, I can say that team building was pretty hard. In gen 6, I had to wait until I get a Gible to get a ground type that would eventually give me something new with Mega Garchomp. In gen 8, I had to wait until I get Galarian Yamask, and that's a pokemon that can be somewhat hard to raise so I had to work to get my new ground type. I will say however that PLA and gen 9 weren't as much of a problem, because I knew I would use Ursaluna as soon as I saw it, and I made my gen 9 team kind of on the fly, and ended up liking the Clodsire I used so much, that it was a permanent member of my team. As for gen 7, the ground types you can use there are honestly more than enough, even if we could have gotten more. Maybe it's just me being contempt with using Alolan Dugtrio over and over again, but even then the other grounds are good choices for your team too.

Maybe ground doesn’t need new Pokémon cuz the ground Pokémon we already got are boss. Torterra. Golurk. Excadrill. Krookadile. Mudsdale. Midoking

Emperor wants to speak up for his type.

I guess ice, bug, or poison. Yikes I was wrong. At least by your standards. But ground is still a powerful type. Bug, Ice, and poison need a buff

I mean, at least ground isn't totally forgotten in a whole generation to the point the type specialist doesnt even have a full team of that type.

This video gives "STAY GROUNDED" a whole new meaning.

Gen 5 did more for bugs than any other Gen has done for any other type.

I'd say grass or bug.

Ground has definitely been neglected more but the type treatment that actually annoys me the most is rock, every type has one move each for special and physical thats decently strong with 100% accuracy for example surf or the elemental punches, rock hasn't really got that because for physical the closest you have is rock slide with solid power 75 but about 90/95% accuracy meaning it isn't reliable, as for special you have power gem which fills all the criteria i mentioned before but most rock types either can't learn it or have bad special attack

Long answer: Ice types due to the low amount of them and an even lower amount of viable ones Short answer : I C E

Sorry but I got to disagree. Competitive ground have been spotlight the longest and earthquake is the best most spammed move ever

Gen 1 has more than pure ground or being paired with rock. It was paired with poison for the Nidos.

Counting forms and variants as their own Pokemon, Ground has 90 Pokemon and seems to be around average with the other types (ignoring water and flying having around 130 each). Though that's a skew from 9 being rock/ground when most of them fit their roles perfectly without it. It makes sense on the Golem line if ground is replaced by electric in it's Alolan forms due to dravite being preferred food of the entire Golem line. The lack of it or a substitute leads to their bodies being more broken up and in the case of Golem a greater need for dexterity.

Whatever grounds they add tend to be some of the best, most reliable Pokemon in the game. Look at Great Tusk and Gliscor.

I would love to see a video on the hypothetical sounds time, how you would set the weaknesses resistances, and who would you give it to in past generations?

Tbf they always bring back old Ground types for the games so new ones won't be needed, while its harder to do that for Ice because its usually super late into the game.

Ngl when Ground was neglected in Gen 6 I excused it since many types had that one gen where there were barely any new for that type stuff like Fire in Gen 4, Electric in Gen 3 and Fighting in Gen 2. But now theres no excuse considering it went on for 4 gens in a row. Ground absolutely needs more specialists gen 3 could've easily had a ground leader with Claydol, Sandslash, and Flygon to have a desert theme. Ghost and Ice get them all the time despite being less common types I'll excuse water since its most common type.