Really, truly, thank you all for 500K Subscribers. I honestly never thought I'd even hit 100K, so it's a little hard to wrap my head around reaching this milestone. Here's to a million subs by the end of gen 9.

I always wondered why S-tier was above A-tier. Now I know the S stands for Steel.

“However neither type can hit steel for even neutral damage” is the theme of the video

Two things I took from this: 1) Steel resists everything 2. Ice deals quad to everything

Wolfey: "Do you want a dragon that really loses to fairies?" Me doing a monotype dragon run: "Actually yes, it knows poison jab and has a sash"

The main 2 characteristics of a good pokemon type combination: 1. Hit steel types 2. Be steel type

0:15 bug-ice (153 F) 1:12 bug-flying (148 F) 2:00 bug-normal (145 F) 3:45 bug-fighting (141 D) 6:57 bug-poison (129 D) 7:31 bug-dark (127 D) 10:10 bug-psychic (118 D) 10:21 bug-fairy (117 D) 11:50 bug-rock (112 C) 13:47 bug-dragon (102 C) 17:46 bug-ground (79 C) 19:43 bug-fire (68 B) 24:33 bug-electric (40 B) 30:35 bug-steel (8 S) 0:24 ice-rock (152 F) 1:24 ice-normal (147 F) 4:52 ice-flying (137 D) 5:39 ice-fairy (134 D) 5:55 ice-fire (133 D) 7:47 ice-psychic (126 D) 10:36 ice-poison (116 D) 15:43 ice-fighting (90 C) 21:47 ice-electric (55 B) 30:20 ice-ground (9 A) 0:36 dark-psychic (151 F) 2:10 dark-rock (144 F) 8:02 dark-ice (125 D) 9:24 dark-fighting (121 D) 9:54 dark-normal (119 D) 13:41 dark-dragon (103 C) 17:32 dark-ground (81 C) 18:39 dark-flying (73 C) 0:48 grass-bug (150 F) 1:00 grass-ice (149 F) 1:41 grass-psychic (146 F) 7:16 grass-flying (128 F) 8:21 grass-fighting (124 D) 11:39 grass-fairy (113 C) 13:59 grass-normal (101 C) 14:48 grass-water (96 C) 15:08 grass-dark (94 C) 18:48 grass-ghost (72 C) 20:48 grass-fire (61 B) 2:25 fire-rock (143 F) 11:02 fire-electric (114 D) 13:11 fire-poison (106 C) 14:40 fire-flying (97 C) 15:35 fire-normal (91 C) 18:19 fire-water (75 C) 22:48 fire-fighting (49 B) 23:08 fire-ground (47 B) 27:32 fire-psychic (25 A) 29:37 fire-fairy (14 A) 29:45 fire-dark (13 A) 3:30 normal-poison (142 D) 4:05 normal-rock (140 D) 13:33 normal-flying (104 C) 15:00 normal-fighting (95 C) 19:58 normal-ground (66 B) 31:28 normal-ghost (2 S) 17:53 poison-ground (78 C) 19:54 poison-grass (67 B) sus 25:37 poison-water (35 B) 30:43 poison-dark (7 S) 4:18 ground-grass (139 D) 4:39 ground-rock (138 D) 5:08 rock-poison (136 D) 5:26 rock-electric (135 D) 6:42 rock-psychic (130 D) 9:44 rock-steel (120 D) 12:31 rock-grass (109 C) 15:26 rock-flying (92 C) 16:30 rock-water (86 C) 18:28 rock-fighting (74 C) 19:08 rock-fairy (71 B) 6:08 dragon-rock (132 D) 6:26 dragon-grass (131 D) 12:39 dragon-flying (108 C) 12:51 dragon-fighting (107 C) 13:24 dragon-psychic (105 C) 14:19 dragon-ice (99 C) 18:10 dragon-electric (76 C) 20:39 dragon-ground (62 B) 21:08 dragon-normal (59 B) 21:39 dragon-poison (56 B) 21:55 dragon-fairy (54 B) 24:42 dragon-fire (39 B) 29:49 dragon-water (12 A) 8:46 ghost-psychic (123 D) 15:19 ghost-ice (93 C) 17:39 ghost-bug (80 C) 20:06 ghost-dark (65 B) 20:58 ghost-poison (60 B) 21:27 ghost-rock (57 B) 22:06 ghost-flying (53 B) 22:58 ghost-fairy (48 B) 23:36 ghost-dragon (45 B) 24:11 ghost-ground (42 B) 24:56 ghost-electric (38 B) 25:10 ghost-fire (37 B) 28:39 ghost-fighting (19 A) 28:52 ghost-water (18 A) 9:03 steel-ice (122 D) 16:43 steel-normal (85 C) 22:27 steel-poison (51 B) 22:37 steel-dark (50 B) 26:20 steel-grass (32 A) 26:50 steel-fire (29 A) 27:08 steel-flying (27 A) 27:22 steel-psychic (26 A) 27:54 steel-water (23 A) 29:04 steel-dragon (17 A) 29:13 steel-fighting (16 A) 29:59 steel-ghost (11 A) 30:11 steel-ground (10 A) 10:50 water-ice (115 D) 23:58 water-flying (43 B) 25:26 water-bug (36 B) 25:58 water-normal (34 A) 27:00 water-psychic (28 A) 27:42 water-fighting (24 A) 28:00 water-dark (22 A) 30:52 water-ground (6 S) 31:09 water-fairy (4 S) 12:04 fighting-poison (111 C) 20:16 fighting-ground (64 B) 24:21 fighting-flying (41 B) 12:17 flying-psychic (110 C) 16:11 flying-poison (88 C) 31:02 flying-ground (5 S) 14:09 electric-grass (100 C) 15:55 electric-poison (89 C) 17:06 electric-ground (83 C) 18:01 electric-water (77 C) 22:16 electric-normal (52 B) 23:24 electric-dark (46 B) 23:49 electric-psychic (44 B) 26:31 electric-steel (31 A) 28:16 electric-flying (21 A) 28:30 electric-fighting (20 A) 29:22 electric-fairy (15 A) 14:30 psychic-poison (98 C) 16:22 psychic-ground (87 C) 16:55 psychic-normal (84 D) 17:20 psychic-fighting (82 C) 19:19 psychic-fairy (70 B) 19:31 fairy-flying (69 B) :) 20:27 fairy-poison (63 B) 21:19 fairy-normal (58 B) 26:08 fairy-dark (33 A) 26:40 fairy-fighting (30 A) 31:19 fairy-ground (3 A) 31:38 fairy-steel (1 A) DA BEST

30:23 Can we talk about the fact that Mamoswine threatens more than half of the Pokémon in the game with Super-Effective Damage

ghost and normal is just such a cool typing and the fact its so good is a nice bonus

IF A TYPE COMBINATION HAS NO POKEMON WE PUT A POKEMON THAT WOULD MAKE SENSE FOR IT (FLYGON/DRAPION/GARBODOR/COFAGRIGUS ETC) HAVE SOME RESPECT FOR THE WORLD CHAMP DIFFERENCE BAYBEEEEEE

“Just like Goliath, this pair give a 4x weakness to rock” Comedy gold

9:23 Do you want a Fighting Type that REALLY loses to Fairy? 12:50 Do you want a Dragon Type that REALLY loses to Fairy? 13:39 Do you want a Dark Type that REALLY loses to Fairy?

With Pokémon Infinite Fusion getting more popular, this video is a great way to learn why you should(n't) combine certain types

I incredibly broke out laughing when wolfie said "Surprisingly,Bug/Ghost has some good amount of resistances and immunities" like if shedinja would ever need them anyways lmao

I took the average of the spot that each type ended up at and here are the results (rounded up): Steel - 39 Water - 44 Ghost - 50 Fairy - 53 Ground - 59 Electric - 61 Fire - 68 Fighting - 72 Dragon - 77 Flying - 80 Dark - 81 Poison - 85 Normal - 91 Psychic - 92 Bug - 104 Grass - 107 Ice - 115 Rock - 116

The fact that Wolfey went the extra length of showing random Pokémons for inexistent type combos (at that time at least) like Kricketot, Meowth-G, Garbodor, Sunflora, Meloetta-P, Zeraora, Vulpix and Phanpy but didn't show Malamar.

I love how similar Ground and rock are, but when rock is paired with Ice its horrible, but when ground is paired with ice its one of the best

From my observation, rock types really get outclassed, it's almost like a detriment to be a rock type, plus all of the hard hitting rock moves tend to miss whenever I use them like Stone Edge

What I understood from this video: 1) If you can't hit steel types for at least neutral you're trash 2) DO YOU WANNA REALLY LOSE TO FAIRY?

Credits to None. I only put in order: Type Ranking fairy-steel 1 normal-ghost 2 fairy-ground 3 water-fairy 4 flying-ground 5 water-ground 6 poison-dark 7 bug-steel 8 ice-ground 9 steel-ground 10 steel-ghost 11 dragon-water 12 fire-dark 13 fire-fairy 14 electric-fairy 15 steel-fighting 16 steel-dragon 17 ghost-water 18 ghost-fighting 19 electric-fighting 20 electric-flying 21 water-dark 22 steel-water 23 water-fighting 24 fire-psychic 25 steel-psychic 26 steel-flying 27 water-psychic 28 steel-fire 29 fairy-fighting 30 electric-steel 31 steel-grass 32 fairy-dark 33 water-normal 34 poison-water 35 water-bug 36 ghost-fire 37 ghost-electric 38 dragon-fire 39 bug-electric 40 fighting-flying 41 ghost-ground 42 water-flying 43 electric-psychic 44 ghost-dragon 45 electric-dark 46 fire-ground 47 ghost-fairy 48 fire-fighting 49 steel-dark 50 steel-poison 51 electric-normal 52 ghost-flying 53 dragon-fairy 54 ice-electric 55 dragon-poison 56 ghost-rock 57 fairy-normal 58 dragon-normal 59 ghost-poison 60 grass-fire 61 dragon-ground 62 fairy-poison 63 fighting-ground 64 ghost-dark 65 normal-ground 66 poison-grass 67 bug-fire 68 fairy-flying 69 psychic-fairy 70 rock-fairy 71 grass-ghost 72 dark-flying 73 rock-fighting 74 fire-water 75 dragon-electric 76 electric-water 77 poison-ground 78 bug-ground 79 ghost-bug 80 dark-ground 81 psychic-fighting 82 electric-ground 83 psychic-normal 84 steel-normal 85 rock-water 86 psychic-ground 87 flying-poison 88 electric-poison 89 ice-fighting 90 fire-normal 91 rock-flying 92 ghost-ice 93 grass-dark 94 normal-fighting 95 grass-water 96 fire-flying 97 psychic-poison 98 dragon-ice 99 electric-grass 100 grass-normal 101 bug-dragon 102 dark-dragon 103 normal-flying 104 dragon-psychic 105 fire-poison 106 dragon-fighting 107 dragon-flying 108 rock-grass 109 flying-psychic 110 fighting-poison 111 bug-rock 112 grass-fairy 113 fire-electric 114 water-ice 115 ice-poison 116 bug-fairy 117 bug-psychic 118 dark-normal 119 rock-steel 120 dark-fighting 121 steel-ice 122 ghost-psychic 123 grass-fighting 124 dark-ice 125 ice-psychic 126 bug-dark 127 grass-flying 128 bug-poison 129 rock-psychic 130 dragon-grass 131 dragon-rock 132 ice-fire 133 ice-fairy 134 rock-electric 135 rock-poison 136 ice-flying 137 ground-rock 138 ground-grass 139 normal-rock 140 bug-fighting 141 normal-poison 142 fire-rock 143 dark-rock 144 bug-normal 145 grass-psychic 146 ice-normal 147 bug-flying 148 grass-ice 149 grass-bug 150 dark-psychic 151 ice-rock 152 bug-ice 153

Thank you for the explanation of this! I've played pokemon since I was a kid but am only just now trying to learn more about making actually good teams for battling. This was very educational.

That "That's how many pokemon there are" at both rank 151 and 150 was a good bit that I think is being criminally overlooked

"inability to hit steel types" sounds like a problem most types face tbh...

Normal is my favorite type so it sucks that it really adds nothing to any type combination it's part of - I've thought for a long time that Normal should at least resist Fairy.

How fitting that the worst (Bug/Ice) loses badly to the best (Fairy/Steel).

“Do you want a pair that REALLY loses to Fairy?” This and “However neither can hit steel for neural damage.” The lessons of this video. They were funny lol

Another thing about Ghost Fighting that I think should be mentioned, Not only can it hit all single types for neutral damage, It can hit all dual types with the exception to Normal Ghost for neutral too

I love how the video starts with the two worst types making the penultimate worst type combo and then ends with the two most obviously overpowered types making an obviously overpowered type combo

I really appreciate all the work that went into this ranking. I wonder if it’s feasible to rank them purely defensively and then purely offensively and then have their final rank be a composite value of their two scores. It seems like in some of the rankings, their numerous offensive capabilities are negated by one weakness, or 1/4 damage on a few types.

What I'm hearing is that fire/poison, fire/steel, electric/steel, or any other type combo whose main weakness is x4 ground becomes MUCH better with Levitate

Not a SINGLE water type was mentioned until 115, that shows that it’s so good that it still can thrive when paired with ice

I liked and subscribed and hit the bell and now I’m commenting. You’ve aided me immensely in becoming a true Pokémon master

I love your job bro, thank your for all the help

While Ice/Fighting doesn't do well defensively, being able to hit 9 types (50% of the type chart) with super effective damage is an insane offensive combo... too bad it's on crabominable.

At this rate, Pokemon Types are going to invade Wolfey’s dreams with the amount of combinations there are. We should be thankful there’s no Pokémon with three types otherwise, this video would just be a couple of hours long! Congrats on 500k subs!

27:34 justice for My girl Delphox, she did nothing wrong

this is a great video to get good ideas for gen 9 Tera types

'What type are you?' 'I am unable to hit steel types' 'Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?'

I fell asleep almost at the end of the video, 10/10 video, both from good content and quailty, plus for the sleep

Glad you doubled subs since this vid!

I nearly lost my mind laughing when he put up Flygon at "Bug-Dragon"

Fun fact, in gen 1, paras and parasect had 3 4x weaknesses because bug was weak to poison.

Interesting video thanks wolfe

Getting tips from one of the best players of all time is a really good way to become a great player in the future.

Fun fact: Flying, Water, and Psychic are the only types to be paired with every other type

I actually used a mathematical concept called "Pareto Optimization" to find what I would consider to be the best type combinations Basically, it measures two characteristics, and if another combination can improve one without harming another, what you have is NOT a Pareto Optimal configuration. Anything where this does apply, and any gain to one characteristic comes at a cost to the other measured characteristic, is a Pareto Optimal Configuration. The two characteristics I measured were the number of resistances (counting doubles and immunities as one), and number of types hit for super-effective damage. If any type combination had the same number of resistances as another but hit more types super-effectively, the other was removed from the list, and vice-versa. After running through all the combinations I discovered there were only 9 Pareto Optimal Type Combinations (combos where no other type simultaneously resisted as much or more and hit as much or more): Ice/Fighting (3 resistances, hits 9) Fire/Ground (6 resistances, hits 8) Fighting/Rock (6 resistances, hits 8) Ground/Rock (6 resistances, hits 8) Ground/Fairy (6 resistances, hits 8) Ground/Steel (10 resistances, hits 7) Steel/Fairy (11 resistances, hits 6) Electric/Steel (12 resistances, hits 5) Ghost/Steel (12 resistances, hits 5) Using number of weaknesses as a tiebreaker (and, failing that, number of types that resist both), I brought it to five: Ice/Fighting Fire/Ground (had the fewest weaknesses of the 6/8s) Ground/Steel Steel/Fairy Ghost/Steel (Electric/Steel couldn't hit electric types, while nothing resists both steel and ghost) I decided to find the best by adding up resistances and hits and dividing by weaknesses, and got the following: Ice/Fighting: 2 Fire/Ground: 4.67 Ground/Steel: 4.25 Steel/Fairy: 8.5 Ghost/Steel: 4.25 By this metric, Steel/Fairy is mathematically the best type combination in the game. (For anyone curious, doing the same for single types yields only four Pareto Optimal single types: Fire, Steel, Fighting, and Ground, though Fighting is resisted by more types than Ground)

I always thought Dark + Ghost was op and putting that into Shedinja would be simply pain.

Oh, so this is why Mawile is ridiculously sturdy when I ran her through Omega Ruby. It’s my first pokemon run too.

Gotta love how despite being one of the worst types overall, you can still see combinations with the bug type throughout the whole list and all ranks. Although they got carried pretty Hard by the Steel type, you gotta remember that Bug types resist both Fighting and Ground. Which eliminate two of the Steel Weaknesses, while Steel eliminates the Rock and Flying weaknesses of the Bug type. It's a match made in Pokemon Heaven when it comes to types.

After playing Legends Arceus a lot, ghost/normal is just so fun to play with. I hope they use that pairing more in the future games

My favourite type combo ranked 48 being Ghost/Fairy. Thanks for showing my 2nd favourite pokemon mimikyu alongside it.

Psychic dark is probably most neutral double typing if it comes to pre gen 4 games

Was wondering whether you’d just genuinely forgot that drapion was poison/dark and not bug/dark, but then I saw Flygon rep’ing it’s rightful typing and I knew I shouldn’t have let my faith waiver

As a fan of steel types since I started playing Pokemon in the early 2000's, I declare this list based and steel-pilled.

I was wondering when water fighting was gonna show up since i love using poliwrath,didnt expect it to be an A Tier since i thought it got carried by its offense,so i expect it an B or low B tier,truly interesting

Steel type is so over powered that it does not only resist most mono types but resist most type combinations too.

Huge congrats on 500k Wolfey! Just like Steel/Fairy, you are S Tier.

Quick fun fact : If there was a pokemon that every type in the game, it would have a 2x weakness to rock

My favourite type is normal normal type It has a 2x immunity to ghost, that's cracked

the editing on the pokemon flying in was such a good touch to this lmfao

"Number 13: Fire/Dark... Incineroar." Actually killed me

As funny as the quick takes on Amoonguss and Incineroar were, I'd really have liked to hear you go over why exactly those combos worked so well.

I really feel like most stuff is just 'how does this do against fairy types?" this really helped though, amazing video!

Honestly needed this for Pokémon showdown team building lmao. Plus, i was always curious about what type combo was the best anyway… again the phone reads my mind.

To think that Tyranitar achieves excellence constantly with an F tier typing

I like that bug gets a chance to shine when paired with the right type, making it somewhat viable to have a bug type

26:25 I like how Ferrothorn is is slowly creeping up here like he is not capable of mass destruction.

Water Dark. I think the typing fits so well together. Like the deep blue dark sea. Favorite type period is Steel type, that's because I love technology.

I wish he included single types into this tier list just to see how single types compared to combinations

I would’ve liked if you threw in all the monotypes into this list too, just to see how they stack up against dual-typings, I’d have been curious to see how mono Electrics and Steels stack up against dual-typings that include Electric and Steel, for example.

28:08 Greninja Starting to Question about that

my favorite pairing is ghost fairy, not only because ghost and fairy are my favorite types in the game, but also solely because of mimikyu. glad its pretty high in the ranks

Yep. I'd always maintained that Water/Flying is an undervalued combo that gets unfairly dismissed just because of that double Electric weakness. This might be the first time I've seen someone actually give a fair analysis on it.

Once they make a steel fairy type with Flame Absorb. You can just make it use magnet rise on itself or hold the Air balloon, you could also telekinesis it in double battles, so that it has 0 weaknesses. The day this comes, it will be over. Until it is banned, or it just has horrendous stats

My favorite typing is definitely Water/Ghost combo. I think it will place modestly (A or B tiers) but it just has a lot that can be done with it i feel not only battling wise but also for creature designs and lore. :)

Downvoted for not showing where the single types would fit in the full tier list. (kidding, but now I wonder) Very helpful video! I'm looking to get into competitive Pokemon. Subscribed.

Man, Steel is just so insanely busted when combined with other types. When it's by itself it's fine because of it's common weaknesses, but paid it with a type which covers said weaknesses just breaks everything.

“Fire fighting, everyone’s favourite typing.” Made me laugh more than it should have.

Been using this video as my guide of what types to fuse in Pokémon fusion

Fun fact: Ghost/Fighting hits EVERY TYPE COMBINATION in the game for at least neutral damage, except for normal/ghost

Let’s go! Huge congrats on 500k! Also how much you want to bet nearly every steel type combo is in the top 50%.

I like Bug/Electric. Galvantula is one of my favorite mons because it has a cool design and I like the idea of Electroweb as a flavorful signature move. It makes so much sense for a predatory spider, but it changes the concept because it isn't just Poison like in real life.

I hope a fire electric pokemon comes out thats not a oven.

Really good list! This video makes psychic seem a bit crap with how often it appeared at the bottom

I can't believe there are 153 type combinations, that "Kumber" of dual types is insane

I knew Fairy/Steel would be high on the tier list, though I hadn't expected top rank. Magearna and Zacian are awesome

Normal / Ghost and Ghost / Dark are my fave type combinations. I feel like those will be some of the best … Poison / Steel is also one that I kinda like, but the Varoom kinda sucks, so it’s only really good in concept for me.

I would love to see an add on video about how single types fit into this list for comparison

i would’ve loved to see where individual types ranked on this list, just to see what type combos are literally worse than just being mono ice.

SO happy to see Water-Ground high up. Its always been a favorite of mine, with great pokemon like Swampert, Seismitoad, and the best pokemon, Quagsire.

The fact that half of the top 10 includes ground, the type that 's been my favorite since Gen 1, is very gratifying.

Based off of these rankings, what would your opinion be on the ideal 6 mon team for single battle teams assuming that all type combinations are possible? I tried a list of the top 6 combinations excluding any duplicate types, and it was a little disappointing from an overall syngergy on defense.

The only fire electric pokemon is heat rotom, which has levitate and is therefore not 4x weak to ground in most cases.

Poison/Dark, Normal/Ghost and Fairy/Steel are my favorites. Evil creatures using poison as weapons fit so well, and Normal/Ghost and Fairy/Steel have a nice contrast

3:08 definetely my favorite combination must be ghost normal, the concept can work on amazing pokemon, I mean, hisuian Zoroark is just so cool

This list just proves how good of a defensive type steel is because it is literally in almost every single top 10 type combo 😭

I love Electric/Fire because both are my favorite types. Hopefully we get more than just Rotom Oven someday.

The "Just like Goliath 4x weakness to rock" line got me! Well done!

New Pokémon Status for Gen 9: The closer to the bottom/right the worse S: Tinkatink line A: Iron Treads, Gholdengo, Tatsugiri, Chi-Yu, Annihilape, Pawmi line, Iron Hands, Wattrel line, Quaquavel, Tauros(PA), Armarouge, Veluza, Iron Valiant B: Skelidirge, Ceruledge, Flamigo, Flutter Mane, Tauros(PB), Kingambit, Varoom line, Cyclizar, Scorvillain, Great Tusk, Scream Tail C: Bramblin line, Bombirdier, Iron Jugulis, Miraidon, Wooper(P) line, Ting-Lu, Sandy Shocks, Farigiraf, Meowscarada, Brute Bonnet, Wo-Chien, Frigibax line, Smoliv line, Roaring Moon, Squawkabilly, Iron Moth, Koraidon D: Iron Bundle, Rabsca, Chien-Pao, Lokix, Iron Thorns, Glimmet line, Toedscool line, Slither Wing, Shroodle line

The way they could balance the typing would be that they add move that ADD weakness like Freeze Dry that make Water and Ground have a second 4x weakness.