For everyone asking, "Why not this person?" Here is a list of every unique typing currently in the games, and if you keep scrolling it will even show pairings that used to be unique that are no longer such Dark/Ghost, etc... bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Pokémon_with_unique_type_combinations

> favorite type ground type >Channel named Emperor Cubone “Empoleon is my favorite Pokémon of all time”

“We have to take the Pokémon itself into consideration.” 30 sec later “It has levitate, but that isn’t inherent to the typing.”

Adding a normal type usually hinders a pokemon. But imagine a normal/ghost pokemon

You wondered why Steel lost its resistances to Ghost and Dark in gen 6, but could you imagine Aegislash if it didn't?

You forgot that Toxicroak has access to _Dry Skin_ ability, giving it an extra immunity to water.

Aurorus is the culmination of Kalos: good design, but completely wasted potential

Aegislash: The specific reason steel doesn't resist Dark and Ghost anymore

anybody else notice how this video was made in powerpoint?

"They are too scared to make another rock fire type" Sword and shield: I'm about to end this man's whole career

Magcargo: “I am the only Rock/Fire type” Coalossal: “I’m about to end this man’s whole career”

Ludicolo Toxicroak Bisharp Mimikyu Empoleon Aegislash I’m gonna try this team

So really this list is "best and worst Pokemon with unique typings", not "best and worst unique typings."

The ice type's many weaknesses is a metaphor for global warming.

That's ok Magcargo, you'll ALWAYS have a spot on my team, as the Egg warmer.

Empoleon is HANDS DOWN my all time favorite Pokemon. If I could have him in the newer gens my heart (and teams) would be set for life

We still don’t have a grass/fire type. That would be an awesome typing. I’m thinking maybe a chili pepper or something. That way it’s still a plant but is extremely hot. And glad to see aegislash on here. Ghost is a solid typing in general and then adding the defensive steel type to it is great.

I'm still living in Sinnoh. was expecting Spiritomb.

One of the strongest typing in the game is Dark + Ghost. Only two pokemons have that typing, Sableye and Spiritomb and they had to make sure those pokemons sucked because the typing is ridiculous. 3 immunities, one resistance and one weakness. Just imagine if they created a pseudo legendary that's Dark + Ghost with Levitate as an ability.

You would think gamefreak would realize that if you are going to give a pokemon a 4x weakness (especially multiple 4x weaknesses), they should not make it a slow and tanky pokemon. The best way to handle this would be having it be a glass cannon like Weavile.

"Empoleon is my favorite Pokémon of all time." MandJTV: Wait that's illegal.

Empoleon is your favorite Pokemon? Good to meet a fellow man of culture.

I've got a funny story about Abomasnow. So, I had been out of pokemon for a while, had stopped playing after Emerald/FireRed. I got Diamond, but I both lacked time for it and it was slow enough I lost interest. Fast forward to X/Y and I was playing through it, having a good enough time. First time through the snowy area where Abomasnow hangs out and I find a shiny one. Now, I didn't really have any low-level pokemon in my party at the time, and I also didn't really know all that much about the pokemon's typing (because again, I wasn't trying to catch anything). So, I go, "Alright, who's weakest? Uh... my Talonflame should do." It had Fly on it, this was an evolved Abomasnow, and I was thinking that it was a pure ice type. So I hit Fly. Then, as the animation is running for it to go up I remember Abomasnow's other type: grass. I literally can do nothing but watch with hands over my mouth as I murder this shiny Abomasnow.

Empoleon is my absolute favorite starter pokemon, and Aegislash is my all time favorite! Glad to see that they are on the good list!

"Too scared to make another fire/rock type in case it turns out just as bad" Coalossal: Am I a joke to you?

Game freak needs to buff the Ice, Rock, and Grass types. These have for the longest time been the worst types in the game.

"We need to keep in mind the individual Pokemon" "We need to ignore Levitate" Decent list, but the immediate hypocrisy doesn't sit well with me.

Weavile: I'm ice and dark type Fightning types: Let us introduce ourselves

You also forgot to mention Toxicroak can have a water resist and fire weakness with DRY SKIN

"You have to take the specific pokemon into account" claydol has levitate which makes its typing slightly better for it "but we're just looking at the typing" 🤔

Ludicolo wears a sombrero That is incredibly Mexican

I love the dual typing of Poison/Dark from Drapion

I’ll be honest. Yes, i was one of those kids who only used their starter through the entire game. In my first playthrough in pearl version, my empoleon carried me through the entire game.

Emperor = Empoleon Cubone = Cubone He said they are his all time faourites... Man that's clever! I just got it!

Saw Empoleon in the thumbnail and was like I have to see what this is about for the sake of nostalgia

*banging pots together* MAKE BLASTOISE WATER/STEEL. It LITERALLY has canons on its back! I don't understand why Empoleon is Water/Steel and not the turtle with literal canons on its back.

I’d love to see a Gen 8 version of this. They added a ton of unique typings.

My biggest problem with this list is that it only focuses on how good the type match ups are defensively. There is no mention about how they do offensively.

What about Dialga's Dragon/Steel typing?

Obstagoon and Coalossal: *exists and are way better* Alolan Raticate and Magcargo: *crying*

TL;DR: Ice Bad, Steel Good, Bow down to the Emperor Penguino and his trusty sword.

Why not count the ability on Claydol, but do count it on Aegislash? Besides that, great video man 👌🏻 Keep up the good work

I would definitely expect an Ice Type combination would be the worst because of them having a ton of weaknesses and pretty much no resistances

Dialga’s dragon/steel and Spiritomb Dark/Ghost (which literally had no weakness until Fairy came out & 3 immunities)

I feel fairy steel is currently the best typing as it has 2 immunities, only two X2 weaknesses, and many resistances including a X4 resistance to bug.

Ice + fighting is not a bad typing. Nothing switches into it offensively. Crab is just a bad Pokemon.

I like how when you talk about the pokemon you show multiple different pictures of them, instead of a bunch of dumb memes about everything you say like other poketubers do. Long live the emperor!

"We have to take the Pokemon itself into consideration" *Literally ignores Claydol's Levitate.*

I think Mega-Altaria should be given an honorable mention because it's only weaknesses are steel, poison, ice, and fairy. It resists or is immune to 8 other types and it has the moves to deal with its weaknesses with earthquake and steel wing. Dragon/Fairy type has to be my favorite unique typing that's been in the franchise.

Yo... wait.. just IMAGINE if mega abamasnow got Slush Rush on mega.. Sets it’s own hail and then doubles its speed.. it would be so much better

I love the 6v6 lists you do! Always fine myself looking back on it

"steel don't have to worry about fighting...." I'm sorry WHAT

Despite alolan Raticate/Rattata’s bad typing, I still fell in love with the new design. Rattata and Raticate have surprisingly been one of my favorites for a while now, I even went outta my way to catch a shiny Rattata. Not great in battle, but the design in my opinion is rad.

R.I.P. Spiritomb and Sableye. Your no weakness was gone too soon. There's some reasoning for Ghost to resist Fairy, but in any case it sucks it's gone cuz that was the whole gimmick with 'tomb

I think that Heatran's Fire/Steel Typing is really good. He's immune to poison (and Fire, if you count his Flash Fire Ability), has a four times resistance to Ice, Steel, Fairy, Grass, and Bug, and a regular resistance to Normal, Flying, and Dragon, and a resistance to Dark, and Ghost pre Gen 6.

"The individual pokemon HAS to be taken into account" *Doesn't count Claydol immunity to ground*

Emperor Cubone : They don’t want to make another fire / rock type GameFreak : aight bet **makes coalossal**

All of the Pokemon you say are "too slow" for use in battle are actually great Trick Room pokemon. Mega Abomasnow with a Quiet Nature 252 SpA 252 HP 4 Atk and 0 Spe Ivs wrecks. And its ability bringing in hail means 100% accuracy Blizzard.

Can you imagine Aegislash without the steel nerf?

Crabrawler Should Have Stayed A Single Pokémon

What about Marshadow's typing? It's obviously one of the strongest ones.

*Talks about Ludicolo but doesn't play Mirror B theme* Also I wish Cradily had made the cut for one of the best

"... keep Steel and Fighting move away" AuraGuardian should say hello here.

Sick vid G, this one is one of your best.

“Marcargo is the only fire and rock type” Carkol and hisuian arcaine: and I took that personally

I love Aurorus but it would definitely benefit from an ability like solid rock, most ice types will.

Slightly off-topic, but it bums me out that Claydol doesn't have a crazy high special attack. One of my favourite designs and it having built-in floating laser jars is awesome... but it can't DO anything interesting with them.

“Aurorus is a Brontosaurus with ice powers” Amargasaurus: “am I a joke to you?”

Great list! Interesting that two ghost types are in the top best combo list.

"bug isn't that big of a threat" *sad golisopod noises* Edit: thanks for all the likes guys!😀

I love Aurorus! It’s been my favorite Ice type for so many years. It’s typing is terrible but it learns some pretty good moves and it helped me a lot in Pokemon Y.

A very impressive Powerpoint presentation.👌

What I’d like to know is: Top ___ pokémon that get worse when they evolve. If there are any.

You should have looked at the competitive formats too. Claydol was an important part of the meta in generation 3 being immune to spike and being able to get rid of them. Abomasnow has had many vgc appearances and has gotten better with a mega, blizzard spam and stab priority ice shard. The whole video doesn’t really give the impression that you did much research, just more based on your own personal experience playing casually.

Great list man very solid

People are dumb when they say torterra can beat empoleon easily because all water types starters can learn ice beam and torterra is 4x weak to ice and is slower

Dude. Dude. THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING how Empoleon isn’t worse just because the other starts happen to have their weaknesses. That doesn’t make them better just because one can beat the other.

Aurorus grew on me after I used it for the first time in the Max Lair and I heard it’s cry. After that I kept on seeing wild Amaura and Aurorus and seeing their rainbow sails and that’s what cemented it as one of my favorite Pokémon

I just discovered this channel through this video being in my Recommended, and I squealed when you said Empoleon is your favorite of all time because I’ve had the same sentiment ever since I played Diamond and Pearl! Also because I feel that it’s not that common of a favorite!

If Aurorus was fast, it would be pretty ok.

I actually think ice/fighting has great potential to be an awesome combo. The Pokemon needs mach punch and ice shard though. Give it sucker punch as well as a choice band and you have an amazing revenge killer.

This reminded me of your video theorizing that the fossils had lost a secondary type. It would be very cool to see a Primal Aurorus that is an Ice-Dragon type

I was sad that Chandelure wasn't on the list, since it's one of my favorite Pokémon, but then I remembered that Blacephalon is a thing now. I'm honestly glad, Fire/Ghost is a really cool typing just aesthetically and I'm glad Chandelure has a friend, I also really love Blacephalon. Other than that, I'm surprised Rotom wasn't brought up. I guess it's stats are kinda meh but I think it has a good movepool and it actually benefits from it's typing.

I find myself wishing Vikavolt made it on this list, since despite the Dex entry claiming it could fly acrobatically between dense trees at high speeds, it's SLOWER THAN GRUBBIN, but unfortunately Bug/Electric isn't unique enough, thanks to Galvantula.

God, Ludicolo is a defensive monster in Colosseum...

Ludicolo spamming double team as a strat made me H A T E it. I've used it frequently, but fighting it just blostered my appreciation for birds and having Aerial Ace on all of them. Swellow quickly took over Pidgeot as my favorite bird back in generation 3. I'd always name it Bravery or Courage, so if you ever find one in online trades, it's mine and you bet it's fully EV trained.

Duuuuude this was a GREAT video, the detail, the explanations, reasoning, etc. were great, good video :)

Fun fact: Come Gen VI, Ninetales got completely replaced by Mega Charizard Y as the sun setter for the team. Come Gen VII Abomasnow would be replaced by Alolan Ninetales as the best Hail setter for the team, mainly due to speed, better unique typing and Aurora Veil

#1 best: ground ground

You’re such a memeable dork. I love you

I think that Aurorus should have an absurd amount of Health points and very very good defense and sp defense to compensate the type weaknesses, is such a beautiful and rare Pokémon to be left like that, is based on a 🦕 ffs

Bastiodon should get King's Shield as well as the new Shield Legendary

Macargo: they might be too scared to make another Fire/Rock type. Game freak: Hold my beer, may I present Coalossal! (yes, I am aware this video was made before sword and Sheild and is in no way a critism to this video)

Theoretically the way to use Magcargo is to do sunny day, switch to Magcargo, use rock polish, then solar beam the lured water/ground Pokemon. The sunny day, speeds up solar beam, boosts fire moves(which Magcargo shrugs off easily thanks to quad resist and then utilises for its own fire stab), and weakens water moves(which means Magcargo can resist a water priority move) So if you use a grass type and set up sunny day, the opponent might try and throw in a fire type to make use of the sunny day boost for its own STAB, which will potentially leave the fire type screwed against Magcargo which can easily switch on a fire attack But yeah considering the tons of Pokemon carrying water/ground attacks and the fast ground types with neutrality to grass(Garchomp specifically) plus the multiple turns of setup that you might be giving an opponent it’s purely a gimmick

Im hyped for the next unique type in gen 8. Fire+Grass: Jamaican Mon. also shoutout to that shaniqua clip with the Crabrawler.

All they need to do is buff ice type i wish i could get this out there, and tbh bug really needs a buff too

A wild emperor cubone has appeared! Clicking the video asap is super effective👍

I love Empoleon so much. It's my favourite starter of all time. My baby was really useful during my most recent diamond run. It took out Cynthia's garchomp and so many other powerful pokemon in one hit. It had a special attack boosting nature which made it hit really hard, got pokérus in snowpoint and had a moveset of Ice beam, Flash cannon, Surf and I think hydro pump? It did a lot of the heavy lifting for my team

Only reason why I watched this video was because my favorite starter from all the Gens was in the thumbnail. Empoleon, Gen 4 was nostalgic to me as it was the first game that I played through the game on my own as while I did have fire red and Emerald. In fire read I beated the fifth gym and didn't know where to go or what to do next. For Emerald I was stuck where you had to battle Winona cause I was trying to progress through the bridge where Kecleon was blocking the bridge. Gen 4 I chose Piplup cause it was my favorite basic type which is water. What made Gen 4 memorable to me was I didn't know about saving before having a battle with the gym leader and I was having a tough time with Gardenia. By the time I beated her. My piplup was a Empoleon. Also Gen 4 was the time I met my best friends which I have been friends with 10+ years and counting. One time we ended up battling each other and I was done for. Only having Empoleon left in my team while he had his full health Torterra and some other Pokes, it was a Double Battle. Lived from getting hit by a attack which I believe was wood hammer though I can't quite remember. Though Empoleon was at yellow/red as of health. So then my Empoleon OHKO'd his Torterra with a Hydro Cannon. That was the day we learned about Pokémon abilities and they actually worked cause it couldn't be possible for Torterra to die from it without the help of Torrent. Which in turn enlightened us to the competitive scene of the game

Great, now I have to go make a rain team with Ludicolo and Toxicroak.