Favorite Pokemon Type

[Ultima Shadow]

What the hell is stealth rock

A move that places "floating rocks" around the enemy team, making each pokemon that switches in (on the opposing team) take damage depending on their resistance/weakness to the rock type. 2x weakness to rock means 25% of max hp as damage on each switch-in. 4x weakness, which many bug types have, mean 50% max-hp as damage upon switching in. And Rock is actually a pretty good offensive type since Flying is so common. The "normal" damage is probably 12,5% if I remember correctly.

In short, it makes every switch you do painful.



...you can, however, remove Stealth Rocks by using Rapid Spin.

[Formalhaut]

I never thought anyone considered Bugs to be cool. What are they even effective against and I only recall one bug move in gen 1, don't think I ran into any in 3.

Bug types are of incredibly limited use. Their main function, to inflict a melange of status ailments, can be done just as easily by Grass and Poison types, and Toxic Spikes (one of those popular competitive moves) can be achieved by other types and pokemon. In terms of typology, bug types are very shaky generally. They are weak to fire, flying and rock, and as many bug types are paired with flying, also have secondary weaknesses to Electric and Ice as well as a X4 rock weakness. In terms of stat totals, they also generally have rather low totals even among the fully evolved bug evolutions.

They do have some worth though. They are strong against Grass, Psychic and Dark with the latter two being very popular builds, making bug moves a great countermeasure. However even here, Psychic are weak to Ghost and Dark which are much better options generally than a shaky bug pokemon. The only other saving grace is that they can be a 'jack of all trades' pokemon, and can learn quite a diverse type move pool: Psychic moves, Grass moves, Poison moves, etc.

But yeah, I find bug types to be mostly useless.

[qwertysaur]

Bug is seen as a weak type because it is often a dual type with another one of it's weaknesses. Bug/Flying is 4x weak to Rock, Bug/Steel and Bug/Grass is 4x weak to Fire and Flying, Bug/Fighting is 4x weak to Flying, and Bug/Fire is 4x weak to Rock. But people forget that bug can be pretty solid defensively. A Bug/Poison like Scolipede will wall Fighting Type moves, (4x Resistance) and Bug/Steel, while being 4x weak to fire, has that as it's only weakness, and resists Bug, Dark, Dragon, Ghost, Grass, Ice, Normal, Psychic, Steel and is immune to poison. That means a pokémon like Forretress will last a long time on a Rain team, because it can take a hit from almost anything and survive.

Bug types also have fantastic offensive moves. Megahorn, Steamroller, Bug Buzz, Silver Wind, Signal Beam and U-Turn. These moves will kill Psychic and Dark types, which most are weak to Bug and lack a secondary type that resists it. as well as grass, though Grass/Poison dis more common and does take neutral damage from bug.

In short, bug is not useless. There is no type that is useless, some just have different uses than others.

[Chris]

Always loved the Poison type. An all-Poison/dual team is fun to use. :P