Quote Originally Posted by Tavrobel
You COULD have Bug/Grass/Poison, but I don't know which one would beat the other. I'm actually pretty sure Grass would get wrecked in this situation without Dual-typing. Plus, in the TCG, you have all three of them as usually being classified in GREEN. Yeah, like we need MORE Grass Pokemon. Plus, Poison would rule the both of them.
Actually I'll chart it real quick with the current system, cause now I am curious.


|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------BUG------------------------------------------|
|-------------------Offense-----------------||------------------Defense------------------|
|--Normal-|---1/2x---|----2x----|--Immune-||--Normal--|---1/2x---|----2x----|--Immune-|
|--Normal-|--Fire-----|--Grass---|----X-----||--Normal--|--Grass---|--Fire-----|----X-----|
|--Water--|--Fighting-|--Psychic-|----X-----||--Water--|--Fighting-|--Flying---|----X-----|
|--Electric-|--Poison--|--Dark----|----X-----||--Electric-|--Ground--|--Rock----|----X-----|
|--Ice-----|--Flying---|----X-----|----X----||--Ice-----|----X-----|----X-----|----X-----|
|--Ground-|--Ghost---|----X-----|----X-----||--Poison--|----X-----|----X-----|----X-----|
|--Bug----|--Steel---|----X-----|----X-----||--Psychic-|----X-----|----X-----|----X-----|
|--Rock---|----X-----|----X-----|----X-----||--Bug----|----X-----|----X-----|----X-----|
|--Dragon-|----X-----|----X-----|----X-----||--Dragon-|----X-----|----X-----|----X-----|
|----X----|----X-----|----X-----|----X-----||--Dark----|----X-----|----X-----|----X-----|
|----X----|----X-----|----X-----|----X-----||--Steel---|----X-----|----X-----|----X-----|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|


Grass is the only thing it is both supereffective against offensively and defensively. Though the typing can still trash dark and psychic fairly well thanks to offensive stab and defensive neutrality.

So I guess Bug/Grass/Rock could work. Rock beats bug, grass beats rock, and bug beats grass. And I think that may be the only viable one for them.... ouch.

Chart is for current generation. In R/B/Y bug and poison were strong vs. each other. But I don't think that changes the possible triangles by much.


Also even if you don't play it, downloading NB is nice for referance. It has charts of supereffectiveness/etc for all the generations currently available.


out of curiousity have you heard of some of the new moves?

Such as trouble seed. It " Changes Foe's Ability to Insomnia temporarily".

You have the elemental fangs. Which are all based off physical attack.
Fire Fang- "May Cause Burn & Flinch"
Ice Fang- "May Cause Freezing & Flinch"
Thunder Fang- "May Cause Paralysis & Flinch"

All with 65 base power and 95% accuracy.

Which brings up the new split they are doing. where the attack decides whether or not it is phsyical or special rather then the type.