Summary

• The best Pokemon type combination is subjective and can vary depending on personal playstyle and preferences.
• One of the most common pairings on our list is Pokemon who are able to negate a type to which they're weak, simply by also having that typing.
• Plenty of our picks will offer some good defensive strategy in your next Pokemon battle!

Pokemon types are arguably one of the most interest💦ing aspects of the games. The type you take into a match-up can dictate your chances of winning, making you a dominant powerhouse or leaving you susceptible to easy a♊ttacks. Many Pokemon have two types, which can often shake things up in big ways.

Even after the introduction of dozens of dualꦜ types, there's still an argument to be made about which is the best Pokemon type combo. Many secondary typings can give a Pokemon surprising resistances and access to great moves, but there are a 🅺few that stand above the rest.

Updated on January 22, 2025, by Kyle Chamaillard: There are so many excellent type combinations that we've decided to update this list to include even more of them to help you build the best party in the region.

14 Water/Fairy 🌼Type ♉

Water and Fairy-type Pokemon are far and few between, but they’re worth seeking for their plethora of excellent resistances and a splash of eloquence. Aside from being immune to damage from Dragon-type moves, Pokemon with this type combination takes less damage🎶 from Fighting, Bug, Fire, Wa✤ter, Ice, and Dark-type attacks.

Despite their advant🐼age in battle against a decent number of Pokemon, Wa🍬ter and Fairy-types need to be careful around Poison, Grass, and Electric-type moves. Besides having decent stats across the board, it's worth having at least one of these Pokemon in your party to protect your team from a variety of opponents.

13 ♒ Electric/Flying

Combining the Flying and Electric types might sound as compatible as peanut butter an🌱d tuna, but the two opposites work together nicely to cancel out each other's weaknesses. Speci𒊎fically, Electric-type Pokemon with wings can easily avoid all damage from Ground-type attacks that would normally knock them out with a single hit.

On the other end, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Flying-type Pokemon tဣhat typically suffer from Electric-type attacks now take much less damage from them. While Electric and Flying-types also have resistances to Fighting, Flying, Bug, Steel, and Grass-type 🍃moves, you'll need to stay alert to avoid being taken down by deadly Rock or Ice-type attacks.

12 🌺 Water/Ground 🧸

Water and Ground-type Pokemon are tanks against most opponents that can simultane🦩ously deal and take large amounts of damage with ease. It's a powerful combination, and fortunately there are plenty of creatures with this match-up, making it easier to find the right one for your party.

Aside from being completely immune to Electric-type attacks, Water and Ground-type Pokemon also take less dam💜age from Poison, Rock, Steel, and Fire-type moves. All of these resistances come at a dangerous price though, as Grass-type attacks deal quadruple damage and can take down your powerful Pokemon with a single hit.

11 Grass/Water Typ🎃e

The Ludicolo evolution line was quite a prominent source of fear back in its debut generation, as well as Gen Four, and this is in part due to its phenomenal typing. These two types already have a ton of defensive potential, and this is amplified even furth🍎er when combined.

This typing boasts a quadruple resistance to Water-types in addition to Steel and Ground-type resistances, which are heavily used in competitive play; it꧙ is only weak to Flying, Poison, and Bug-types. Ground Pokemon especially have a hard time against this typing, but it's unfortunately been left to this evolution line alone꧑.

10 🅠 Dark/Psychic Type

This spooky combination is a defensive goldmine and remains among the best type combos in Pokemon. It only possesses two weaknesses, one of which is the rarely used Bug-type (although it is double-weak to it). Offensively, both Psychic and Dark have grea🐼t moves available to them and are good against commonly-used types like Fighting and Ghost.

Psychic and Dark are already good types separately, but pairing them together removes several of their respective weaknesses. It removes the terrifying Dark-type weakness that Psychic has,൩ and eliminates the all-too-common Fighting-type from Dark's fears. The downside to this type is that it is only available on the Inkay/Malamar family, and on Hoopa Unbound.

9 🎃 Ghost/Fighting Type

Having access to moves that grant STAB (same-type attack bonus) is an important part of ba🎐ttling. Attaching a move with the same type as the Pokemon will grant this bonus, so you want to do it as much as possible. A Ghost/Fighting-type combo is the only time a P🍷okemon will have STAB against nearly every other type.

What makes this type even more versatile are 𒁃its useful immunities. Ghost is immune to both Fighting and Normal-type moves. Furthermore, those STAB moves are super-effective against a whopping seven other types, making it one of the best offensive Pokemon type combos.

8 ♊ Ice/Dragon T😼ype

This dual type is rarely seen, but luckily received an additional member via the Baxcalibur evolutionary line. Many Dragon-types avoid Ice-type attacks at all costs, but Baxcalibur received it as a secondary typing, placing it firmly among the best Dragon-type Pokemon in Scarlet a♌nd Violet.

All-time great pseudo-legendary dragons usually receive types that give them a quadruple weakness, but this dual-type only suffers from five double-damage weaknesses. While it only resists Electric, Grass, and Water at🧜tacks, Ice/Dragon Pokemon like Kyurem rarely have to worry about being decimated with a single move. If only Garchomp could say the same.

7 Steel/Flying Typ🔯e

Sometimes it can feel like the Steel-type is truly broken, with how many types it seems to resist. It resists an unprecedented ten, which is about half of all the types. Among these are the powerful and common Fairy, Dragon, and Rock-types, the latter of which boasts an 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:array of powerful moves.

Once it's pair🦄ed with Flying, Steel gets even better. That Skarmory of yours will now be immune to one of Steel's weaknesses (Ground), and ditches weakness to another (Fighting). Factor in Steel's immunity to Poison moves, and you've got a defensive wall on your hands.

6 ✃ 𒈔 Steel/Fire Type

While its defensive capabilities are sometimes forgotten, the Fire-type excels when paired properly, as Skeledirge, a Fi♓re/Ghost Pokemon, can attest. There is a painful reality check waiting for anyone up against a Steel/Fire Pokemon, like Heatran. The two types take first and second place for their total number of resistances, so putting them t💫ogether is a deadly proposition for your opponent.

This combo ꧋resists nine types with a whopping five double-resistances and complete immunity to Poison. The double weakness against Ground-type moves can be concerning, but the unstoppable defenses of bo🐓th these types more than compensate for it.

5 ꦆ Steel/Fairy Type

This typing is absolutely incredible 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:when it comes to defensive potential, as it resists nine types, with Bug having an unfortunate time against it꧙s quadruple resistance. This t🌱urned defensive Pokemon like Klefki into a nightmare to deal with, but it also makes short work of opponents when used on offensive Pokemon.

Pokemon Sword's Zacian has the Steel/Fairy typing, and its unreal offensive capabilities with 170 base Attack pairs so♍ well with its typing that it was a no-brainer to instantly ban it into the Uber tier of competitive play.

Mawile's ty💝ping was changed from Gen 6 onward, so if you're playing in an older generation, strike that one off your list.