What is the best Pokemon Type?
I wanted to learn the Go programming language, and so I made a tool to help me compute the answer numerically. tl;dr ELECTRIC and ICE are OP.
For this question, a good place to start is to look at how common each type is
As such, one might think e.g. Grass is good type (because most often than not you’ll face a Water Pokemon).
Problem is, Pokemon are usually a combination of two types, and as such, Grass is not always the answer (a.k.a. Solarbeam doesn’t work too well against Gyarados, Wingull or Ludicolo).
Thus, a better question is, how many Pokemon are weak against a given type?
But sadly, we can’t conclude ICE and ROCK are the best types just yet; because in life not everything is offense. Its no good to be powerful against 234 Pokemon if you are weak against even more. You need to hold punches too!
Therefore, what we really want to see is how many Pokemon you are good against vs how many Pokemon will be good against you. And this is captured by this last graph:
In this last graph, the x-axis shows how many Pokemon are weak against you (the more the better). The y-axis is how many Pokemon are NOT strong against you, such that the higher the better.
Therefore, ‘up and to the right’; ELECTRIC and ICE are the best types.
Other insights include that BUG is weak (Caterpie; who knew!), and that GRASS is strictly weaker than FIRE; Bulbasaur no more.
Pokenalysis Tool
This was done using data from PokeAPI and the Pokenalysis tool.
The tool allows to build similar reports for any combination of generations.
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