The Worst Types in Every Pokemon Region (Kanto - Sinnoh)

Not every Type can be the very best, today we take a look at the worst ones for Kanto, Johto, Hoenn and Sinnoh.

[liamheneghan]

I'm so glad that from Gen 5 onwards the Bug type was shown some love and added some badass Mons to the roster. I really think Bug is underrated

[TheMNHShow]

Kinda strange how Satoshi based the game on bug catching but made bugs the worst

[castform]

The worst type in Gen 1 are a threeway tie between Dark, Steel and Fairy. They're basically non existant. Dark and Steel got better in Gen 2 but Fairy still took a few gens before it was actually good.

[shadowflamegaming]

This definitely seems interesting, I might try to monotype with the best and the worst types now.

[moblinmajorgeneral]

Dishonorable mentions:
Gen I: Rock. The reasons are numerous, from Rock Throw having 30 less accuracy in Gen I, only having 1 Rock Slide TM, being 4x weak to Grass and Water until Cinnabar Island, and most having awful Special, anyway. And it doesn't get better over time.
Gen II: Bug. I feel like this one is self-explanatory, although Heracross in HGSS does give it the edge over grass.
Hoenn: Poison. Don't let Crobat fool you, Poison in Hoenn is torturous. Wattson has a Magneton, Flannery has a Camerupt in Emerald, and Tate & Liza you flatout lose to. And there's no Grass specialist to make it better.
Sinnoh: Fire. Highly limited pool (especially in DP) and 3 specialists with a steep advantage against you, as well as the scariest Pokemon in the game.

[JPRPokeTrainer]

Hope everyone is having a good day. Look forward to Part 2 soon!
Edit: Bug beats Poison in Gen 1, meaning that Bugs actually do pretty well against Erika, Koga, and even Agatha to an extent! However, taking FR/LG and Let's Go into consideration, they still maintain their status as the worst type in Kanto.

[axelrod-yugiohandmore]

In Gen 1, Bug was actually super effective against Poison. So everything in Erika's Gym in the first games was weak to Bug

[heatherevans]

The first time I ever played pokemon, I was on SoulSilver. And, knowing pretty much nothing about the pokemon I was picking from, I picked Chikorita. And I never regretted it, no matter how hard I inadvertently made it on myself. Chicky, as I named the poor thing, is one of my favorite starters that I've ever raised.

[gabrieled.r]

Kanto: Bug type
Johto: Chikorita
Hoenn: Bug type
Sinnoh: Poison type

[xavierashford]

Early bug types weren’t even that good to begin with since in the first four gens, they lost to the first gym.

[cecerafferty]

See this makes me proud of sweeping Brawly's gym back in the day with a Dustox, panicking the whole time because the rest of my team just did not survive and the Dustox blew my mind

[igorlopes]

I did a grass type run in platinum once, and Cyrus gave me PTSD, his entire team is a grass killer.

[Ben-wuor]

brb gonna do monotype runs in all four games with all of these types

[thenightranger]

"Poison types in Sinnoh have a hard time against Fire."
Good thing Flint barely uses fire types!

[thegreatandpowerfulbill]

I watched a soul silver nuzlocke, they went with the id method of getting the starter and they got chikorita, they actively tried to kill it and it was able to live through out the entire journey, long live mr. stake

[fenistereinc.]

Leaf stones can be given by a female trainer in the route down goldenrod city. So you are wrong. I remember myself using a Victreebel during the johto part of the game.

[guardianboreal]

"Unless you're a compulsive grinder and really want that Vibrava..."
Me: How did you know? Actually, i go all the way to Flygon before Winona unless i'm feelin' lucky against Norman.

[samuelline]

This jsut made me happy that SwSh finally gave us a game with early Ice and Dragon types.

[ghostpepper]

In Gen 1, Bug would've been 4x good against the grass/poison types


But the bug type was weak anyways

[abarette_]

hey, remember when they added Challenge Mode in BW2?
Well, we already had that in GS.


JUST
PICK
CHIKORITA.