Top 6 Best and Worst Unique Type Pairings in Pokémon

There are so many type combinations in Pokémon, however they become more special the less Pokémon actually use them, and there are still numerous typings that have been seen once and yet to be used again. So, of these standalone type pairings which ones would be considered great, and which ones would be better off as a monotype? (Thank you Terastallizing!!)

[WereDictionary]

"Two types together can be bad even if they are rare"
I swear I can hear Parasect and Leavanny scream in pain somewhere...

[Detective_L]

I’m still waiting for rock/ghost so I can have immunity to fighting

[zaeemnasarullah]

I love your original unique typings video, so it was really nice that you decided to revisit that topic.

[frankunodostres]

ghost normal is such a cool combo. I was hoping to see that for years.
hopefully they will make more pkmn with that type combination in the future

[ShayTheValiant]

It really is amazing that Poison/Flying has been unique to only the Zubat line after all these years, and is the last unique typing from gen 1 (if you don't count Electric/Psychic from Alolan Raichu, Ice/Steel from Alolan Sandshrew and Sandslash, and Ice/Fairy from Alolan Ninetales).

[MrBrewskiDrewski]

I used both types of Zoroark in a battle against a friend of mine who likes fighting types. It was quite amusing when he finally figured out that my Hisuian was in the front and Unova was at the back.

By the way, he never played Legends, so he had no idea Hisuian Zoroark existed.

[huntermengel]

Ice/Fighting just needs a better mon to represent itself. Like T-Tar makes its admittedly rough type combo work through stats and ability. Something speedy with the ice/fighting type could be scary to face, or at least fun to use. It feels like Crabominable was just set up for failure with its stats

[macwelch]

My absolute favorite Pokemon type combinations are Steel/Dragon and Dark/Poison.

[DilanQuill]

The fact that poison/flying is still unique to the zubat line blew my mind.

[Menion]

I was surprised ice and rock wasn’t number one but then I remembered Hisuian Avalugg

[ChrisTheTree-tvln]

Ribombee was actually good for a small time, as it could be a quick webs setter, and could set up with quiver dance. And while it has dropped in usage, it is still good for hyper offense teams. Plus Abomasnow is a good snow setter, just bad at being defensive with out the mega.

[larkinteractive]

10:48 When I first saw Empoleon over 15 years ago, I initially thought it'd be a water/ice type, I'm so thankful it isn't. Water and steel have such great synergy with one another it's insane!

[franco-]

I may be dumb af, but I just noticed Emperor Cubone probably does all of his videos in PowerPoint, Jesus

[outbackranger]

Something that I think makes Farigiraf quite good despite not having a unique type combo is that it can kick a Gengar’s butt.

[francissanchez]

yes fire and water are a great combination Genshin Impact's Vaporize reaction is proof of that Pyro and Hydro aren't just weak to one another they complete each other

[Nixie-Nix]

I still remember my first playthrough of X version; I transferred up a Tyranitar to use because I like it, and I got my butt handed to me by Korrina. Good times.

[ninjakirby]

I actually think a Ice fighting type could be really good, the problem is Crabominable’s stat spread is god awful, Ice is just a terrible type to have if you are slow and fighting type isn’t the best defensively either.

If you wanted an ice fighting type to be good it has to be some like Weavile Sneasler hybrid type thing.

Ice and fighting are actually a pretty good duo stab combo, because combined they hit half the typings in the game for super effective and the other half for neutral.
Which is actually quite impressive if you compare it to the famous boltbeam combo which is known for hitting every type in the game for at least neutral, in comparison ice fighting dual stab is better than bolt beam as electric ice only hits about a third of all types for super effective due to sharing being super effective against water and flying, while ice and fighting share no types that they hit for super effective.

[Mangomilk]

these videos are criminally underrated

[youtube-kit]

It's funny that some infamous/iconic horrible dual typings actually are quite rare, or quite a few iconic type combos became non-existent after gen 4-5.
Grass/Bug with 2x quad to fire and flying? Only Parasect, Leavanny's line and Wormadam.
Bug/Flying? A *lot* in the first 4 gens, but then completely vanished from the series aside from Vivillon
Rock/Steel? Actually only Probopass, Aggron and Bastiodon, so 3 evo families aside from Stakataka. Was a disastrous gen 3/4 experiment they immediately stopped (and even rectified with the filter mega-aggron)
Rock/Ground? Only a thing in gens 1 and 2 aside from obviously Rhyperior, with only 4 families in total.
There are actually as many ghost/fire, steel/psychic and psychic flying pokémon as rock/ground, and actually more grass/ghost pokémon.

Not "bad" type combos, but combos you think of when you think of pokémon - grass/poison and bug/poison actually have been absent since gen 5, which has been over a decade. But I'll guess that if you paired grass or bug with a type, aside from maybe flying for bug, poison would be the type. Bug/Poison especially is funny because aside from gen 1, only one family max per gen was even introduced, and often just one or two pokémon.

It's crazy how early gen abundance really shapes your understanding of "common" type combos.

[EidinAegis]

10:17 Fun Fact-- Snom and Frosmoth are the only two Pokemon outside of Shedninja to be OHKO'd from Full Health via entry hazards as this feat was only possible in Sword and Shield where you needed rocks (50%), three layers of Spikes(25%), and G-Max Copperajah's Max Steelsurge for Steelspikes that targeted the opponent's weakness to Steel (and another 25%). Which was feasible in battle, which would force Frosmoth to run the boots or die trying to exist in battle.