Poison Type Pokemon ?

Question

Hi guys, I have been playing pokemon for 9 years now and my favourite type is Poison. I know a lot of people say this type is useless but i still love it . I dont understand why the pokemon company hasnt given poison types enough attention . I mean theres no poison legendary or enough poison gym leaders and poison elite 4s. Also don't you guys think it should be either super effective to fighting or water too . I mean bug is more usefull to defeat grass instead of poison , but thank god its super effective against the new fairy type .Whats your opinion guys ??!!!

Answer 1

Coming from a competitive aspect, Poison has it's niche's and is actually quite a useful type for Pokémon.



Poison, most notably, is arguably the best type to handle Fighting types (fairy might be now, but we'll see). Fighting types come equipped with Dark, Ghost, Rock, or Ice quite often, negating Ghost, Psychic, and Flying's ability to handle them. Recently, many Fighting types come equipped with Poison to handle Fairies. Very few Fighting types will opt for Psychic or Ground moves, because they lack any notable type advantages bar Poison. A prime example of this is Weezing, who is near impossible to break with most fighting type that lacks Guts or isn't Medicham or Gallade. Poison also has some nice resistances against Bug (and to a lesser extent, Grass and Poison itself).



Poison is also a fantastic type to work with defensively. It's 2 weakness, Psychic and Ground, not only have immunities for each type, but are incredibly easy to prepaid for on a defensive team. Psychic types greatly struggle breaking anything with solid special bulk, while few ground types can hope to break Skarmory.



Poison is also famous on Bulky Offense teams. As these teams cannot afford to waste a slot on a spinner, the often run a Poison type to remove Toxic Spikes. A famous example of this is Skuntank in NU, who while is not very good at a lot of things, is specifically put on bulky offensive teams to remove Toxic Spikes and remove Ghosts/Psychics. In addition, many poison types can use Toxic Spikes themselves.



Poison also got a recent buff against Fairy types. While Steel may be a better answer to Fairy, Poison is significantly under-prepared for. Because so many pokemon learn Sludge Bomb or Poison Jab, you might find many of the Dragons running this move for the sake of hitting Fairy's hard, along side many Fighting types as well.



Poison is not the best of types however. It still lacks notable coverage offensively, and there are far too many things that resist it. But the most detrimental thing is that there are very few poison types that can heal. As it is a defensive type, Poison needs a good, reliable poison type that has solid bulk, decent offensives, and a reliable recovery move in order to survive for long.



Those are my opinion on poison anyhow.

Answer 2

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Poison Type Pokemon ?

Hi guys, I have been playing pokemon for 9 years now and my favourite type is Poison. I know a lot of people say this type is useless but i still love it . I dont understand why the pokemon company hasnt given poison types enough attention . I mean theres no poison legendary or enough poison gym...

Answer 3

I love poison type Pokemon ( second favorite, Normal type is number one ). I love to use them in online battles to just cause of the fact they can't be poisoned.. Everyone loves to poison you by a non-poison type Pokemon in wifi battles ( well from my experience ). I love Vileplume and Scolipede, and Arbok of course. I agree about the lack of attention on poison types. There needs to be more of them and a legendary poison type. The poison type Pokemon in my opinion though aren't the best defensively, but the pros of this is that there are only two types which are effective against poison types, and if you have a well played out strategy, poison Pokemon can be deadly.

Answer 4

There are many poison type pokemon. Poison type is often a secondary typing on many pokemon found in gyms and elite 4's.

Answer 5

You know what? I was just thinking that the other day. Why are there no Poison legendries? There really should be a poison type gym leader, too-There hasn't been one since the days of Gen 1/2. And that was years ago. I've had enough of Water and Dragon gyms/elites.

I think that it should be effective against water types (Water pollution), but also Psychic types (Poisoning of the mind/going insane).

Answer 6

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Answer 7

i hate poison because i love grass types joke! I couldnt agree more. I dislike gamefreak for being biased only to elemental types (eg fire, water, electric etc). Every element should be given equal treatment and powerups! And btw i have to agree that poison types can be a formidable enemy in battles. My favorite among them was haunter,crobat, swalot and venusaur.



PS. Charizard sucks and venusaur is awesome!

Answer 8

Poison types are very underused, and since the fairy type came to be, its now something else to consider!



I have a very tanky venusaur, and he is great with 1 hitting the stupid fairies!

They are a new force to be reckoned with, and also steel types too!

Answer 9

poision tends to be attached by hearing to the bug type(theres no ground based legenderys at all,grass,bug,ghost and poision are all legenderyless, though i haven't played x or y)and people userally regard bug types as being the weakest(of which they are not)

posion is attached also to the ghost type, but they are overpowered as it is.

bugs are pretty useful.

poision types generally have lower hp and defenses though, making it hard to keep them alive in battle.