>>50309281>Imagine bringing abilities into a discussion on dual typing.Abilities are a factor that come into play in practice and those that offers an immunity are important to take into account in these threads
>Flygint/Steel is a garbage offensive typing. >Yeah its good defensively but that's ALL its good for.>Flying/Ground is powerful offensively AND defensively.Pic related, it is not a garbage offensive typing and the rarity of its weakness compared to the weaknesses of flying/ground means ample opportunities to set up. Even in a format without HP ice many mons carry ice moves as coverage and the double weakness to one of the most common priority moves means that its often tricky to set up. That ice weakness make the type vastly inferior defensively to flying/steel and not that much better offensively since now body press is a thing against steel types.
>Great defensively (if you ignore the crippling ground weakness) mediocre/lame offensively. Not deserving of being in the top 10.Even taking into account the ground weakness its great because ground weakness is one of the easiest weakness to cover, add a grass/flying/levitate mon in your team and it's no more. Poison/water means access to scald and toxic which means that even if the typing is offensively bad, no offensive mons will want to switch in and risk getting crippled. This typing also beats defensive mons because toxic is a thing. You are only looking at the type chart and not looking at the bigger picture.
>Ice/Ground is absurdly powerful in the right hands. If Mamoswine was as fast as Weavile Mamoswine would be an S-tier Pokemon.It isn't and precisely because of how hard it is to switch in this typing on enemies attacks due to its lack of resistances. You would need to rely on a pivot to do that consistently, whereas other offensive typing can afford to switch in by themselves.
>Its good but everything listed in OP is superiorWrong, it's better than steel/ground.
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