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Is Psychic unironically the worst type?
While it’s true that Psychic has lots of extremely powerful Pokémon such as Mewtwo, Deoxys, Lugia, Calyrex-Shadow, Necrozma-Dusk Mane, and more, is their power really related to their Psychic typing? Between gen 2 and 5, Mewtwo rarely actually ran Psychic. It took until gen 5 for Mewtwo to actually run his STAB again, and only because he was given Psystrike to deal with Blissey more effectively. Mewtwo would be powerful regardless of what type it is.
Psychic isn’t really all that great of a type, once you look past all the amazing Pokémon that happen to be Psychic type. It’s just one step above Ice defensively, having a mere 2 resistances, Fighting and itself, while having 3 weaknesses. Offensively, it only hits Poison and Fighting super effectively, while being resisted by Psychic and Steel, with Dark types being completely immune.
Tl;dr Psychic type is bad defensively and bad offensively. Psychic as a type is carried by the extremely powerful Pokémon that happen to be Psychic type. It’s not a good type at all.
