This is a giant cope.
Monotype teams aren't the best set up for boss fights over just a well designed team with a strategy or individually nasty movesets but at the very least they have a design goal in putting pressure on the specific Pokemon that are strong at countering their type. The Elite 4's collective role is to each focus on softening up a different part of your team before the more fully rounded champion, and it works ok. Not amazing, but pretty good. Certainly better than gyms with the trainers that serve to purpose other than XP cause you can just dip out to the center before the gym leader
>B-But Flint has a type spread so it's good
*ahem
NO.
Flint's team is gimped by an adherence to the fire theme, Steelix, Drifblim, and Lopunny are all worse off for their fire moveset. Lopunny would be best with a STAB strong normal type move, Steelix should have spikes or stealth rock and toxic, etc. These are hilariously shit compared to what sort of moveset they SHOULD be running in the elite four
Flint running a sunny day team would have been a big brain interpretation of a fire E4 member. Flint is not that, he's a fire trainer with 2/5ths fire pokemon and fire moves slapped on the other 3 to make em blend in.
