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Anonymous Thu 12 Feb 2026 20:55:10 No.58919550 View View Reply Original Report

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Does anyone else feel like electric type is genuinely the worst type in the games?
Like not even competitively or anything just the vibes are so off it feels awful to play with.

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Anonymous Thu 12 Feb 2026 20:55:55 No.58919553 Report

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>>58919550
Not even close, what the fuck

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Anonymous Thu 12 Feb 2026 20:59:48 No.58919561 Report

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>>58919550
I never thought I liked it that much until I realized my top 3 favorites are all Electric type, and when there's a set of Pokemon, the Electric one is almost always my favorite (Zapdos, Raikou, Tapu Koko, Regieleki)

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Anonymous Thu 12 Feb 2026 21:00:39 No.58919563 Report

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It only feels bad if a ground type pokes its head out
The solution is Lanturn

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Anonymous Thu 12 Feb 2026 21:00:44 No.58919564 Report

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>>58919550
Water and flying types are everywhere and paralysis is often helpful so no.

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Anonymous Thu 12 Feb 2026 21:26:27 No.58919634 Report

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>>58919550
electric does have a lot of shitmons but it's usually for reasons other than the typing

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Anonymous Thu 12 Feb 2026 21:33:00 No.58919653 Report

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>>58919550
Electric is one of the best types in the game.
Only one (admittedly notable) weakness, two notable resists. Resisted only by itself, grass which is ass, and Dragon, ground is immune, which is notable. Effective against flying and water, which are some of the most common types.
Ludicrous neutral coverage.
The type itself is one of the best in the game, top 5 easy.

The problems are twofold.
One, Electric has a weird obsession with mixed attackers. Electivire, Raichu, Luxray, even a lot of shit that you think of one way or the other, is actually mixed. This means they usually don't hit hard enough, and are more frail than they should be, which is exacerbated by slower electrics like Luxray or Ampharos.
Two, Physical Electric is a meme. It has no moves, every time it gets one it sucks somehow. This makes the mixed attack properties of electrics even worse, because they can't even use one of those stats well.

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Anonymous Thu 12 Feb 2026 21:42:31 No.58919666 Report

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>>58919550
electric mons, not the typing itself
but yes, electric mons on average are probably the worst, even worse than bugs

you either have high bst and be used or have low bst and be completely useless
it feels like GF just hates electric types in general, since in recent gens the other "bad types" got cool buffs and tools to work with while electric types just got spat in the face with the removal of Hidden Power and Supercell Slam

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Anonymous Thu 12 Feb 2026 21:51:31 No.58919687 Report

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>>58919550
>>58919666
"lack of variety"
this perfectly describes the electric type and why the type is so cucked
>no coverage
>few utility moves
>95% of electric types fulfill the same role
>electric types aren't allowed to have abilities outside of Static, Lightning Rod or Volt Absorb
this problem becomes so painfully obvious if you try to play a mono-electric team pre-gen 4 since your team will just be Jolteon and 5 "Jolteon but worse"
"worst type" is arguable, but electrics definitely are by far the most boring type

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Anonymous Thu 12 Feb 2026 22:00:01 No.58919700 Report

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isn't bug type universally agreed upon as the worst type

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Anonymous Thu 12 Feb 2026 23:46:20 No.58919996 Report

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>>58919550
Because they're almost always boring, both design and gameplay wise. They coast off of the same 3 moves and almost none of them are particularly effective at using them. For every Magnezone or Iron Hands there are a million of >>58919687 , where Jolteon became Mega Manectric but worse, who then became Tapu Koko but worse.

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Anonymous Thu 12 Feb 2026 23:48:24 No.58920006 Report

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>>58919700
Rock is worse

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Anonymous Thu 12 Feb 2026 23:51:04 No.58920015 Report

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I always thought it was rather boring, they don't have any good gimmick moves or strats imo. I'd like it if they had something like Pursuit, but it's a weaker move than even that, but it just hits both the mon switching out and the one coming in. Call it Chain Lightning.

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Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 01:20:38 No.58920219 Report

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>>58919700
Overall, yes.
Bug is absolutely not the worst defensively, and is probably not the worst offensively, but most of the other types dogshit in one, are good in the other. Ice and Rock are worse defensively, but are among the best offensively. Steel is ass offensively, but is probably THE best defensively.
Normal is the other good contender for general worst, especially now that Return is gone, and a lot of Normals are relying on weird shit like Body Slam or goddamn Dizzy Punch.

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Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 02:30:10 No.58920417 Report

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>>58919550
Yeah, most of them are pikaclones or just generally uninteresting
There's a couple cool ones like Rotom and the Magnemite line, but overall they're the blandest type by far
Pic related, I do not care for Electrike

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Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 02:37:10 No.58920438 Report

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>>58919550
Lol no electric and water has always been top 3. Early gens psychic too strong so nobody bitched about electric and water. Mid gens dragons too strong so nobody bitched about electric and water. Current gens fairy too strong so nobody bitch about electric and water.

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Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 04:37:04 No.58920679 Report

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>>58920219
>bug is absolutely not the worst defensively, and is probably not the worst offensively,
Do you mean the other way around? Defensively, Bug at least resists Ground and Gighting, two amazing offensive types due to how widely distributed their powerful moves are. Also, Bug pairs very well with the Steel. Meanwhile, Bug is offensively resisted by nearly half of entire pokedex, and its best move Megahorn is inaccurate, not widely distributed, can't even be powered up by a weather or terrain, and doesn't even have a way to increase accuracy like Thunder or Hurricane.

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Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 04:39:15 No.58920683 Report

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>>58919550
The most privileged type you mean. Look at every way it has to negate its ONE weakness:
- pair with Flying
- Levitate
- Magnet Rise
- freaking Air Balloon
The only way the type could be more privileged would be if they added a prompt when you send out an electric type "do you want to be immune to ground type moves?" "[your pokemon] is now immune to ground type moves"

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Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 05:23:52 No.58920750 Report

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>>58919550
>it feels awful to play with.
Nah, for the longest time I felt that was Fighting. Incredibly linear and straightforward to its own detriment, only really present on one offensive side (physical), barely any status or support, weak to the legendary type (Psychic).
...It still kinda is all of those, but the weakness barely matters anymore (the "new" hotness of Fairy is more relevant), and the attacking moves got so strong that it almost doesn't matter if you're beating on a high-defense opponent.

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Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 05:39:10 No.58920776 Report

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Electric is a good type that's honestly fairly arbitrarily gimped by GF.
Great typing. Some good mons, but a lot are really mediocre, almost universally awful movepools.
Designs fall into the same trapping as Fire where an overwhelming amount of designs are "animal, but elemental color-coded"

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Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 07:46:47 No.58920935 Report

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>>58919563
Unless the second type is Flying.

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Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 09:50:09 No.58921097 Report

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>>58919550
GF always feels like they need to nerf them due to having only one weakness.

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Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 10:36:29 No.58921200 Report

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>>58919550
best electric type is rotom, the literal electricity mon

also, the only electric mon I like

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Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 12:48:15 No.58921387 Report

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>>58919550
only because most of the mainline games only have a handful of electric types and a lot of them are just boring elemental animals or pikaclones

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Anonymous Fri 13 Feb 2026 13:00:42 No.58921406 Report

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>>58919550
Poison is my absolute favorite, its tanky, and typically does solid damage and only has two weaknesses, and usually makes up for that offset, with other powerful attacks, look at earily gen gengar and muk, then in gen 3 they gave Weezing a huge ability levitate, being such a massive wall to so many pokemon in gen 3. even now its still used with its new varient.

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