The WORST Pokémon Move of Each Type
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Published 2023-11-25
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0:00 Intro
0:43 Grass
1:37 Fire
2:24 Water
3:43 Dark
4:30 Psychic
5:19 Fighting
6:03 Normal
8:33 Ghost
9:29 Steel
10:28 Fairy
11:13 Dragon
12:11 Ground
13:32 Rock
14:18 Flying
15:13 Electric
16:30 Poison
17:37 Bug
18:12 Ice
All Comments (21)
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Hey all, this list does include in game situations but I was more thinking in game BATTLES. So yeah, Soak is a great move for false swiping ghosts but it was an honourable mention for in battle situations. And I didn't include signature moves in this so that's why no Trick or Treat, Forest's Curse, Kinesis ETC. Thanks everyone for watching <3
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Fun fact: If umbreon uses synchronoise, it will always fail, either because: 1- The target isnt dark type so it's type is different than umbreon's 2- The target is dark type, so the attack should work, but synchronoise is a psychic type move so it fails anyway
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i think the only reason soak is bad is because of it's only on water types. they gave it to bellibolt and it's pretty great, at least in pokemon 1v1's
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Y'know, I think having an ability that just deploys 3 to 5 turns of mist when the Pokémon comes out would be a super great ability. Nobody is going to spend a 4th of their move slots on mist but it's not an awful move. I can see ice types and ghosts getting an ability like that.
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Have to give an honorable mention to the psychic type in the move psywave, the horrible TM that Sabrina gives one in Gen 1 after defeating her. A move that does between 1 or the user level as damage which makes it a gimmicky, terrible version of seismic toss which more often than not does miniscule damage.
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I think dragon's worst move being dragon rush of all things is just proof of how good dragon mons usually are
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Gen1 Mist would actually not protect from Moonblast stat drops. Gen1 Mist specifically protects from stat lowering moves, not secondary effects. Otherwise it would have had a niche in Mewtwo mirror matches.
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Actually, the worst normal type move (in Gen 1 specifically) is Focus energy. They screwed up the programming and it ends up cutting your Crit rate in Half. At least Constrict does minor amounts of damage.
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Brutal swing was used in gen 8 VGC to activate metagross policy Tho it was rare as people preferred bulldoze most of the time
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My favorite part of competitive Pokemon, is that a lot of “bad” moves can find a powerful niche with the right team.
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Grudge is really REALLY funny in metronome battles if you pull it
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another argument for rock throw being the worst, is by the time rock throw becomes usable, rock tomb is basically accessible in EVERY game its released in, making rock throw even MORE useless.
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as a shuckle user, I think power split and guard split are great moves
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Guard Split immediately reminded me of that one Showdown VGC replay from the salt compilation where someone ran it on Shuckle to make their Chansey nearly unkillable (though this also involved the Chansey spamming Minimize so like).
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Heavily disagree on Soak. In singles it 100% isn't good, but in VGC it is actually a pretty solid option. I used a Soak Tapu Fini Zekrom team in SwSh and it worked out very well
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Power split is pretty good on araquanid, since it has low attack but an ability that doubles the damage of water moves. Ypu can come in on high attack mons and cripple them whil making yourself stronger
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I don't think soak even deserves an honourable mention. It has useful utility ingame, albeit niche, primarily for catching Pokemon alongside False Swipe and Spore, since it removes whatever type immunities they had.
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Steel roller is actually pretty good for catching Xerneas in a dynamax adventure, not much use besides that but it makes it far better than any other move in this video
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Just some stuff I could think of from the top of my head: Z grass whistle is used for niche pokemon's sweep for youtube content, although there's no Z move anymore Brutal swing was used to activate weakness policy on actual strong teams Also moves like embargo exist if we also count mud sport and all I think magic room should have a honorable mention-what do you think Aruguably Halloween is worse than grudge maybe
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Soak is actually fairly useful, at least, on Smeargle, when trying to catch hard to get pokemon, I generally have a Smeargle with the moveset False Swipe, Spore, Soak, and another higher power but non-stab/above 100 power move. This way I can use soak to get rid of ghost types immunity to false swipe, and grass types immunity to spore.
