And all of them are wide open to their weaknesses. Poison, Ice, and Dragon lack some hard diversity and a full team. Dragon, Ice, and Ghost suffer from mid-to-late game availability. The worst types are definitely Dragon and Ice followed by Ghost and Poison. Shifting gears, Black and White are one of the few decent games for an Electric run thanks to Eelektross, Emolga, and Galvantula boosting your team. The team members alone should be enough to satisfy with Volcarona, Scolipede, Leavanny, Durant, Galvantula, and Crustle all being good Pokemon. Every team member has a different secondary type and brings something unique to the table. Pokemon Black and White are honestly very nice games for a Bug Type run and are among the best in the series for it. I’m going to skip over Normal and talk about Bug and Electric because they stand out to me. More than that, you’re getting Pokemon after Pokemon throughout the game and do not have to wait for the very end unlike Fighting and Steel type. Swanna and Seismitoad tag team and neutralize your weaknesses early on and Jellicent gives some move diversity that is very appreciative. You have your starter, of course, who’s there from the get go. I think Water comes in first place thanks to a full team with decent type coverage. Given your limited options, I think the most doable are Water, Normal as the top two, followed by Bug, Ground, Electric, Fighting, and Flying.

Only Pokémon caught before Elite Four are counted.Ĭheck out the chart below for a general overview of BW, B2W2, and other Pokemon gamesīecause a lot of types don’t become available until, at the earliest, after the first gym, you’ll make a hard call which types to go for.

You may train a Pokémon that evolves to said type as long as you do it ASAP.

You must catch the first Pokémon available of that type if your starter does not match that type (you’ll then have to disregard that starter).

Only Pokémon of a certain type may be caught and trained.

You can read an analysis below as well as every type’s ideal team but first, the rules!

This article analyzes every type and breaks down which type is the best and worst to do a Monotype Run in each of the games. As such, you have games that are so different from each other that it’s better to treat the two pairs as separate incarnations (this is why it took me awhile to research and write this article). Some Pokemon in BW don’t even show up until after the Elite Four in B2W2 like the Seismitoad line and the Fossil Pokemon. Black and White have a limited amount of available Pokemon, harkening back to the Generation 1 days, while their sequels start you off in a completely new part of the map while changing the gym line up. One of the more controversial games in the series, Pokemon Black and White, and their sequels, Black 2 and White 2, are interesting choices for a Monotype (or Single Type) Run.

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