Types that you Must/Musn't Have

[Kalosian]

I always have Grass, Fire, Water and Flying-types on my teams. Most times, I do also have an Electric-type on my team, but not always.

 

[shiney mew]

I always have to have Flying, Water, and usually Electric. In my Pearl playthrough, I didn't have an Electric-type, but I had a Clefable with Thunderbolt, and I also had a Grass-type (Roserade).

 

[pikadon92]

I always have a fire, grass, water and electric. Sometimes I have poison, psychic anghost and flying types, too.

 

[Zekromaster826]

I always have a water and Fire type no matter what.

 

[TheEliteEmpoleon]

I usually use water, ground, flying, and ice. I rarely use bug, ghost, psychic, dark, fighting, normal, and NEVER grass types. I don't like grass types...

 

[Simipour]

Not really, in the past games I pretty much only trained my starter, whatever type it was. In black I trained 3, and they were random types based on what I could get my hands on early on.

 

[DrasticPhase]

I just get the pokemon that looks cool to me
But I wouldnt have like 5 waters. I try to balance it out

 

[PrismaticPrincessAnna]

I used to have Electric and Water ONLY but now.. I went to training diff types to balance my team xD

Before:
Pikachu
Plusle
Minun
Manectrike
Swampert
Altaria (Can learn Ice Beam xD) nya~

 

[RogueLapras]

I mainly use Water types like Lapras, Starmie, etc. but recently I have started training more of my favorites like Charizard, Volcarona, Snorlax, etc.

 

[-Nator-]

On a "serious" team, I usually like to have:
Fire
Water
Ground
Steel or Poison
Flying (or Levitate)

 

[tomy2222]

My must use types in game:
water,fire,grass,fighting,flying,dragon.
Types that Id like:
Dragon,Ghost,Psychic,Ice,flying,Rock,Ground.
Types that I like:
Fire,Water,Grass,Poison,Dark,Fighting,Normal,Bug.
Type that I like the most:
Normallllll!

 

[Schade]

Always at least one Dark, and one Steel

 

[Bolt the Cat]

I try and cover as many of my weaknesses as a can. So besides Ground (which is the only type good against Electric) and Fighting (the only type good against Normal), I never always use a particular type. I generally don't use Bug types (because there are few good ones), Steel types (unless it's a secondary type), and I never use Poison types (because it's only type advantage is Grass, and there are much better types to counter it) or Normal types (because they have no type advantages).

 

[Squiddly Dee]

I don't pick specific types, I just pick one Pokemon that I like, and pick another Pokemon to cover its weaknesses, and so on.

 

[Gelatino95]

I usually just go with whatever I can find. In the games where I need to use water HMs like Surf and Waterfall, however, I try to use more than one water-type to spread out the HMs.

 

[Palkia98]

Ground, rock, steel, i must have atleast one of those on my team

 

[Xyzler]

Three types I always carry with me, are electric, fighting(!!) and water. Mainly because most pokemon are normal, and typically weak to these types.

 

[Calamity™]

I always like to have a Fire/Water/Grass/Electric type. I also like to keep a Steel type if one is available. At least one Pokémon in the team has to be able to learn Surf, and one should Fly too!

 

[SmartD]

Water, Flying, Electric, Ground, and other types I feel like putting on my team.

 

[Razor Xtreme]

I don't really focus too much on coverage, I always end up like this:

Fire
Water
Grass
Flying
Fighting (If my Fire type isn't fighting, like in HGSS or FRLG)
any random type I can find, like Dark, Rock, Ghost, Psychic, etc.