1. No secondary Type
Why? well, instead of jumping on the "Dragon Bandwagon", lets think.
Being hit super effective by 3 common attacking moves is a BIG deal.
Resisting Electric means nothing, as its ussually accompanied with Ice.
Dragon is self explanatory, and Ground usually comes with dragon type move.
Being mystic means Squat. Poison Never sounds mystic, even if combined with dragon.
Resists, What resists?!
Water and fire are almost never seen, and even less seen together.Bug is never seen as an offensive type, and when it is, it A) is accompanied by something to destroy to destroy it's resists(Stone Edge and blizzard, anyone?)
B)for the sake of having an offensive move(Ninjask) or C)Is supported by a broken Ability(Tinted lens).
Grass is used solely for the purpose of Smashing swampert, And is ussually nothing more then a hidden power, or in the case of Roserade, Acompanied by Hp Ice, Which Smashes your dragaon into Oblivion.
Resisting poison is Irrelevent
All the other types Suck too.
Steel adds nothing meaningful, and turns this into an invitation for garchomp to come in and Destroy your team.
Dark has NO useful resists, and only one weakness is meaningless, if it's one of the most used offensive type moves.
Electric.(See Steel)
Ground is posibly the most viable one out of all of them, and that just turns him into a Gliscor Clone.
I only Rooted for Rock, Because of the Sandstorm boost, and the Possibility of a unique movepool.
Edit: Thank you dougjustdoug+ For being Awesome, and a voice of reason.
OK, Ground it is then.Okay, but I remain convinced that it's not the exact same niche. I mean, it's not like the Nidos are "Pure Utility Pokemon".
If you don't pick one of them, then your vote won't be counted.
For all the Dragon voters -- Is anyone concerned at all that we would make a pokemon weak to Ice?
With all the Garchomp abuse out there -- the only attacking type you are GUARANTEED to face in ABUNDANCE is Ice. I personally carry at least three Ice moves on my teams, just because of the number of threats that require Ice to dispose of them. I've heard of some people packing an Ice move on 5 out of their 6 pokemon.
The metagame right now is very heavily geared to handle Dragons. Because Garchomp is such an uber badass -- it doesn't matter and people use Chomp anyway.
Yes, you can point to the resistances of Poison/Dragon and it looks pretty good. It can come in on lots of moves, but can it come in on many actual pokemon? How many pokemon don't carry an ice move or a ground move? Not many. Sure you can switch in on a move, but if the opponent is still packing an SE move in return, that's not a great switch. If they predict you, you're fucked anyway.
My point is this -- in the current metagame, do you really think a utility pokemon that is weak to ice and ground, will get a chance to set up anything useful for the team? I'm worried about that. It's going to be weak to Ground, no matter what. Thank you, Poison. But, let's not compound it by making it weak to Ice as well. We cannot honestly think we can make a utility poke that is weak to the two most spammed attacking types in the metagame.
You obviously have never played in the CaP metagame. Syclant is Bug/Ice, and owns things hard. Because of that, there are a ton of Heatrans throwing fire moves around. Because of that, many people carry bulky waters to deal with Heatran. And finally, because of that, many people carry Celebi or Pyroak to cover the bulky waters and go with Heatran, so the first part of your post is way off.
Next, resisting Poison is quite big, because people use Tentacruel to deal with Celebi, Pyroak, and the Spikes users.
Gliscor is Ground/Flying, and only looks Poison. Last, what is mystic?
Gliscor has roles as stealth rock support and baton passing attack and speed ups. These roles are definitely different than this pure utility pokemon [if it were poison/ground], even if they both would be a great lucario/heracross counter. so yeah..they would be pretty different.
Also, doesn't Poison/Dragon resist Bug, Fighting, and Dark, and is Neutral to Rock?