To anyone still out there who think that by saying that Psychic is a bad typing = all Psychic type pokemons are bad, you're thinking about it the wrong way. Rather than try to bring up good or decent Psychic pokemons ask yourself this: how many of those good psychic pokemons would prefer to be Fairy. Lati@s, Slowbro, even Alakazam would all be better if they were Fairy over Psychic.
I completely agree with this statement.
alexwolf EDIT: Removed the wishful thinking, please stay to existing stuff.
Now look at what resists Psychic : Psychic, Dark, and Steel. How the hell do you deal with that? Well, Bug covers Psychic and Dark, Fighting covers Dark and Steel, and Ghost is a good option to deal with other Psychics. But each of these types are resisted by another Psychic resistance! Steel resists Bug, Psychic resists Fighting, and Dark resists Ghost! It's almost as is Psychic coverage was specifically designed to suck as much as it can with the least resistances possible! Psychic types have no choice but to run 3 coverage moves because of this. In most cases, those moves are Shadow Ball and Focus Blast.
But wait! Don't these two moves have perfect coverage together? Why, yes they do! Such is Psychic STAB's baffling awfulness that most Psychic-types have to run perfect unstabbed coverage so as to not get walled. In fact, it's quite common to see Reuniclus without any STAB! After all, why waste a moveslot on Psyshock when you could just run perfect coverage and still have space for both Calm Mind and Recover! If it carries STAB, CM Reuniclus actually risks getting walled by either Dark-types or Psychic-types. You cannot look at me in the eye and tell me that Reuniclus wouldn't rather be a Ghost type, or a Fighting type, or even a Normal type, or literally anything else than a Psychic type.
Psychic-types aren't just terrible defensively : they are the type with the the absolute worst offensive synergy with other types. Heck, even Normal is much better, since Normal-types can easily get away with running Normal-Ghost coverage this gen! After all, it's only walled by Tyranitar and Bisharp! That's some really good coverage right there!
I completely agree with this statement.
alexwolf EDIT: Removed the wishful thinking, please stay to existing stuff.
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