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A monotype playthough is using only one type of Pokemon for your entire team throughout the game, though the Pokemon can have secondary types.  I'm planning on doing a Grass type run with Pokemon Y soon so I was wondering what people thought was the most challenging type to try this with, in any particular gen.  What about the easiest type?

Typically Bug or Grass seems to have the most troubles, with moderate resistances and tons of weaknesses, while many types resist their STAB attacks.  

On the other hand Steel types seem to have a smooth ride. Resisting multiple types and, while not being much of an offensive threat outside of a SE advantage on the Fariy type, most Steel types are dual typed and learn many great coverage moves.



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Depends on type and what gen your playing. For example a Fire type run in gen run in gen 1 could possibly be tough. You start with Charmander and your next types are not till celadon, Flareon and growlith/Vulpix, then Magmar/Ponyta

The beginning of gen 1 is not geared towards Fire types: Mt Moon, Rock Tunnel, Starmie with a mean bubble Beam, Brock. All with one pokemon, unless you trade but that removes the challenge.



Ka-pi96 said:
Xxain said:
Depends on type and what gen your playing. For example a Fire type run in gen run in gen 1 could possibly be tough. You start with Charmander and your next types are not till celadon, Flareon and growlith/Vulpix, then Magmar/Ponyta

The beginning of gen 1 is not geared towards Fire types: Mt Moon, Rock Tunnel, Starmie with a mean bubble Beam, Brock. All with one pokemon, unless you trade but that removes the challenge.

Even for gen 1 it depends on whether you are playing the originals or remakes. If playing the remakes then a bit of early grinding and Charmander can learn Metal Claw and quite easily destroy Brock. Misty would still be difficult, but at least Brock is easy.

Very true, I only had the original on mind.



Let's take a closer look at Bug (I am bias because it's my favorite type)

Bug Types generally evolve and become strong quickly, allowing you to have good pokemon early in the game. However, these same pokemon would then get outclassed by the mid point.

However, since Gen 4, Bug types has gotten many great new moves, abilities and pokemon, making the type much more viable. They have an important resistance to fighting and important advantage over Psychic.

Meaning a mono Bug Team wont be that bad in later Gens.

Except probably in Johto where the Flying Gym comes before you get the chance to get any Bug that could pass it.



Playing a monotype seems strange to me. That's what gym leaders do, and some 10 year old from a town with a population of 6 can defeat all of them.



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Ghost is the most challenging type. Only SE against two types offensively (but normal types aren't affected by them), an immunity to normal moves and only two resistances. And those two resistances are against bug and poison, two uncommon types to see offensively.

Ghost is also the least common type in the game, so your selection of mon to choose from will be the most limited. There are only 34 ghost types as of Gen 6, and that's not breaking them down into evolutions.

I was going to say that you'll also be pretty limited on physical attackers (Giratina doesn't count), but after going through and looking, it's not too bad. You got Trevenant, Golurk, Dusknoir and Aegislash (blade form). They all have decent-to-great attack stats, but they are all slower than molasses, and only Aegislash gets a priority move (Shadow Sneak). So your physical attackers are going to be slow as hell.



theprof00 said:
Playing a monotype seems strange to me. That's what gym leaders do, and some 10 year old from a town with a population of 6 can defeat all of them.

Yeah it's done for the challenge.  Pokemon games are very accesible so they tend to be on the easier side.  A monotype run is a self inflicted challenge that can be considered a hard mode.



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Doing a monotype run is still easy enough. If you really want a challenge, do a nuzlocke run. That will add a ton more unpredictability.



Hmm, I've done nuzlocke before and yeah it was decently challenging using Pidgeot and Beedrill but it wasn't very fun either.    I'll see how this run goes in comarrison.



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