Which four types provide the most coverage?
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Instead of looking at the Pokemon actually in the games, or the individual 17/18 types in the game, I decided to tackle the most coverage against the 171 possible type combinations, with no effective weighting. I also made a distinction between whether or not Freeze-Dry and/or Flying Press are available, and whether maximizing supereffective or 4x effective is preferred, all combos with these maximized have full neutral+ coverage. Everything was brute-forced via Python.
The numbers are total super effective targets, 4x effective, 2x effective, 1x effective, 0.5x effective, 0.25x effective, and 0x effective.
Freeze-Dry and Flying Press, super eff. prio.:Freeze-Dry Ground Rock Fairy - 157, 29 128 14 0 0 0Here are the 14 types this combination isnotsuper effective against: Grass Steel, Ice Ground, Flying Steel, Bug Steel, Normal, Psychic, Ghost, Fairy, and any of the 6 combinations of those 4 basic types.
Freeze-Dry and Flying Press, 4x prio.:Freeze-Dry Flying Press Ground Rock - 154, 36 118 17 0 0 0
Freeze-Dry, 4x prio.:Freeze-Dry Fighting Ground Rock - 152, 35 117 19 0 0 0
Flying Press, 4x prio.:Ice Flying Press Ground Rock - 148, 32 116 23 0 0 0
Neither, super eff. prio.:Ice Ground Rock Fairy - 150, 25 125 21 0 0 0
Neither, 4x prio.:Ice Fighting Ground Rock - 144, 31 113 27 0 0 0
In contrast, here are some of the worst 4-type combos:Normal Flying Press Poison Bug - 77, 13 64 74 18 2 0Grass Poison Bug Fairy - 91, 10 81 61 17 2 0Normal Fighting Poison Bug - 84, 14 70 73 12 2 0
ElectricFlyingFightingGround
0 - No Effect
0 - Not Very Effective
126 - Normal Effectiveness
543 - Super Effective
They might be a better one, but this is the best I found.
Source:Type-coverage checker
No effect-0Not very effective-0Normal effectiveness-136Super effective-909
Kyurem-WhiteFreeze-DryFocus BlastShadow BallEarth Power
Source:https://pokemondb.net/tools/type-coverage
The numbers might be slightly off because the website doesn’t account for freeze dry being super-effective against water so I added it myself. Also turboblaze ignores abilities.
FightingDarkGroundIce
14/17 types(all but water, bug, and fighting)
I recommend Scrafty’s Brick Break, Crunch, Dig, Ice punch.
The other one may be better because added up are a lot more water, bug and fighting type pokémon than dragon, ground, psychic, ghost and flying electric pokémon.
FireElectricGroundFairy
No Effect 0Not Very Effective 0Normal Effectiveness 238Super Effective 562
Fire Electric Ground Dragon
I was trying to find a good type coverage for Dunsparce and I found a really amazing oneFire+electric+ice+ground0 no effect232 regular676 super effectiveFire+ground+ice+ghost has 640 super effectiveThere was also a combo with 674 super effective but unfortunately I can’t remember what it was
