What are the five best types in the pokemon games?

What are the five best types/elements in the pokemon games? Let's focus on the fourth generation.





I know Dragons and Steel are pretty powerful. What else? Top five please.|||There is no best. There are seventeen types, but each type has its own share of strong and weak Pokemon, along with strong and weak moves. To give you the "top five" is impossible, because it also depends on personal opinion and experiences.





On an offensive scale, I personally think that Ground, Fighting, Ice, Dragon, and Rock are the best. Note that these are the not the types for the Pokemon, but the moves. Ground moves are super-effective against five types -- the most, tied with Fighting. It is resisted by only two types, but one is immune. Fighting-types are also super-effective against five types. Ice is the best bet against the powerful Dragon-types, which are seen virtually everywhere in competitive battling. The Dragon-type itself is only resisted by one type and is a good neutral attacking type. The Rock-type is horrible as a type on Pokemon, but great on attacks -- it's super-effective against four types.





Defensively, Steel, Rock, and Ground-types are pretty good stat-wise, but in terms of weaknesses, the Ground-type is risky since it's weak to Ice, Grass, and Water, which are very common attacking types. The same goes with Rock-types. They have a high Defense number but are weak to Steel, Water, Grass, Fighting, and Ground.





All in all, my personal top five would be Dragon, Dark, Fighting, Electric, and Ice. Don't take my word for it, though -- you'll have to decide for yourself.





Hope that helped. :D|||Here's what my element lineup looked like with all 6 Pokemon:



Psychic

Ground

Dragon

Fire

Water/Ice

Grass



Alakazam

Dugtrio or Golem

Dragonite

Charazard

Blastoise

Venusaur



That team was hard to beat by most other players that I battled at my local tourneys. Even though they are first Gen pokemon.



I stopped playing around the Pokemon: Diamond era of pokemon.|||fire,water,dragon,electic,normal, and bug|||psychic, grass, normal|||none :D