What Pokemon have the best stat totals of each type?

Question

I know this was already asked, but the answer of the other question has mostly all Megas. Excluding Megas and Legendaries and available in gen 8, what are the best Pokemon of each type?

My strongest Pokemon I use for raids are in my battle team right now so I can't use them, so I figure I may as well create a raid shiny team.

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Including Mythicals?

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Excluding, sorry.

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Just realized this is my question. I asked about gen 8 in particular excluding legendaries because i wanted to breed for perfect IVs and shiny hunt. but, if someone wants to create an answer that both includes and excludes legendaries, and also is up-to-date for gen 9 as well, that's fine. i got my gen 8 answer and i think it's fine to make an UTD answer as well.

Answer 1

Bug: Volcarona- 550
Dark: Hydregion, Tyranitar- 600
Dragon: Dragapult, Hydregion, Kommo-o, Goodra- 600
Electric: Magnezone- 535
Fairy: Togekiss- 545
Fighting: Kommo-o- 600
Fire: Arcanine- 555
Flying: Togekiss- 545
Ghost: Dragapult- 600
Grass: Tangrowth- 535
Ground: Rhyperior- 535
Ice: Vanilluxe, Lapras- 535
Normal: Snorlax, Blissey- 540
Poison- Venusaur- 525
Psychic: Exeggutor- 530
Rock: Tyranitar- 600
Steel Duraludon, Magnezone- 535
Water: Gyarados, Milotic, Kingdra- 540 (Wishiwashi-School Form has a BST of 620, not sure if it counts)

I've italicized the Pokemon that show up more than once since you're looking to build a team out of these, so it might be helpful to know what Pokemon are "Best" among multiple types.
I hope this helps!

Source: Pokemon Showdown Teambuilder

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Happy to help! Sorry about the snipe :/

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Flying should be archeops at 567

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Water should also be wishiwashi at 620

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Asker specified "Available in gen 8," but Wishiwashi is a good catch. Thanks!

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Oh oops, somehow thought archeops was in gen 8

Answer 2

Rock - Tyranitar

Dark - Tyranitar / Hydreigon

Dragon - Garchomp / Dragonite / Salamence (CT) / Goodra / Kommo-o / Hydreigon / Dragapult

Steel / Psychic - Metagross (CT)

Water - Wishiwashi

Ghost - Dragapult

Fire - Arcanine

Fairy - Togekiss

Flying - Dragonite / Salamence (CT)

Normal - Snorlax / Blissey

Ice - Darmanitan

Electric - Magnezone

Ground - Garchomp (CT)

Grass - Tangrowth

Dark - Hydreigon

Bug - Volcarona

Poison - Venusaur

Fighting - Kommo-o (oops :P)

I think that's right.

Source

Hope this helps! :)

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Sorry Gallade beat you to it, but upvote for effort c:

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Thanks :)

Answer 3

Below is a list of all types showing the non-legendary Pokémon of that type with the highest BST, excluding Pokémon not available in either Sword, Shield, the Crowned Tundra, or the Isle of Armor, as well as mega evolutions, since you can't get them in that game either:

Note: this answer assumes Mythical and Sub-Legendary Pokémon count as Legendary Pokémon, but Ultra Beasts do not.

Bug: Tied between Pheromosa and Buzzwole at 570
Dark: Tied Between Hydreigon and Tyranitar at 600
Dragon: Tied between Dragapult, Kommo-o, Goodra, Hydriegon, Garchomp, Salamence, and Dragonite at 600.
Electric: Xurkitree at 570
Fairy: Togekiss at 545
Fighting: Kommo-o at 600
Fire Blacephalon at 570
Flying: Tied between Salamence and Dragonite at 600
Ghost: Dragapult at 600
Grass: Kartana at 570
Ground: Garchomp at 600
Ice: Galarian Darmanitan (Zen Mode) at 540
Normal: Tied between Snorlax and Blissey at 540
Poison: Nihilego at 570
Psychic: Metagross at 600
Rock: Tyranitar at 600
Steel: Tied between Metagross at 600
Water: Wishiwashi-School form at 620

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Source: Pokédex with stats--Pokemon Database

Hope I helped!

Comments

im SO smart.

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It should be Garchomp for ground and Dragapult for ghost. The question just said to ignore megas and legendaries, not other forms like schooling Wishiwashi.

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yeah idk what I was thinking there. Thanks for the correction about garchomp and dragapult, also I think I scrolled past wishiwashi on the pokedex aand thought it wasn't in SwSh for some reason. not very good at gen 8 stuff :/

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You know how to use the /ds command on Showdown, right?

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Yeah,  I guess I could just used ds8