Magnezone

Electric

Magnet Pull granting Magnezone the ability to trap annoying or threatening Steel-types like Ferrothorn and Choice-locked Excadrill makes it a decent choice for an Electric team. Magnezone's Steel typing gives it a resistance to multiple types along with an immunity to Poison-type moves. Coupled with its great bulk, Magnezone can act as a great check to Pokemon of the types it resists that do not carry super effective coverage. Furthermore, this lets Magnezone act as an excellent pivot with Volt Switch. It has excellent Special Attack, allowing it to act as a strong wallbreaker. However, its Steel typing increases its weakness to Ground-type moves while also making it weak to common Fighting- and Fire-type coverage. Magnezone has very low Speed, which can be easily exploited. It lacks strong coverage moves and has to rely on Hidden Power Fire for coverage against the Steel-types it traps. However, Magnezone is still an excellent pick for an Electric team due to its ability to beat threats that Electric teams otherwise struggle with, like Excadrill and Tapu Bulu.

Steel

Magnezone provides essential support against Water-types by defeating Pokemon that Ferrothorn struggles against such as Keldeo, Mantine, and Toxapex. With Hidden Power Ice, it is able to check Landorus, Garchomp, and Gliscor, three of the most threatening Pokemon to Steel-type teams. Also, it can trap and defeat opposing Steel-types like Celesteela and Skarmory thanks to Magnet Pull. Furthermore, Hidden Power Fire can help it eliminate other Steel-types like Ferrothorn and Mega Scizor. However, Magnezone has an abysmal movepool that forces it to heavily rely on STAB moves and use Hidden Power as its main form of coverage. Likewise, its mediocre Speed tier causes it to be easily outsped and KOed by popular Choice Scarf users like Excadrill and faster Pokemon like Mega Lopunny and Dugtrio. Despite its ability to check Landorus and Gliscor, Magnezone is generally useless against Ground-type teams because of its 4x weakness to Ground.