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Are you gonna get Pokemon Sword or Pokemon Shield?

I ATTAC
- 8 (15.4%)
I PROTECC
- 6 (11.5%)
Waiting on the third one
- 2 (3.8%)
Waiting on the third AND fourth one
- 1 (1.9%)
GET WELL SOON ZYGARDE
- 5 (9.6%)
I am a concientous objector and abstain from taking up arms
- 30 (57.7%)

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Nah, the basics are easy to remember. It's mostly the new stuff that is easy to forget (all I know about Steel is that it's weak to Fire), and I still don't have the slightest idea what Fairy does :P
And some of the old type matchups still skip past me, like when I discovered yesterday that Ice is strong against either Psychic of Flying.

Well there's the awkward zombie method of mnemonics. For fairies I keep track of them via

Effective against dragons -> Various legendary weapons used by knights were said to be forged by the Fae

Effective against dark -> For reasons similar to above, along with the modern perception of fairies as cute good things full of light.

Weak to fire, poison, and defends against bug -> Fairies have an association with nature spirits, so things that hurt the wilderness are bad for them, and bugs are paart of nature and modern fairies have butterfly wings and yeah

Weak to steel -> The Fae hate iron

Effective against fighting -> ...to be honest I have absolutely no idea for this one.
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Ice is strong against either Psychic of Flying.
Flying, and I remember it due to wing icing.  When enough ice builds up on the wings, birds and planes can't fly anymore. 

Nah, the basics are easy to remember. It's mostly the new stuff that is easy to forget (all I know about Steel is that it's weak to Fire), and I still don't have the slightest idea what Fairy does :P
And some of the old type matchups still skip past me, like when I discovered yesterday that Ice is strong against either Psychic of Flying.

Well there's the awkward zombie method of mnemonics. For fairies I keep track of them via

Effective against dragons -> Various legendary weapons used by knights were said to be forged by the Fae

Effective against dark -> For reasons similar to above, along with the modern perception of fairies as cute good things full of light.

Weak to fire, poison, and defends against bug -> Fairies have an association with nature spirits, so things that hurt the wilderness are bad for them, and bugs are paart of nature and modern fairies have butterfly wings and yeah

Weak to steel -> The Fae hate iron

Effective against fighting -> ...to be honest I have absolutely no idea for this one.
Magic beats muscle, like brains over brawn for Fighting/Psychic. ^_^
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Weak to fire, poison, and defends against bug -> Fairies have an association with nature spirits, so things that hurt the wilderness are bad for them, and bugs are paart of nature and modern fairies have butterfly wings and yeah
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Fire resists fairy, fairy is not weak to fire.
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Ice is strong against either Psychic of Flying.
Flying, and I remember it due to wing icing.  When enough ice builds up on the wings, birds and planes can't fly anymore. 
Ah, okay. My Amaura went up against a Sigilyph (more because nothing else I had could have had a chance against it) and I was surprised when his ice-flavored Take Down was a super effective one-hit crit.
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The type resistances all newbies don't realize:

1. Dark is weak to fighting
2. Rock does 1/2 damage to fighting
3. Ground is weak to ice
4. Poison is weak to ground and psychic (no noobie ever knows what poison does)
5. Water is actually neutral to ground and rock
6. Bug is resistant to ground but weak to rock
7. Roost removes flying type bonuses
8. Steel is supereffective against ice

Then you get the type combinations and stuff like...

"Zapdos is weak to electric whaaat?!"

Urist Imiknorris

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Zapdos is not weak to electric.

EDIT: Well, it was in gen 1.
« Last Edit: March 30, 2014, 01:23:13 pm by Urist Imiknorris »
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Then you have abilities which mess things up even more! Levitating Magnemite laughs at your Ground attacks.
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Then you have abilities which mess things up even more! Levitating Magnemite laughs at your Ground attacks.
Ooh, don't forget confusing sprites.  Magnemite and its evolutions look like they're levitating, but none of them have access to Levitate.  The closest they get is Magnet Rise or an Air Balloon. 
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Wait, what? I swear about seeing Ground attacks not affecting Magnemites and the like. NPC Magnemites as well, not other people so no hold items.
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umiman

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Bronzong on the other hand. It has three abilities. One of which is levitate. So do you risk the earthquake on it? Or do you risk the 1/2 damage fire attack? Mindgames aaaah!

Why does my stupid electric lizard take supereffective damage from fighting moves?! What?! It's normal type!? But it's clearly an electric lizard!

On and on.

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Wait, what? I swear about seeing Ground attacks not affecting Magnemites and the like. NPC Magnemites as well, not other people so no hold items.

Magnemites definitely have levitate. He might be talking about Klink/Klang/Klinklang. Or any number of other levitating Pokemon that are affected by ground moves. Volcarona is my example of choice here.
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oh my god my entire world has been rocked
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Tawa

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The one that always comes to mind for me is Beldum.

I think that can't get levitate.
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