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[Aklyon]

The way he say it made it sound like it was only parasect that got a buff. Probably missing something, I am.

[Tawa]

...why buff parasect, of all things?

To make it suck less?

Clearly, they're trying to use their influence to turn hyper-Parasect into an ascended meme to get MEGA PARASECT.

[Elephant Parade]

Paras has a whole bunch of double weaknesses.

[Tawa]

At least it isn't post-Dry Skin sextuple weaknesses.

[Aklyon]

At least it isn't post-Dry Skin sextuple weaknesses.

I didn't even know there was a sextuple weakness in pokemon in the first place. Does it get KO'd by a faint breeze then?

[USEC_OFFICER]

Only if it's a hot breeze. _{Dry Skin increases damage from fire attacks, right?}

[Tawa]

Yeah.

On the opposite side, a Thick Fat Dewgong gets sextuple resistance to Ice.

[Lagslayer]

Only if it's a hot breeze. _{Dry Skin increases damage from fire attacks, right?}

Spoiler: From bulbapedia (click to show/hide)

During intense sunlight, a Pokémon with Dry Skin will lose ⅛ of its maximum HP at the end of each turn. During rain, a Pokémon with Dry Skin will regain ⅛ of its maximum HP at the end of each turn.

Fire-type attacks do 25% more damage to a Pokémon with Dry Skin.

When a Pokémon with Dry Skin is hit by a Water-type move, its HP is restored by one quarter of its maximum HP, and the move will have no effect on that Pokémon (if a Pokémon with this Ability already has full HP, the Water-type move will do nothing). This effect will not activate if the Pokémon is protected from the Water-type move.

If a Pokémon with Dry Skin is holding an Absorb Bulb or Luminous Moss, Dry Skin absorbs the Water-type move so the item's effect is not triggered.

tl;dr Fire and sunlight deal extra damage, water and rain heal you. Still, that only makes is a 5X weakness to fire.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Yeah.

On the opposite side, a Thick Fat Dewgong gets sextuple resistance to Ice.

I thought that was 8x?

[i2amroy]

Yeah, it should be 1/2*1/2*1/2 = 1/8 = 8x resistance.

[Tawa]

...So it would seem. I stand corrected.

I was also mistaken on Parasect's Fire weakness; it can grow to x5, not x6.

[Nighthawk]

I can understand wanting to buff Parasect. Bugs are just normally so weak, you know? There are exceptions, yeah, but for the most part bugs are there to get squished by other types...

[ventuswings]

Progress! It's disappointing we could not grind most of the trainers but around half is not bad for TPP.

[Elephant Parade]

Blue got Pararekt. Unfortunately, it Pararekt learned Rest; it's Pararest now.

Then again, Stun Spore prevented us from using Spore, a much better move. It just sucks that the move ended up in the first slot.

[ventuswings]

The ledge is going to be impossible with all the slow mode; no down input is going to be ignored.