A new Pokémon is in the wild. Well, an old one Pokémon is in the wild, repainted to look and feel like new Pokémon. Yes sir, Pokémon brilliant diamond and Shiny pearl, released for Switch on November 19th after all Faithful but unimaginative remakes of the 2006 4th generation DS games. Th at means they work from the same playbook, including the Pokémon Type Table, which is now really just a series of fonts.
Since its very first iteration Pokémon was ruled by a series of rules similar to rock-paper-scissors. Aside from the fact that there are not just three elements, but more than a dozen, each of which is strong (super effective) or weak (not very effective) against others. For example, grab a charmander (fire type) with the. at Water gun move (water type) and you deal double damage. But try that Razor blade Attack (grass type) and your damage will be cut in half.
The weakness often cuts both ways: A Grass-type Pokémon is similarly prone to double damage from Charmander’s Fire attacks. But sometimes it’s a one-way street: Combat moves are very effective against normal Pokémon, but normal moves don’t do reduced damage against Combat Pokémon. It can get complicated.
For this purpose it is important that the Pokémon type table in memory of. Or, you can just bookmark this resource: a definitive rundown of Pokémon’s strengths and weaknesses in Pokémon brilliant diamond and Shiny pearl.
Pokémon attack table
- insect beats Grass, dark, psychic but is weak against Fairy, fire, fight, flying, poison, steel, fairy
- Dark beats Mind, clairvoyant but is weak against dark, fairy, fighting
- Kite beats Kite but is weak against stole and has no influence fairy
- Electric beats Flies, water but is weak against electric, grass, kite and has no influence floor
- fairy beats fighting, dark, dragon but is weak against Fire, poison, steel
- struggle beats dark, ice, normal, rock, steel but is weak against Bug, fairy, flies, clairvoyant and has no influence ghost
- Fire beats Beetle, grass, ice, steel but is weak against Dragon, fire, rocks, water
- Flying beats Beetles, fight, grass but is weak against Electro, rock, steel
- ghost beats Mind, clairvoyant but is weak against dark and has no influence normal
- grass beats Water, soil, rock but is weak against Beetle, dragon, fire, flies, grass, poison, steel
- floor beats Electro, fire, poison, stone, steel but is weak against Grass, beetles and has no influence flying at all
- normal beats absolutely nothing, does not affect ghost at all and is weak against Rock, steel
- Poison beats Fairy, grass but is weak against Spirit, soil, rock, poison and has no influence stole at all
- Clairvoyant beats fight, poison but is weak against Beetle, steel and has no influence dark at all
- rock beats Beetles, fire, flies, ice but is weak against Battle, ground, steel
- stole beats Fairy, ice, rocks but is weak against Electric, fire, steel, water
- water beats Fire, ground, rock but is weak against Dragon, grass, water
Pokémon Defense Table
- insect loses against Fire, flies, rocks but is tough against Fight, grass, ground
- Dark loses against Bug, fight but is tough against dark spirit and is not affected by it at all Clairvoyant
- Kite loses against Dragon, fairy, ice cream but is tough against electric, fire, grass, water
- Electric loses against floor but is tough against electric, flying, steel
- fairy loses against Poison, steel but is tough against Beetles, dark, fighting and is not affected by it at all Kite
- struggle loses against Fairy, flying, psychic but is tough against Beetle, dark, rocks
- Fire loses against Soil, rock, water but is tough against Beetle, fairy, fire, grass, ice, steel
- Flying loses against electric, ice, rock but is tough against Beetles, grass, fight and is not affected by it at all floor
- ghost loses against dark spirit but is tough against Beetle, poison and is not affected by it at all fight, normal
- grass loses against Beetles, fire, flies, ice, poison but is tough against electric, grass, soil, water
- floor loses against Grass, ice, water but is hard against it Poison, stone and is not affected by it at all electric
- normal loses against struggle but is not affected at all ghost
- Poison loses against Ground, clairvoyant but is tough against Beetle, fairy, grass, poison
- Clairvoyant loses against Failure, darkness, spirit but is tough against Fight, clairvoyant
- rock loses against Grass, soil, struggle, steel, water but is tough against Fire, flying, normal, poison
- stole loses against Fire, fight, ground but is tough on it (deep breath) Beetle, dragon, fairy, flying, grass, ice, normal, clairvoyant, rock, steel and is not affected by it at all Poison
At the end of the day, you could probably fight your way through most story battles with a high-ranking team and a healthy supply of healing items. (EV training can also help a lot.) But the game is just more fun if you stick to the type table to fight most efficiently. Pokémon blows by when you take out every member of an opposing team with a super-effective hit. And knowing the map like the back of your hand is essential for the post-game multiplayer battles that the Pokémon Community. After all, your opponent probably does.
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