TIL Rock doesn't resist Bug

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Underleveled
03/20/2024
12:23 AM
#1
What in the Mandela effect is this?

Have you ever found a type effectiveness that you've been wrong about for years?
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Lopen
03/20/2024
12:40 AM
#2
Rock is super effective against bug is probably why you thought that. It makes more sense than most Mandela type stuff

I know for a long time I would get ground and rock weaknesses/resistances muddled since so many things were rock/ground
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ExThaNemesis
03/20/2024
12:55 AM
#3
Always really weird when they have a type that super-effects another, but doesn't resist it when being attacked back.
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Grand_Kirby
03/20/2024
12:58 AM
#4
Anyone else find it weird poison resists fighting? Feels like they pulled that one out of a hat.
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Isquen
03/20/2024
01:11 AM
#5
I'm always more shocked at just how much crap Ice and Grass are weak to despite how good they are at attacking, and also what Steel is strong against when attacking (like, yes, I get strong versus Fairy because of the whole "can't stand cold iron" but nothing else ever makes sense to me what it hits strong and what resists it.)
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KamikazePotato
03/20/2024
01:31 AM
#6
Grand_Kirby posted...
Anyone else find it weird poison resists fighting? Feels like they pulled that one out of a hat.
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MMXcalibur
03/20/2024
03:09 AM
#7
Uh, yeah.

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TeamRocketElite
03/20/2024
03:27 AM
#8
Beedrill learns its first damaging Bug move, Twineedle, at Lv20. If you levelled up that much, I'm not surprised Onix just folded.
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SeabassDebeste
03/20/2024
06:57 AM
#9
i don't suffer from this one. rock is not that good a defensive type. it's the combination of being the first gym before you have a lot of good water moves, the combo with ground for electric resistance, and high defense.

ExThaNemesis posted...
Always really weird when they have a type that super-effects another, but doesn't resist it when being attacked back.

best is gen 1 bug/poison being super-effective against one another, or ghosts/dragons being super vs themselves

Isquen posted...
I'm always more shocked at just how much crap Ice and Grass are weak to despite how good they are at attacking,

surely "grass is a good offensive type" is incredibly biased by the first 2 gyms of RBY?

thematically it totally makes sense that ice is fragile!
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iiaattgg
03/20/2024
07:06 AM
#10
SeabassDebeste posted...
i don't suffer from this one. rock is not that good a defensive type. it's the combination of being the first gym before you have a lot of good water moves, the combo with ground for electric resistance, and high defense.

best is gen 1 bug/poison being super-effective against one another, or ghosts/dragons being super vs themselves

surely "grass is a good offensive type" is incredibly biased by the first 2 gyms of RBY?

thematically it totally makes sense that ice is fragile!

it hits water and ground which are two incredibly common types in competitive

but is also resisted by dragon and steel

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Emeraldegg
03/20/2024
09:10 AM
#11
Isquen posted...
I'm always more shocked at just how much crap Ice and Grass are weak to despite how good they are at attacking, and also what Steel is strong against when attacking (like, yes, I get strong versus Fairy because of the whole "can't stand cold iron" but nothing else ever makes sense to me what it hits strong and what resists it.)
Fairy specifically was made to buff steel and poison as attacking types and nerf dragon, I don't think there's much logic behind that one.
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XIII_Rocks
03/20/2024
09:40 AM
#12
Electric and Rock being neutral to each other was a surprising one to me for a while.

Bug/Poison's relationship always throws me off as well.
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Underleveled
03/20/2024
09:43 AM
#13
XIII_Rocks posted...
Electric and Rock being neutral to each other was a surprising one to me for a while.
Yeah, this threw me off during Gen I, but by Gen II I figured it out. There are actually TWO big reasons for this one - most Rock Pokemon in Gen I were also Ground, and season 1 of the anime constantly said that Rock is immune to Electric.
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NFUN
03/20/2024
09:43 AM
#14
bug, poison and rock are impossible to remember
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Raka_Putra
03/20/2024
10:19 AM
#15
Bug's and Poison's resistances are the most difficult for me.
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Mewtwo59
03/20/2024
11:48 AM
#16
It's a good thing it isn't. Enough things resist Bug as is.
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MZero
03/20/2024
11:51 AM
#17
Bug resisting Fighting has always been the weirdest one to me

like have you ever tried stomping on a bug
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kevwaffles
03/20/2024
12:13 PM
#18
Stomp is a normal move though. Kicking a bug would be tough.
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pjbasis
03/20/2024
12:24 PM
#19
As a big grass user, it's not that great of a type. It's just carried in single player because of the ubiquity of rock ground and water.
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bwburke94
03/20/2024
01:48 PM
#20
Defensively, the Flying weakness also holds it back more than many people expect it to.
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WazzupGenius00
03/20/2024
03:16 PM
#21
I felt so strongly that Fairy should be weak to Bug that I forgot Fairy actually resists Bug instead
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ChichiriMuyo
03/20/2024
05:24 PM
#22
Yeah, the typing makes no sense. Ever tried to kill an ant or a bee with a rock? It sucks. Ever see them hurt a rock? Nope. Both should resist each other if we're being realistic.
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Grand_Kirby
03/20/2024
06:43 PM
#23
I've never seen a bug beat anything
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andylt
03/20/2024
07:09 PM
#24
I've seen bugs eat grass
MZero
03/21/2024
08:53 AM
#25
Grand_Kirby posted...
I've never seen a bug beat anything

tell that to mosquitos
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changmas
03/21/2024
09:25 AM
#26
okay the ACTUAL surprising one is that Rock doesnt resist itself.

ground resists rock and so many early rock types were rock/ground that your brain just starts to assume rock resists rock and yet it doesnt
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swirIdude
03/21/2024
01:24 PM
#27
Not a Mandela effect, but I didn't know Rock was super effective on Bug for many years.
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