Current Events > Pokemon making electric types immune to PRZ was the stupidest change

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"Well you may have broken my Pikachu's spine but he's got charge sacs so he can keep walking!"

Body Slam is an outlier from the RBY days.

Really the only thing that should paralyze Pikachu is Glare.

Kim_Seong-a posted...

"Well you may have broken my Pikachu's spine but he's got charge sacs so he can keep walking!"

Definitely should have been from electric-based moves only. Pikachu being immune to paralysing spores makes no sense either.

DementedDurian posted...

Body Slam is an outlier from the RBY days.

Really the only thing that should paralyze Pikachu is Glare.

There's also Stun Spore, Lick, and Dragon Breath. >_>

Dark_Arbron posted...

Definitely should have been from electric-based moves only. Pikachu being immune to paralysing spores makes no sense either.

With this I can agree. The most popular paralysis moves tend to be electric so it would still be a strong buff without being silly

Kim_Seong-a posted...

"Well you may have broken my Pikachu's spine but he's got charge sacs so he can keep walking!"

I mean, yeah. They would have a fundamentally different nervous system, since they produce, project, and in some cases eat or absorb electricity without harming themselves. Spine still seems pretty structurally important, also.

Kim_Seong-a posted...

There's also Stun Spore, Lick, and Dragon Breath. >_>

Okay, maybe Dragon Breath and Lick, too.

Stun Spore always reminds me of Meowth grinding up herbs in a kimono in the anime.

That's was after I learned what paralysis was. I vaguely remember a show as a kid about a man who was crushed by a falling tree and was paralyzed from the waist down.

Don't know if it was a true story or not.

I also highly suspect there's a paralysis fetish.

I guess they wanted it to be "consistent" like how Fire types can't be burned or Ice types can't be frozen so they figured it made sense to make Electric types immune to paralysis.... I guess >_>

The weird thing is that prior to gen 6, paralysis did work that way -- paralysis as an added effect on Electric moves was unable to affect Electric mons (for instance, the chance for Thunderbolt to paralyze would be negated if the target was Electric type).

Prior to then, Thunder Wave was the only Electric move that could inflict paralysis on an Electric type, because the paralysis there was not an added effect. If anything, that's what should have been changed -- making Electric types immune to Thunder Wave as well. I also don't know why they became immune to paralysis as a whole.

As a bit of trivia, gen 6 also added several other beneficial effects to certain other types. Grass types became immune to powder/spore effects, Ghost types became immune to any sort of trapping effects (being unable to switch out) as well as being able to run away from any wild Pokemon guaranteed regardless of speed comparison, and Poison types gained perfect accuracy when using the move Toxic (ignoring accuracy/evasion changes and also hitting Pokemon using moves like Fly or Dig)

Philip027 posted...

Grass types became immune to powder/spore effects

Wasn't this always the case? Or am I think of Leech Seed?

Dark_Arbron posted...

Wasn't this always the case? Or am I think of Leech Seed?

Just leech seed before gen 6

MrFingers07 posted...

Just leech seed before gen 6

Ah, right.

Philip027 posted...

The weird thing is that prior to gen 6, paralysis did work that way -- paralysis as an added effect on Electric moves was unable to affect Electric mons (for instance, the chance for Thunderbolt to paralyze would be negated if the target was Electric type).

Also is this true? I feel like my electric type Pokemon have been paralyzed by Thunderbolt multiple times in the past. I think that how it worked in Gen 1 but not Gen 2 to 5 iirc

It is true, specifically for Electric moves. In all likelihood, you were getting paralyzed by Body Slam.