RE: What Pokemon do you want in your team for X/Y? Post your ever changing list here!
Being resistant to Fighting helps a lot in battling it. Since Fighting often has high attack, coupled with good moves, taking them out can be a real pain. Especially if all your team are weak to them - it means it's impossible to safely switch one Pokemon in the Fighting gym, or any Fighting type Trainer Class.
It's not totally impossible you couldn't counter Fighters, it's just gonna be much harder than say, with a Pyroar than a Talonflame.
Saying 'Normal types commonly have a wide moveset' would be a good point, if it weren't for the fact that Furfrou would have the bigger movepool considering it's pure Normal.
All Normal types which have other (non flying) types don't really get the large movepools. (think Girafarig, Sawsbuck etc)
Pyroar and Helioptile are more likely gonna get movepools that have more in common with their respective Fire and Electric types.
If you look at their movepools, its clear that part Normal types just don't get the good movepools their pure type cousins do. (the only one that does is Bibarel, and I am 90% sure that if Bibarel wasn't related to a pure Normal type then most of its TM list would be changed)
I've just realised, that the new leaker mentioned a Normal/Poison porcupine. Any thoughts...? You seem to like Normal types, and it has a secondary Poison to help combat a) the Fighting weakness and b) the Fairy weakness.
Viktor12 said:P.DelSlayer said:You do realise that every Pokemon in your team (all but 1 if Quilladin isn't Grass/Dark) is weak to Fighting.
To help combat this, you could:
-replace Litleo with Talonflame, almost same STAB, its not like losing one Normal member will do you much harm, plus Talonflame may have decent use of Return. Talonflame is also resistant to Fighting, which is a huge bonus for your team.
-Maybe replace something else with a Ghost type? If we happen to get a new Electric/Ghost it could be a decent replacement for Helioptile.
Well, I don't necessarily care too much about what I'm weak to or not, as it won't change what I'll use. I don't need to be resistant or immune to a type to counter it, do I? Normal types commonly have a very wide moveset of multiple other types, so it shouldn't be too hard to find something useful. I have been considering my weaknesses though, so I know that I'm extremely vulnerable to Fighting and somewhat of Fairy, but I'll find a way! Those are the only two I have to consider anyway...
Being resistant to Fighting helps a lot in battling it. Since Fighting often has high attack, coupled with good moves, taking them out can be a real pain. Especially if all your team are weak to them - it means it's impossible to safely switch one Pokemon in the Fighting gym, or any Fighting type Trainer Class.
It's not totally impossible you couldn't counter Fighters, it's just gonna be much harder than say, with a Pyroar than a Talonflame.
Saying 'Normal types commonly have a wide moveset' would be a good point, if it weren't for the fact that Furfrou would have the bigger movepool considering it's pure Normal.
All Normal types which have other (non flying) types don't really get the large movepools. (think Girafarig, Sawsbuck etc)
Pyroar and Helioptile are more likely gonna get movepools that have more in common with their respective Fire and Electric types.
If you look at their movepools, its clear that part Normal types just don't get the good movepools their pure type cousins do. (the only one that does is Bibarel, and I am 90% sure that if Bibarel wasn't related to a pure Normal type then most of its TM list would be changed)
I've just realised, that the new leaker mentioned a Normal/Poison porcupine. Any thoughts...? You seem to like Normal types, and it has a secondary Poison to help combat a) the Fighting weakness and b) the Fairy weakness.