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2nd Gen Thundershock On a Rock pokemon actually hit? on Yellow

Torii

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As the title describes after a long period of time using a thunder attack on pokemon yellow to a rock pokemon such as (Geodude) can actually effect them, I restarted pokemon yellow played it and to my surprise i used thundershock on brocks geodude and it did 1-2 damage i believe but the fact it actually hit, was surpising. Has this happened to anyone else Besides me? Im very curious to how it actually managed to hit.
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Timbjerr

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electric attacks hit rock pokemon for neutral damage. >_>

however, the example you gave with Geodude is rather curious...Geodude being half ground-type should be immune to electric attacks. XD
 

Torii

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Timbjerr said:
electric attacks hit rock pokemon for neutral damage. >_>

however, the example you gave with Geodude is rather curious...Geodude being half ground-type should be immune to electric attacks. XD
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xD I know~ I was shocked when it hit (Lol bad Pun) It went~
Pikachu Uses Thunder Shock
Not very Effective...
 
Timbjerr

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My best guess is that it's a glitch in your Yellow version 'cause I've never heard of this happening before. :P
 

Torii

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Seems like it~ I think its kinda cool now all i need to do it trade it to G/S/C then to F/L then migrate it to platinum~ then i'll have a better pikachu~
 

~*!*~Tatsujin Gosuto~*!*~

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that's one cool glitch, you should be quite lucky to have a glitch that hit's ground type Pokemon with electric type attacks, consider yourself very lucky. But did you do something to the game for the game to get like that?


:t354:TG
 
Sydian

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Since this is a thread about Yellow, which hey, is a color generation game, I'll move it there.

Le move;

Edit; About the Thundershock, though, that's a glitch I wish I had back when I first got Yellow. I lost the game before I even got past Brock because I decided not to read the battle log, so I had no idea that it had no effect.
 
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Megaman765

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I never really understood why Electric attacks can hit rock types alone, that aren't paired with a ground typing. I always thought rock type alone was immune from electric attacks :/
 

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Yeah Rock is just neutral to Electricity, however ground is not effected by it, and since Geodude is Rock/Ground, as someone said earlier, it must be a glitch in your game.
 

Tudj

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Well seeing as though in the anime that Ash attacked Brocks Geodude (with the aid of water) and as it is like a little anime hack, they probably made it happen, although I don't recall such a thing happening, as I used geodue on level 11 for a joke against Surge and Surge got beaten.
 

ScizorZ

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yea, it doesnt seem to work in mine. thats why i caught a bunch of noobymon and trained them to defeat brock!
 

poliwrath10

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is not a glich in pokemon fire red at pewter gym witth static i paralizate a geodude
 

Zetlian2-kinra

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Yeah, yellow has alot of anime crossovers...
level 8 pidgeotto in viridan forest much?
XD
 

ArcanineOod

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I don't remember that happening on my Yellow, but then again it's been a long time since I've fought against Brock on Yellow.

Perhaps it is a glitch on the game, perhaps not. I'll try it out if I can bear to restart my Yellow... =3
Was Geodude part Ground Type back then? I seem to remember it only having gained its extra type after R/B/Y... I'm probably mistaken, though...
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poliwrath10 said:
is not a glich in pokemon fire red at pewter gym witth static i paralizate a geodude
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Static works regardless of Pokemon typing.

As for the Yellow glitch, it certainly is curious. AFAIK, Geodude has been Rock/Ground for the entire series, so there is no reason why it should affect Geodude unless the coding was altered just for Yellow (so AIMING 4 TEH HORN and such would work).
 

Torii

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~*!*~Tatsujin Gosuto~*!*~ said:
that's one cool glitch, you should be quite lucky to have a glitch that hit's ground type Pokemon with electric type attacks, consider yourself very lucky. But did you do something to the game for the game to get like that?


:t354:TG
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I haven't done anything with yellow i restarted got pikachu i accidentally hit thundershock instead of quick attack (Not paying attention) and it suprisingly hit~
(Btw i re-re-started the game and it hit brocks geodude and worked again, it also worked on his onix)
 

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I think this was put into the game as a refrence to the anime, kinda like the way Pikachu follows you. If I remember rightly, Thundershock hit rock types in the anime aswell so I'm pretty sure the only logical explanation is for them to re emulate that through the game.
 

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Are you sure it did damage? It would make a lot more sense if it didn't.
Now, in RBY, there was a bug. A harmless bug. A bug that does no good. A bug that can explain why the message "It's not very effective..." comes up, even if it it is false. It is in spoilers, because it is a long theory.

Spoiler:


I do not claim the above text to be mine in any way. I give full credits to The Cave Of Dragonflies
HTML: 
www.dragonflycave.com
for the explanation.
 
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