Aspects of Pokémon that you found out about late

Started by Vulpes bicaudata July 12th, 2010 3:49 PM
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Natures. I only discovered they had an impact on the Pokemon's stats...well, probably this year? D:
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i only found out today how the bug catching contest was scored.

before that only descovered IVs and EVs around a year ago and i have been playing pokemon since Gameboy times.

i also thought psychic was super effective against ghost (i never knew the gastly line was part poison)
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Latest realisation...probably Steel is immune to Poison and all Poison moves. ;-; Even that was a while ago, though. I'm pretty well versed in Pokémonology 101.
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I thought because Venusaurs solarbeam was super effective against lorelei's dewgong in Blue, that Ice and grass had a 2 way super effective relationship,

How IS the bug catching contest scored?

ALSO fnding ut about Bug > Psychic
aswell as Bug > dark..

I still don't know today about the whole thing with Bug,Poison and Fighting

what relationship do they have to each otherr?
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What the special stats actually affected, which types they worked for and then that there was a physical/special split in gen 4... This was about two years ago.

More recently, Rock isn't immune to electric, which makes no freaking sense.
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More recently, Rock isn't immune to electric, which makes no freaking sense.
Actually, it does make sense. Quartz, the second most common mineral on Earth, exhibits the reverse piezoelectric effect, meaning that when an electric field is applied, it produces stress. This stress could account for the damage. This should affect most Rock-types, considering most seem to be made of granite, which averages over 70% quartz. In fact, Onix's namesake, onyx, is a form of quartz.

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Most recent realization about the Pokemon games? That fire attacks do neutral damage to ground-type pokemon. This shocked me because I though ground-types were resistant to fire. XD

Oddly enough, I've known about the existence of IVs and stat exp. (GenI/II equivalent of EVs) since GenII era. :P
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How IS the bug catching contest scored?
Its scored by rarity (which i did sort of know)
rarity being a combination of encounter rate and base stat total:
pincer and scyther have a base stat total of 500 and they both have an encounter rate of 5% making them the highest ranking pokemon.

AND the amount of hp they have when you catch them.

so i just use hypnosis and throw sport balls to get it at full hp.

its pretty much an certain win
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