Pokemon Type Misconceptions

I used to think Ghost was weak to Normal and Fighting after Odor Sleuth/Foresight was used on it. Because young me used a Fighting attack on a Sableye after Foresight and didn't realize it was the Dark-type taking the damage.

>>32534858
i had no idea what fucking type the nido line was supposed to be

>>32534858
I still don't know how Fairy types work.

>>32534886
they are weak to poison and steel, but super effective against dragon

>>32534858

I thought pokemon could only have 1 type in gen 1. Kind of blame the anime. I just assumed rock was also immune to electric, I didn't pay too much attention to types, etc.

The first pokemon I realized was two types was chinchao when they blatantly stated it being electric/water in the anime

I thought bite was a normal type move in gen 2

>>32534858
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I thought water resisted ground/rock, and that steel resisted electric/water. Not sure why I thought that about the latter, I guess I just assumed steel resisted everything when I was little.

>>32534858
Took me the longest time to figure out shuckle and Cradily actually had weaknesses
>Fire right? wait it's not weak to that because of rock
>They're rock types, I'll use grass. Fuck
>ground? no that's neutral too
>bugs and grass don't like flying right? but they're part rock

At this point I'm getting desperate and for some reason so I just defaulted to using ice type attacks on both since it was SE on cradily at least. I never really kept around steel moves in Gen 3-4 and Cradily being grass made me never try water on either of them.

A couple years ago I relearned that Mantine was part Flying-type. I totally forgot that.

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I still partially think suicune is water/ice.

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Grass type.

Fighting is SE against itself
Ground is weak to Flying

>>32535022
>Ground is weak to Flying
I thought this too.

Also, that Rock is weak to Ice.

>>32534886
Strong against: Dragon, Dark, Fighting
Weak to: Poison, Steel

>>32534858
In my heart Lugia is still a Dragon/Psychic Pokémon.

I used to think Ghost was weak against ground. But that seems fair, considering the only Ghost line in Gen 1 was also Poison.

>>32534858
I started out with the trading cards so I hadn't realized bug, fighting, ground, poison, ice, ghost, etc. were types.

It was really confusing in Gen III with Roxanne followed by Brawly. I assumed water would be SE against his Machop.

Also, when I got back into Pokemon years later, I assumed Empoleon was Ice type, Luxray was Dark, and Lucario was Psychic.

I used to think Golduck was Water/Psychic, and Starmie was just Water. Turns out it's the other way around for whatever fucking reason.

ITT noobs

>>32534858
When I was little I thought Flygon was Bug/Grass.
Getting one in Emerald and seeing it was Dragon/Ground instead fucked me up big time

thought dunsparce was ground/flying for some reason

I always fucked up psychic/dark/ghost effectiveness
I still do, and it only gets worse with dual types

>>32534858
When I started playing, I used to believe fire was strong against electric. Don't remember the reason.

It also took me A LOT of time to figure out bug was super effective against dark.

>>32536370
Same i started out with trading cards too i was unaware of the existance of ground types and ice types until gen 3

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>>32534858
Pure water

>>32534858
i thought caterpie was bug/grass until 4 months ago

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Only just learned like a month ago that this is a pure fire type. I could have SWORN it was fire/rock

I first saw the hoennmons in a friend's sprite sheet. I thought the Ralts, Gulpin and Electrike lines were grass types, while Surskit was only bug, Slakoth was ground and Groudon was fire.

I can't get Venomoth's typing right. I always thing it's a flying type

>>32534858
I sometimes think ground is weak to bug just because certain bugs burrow

>>32534858
I still forget that Steel is NVE on Steel and isn't NVE on Ground

I used to think rock resists bug because leach life was NVE on geodudes. only later i learned that g1 leach life was normal type.

but seriously, why is bug weak against fight but normal against rock?

I thought Water was weak to Ice because ice freezes water or some shit. Also thought that Water beat Steel since steel rusts when exposed to water and oxygen

>>32534858
I thought Gardevoir was part Grass type and used to spam Blaze Kick against it.

Thought fire was weak to flying because infernape was.

I used to think Ground resisted Fire until like, gen 4

>>32537295
Damn that makes you an idiot, dude.

>>32537831
I didn't know how to read english

>>32537505
? Leech Life is Bug in Gen1, isn't it?

Also Bug isn't weak to Fighting, Fighting just resists it.

>>32537962
bug is weak AGAINST means fight resists it.

I learned Nincada was part ground in Gen 6 when I found it in a ground friend safari.

>>32538207
To be fair he looks like a pure bug type

psyduck isn't psychic

>>32534879
Strong to Dark, Dragon, Fighting
Weak to Poison, Steel
Resists Bug, Dark, Fighting
Resisted by Steel, Poison, Fire.
Immune to Dragon.

>>32534858
I thought when I began with Pokemon that tangela was a seaweed Pokemon type Water/Grass

Used to believe that Fighting resisted Steel

>>32536405
By definition, EVERYONE was a noob at one point.
Even you.

>>32534858
Flying is supereffective against Water because birds eat fish.

Thought that grass resisted fighting because of Bulbasaur