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Why is rock so horrible defensively? You'd think such a hard mineral would be among the strongest types in the game, and this notion is further reinforced by all the defensively orientated rock types in the game: Onix, Omastar, Aggron, Probopass, Bastiodon, Carracosta, Crustle and the list goes on.
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Fumb drogleposter
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>a heavy rock would destroy any plant
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Rock should at least resist itself. Think about it, Rock types would take less damage from sneaking pebbles and Rock is a pretty common offensive type so they'd be a bit more useful defensively. It'd definitely be a buff.
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>>24833547 >why isn't my favorite type the best type when are we going to fucking get over this shit
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>>24833547 Rock has a lot of issues that it needs to sort out. It's built as an offensive type, but ended up getting stuck on to a lot of very slow pokemon with lopsided defenses.
Not saying that defensive Rock types don't work, there's some that do a good job, but more Aerodactyls and Terrakions need to exist.
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>>24834135 Why is Fighting super effective against Steel?
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>>24834243 Because something had to be
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>>24834256 So why the fuck not water? Water is far more corrosive to Steel than it is to Rock.
If you're going to go with the power argument, then you need to come up with a plausible excuse for Fighting type, otherwise Gamefreak are retarded.
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>>24833547 >doesn't it take millions of years for water to affect rocks in any way Did you sleep through 4th grade science class?
>what about grass Plants commonly break up large rocks with their roots and grow right through them.
>a heavy rock would fucking destroy any plant I take back everything I said, you're apparently 7 so you haven't taken 4th grade science yet. The point is that just because you can't break a rock doesn't mean that nature can't
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>>24834261 I'm not going for the power argument, I'm saying that given that steel (until recently) resisted almost everything, they needed to give it more than two weaknesses. And I think they wanted to buff fighting types, so they made it so it was super-effective against both of the new types in gen 2, which in-turn made it an offensive powerhouse. And they probably chose fighting over water, because water was already a strong typing with only 2 weaknesses and generally good pokes.
