>>38845729oh whoops, excuse me I dropped my A N I M E W O R K I N G C L O S E L Y W I T H G A M E F R E A K
-Many times when Ash's Pikachu fights a Ground-type Pokémon, he uses an Electric-type move and still causes damage.
-May's Squirtle attacked and damaged Harley's Banette with Tackle in New Plot, Odd Lot, despite Ghost-types' immunity to Normal-type attacks.
-In multiple instances, Shadow Ball is able to hit Normal-type Pokémon, despite being a Ghost-type attack.
-Pokémon without Sturdy survive one-hit knockout moves, like Horn Drill, without fainting.
-Some non-damaging attacks cause damage to the Pokémon being attacked, such as Brandon's Dusclops using Will-O-Wisp.
-Furthermore, it affected Ash's Charizard which, as a Fire-type Pokémon, should not be affected by Will-O-Wisp.
-Safeguard has been able to protect against attacks instead of status problems.
-Light Screen has been able to block physical attacks, even though it usually only affects special attacks.
-Similarly, Counter has been shown to block special attacks, even though in the games it only affects physical attacks.
-This was disputed in Imitation Confrontation, which was also the debut of the move Mirror Coat in the anime. Regardless, Counter and Mirror Coat were then used interchangeably.
-Both Counter and Mirror Coat have the users being unharmed by the enemy attack.
-Psychic-type moves have persistently been shown to affect Dark-type Pokémon, even though Dark-type Pokémon are immune to the effects of damaging Psychic-type moves.
-In The Blue Badge of Courage, Psyduck uses Confusion on a Poochyena that belongs to the Gym Badge thieves.
-In Zoroark: Master of Illusions, Karl's Bronzor levitated Zorua with Psychic. As a Dark-type Pokémon, Zorua is immune to Psychic-type moves.
-In Seeking Shelter from the Storm, James's Inkay was affected by a wild Espurr's Psychic.
