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POTW analysis error?

doublel

New Member
In this week's POTW analysis, I find one statement hard to believe.

Under the 'Ability' section, the author wrote
"Additionally, that Electric immunity presents Jolteon with its only real viable chance of an easy switch-in, since the Electric type, whilst blessed with just one weakness, does come with just three resistances (one of which is Electric anyway; and for that matter, the other two are against far-from-common Steel and Flying attacks). "
Whilst flying attacks are certainly uncommon (only gyarados occasional bounce spring to mind), steel attacks are very common in this generation, thanks to frequent bullet punches (scizor, metagross, and even some lucarios) and gyro balls(common on forretress and bronzong)
 
Mostly said far-from-common in regards to the "When you think of attacks you know you're going to see from opponents, which ones are you going to see?" and I can't picture them being high on the list; only ever used on, as you mentioned, Steel types - so about 5 Pokemon. Maybe far-from-common is the wrong word since we're talking about 3 of the top 10 Pokemon but yeah, you won't see Steel moves on non-Steel types. Maybe an oversight/misuse of words on my part, I'd have to dig through the Shoddy threads to try and find that one with the "this move was used X amount of times" statistics collection.
 
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