Sorry if this has already been discussed, but I was wondering if they'll ever make attacks that have more than one element.
Doesn't really seem like a bad idea IMO.
A large majority of the current attacks are single element, but there are several moves that could be dual-type attacks.
Like Fire/Ice/Thunder Punch could all be Fire/Ice/Electric and Fighting. They can also introduce new dual-type attacks in future games.
What happens to STAB? If a Pokemon using a dual-type attack has just one of the types than ot gets the bonus.
(Like Electivire using ThunderPunch)
Super STAB - If a dual-type Pokemon uses an attack of the same 2 types, the attack is doubled instead of getting a 50% boost.
(Like Infernape, a Fire/Fighting type would have a Fire Punch with 150 base power.)
Super Omega Effective - In the rare event that a target is weak to both types of the attack, it will do 4 times the damage. So for example, if a Staraptor used Brave Bird (Which would be a Flying/Fire move) against a Heracross, first it would get Flying STAB. Than it gets juiced up more 'cause of the double type advantage. So if my math is right, that would be a 720 Brave Bird when used against bug types. (That doesn't have a secondary type that gives it some resistance like a Surskit would.)
I may have messed up on some of the machnics but you
get the gist of it. So what do you think about dual-type attacks?
Doesn't really seem like a bad idea IMO.
A large majority of the current attacks are single element, but there are several moves that could be dual-type attacks.
Like Fire/Ice/Thunder Punch could all be Fire/Ice/Electric and Fighting. They can also introduce new dual-type attacks in future games.
What happens to STAB? If a Pokemon using a dual-type attack has just one of the types than ot gets the bonus.
(Like Electivire using ThunderPunch)
Super STAB - If a dual-type Pokemon uses an attack of the same 2 types, the attack is doubled instead of getting a 50% boost.
(Like Infernape, a Fire/Fighting type would have a Fire Punch with 150 base power.)
Super Omega Effective - In the rare event that a target is weak to both types of the attack, it will do 4 times the damage. So for example, if a Staraptor used Brave Bird (Which would be a Flying/Fire move) against a Heracross, first it would get Flying STAB. Than it gets juiced up more 'cause of the double type advantage. So if my math is right, that would be a 720 Brave Bird when used against bug types. (That doesn't have a secondary type that gives it some resistance like a Surskit would.)
I may have messed up on some of the machnics but you
get the gist of it. So what do you think about dual-type attacks?