Is it bad how only a few types relations are pointed out by the show?

[Peppermint Phoenix]

When it comes to type relations the anime only seems to point out a few of them. The starter type triangle, electric relations, steel resistances and a little bit on gym types and flying are the only ones that seem get mentioned. No one ever point out that rock is good against bug and fire. Or that Bug is good against anything (OK they did like once). a A prime example is Flint's Infernape vs Jasmine's Steelix. I think it was dawn who pointed out that Fire is good against steel so Flint should have the advantage. She failed to mention that fighting was good against steel or that Ground is good against fire making Flint's only advantage a better verity of super effective moves. Part of this is because of Ash's team building style but it gets annoying to hear the anime reminding of the same relations over and over (I know new audiences). What do you think?

 

[Kip]

I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing. I think it'd get confusing, fast, if the anime started pointing out all the different type advantages there could be- or even most of them. There are times playing the games when I get confused because of all the different type advantages/disadvantages I'm trying to remember, and which moves are super effective, normally effective, and not very effective. I'd imagine that in the anime it'd be even worse because there's so many, not to mention Ash's brain would probably explode upon trying to process and remember all that information.

 

[Karpi]

Imagine Ash vs a Magneton with its 13 resistances. He would be bound to use an array of ineffective attacks, and then Brock/whoever does it now would have to stop and explain each individual type relation.

For plot purposes, usually "grass beats water" is good enough, rather than coming up with some unusual analogy to explain why cacturne's dark type beats starmie's psychic type.

 

[Almonds]

Imagine Ash vs a Magneton with its 13 resistances. He would be bound to use an array of ineffective attacks, and then Brock/whoever does it now would have to stop and explain each individual type relation.

For plot purposes, usually "grass beats water" is good enough, rather than coming up with some unusual analogy to explain why cacturne's dark type beats starmie's psychic type.

I agree. It's a kids show, and it'll be pretty difficult to explain just how the hell a dark type is effective against psychic types when the other way around has no effect at all. It's easy to say water douses out fire, and electricity flows through water, but dark types and psychic types are hard to comprehend.

Also, the show would have to go on forever if the characters explained how types are effective against each other. Also, there are other stuff like how a secondary type can cancel out the primary type's weakness. For example, during the pokemon ring toss event, Ash's Staraptor learned Close Combat and used it against Paul's Honchkrow. Dawn and Brock pointed out that it would be super effective, but they didn't mention about the latter's Flying-type, which would cancel out the effect and would just receive the attack as it is with no additional damage.

There would be a lot more explaining to do...

 

[Jukain]

Yeah, there's too many alignments to effectively mention them all. I can't remember them all myself. I will agree on the matter that only certain types seem to get the attention, but they seem to remedying that. (sort of) When a type has an immunity, it should be important, and they're usually good about portraying the immunities where they apply. The only one I don't see touched upon is Steel's immunity to Poison. I don't see too well how that would be useful to anyone, though, since it's not common to see a Poison or Steel type.

 

[Karpi]

The only one I don't see touched upon is Steel's immunity to Poison. I don't see too well how that would be useful to anyone, though, since it's not common to see a Poison or Steel type.

Actually we have seen a Scizor take damage from a Sludge Bomb attack... somewhere...

It's not one of those common-sense resistances, though, so I don't care

 

[Ampharos King]

Type relationships are mentioned all of the time. Not all of those type relationships are brought up, however, but are explicitly mentioned by either Brock or Cilan whenever Ash chooses a pokemon to pit against them in a battle.

In many cases, however, Ash's pokemon are usually brought into battle against pokemon with either a double or quadruple resistance against that pokemon's type. Ash's pokemon usually win those battles.

Actually we have seen a Scizor take damage from a Sludge Bomb attack... somewhere...

It's not one of those common-sense resistances, though, so I don't care

Poison-type offensive against Steel-type defensive is not a resistance; it's an immunity. Steel-type pokemon like Scizor cannot be harmed by Poison-type attacks.

The wild Croagunk that was once used by Jessie in "Gymbaliar" defeated a COTD's Scizor using Poison Jab in early DP. There was also the time when Gary's Scizor pitted against Ash's Muk in the Silver Conference. I don't quite remember the battle on the top of my head, but was Scizor actually hit by Muk's Sludge Bomb? I thought it blocked/dodged that attack?

 

[chimera]

It makes me want to rage everytime a type relation is ignored... but I guess it would be hard to explain.

 

[Winterdaze]

Ash's team is usually comprised of a formulaic set of types (Electric:Grass:Water:Fire:Flying:X), so they mostly focus on the weaknesses and resistances involving these types.
Still, I'd like to see some of the more obscure types get a mention every now and then. After all, some types like Psychic and Dark only have a few specific weaknesses to types (like Bug, Dark and Ghost) that Ash's teams rarely have, so there will always be some types that his team can't have an advantage over.

 

[Geodude]

In the recent battle in Japan between Cilan's Dwebble and Trip's Gurdurr, Don George did mention that Gurdurr's Stone Edge was supereffective. No mention, however, was made of Dwebble's X-Scissor or Rock Slide being "not very effective".

 

[Yamato-san]

no mention of Langley's debut episode? Really, I found it quite interesting that, not only does Dragon's Ice weakness get put out in the open (albeit it was already mentioned a couple episodes prior with Shootie's Vanipetit), but it's even mentioned that Dragon is weak against itself. And all things considered, they never really gave Dragon enough focus to actually mention its type relations prior to this. It was just a "rare, mystical, and powerful type" (which is ironic, since Satoshi actually got one himself near the end of DP, and yet they STILL didn't bring its weaknesses to light so far as I could recall).

 

[PDL]

When even the fans can't figure out why a certain Pokémon's attack is effective against certain Pokémon ("Have you ever punched a bird?" comes up alot.) I doubt the writers really want to touch up on these obscure type matchups either.