posted September 15, 2002 04:03 PM            

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Colorless: +Nothing Resistant
-Nothing Weak
-Artifial Resistance (twice)

Dark: +Can use Darkness Energy at no penalty
+Nothing Resistant
-Nothing Weak
-Artificail Resistance exists

Fighting: +Weakness Exists
-Resistance Exists

Fire: +weakness exists
+nothing resistant

Grass: +Weakness Exists
-Weakness Exists

Lightning: +Weaknes Exists
-Resistance Exists

Metal: +Can use Metal Energy at no penalty
+Nothing Resistant
-Nothing Weak
-Artificail Resistance exists

Psychic: +Weakness Exists
-Resistance Exists

Water: +Weakness Exists
+Nothing Resistant

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Like I said, that was based upon the pre-Expedition environment. I think it is still too soon to make any adjustments, since the above also takes into account a few abstract concepts, namely the commoness with which the above points exists. For example, Water still appears to be dominant in my area, managing to hold of Elerctic and Grass. Fire does well to since Grass is the third most abundant. Electric is held back by Fighting Weakness since Tyrougue is so common. Psychic is held back by all the resistance played and its weakness to itself (I always make sure I can attack with my Slowkings, even when its a supporter )Fighting suffers a similar fate-Resistance abounds and its weak to Psychic (or one of the [B}better types[/B]. I also gave more credit for being able to utilize the Special energies freely. Colorless is just hosed: No strong archetypes I've seen and it has double Resistance to deal with: Sprout Tower and Unown N. Ick. Unown N may not be common, but Sprout Tower is often the "default Gym" when deck building. Whew!

Based on what I have seen so far in Expedition, I think that Water and Fire will remain tied: the actual Water Pokemon do tend to have several Weakness (and now a resistance) keeping them in line, but Fire is weak to Water, thus it balancing them. Dark and Metal will remain big, though often in a support role. Grass gets held down by Fire and Metal, both mainstream (Steelix/????) and rogue (my Scizor/Muk has tested well against Grass). Most Psychic holds itself down (as an active attacker). Espeon is sweet though, but the Krow... Electric suffers from Tyroguing, Woopers, and of course, the odd rogue Donophan deck. Fighting has about as good of a chance as Psychic. Finally Colorless. Many are weak to common TecH: Tyrogue and Elekid (in my parts, at least). Finally, like I said, Sprout tower and the odd Unown N...

These are obviously just my opinions, though.

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