Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Drapion's Weakness

Hatter™

Hatter™

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This came up at the Battle Road today a couple times.. What in the Video Game would make Drapion weak to Psychic?

We came to the conclusion they got bored and were like, stick a purple eyeball on it.

I was told it is Dark/Poison.

Not sure where this goes.. but I was just wondering :lol:
 
Hatter™ said:
Why is the Drapion from the next Japanese set weak to Fire, and resistant to Psychic?
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Love it!

because....it is a bug.....thingy.....bugs are known to hate fire? (caterpie)...umm......bugs are too dumb to be fooled by psychic powers?....idk......I am blowing smoke.....I too am flippen out with confusion about it XD
 
Bangle, that next set drapion is fighting weak, since it is part type, and Skourpi is weak to psychic (poison).
 
TheGeneral said:
I've had the same question with bronzong g....metal resistant to fire?!!?!
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Its a reference to the ability "Fireproof" that Bronzong can have. They either have Fireproof or Levitate which makes them resist fire or immune to ground which are Bronzong's two weaknesses.


As far as Drapion... it doesnt make sense any way you slice it, unless you are only counting it as a pure Poison type instead of Dark/Poison.

:psychic: in the card game generally refers to Psychic, Ghost, or Poison. Drapion's Dark typing takes care of Psychic and Ghost and its Poison typing takes care of Poison weakness.

Drapion's only weakness in the videogame is Ground, which should be represented by :fighting: in the card game.
 
If you keep a close eye out, you see some some unusual weaknesses in the TCG. I'm not sure how elaborate the minds of these card creators are, but I am gonna guess that they want specific counters for specific pokemon, so that more card varieties are used.
 
That psychic weakness really bugs me. Pun fully intended.

In the VG he is weak to ground and resistant to grass, poision, dark, and ghost. He's flat out Immune to psychic. How that becomes psychic weakness in the TCG is a mystery to me.

Then again IMHO nearly all psychic types should be weak to darkness instead of other psychic attacks ... either that or the ghosts should be weak to psychic too as Ghost type is weak to itself in the VG.
 
Bronzong doesn't have a weakness to psychic in the game, which means they didn't think of heat proof, they just got mixed up LOL.
 
Alex2k said:
LOL FAIL.

Heatproof, helllooooooooooooo :lol::lol:
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Lol, kids these days....I don't play the video game son. I play the TCG, which is what matters. Nice try to burn me though, now you just look dumb :lol:

gallade said:
Dude, TheGeneral plays cards, not video games. This is a site for the cards :p
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This guy knows me :thumb:

Cephalized said:
That actually makes sense, because in the game it has a a Pokebody thing that cuts fire damage in half.
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Again, no video game for me. I'm not into the whole "Fireproof/Rain dance/whatever special ability or something they have."
 
It is a balance choice. They probably wanted something that wasn't stupidly vulnerable to Blaziken or something.

Heatproof would have been the reason Bronzong was chosen for that position, instead of something like Metagross or some other steel-type.
 
Alex2k said:
LOL FAIL.

Heatproof, helllooooooooooooo :lol::lol:
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Let's go over game weakness and resistances, shall we?

Even with heatproof, fire is still normally effective against bronzong in the games.

Psychic however is 4x resisted by bronzong. 2x For steel and 2x for psychic.

Much like fire, ghost is normal effective.

Poison doesn't even hit it and that covers all the purple colors.

Doesn't make sense anyway you slice it.
 
Here's what I've noticed over the years. When they chose a weakness or resistance and it's a dual-type Pokemon in the video game then they only chose one if the Pokemon's video game types at a time. And if they have a weakness and a resistance then they do one type at a time twice, one for weakness and another for resistance. It makes sence too, take a look.

Drapion is dark/poison: They chose poison so it's weak to psychic.
Bronzong G is psychic/metal: They chose psychic so it's weak to ghost (psychic), but still has Heatproof.
 
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