Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is one thing of a clipping, textureless aquarium, but it surely’s lastly out and arguably playable. If you’ll your self to see past appearances, NPC apparitions, and Pokémon trapped behind partitions, and check out to not think about all of the high-performance McChickens you would have as an alternative purchased with $60, you’ll discover an alluring open world journey with story choices, difficult health club leaders, and a cute Spanish piggy. That piggy and people health club challenges are topic to the identical kind chart you’ll acknowledge from different Pokémon video games, however as you wander Scarlet and Violet’s wobbling Paldea area, you may end up in want of a refresher.
A Pokémon’s kind (hearth, water, or one thing else) places it both (“it’s tremendous efficient!”) or drawback (“it’s not very efficient…”) in battle towards one other kind. All 18 Pokémon varieties are topic to this pure order—a few of it does really feel pure, like fire-types igniting grass-types or water dunking hearth—and able to using their double-damage strengths or half-damage weaknesses. This stays true in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, however turns into a bit extra advanced with dual-type Pokémon (the Bug/Metal kind Scizor, for instance, or Electrical/Fairy kind Dedenne), which tackle each its varieties’ strengths and weaknesses—except one kind has a resistance that cancels out the opposite’s weak point.
Like most Pokémon video games, Scarlet and Violet’s kind system provides a quirk within the type of its its Terastallizing mechanic, but it surely in any other case adheres to the franchises’ normal chart. Right here is the fundamental rundown, courtesy of Ari Notis’ 2021 Good Diamond and Shining Pearl protection simply someday wanting a yr in the past (time flies when it’s clipping in Pokémon):
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Assault Chart
- Bug beats grass, darkish, psychic however is weak towards fairy, hearth, combating, flying, poison, metal, ghost
- Darkish beats ghost, psychic however is weak towards darkish, fairy, combating
- Dragon beats dragon however is weak towards metal and doesn’t have an effect on fairy
- Electrical beats flying, water however is weak towards electrical, grass, dragon and doesn’t have an effect on floor
- Fairy beats combating, darkish, dragon however is weak towards hearth, poison, metal
- Preventing beats darkish, ice, regular, rock, metal however is weak towards bug, fairy, flying, psychic and doesn’t have an effect on ghost
- Fireplace beats bug, grass, ice, metal however is weak towards dragon, hearth, rock, water
- Flying beats bug, combating, grass however is weak towards electrical, rock, metal
- Ghost beats ghost, psychic however is weak towards darkish and doesn’t have an effect on regular
- Grass beats water, floor, rock however is weak towards bug, dragon, hearth, flying, grass, poison, metal
- Floor beats electrical, hearth, poison, rock, metal however is weak towards grass, bug and doesn’t have an effect on flying in any respect
- Ice beats dragon, flying, grass, floor however is weak towards ice and water
- Regular beats completely nothing, doesn’t have an effect on ghost in any respect, and is weak towards rock, metal
- Poison beats fairy, grass however is weak towards ghost, floor, rock, poison and doesn’t have an effect on metal in any respect
- Psychic beats combating, poison however is weak towards bug, metal and doesn’t have an effect on darkish in any respect
- Rock beats bug, hearth, flying, ice however is weak towards combating, floor, metal
- Metal beats fairy, ice, rock however is weak towards electrical, hearth, metal, water
- Water beats hearth, floor, rock however is weak towards dragon, grass, water
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Protection Chart
- Bug loses to hearth, flying, rock however is hard towards combating, grass, floor
- Darkish loses to bug, fairy, combating however is hard towards darkish, ghost and isn’t affected in any respect by psychic
- Dragon loses to dragon, fairy, ice however is hard towards electrical, hearth, grass, water
- Electrical loses to floor however is hard towards electrical, flying, metal
- Fairy loses to poison, metal however is hard towards bug, darkish, combating and isn’t affected in any respect by dragon
- Preventing loses to fairy, flying, psychic however is hard towards bug, darkish, rock
- Fireplace loses to floor, rock, water however is hard towards bug, fairy, hearth, grass, ice, metal
- Flying loses to electrical, ice, rock however is hard towards bug, grass, combating and isn’t affected in any respect by floor
- Ghost loses to darkish, ghost however is hard towards bug, poison and isn’t affected in any respect by combating, regular
- Grass loses to bug, hearth, flying, ice, poison however is hard towards electrical, grass, floor, water
- Floor loses to grass, ice, water however is hard towards towards poison, rock and isn’t affected in any respect by electrical
- Ice loses to combating, hearth, rock and metal and solely resists ice
- Regular loses to combating however isn’t affected in any respect by ghost
- Poison loses to floor, psychic however is hard towards bug, fairy, grass, poison
- Psychic loses to bug, darkish, ghost however is hard towards combating, psychic
- Rock loses to grass, floor, combating, metal, water however is hard towards hearth, flying, regular, poison
- Metal loses to hearth, combating, floor however is hard towards (deep breath) bug, dragon, fairy, flying, grass, ice, regular, psychic, rock, metal and isn’t affected in any respect by poison
- Water loses to electrical and grass however is immune to hearth, ice, and water
However about that quirk: Scarlet and Violet most notably alter the sort chart expertise with the introduction of Terastallizing, a course of that may flip any Paldea Pokémon into gleamy, crystallized variations of themselves as soon as per battle. It requires a easy onyx Tera Orb, which is sadly single use, however will be recharged with Pokémon Heart visits or by touching Terastal vitality crystals you could discover in your journeying.
Terstallizing just isn’t a purely beauty reshuffling—it unleashes a Pokémon’s Tera Sort, viewable within the Pokémon menu, which may diverge from its normal kind, however will nonetheless be one of many 18 you already know (bug, darkish, dragon, and so forth.). You should use them strategically. In an early weblog submit about Scarlet and Violet, builders Recreation Freak famous that gamers may give water-weak Coalossal, a twin Rock/Fireplace kind, a Water Tera Sort to “take much less injury […] when it will get hit by a Water-type transfer.”
Tera Sorts are additionally individualized, so you would have a number of electric-type Pawmi with all totally different Tera Sorts. You’ll be able to moreover change your Pokémon’s Tera Sort by taking down Medali health club chief Larry after which paying the chef at Treasure Eatery 50 Tera Shards, discovered organically by finishing Tera Raids, or obtainable as presents.
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Tera Sorts’ strengths and weaknesses appear to correspond to their non-Tera varieties, too, so simply maintain your well-worn 18 flashcards helpful, and also you’re prepared for battle.
