About Pokemon immunity.

[Seventy96]

Why does every pokemon have resistance (for example, dark has resistance to psychic attacks) instead of immunity?


Sorry for bad english :/

 

[Saikou_The_Lewd_King]

We don't use immunity under any context except logical ones (Like a character having no soul being immune to soul manipulation). tl;dr we can't assume that a dark type can be immune to EVERY psychic attack in fiction.

 

[The_2nd_Existential_Seed]

because i a tier 1 attempts to affect them with that power... And they can't due to Immunity, it would be taken as NLF since the immunities aren't shown to extend to a certain tier or level.

 

[The_2nd_Existential_Seed]

.... Jeez Saikou XD

 

[Dragonmasterxyz]

Because, Immunity is NLF. For example, just because a Zoroark can resist the Telekinetic powers of an Alakazam, this doesn't mean that he can just null the telekinetic powers of a High 4-C or 3-A.

 

[LordGriffin1000]

Have we ever even seen a Psychic Type move use on a Dark Type?.

I know they love showing off Electric moves don't effect ground types but I don't recall seeing a psychic move used on a dark type.

 

[TriforcePower1]

Maybe in the manga?

 

[TriforcePower1]

But yeah, an alolan Ratata, canon-wise, would die pretty badly against a psychic move from Necrozma or Dialga, so it's not an immunity

 

[Schnee_One]

Just because Yvetal is a dark type doesn't mean he'll resist Mind attacks from Reva and that's just one example

Pretty obvious why immunity is NLF