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So, apparently this is counted as resistance negation. Someone asked if miracle eye let mewtwo neg mindhax resist, I googled what miracle eye was, saw it said removes dark type resist, and said "I guess". However, reading stuff around this more closely, I don't think this should be the case.
Sourcing Bulbapedia for what I say about the move. If people don't like that feel free to post shit from the games that contradict it.
The move is noted to only work at negating the resistance of dark types (it saying ghost type for diamond and pearl being a typo), but that isn't the only type that resists psychic's stuff.
As we see here, psychic types themselves as well as steel types are resistant to psychic attacks. However, miracle eye doesn't work on them. It's dark type specific. Even before going further into why I don't even think the dark type thing is valid, the rules of pokemon already dictate that Miracle Eye's resistance negation cannot be generalized beyond dark type. There's no reason for it to fail against inferior resistances otherwise. As such, it shouldn't really mean anything on the site, since we don't really ascribe pokemon types to enemies unless it's really apparent stuff like someone being made of fire.
However, as alluded to above, I don't think it even really applies to dark types. Let's take a closer look at the specific wording of the move, shall we? It states that it "Enables the user to hit a Dark type with any type of move," or that it "Enables a Dark-type target to be hit by Psychic-type attacks." This wording more sounds like psychic pokemon have trouble properly targeting dark types instead of dark types resisting, since it specifically says they are now able to be hit (meaning previously they couldn't even be hit) as opposed to saying something like "they are now vulnerable to psychic moves/can be affected by psychic moves/can be hurt by psychic moves" (which would imply previously that they were just tanking them with no effect, aka a resistance). Saying dark types are hard to target as opposed to being resistant is also more consistent with the primary function of the move. Here's what Bulbapedia has to say on the matter:
Basically, the move negates dodging. It also negs dark types immunity, which as we've seen before, is described as allowing them to hit. This can all be done with one function. To assume it instead is negating resistances would be to ascribe a secondary, different function to the one move. Obviously this is possible, but the one with an extra step should not be assumed in an uncertain scenario. If saying it's an anti dodging effect fulfils both criteria without resorting to really ridiculous assumptions, then it should be prioritized over saying it's both an anti dodging effect and a resistance neg effect.
Also, there are just things it kinda makes no sense for dark pokemon to flat out be immune to when they aren't just immune to force/heat/whatever. Let's start going down the list of psychic moves that would be weird for it to flat out resist. Before that, we'll post what its resists are:
So in game terms, it resists itself and ghost and is immune to psychic. Keep that in mind. Forums wanna be a lil bitch so I gotta screenshot my previews. As such, you can't really copy and paste what I said or easily quote parts of it. Sorry.
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So that's 21 moves that it doesn't make sense for dark types to be able to just facetank, since they're doing things other types do. What does work for all of them is that psychics can't target dark types properly for whatever reason, and this is also supported by Miracle Eye's descriptions. This also explains how the immunity holds up against really insane power gaps.
TLDR: Best case scenario, miracle eye's resistance neg can't be generalized outside pokemon dark types. Worst case scenario, dark types shouldn't be considered to innately resist psychic types, miracle eye loses resitance neg entirely.
Sourcing Bulbapedia for what I say about the move. If people don't like that feel free to post shit from the games that contradict it.
The move is noted to only work at negating the resistance of dark types (it saying ghost type for diamond and pearl being a typo), but that isn't the only type that resists psychic's stuff.
As we see here, psychic types themselves as well as steel types are resistant to psychic attacks. However, miracle eye doesn't work on them. It's dark type specific. Even before going further into why I don't even think the dark type thing is valid, the rules of pokemon already dictate that Miracle Eye's resistance negation cannot be generalized beyond dark type. There's no reason for it to fail against inferior resistances otherwise. As such, it shouldn't really mean anything on the site, since we don't really ascribe pokemon types to enemies unless it's really apparent stuff like someone being made of fire.
However, as alluded to above, I don't think it even really applies to dark types. Let's take a closer look at the specific wording of the move, shall we? It states that it "Enables the user to hit a Dark type with any type of move," or that it "Enables a Dark-type target to be hit by Psychic-type attacks." This wording more sounds like psychic pokemon have trouble properly targeting dark types instead of dark types resisting, since it specifically says they are now able to be hit (meaning previously they couldn't even be hit) as opposed to saying something like "they are now vulnerable to psychic moves/can be affected by psychic moves/can be hurt by psychic moves" (which would imply previously that they were just tanking them with no effect, aka a resistance). Saying dark types are hard to target as opposed to being resistant is also more consistent with the primary function of the move. Here's what Bulbapedia has to say on the matter:
Miracle Eye causes accuracy checks against the target to ignore changes to the target's evasion stat stages if its evasion stat stage is greater than 0. If Miracle Eye's target is a Dark-type Pokémon, it also removes the target's immunity to Psychic-type moves. Miracle Eye's effect ends when the target switches out.
Miracle Eye bypasses accuracy checks to always hit its target, unless the target is in the semi-invulnerable turn of a move such as Dig or Fly.
Basically, the move negates dodging. It also negs dark types immunity, which as we've seen before, is described as allowing them to hit. This can all be done with one function. To assume it instead is negating resistances would be to ascribe a secondary, different function to the one move. Obviously this is possible, but the one with an extra step should not be assumed in an uncertain scenario. If saying it's an anti dodging effect fulfils both criteria without resorting to really ridiculous assumptions, then it should be prioritized over saying it's both an anti dodging effect and a resistance neg effect.
Also, there are just things it kinda makes no sense for dark pokemon to flat out be immune to when they aren't just immune to force/heat/whatever. Let's start going down the list of psychic moves that would be weird for it to flat out resist. Before that, we'll post what its resists are:
So in game terms, it resists itself and ghost and is immune to psychic. Keep that in mind. Forums wanna be a lil bitch so I gotta screenshot my previews. As such, you can't really copy and paste what I said or easily quote parts of it. Sorry.
So that's 21 moves that it doesn't make sense for dark types to be able to just facetank, since they're doing things other types do. What does work for all of them is that psychics can't target dark types properly for whatever reason, and this is also supported by Miracle Eye's descriptions. This also explains how the immunity holds up against really insane power gaps.
TLDR: Best case scenario, miracle eye's resistance neg can't be generalized outside pokemon dark types. Worst case scenario, dark types shouldn't be considered to innately resist psychic types, miracle eye loses resitance neg entirely.