Professional battlefields all had advanced imaging technology that could see through sand.
So even with raging sand and flying rocks obscuring the field, that terrifying-almost insane-scene...
Was still faithfully broadcast to the hundreds of millions of eyes focused on the match.
What did they mean, Champion Wallace's Mega Swampert had failed to overpower Mega Tyranitar in a contest of strength?
[Holy shit!!! I've changed my mind. Mega Tyranitar is the real deal!]
[Mega Swampert is the best under heaven! But Mega Tyranitar IS heaven!]
[Wait, how did Xia Chi's Tyranitar tank a Hammer Arm it has a quadruple weakness to?]
[My Tyranitar just pissed itself watching that Hammer Arm!]
[My Swampert pissed itself watching that Payback, too.]
[Seriously, how is that fair?! Even if Mega Tyranitar has Champion-level strength, it shouldn't be able to take Hammer Arm like nothing happened!]
[As a ten-year Lao Shui fan, I already know the answer. This bastard definitely has some way of reducing Tyranitar's crippling weakness to Fighting-type attacks! Definitely!]
[Lord Xia Chi, please give us a tutorial on ignoring quadruple weaknesses!]
[.]
Sure enough, one of those comments had actually guessed right.
Tyranitar's quadruple weakness to Fighting-type moves wasn't actually that severe.
It had been specifically enhanced during its star upgrade: whenever Tyranitar used or was hit by a Fighting-type move, it received a 30% numerical boost or resistance.
In other words, the damage from Mega Swampert's Hammer Arm first had to be reduced by 30%, bringing its multiplier down to roughly three times normal.
Then the [Rock type] Bond and the equipment [Steadfast Heart] provided a combined 25% flat damage reduction, cutting it to 75% again.
When all was said and done, that Hammer Arm was only about as effective as an ordinary attack exploiting a double weakness.
For Tyranitar, with its