Error in Alolan Raticate Page?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't Alolan Raticate have a triple resistance to Ghost type moves with its added Dark typing, in addition to the double from being Normal type? Just a small thing I noticed on the page for this mon.
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Type immunity in Pokemon Go originally counted as just a single resistance. I think the GamePress team automated the process for making the type advantage tables, and never updated the coding when immunity was upgraded to a double resistance. There have been a lot of similar triple resistances in the past that I think they just manually adjusted.
I see. I wasn't playing back then, so I didn't know that that was how immunity was handled in the past, but that's an interesting piece of PoGO history. The reason I even noticed this was because I was running some numbers in a program that I wrote that was calcing bulk coefficients v. specific types, and against Ghost type there were the obvious picks, like Blissey, Chansey, Snorlax, a few Normal types legendaries, then Miltank and Lickilicky... and then Alolan Raticate? I thought it was weird, so I pulled up the page to check the Def/Stam manually, and then I realized it was because of a triple resistance, and that it wasn't listed on the page.
