Status moves and immunities

[ilabb]

Sand Attack was Normal in RBY IIRC. Maybe that's why it hits Flyers; they didn't want to change the properties of an attack too much.

 

[nardd]

Mud is denser than sand and therefore can't be carried as far as sand, the latter of which can remain aloft for over thousands of miles. However, being denser, mud is able to cause direct damage like Sludge, for example. At least that's how I interpret it.

but sandstorm does direct damage

 

[Surgo]

It's pretty clear that real world physics and pokemon physics have nothing to do with each other (water cycle much?), so that is really not a good basis to be judging what attacks should be effective.

Can someone verify that sand-attack doesn't touch fliers now?

 

[Erebos]

It's probably a bug in Netbattle. Makes sense that it doesn't, as Glare is a normal move and all...

It makes sense until things like Confuse Ray versus Normals and Hypnosis versus Darks throw the logic out the window. :/

 

[Surgo]

For Competitor, can someone please list the nondamaging moves that ARE effected by type modifiers? I would appreciate this greatly and it would help with the building of Competitor. Thanks.