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No Weaknesses When on the Bench

Not really sure if this is a bug, but decided to post anyways…

I have an electric deck with Zebstrika, who has an attack that can hit any Pokémon, even on the bench, for 30HP. When I attack the active Pokémon, if it's a water type, it'll lose 50HP, because of it's weakness to lightning which makes it +20HP of damage from lightning attacks. However, if this same Pokémon were to be benched and I attacked it with Zebstrika, it would only take 30HP. I don't know if this is a bug or a rule in the regular Pokémon TCG, as the release of Pokémon TCG Pocket it the first time I've really interacted with the TCG in a while.

Comments

  • Chillaxitives
    Chillaxitives Member Posts: 18
    10 Comments 5 Agrees Photogenic Name Dropper

    Type advantages apply to active Pokémon only

  • Eremas
    Eremas Member Posts: 2,017 ✭✭✭✭
    1000 Comments 250 Likes 25 Answers 100 Agrees

    This is a feature of TCG. It's a little archaic. But we love TCG Pocket and should keep playing.