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The Rock type is rather risky defensively. Despite having an overall high [[stats|Defense]] on average, its weaknesses to {{t|Ground}}- and {{type2|Fighting}} moves, commonly physical in nature, take it down a notch. The fact that, at best, its [[stats|Special Defense]] is mediocre, combined with its weakness to the common {{t|Grass}} and {{type2|Water}} moves, greatly decrease its ability to defend. Double weaknesses among Rock-types are very common. Rock/Steel Pokémon are doubly weak to Ground and Fighting, two common powerful types. Rock/Water Pokémon and Rock/Ground Pokémon are doubly weak to Grass and the latter is also doubly weak to the common Water (along with an extra weakness to the powerful Ice.) The low Speed that many Rock-types have causes even further problems. Their resistance to Fire can now be made useless as many Fire-types movesets have been expanded in [[Generation IV]] to include Grass attacks (most notably Solarbeam). | The Rock type is rather risky defensively. Despite having an overall high [[stats|Defense]] on average, its weaknesses to {{t|Ground}}- and {{type2|Fighting}} moves, commonly physical in nature, take it down a notch. The fact that, at best, its [[stats|Special Defense]] is mediocre, combined with its weakness to the common {{t|Grass}} and {{type2|Water}} moves, greatly decrease its ability to defend. Double weaknesses among Rock-types are very common. Rock/Steel Pokémon are doubly weak to Ground and Fighting, two common powerful types. Rock/Water Pokémon and Rock/Ground Pokémon are doubly weak to Grass and the latter is also doubly weak to the common Water (along with an extra weakness to the powerful Ice.) The low Speed that many Rock-types have causes even further problems. Their resistance to Fire can now be made useless as many Fire-types movesets have been expanded in [[Generation IV]] to include Grass attacks (most notably Solarbeam). | ||
However, resistances to {{t|Normal}}, {{t|Flying}} and {{t|Fire}} help the Rock-type to hold | However, resistances to {{t|Normal}}, {{t|Flying}} and {{t|Fire}} help the Rock-type to hold its own if it needs to. Moreover, it has gotten a boost in [[Generation IV]] due to {{m|Sandstorm}} increasing said lackluster Special Defense by 50% and the fact that Sandstorm is very common in many tiers, thanks to Sand Stream automatically casting a permanent Sandstorm. | ||
===Offense=== | ===Offense=== | ||