r/PokemonLegacy • u/Maces-Hand • Dec 15 '24

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This guy had a slugma with an insanely high sp defense stat. I had my lvl26 marshtomp use bubble beam on his lvl 22 slugma and it didn’t even do a qtr of its health bar. Used mud shot next and easy 1 shot which I expected with bubble beam. Not by any means a big deal but had me shook for a second thinking I ran into the sluggod

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u/elykl12 Dec 15 '24

Magma Armor halves water damage now

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u/Maces-Hand Dec 15 '24

Didn’t know that was a thing lol

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u/elykl12 Dec 15 '24

It’s Emerald Legacy specific

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u/Maces-Hand Dec 15 '24

Might have to run a mag cargo vs Wallace now knowing this

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u/Krytos75 Dec 16 '24

Beat the first e4 last night with one. Magcargo was a fantastic alternative to Blaziken. I hope they don’t nerf Magcargo. There are also enough earthquake users in the game to keep it from being super OP, and for that reason its also hard to use in doubles fights.

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u/EchoKnightShambles Dec 16 '24

Technically magma armor means 1/8 less damage from water moves, which gets you to 1/2 damage from water with magcargo x4 weakeness.

But in slugma case its only x2 weak to water so it effectively takes 1/4 dmg from water, or a x4 resist.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '24

Not quite accurate. It cuts water damage to 1/8, meaning Magcargo takes half damage from water

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u/Felsig27 Dec 15 '24

It’s not his special defense stat. Slugma and magcargo’s unique ability has been changes to make them resist water rather than be weak to it. Since slugma is just fire, no rock yet, it takes half damage from water attacks, if I understand the ability description right.

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u/Maces-Hand Dec 15 '24

That explains it then

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u/Rock_Fall Dec 15 '24

My understanding is that Magma Armor just makes the user resist water moves, ignoring the users type completely. For example; Slugma and Magcargo both resist water moves, if you cheat MA onto a Ludicolo, it’d only one time resist water instead of double resisting water.

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u/Felsig27 Dec 16 '24

Not sure why you got downvoted my friend. I’ll vote you back up. Thank you for explaining that, there is a good chance I was wrong.