dark Type Pokémon
Master their Strengths, Weaknesses, and Real-World Analogies
What Defines a dark-Type Pokémon?
Dark-type Pokémon embody the essence of shadows, mystery, and cunning. Fun Fact: In Japanse the "Dark-Type Pokemon" are more referred to the "Evil-Type" Between the literal darkness and the sometimes evil intention of these Pokémon, their tactics often rely on underhanded strategies such as using other's power for themselves, or snatching items off other pokemon.
Featured dark-Type Pokémon
dark-Type Weaknesses
- fighting: Dark types, typically associated to criminal behaviour is subdued through the Crime-Fighting tactics of people such as super heroes, and justice enforcing personel.
- bug: Nocturnal Bugs, achieving dominance and utilizing ambush tactics within the darkness, challenge and disrupt the Dark type's control over its supposed domain.
- fairy: Fairy types, embodying light and ancient purity, inherently disrupt and weaken Dark types, which represent shadow and trickery, reflecting a fundamental mythological conflict between opposing forces.
dark-Type Resistances
- dark: The best way to catch a trickster, is to think like a trickster.
- ghost: Dark (or the Evil type) is super-effective against Ghost types because often in mythology good spirits can be manipulated and corrupted through deception. That overwhelming evil power often leads to the spirit's nullification.
dark-Type Neutral Matchups
- grass
- fire
- water
- normal
- flying
- poison
- electric
- ground
- rock
- steel
- ice
- dragon
dark-Type Immunities
- psychic: Darkness is seen as a primal fear - a deeply rooted terror that is embedded in the human psyche. Underhanded tactics and deception also can cause mental fortitude to waver.