Talk:Torterra (Pokémon)

Diamond owned a Turtwig which he nicknamed Roo in the Pokémon Special manga which evolved into a Grotle simultaneously with Chimlord(a Chimchar)and Piplup Eterna City and then he evolved into his last evolution in Vielstone along with Chimlord

What on Earth does this mean? I don't want to correct the grammar for fear of getting the information out of whack. Recalcitrancy 19:48, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

It basically means Diamond owned a Turtwig. It evolved into a Grotle, and then a Torterra. There's no need to get into a lot of detail about where it evolved or anything, so I just edited it and made it simpler. - _s.Combusken 20:02, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

"Covers" all weaknesses

There's a note in the trivia that points out that all the types which Torterra is vulnerable to are in turn vulnerable to Rock type attacks. It also says that this means a rock type attack "covers" all of Torterra's defences. I've edited this but I don't know if I phrased it right. The idea that a rock type attack covers these defences is inaccurate, one of the fire types that Torterra will undoubtedly be pitted against is Infernape, which as Fire/Fighting doesn't have a weakness to rock types, but can use fire attacks to assault Torterra's weakness. The same is true of other type combinations, or pokémon using fire or ice type attacks without being fire or ice types themselves (like a Hitmonchan using Fire Punch or Ice Punch). I'm not quite sure how this should be phrased. Perhaps the trivia should just be trimmed so that the covering bit is gone completely? Darien Shields 06:25, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I removed it. We don't us metagame information on 'pedia articles if we can avoid it. --((Marton imos)) 06:33, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Bullcrap

it says that it is the only sinnoh starter with a double weakness but empoleon is water/steel and therefore has a double weakness to electric→→→ Shiny Rayquaza 23:41, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Steel isn't weak to Electric, though it's not very effective against it. |3urn •57R1K3 23:42, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Shiny Variations Between Games

So, did Torterra not have a blue body in it's HGSS shiny sprite because of the changed color palette? If so, maybe that can be mentioned in the trivia. It's a more noticeable difference than the changes other Pokemon experienced.