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| When used in contests, Rock-type moves typically become Tough moves, but can also be of the other four Contest types, excluding Cute. | | When used in contests, Rock-type moves typically become Tough moves, but can also be of the other four Contest types, excluding Cute. |
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| The Rock type is rather risky defensively. Despite having an overall high {{stat|Defense}} on average, its weaknesses to {{t|Ground}}- and {{type2|Fighting}} moves, commonly [[physical moves|physical]] in nature, take it down a notch. The fact that, at best, its {{stat|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 bad 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).
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| However, resistances to {{t|Normal}}, {{t|Flying}} and {{t|Fire}} help the Rock-type to hold it's 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 {{a|Sand Stream}} automatically casting a permanent Sandstorm.
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| ==Offense== | | ==Offense== |
