Talk:Solid Rock (Ability)
I can confrim for certain
Solid Rock Reduced Damage by 1/3. I tested by having both a Rhyperior and a Camerupt hit by a Max Sp. Atk Kyogre And Rain boosted Max health Water Spout, while Rhyperior and Camerupt (Both being 4x weak to Water) each had Light Screen and 3 stages of Sp. Def increase passed to them, a well as Max HP stats and a certain amount of Sp. Def each. Using a modifier of 1/3rds(Thus the Water spout is only 2.66x effective instead of 4x), I calculated that they would survive with very little HP, then proceed to take out the Kyogre with their own attacks, which the video showed. If Solid rock was 1/4th, the two would've been KO'd right there, and if it was 1/2, they would've had much more HP left. All other calculations I've ever made using 1/3 reduction have been completely accurate to what I see in battle. I can upload the vid to my youtube and post a link if you need to see it for yourselves. I can also post the damage calculation formula with the stats put in as well.Joe T.E. 01:47, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
It has to be one or the other
Bulbapedia says Solid Rock reduces super damage by 1/3. Serebii says by half. We should really find out which is which, I don't like seeing differences like this. A similar thing happened with Iron Fist. ~Toastypk
- Loom.
01:56, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
- I...don't know which is correct. Ourselves and Serebii seem to be the only two sources with specific reduction amounts. Sorry I can't help you. --ニョロトノ666 02:06, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
- well, after checking out some other sites, it seems like no one knows. ive seen 1/3, 2/3, 1/2, 1/4. im going to continue looking, but, um... -- MAGNEDETH 02:08, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Palmer's Rhyperior.
When Rhyperior was hit by Grotle's Energy Ball, hit hardly did any damage, so is this Solid Rock activating in the Anime?
Trivia
I think there could be a trivia point that all Pokemon who can have this ability have at least one 4X weakness. I would add it myself anyway, except that adding trivia is forbidden right now due to B/W server load.--Jdthebud 02:23, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
Trivia
Shouldn't we have the 4x as a trivia and not at the top? ^^I^ rides camels… | love 'em. (T^LK) 02:00, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
Modifier is different in 3DS Games
I've been researching the game code of the 3DS games, mostly USUM, and I found the code that handles Solid Rock and its two sister abilities (in battle.cro).
In XY (function at 0x000BC5B0), if the checks pass, it loads the value 0x49C to r2 and passes it to a function that (effectively) multiplies the outgoing damage by 1 - 1180/4096 ~ 71%
In ORAS (0x000C5CB8) and USUM (0x000D3920), it instead loads 0x1AB8 to r2, and passes it to multiply by 4096/6840 ~ 60%