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Genesect

#649

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Bug
Steel
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An image of the Pokemon Genesect #649 in the Pokedex
This ancient bug Pokémon was altered by Team Plasma. They upgraded the cannon on its back.

Weakness Table

This is a list of Genesect's weaknesses. These Pokemon types in the green zone will be strong against Genesect:
4x
Fire
1x
Dark
Electric
Fighting
Flying
Ghost
Ground
Rock
Water
0.5x
Bug
Dragon
Fairy
Ice
Normal
Psychic
Steel
0.25x
Grass
Immune
Poison
: Types marked with this symbol will receive extra damage from Genesect's STAB attacks.

Genesect will receive the same damage from both Special Attacks and Physical Attacks!

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Genesect's Weaknesses

Best Counters

Genesect is especially weak against Fire type Pokemon, they will deal 4x damage to it!

The type that is strong against Genesect is Fire type Pokemon.

Fire

For the best defense, Fire types have very effective defense against Genesect, and will be resistant to damage from Genesect's STAB attacks:

Fire

Weaknesses

Genesect's type is Bug and Steel.

Genesect is especially vulnerable to Fire attacks, it will receive a super effective four times (4x) the amount of damage! Since Fire type Pokemon are especially strong against Genesect, you should attack with this type of Pokemon.

Genesect has a weakness to Fire types. These Pokemon types will be strong against Genesect, causing Genesect to take a super effective quadruple (4x) damage from Fire type attackscausing Genesect to take a super effective double (2x) damage from attacks of those types.

Poison type attacks will have no effect on Genesect, as Genesect is immune to this type of damage! Please avoid these types of attacks.

Please keep in mind that Genesect is resistant to attacks from Bug, Dragon, Fairy, Ice, Normal, Psychic, Steel, Grass types, and these attacks are not very effective and cause reduced damage, so they should be avoided.

Strong against Genesect:

Pokemon of these types will deal effective damage against Genesect, without suffering any extra damage:
4x
Fire
1x
Electric
Fighting
Flying
Ghost
Ground
Water
0.5x
Bug
Dragon
Normal
Steel
Immune
Poison

Strength Table

Here is what Genesect is strong against:
2x
Dark
Fairy
Grass
Ice
Psychic
Rock
1x
Bug
Dragon
Electric
Fighting
Flying
Ghost
Ground
Normal
Poison
Water
0.5x
Fire
Steel

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