[Not a bug] Noel's Swellow broken or OP on purpose?

[LonerPrime 0]

Hello,

So I did read some words of advice about being wary about 7th and 11th gym and even though I am getting comfortable with the whole idea about game being made difficult on purpose to encourage creativity, I couldn't for the life of me understand why Noel's Swellow was eating rock and electric moves without breaking a sweat. Only 1x damage instead of 2. I mean the Porygon z and Cinccino are headache enough but not impossible. Yet that Swellow didn't even flinch on 2 of the moves that are its weakness. Could someone shed some light since I didn't read about any issues in this regard in the bug list.

Kind Regards,

LP

PS: Playing the 15th episode at the moment.

PPS: I have beaten him already so allow me to assure you kind folks, there is no intention of whining behind this post. Just clear curiosity, in case if this is on purpose and I should be prepared for stuff like that in the future. My whole strategy went out of the window after I lost Emolga early.

[mde2001 236]

I'm assuming that it was windy weather at the time, given that the gym battle was outside. Windy weather negates all flying type weaknesses so that would be your problem.

[Ironbound 110]

That's primarily it, yeah. Windy weather simulates Delta Stream, the Strong Winds thing that Mega Raycraycray summons. It negates the weaknesses of the Flying type, so basically a Normal/Flying Pokemon like Swellow would not have any weaknesses at all.

[LonerPrime 0]

Lovely. Thank you for clearing that up folks. Almost thought Ame added a new level of sadism to her arsenal. They weren't kidding when they said that environmental effects do play quite a lot in this game. A big jump in game play coming from vanilla Pokemon games.

Thanks again.

PS to the Mods: Apologies, not a bug apparently. Just an inexperienced newbie.