Is something wrong with my electrike's lightningrod?

Question

In emerald,i caught an electrike tha has the ability lightningrod and i fought mauville's gym leader wattson and shocked that his magneton's shock wave can still damage it,is there a problem or was i using it wrong?

Answer 1

OK, after looking at the description for lightningrod, I know what has happened here. In gen 5, the description for lightningrod is this: "Draws in all Electric-type moves to up Sp. Attack." but the description for lightningrod in gen 4 says this: "The pokemon draws in all electric type moves." and the gen 3 description states that lightningrod: "Draws in electrical moves". What has happened is that the effects of the ability have changed over generations, so in gen 3 it just pulled electric type moves in, instead of absorbing them/turning them into spatk.

Comments

This is correct!

Answer 2

is it a rom?if not,it's proabably pirated.if it is,the creator of the
rom maybe forgot about it or a bug is effecting the program.
Maybe.

Hope this helped BBE!

Comments

Oh great,a downvote,i was just trying to help!