The History of "Pokémon GO" - Electric Quiz

Answer: Tackle

In 2018, Niantic made a myriad of moves across the game into Legacy moves that could no longer be acquired. Though there is no official statement backing this up, moves which were made Legacy predominantly made up of moves that were bad, unviable or at least suboptimal moves on their respective Pokémon, indicating that Niantic likely wanted to improve the performance of a lot of Pokemon in general.

This is definitely one such case, as both of Electrode's non-Legacy Fast moves in Spark and Volt Switch vastly outclass the useless, Legacy Tackle.

Answer: Surf

Unfortunately, due to the lack of held items combined with how this game carries over stats from the mainline series, Pikachu is sadly unviable in both PvP and PvE in totality in this game. Still, carrying one such Pikachu, considering it had its Community Day all the way back in 2017, is somewhat proof, if you will, that you've been playing this game for a really long time. So there's that...?

Answer: Thundershock

Thundershock is a significant upgrade over Zapdos' readily available Fast move in Charge Beam. As such, if attempting to raise a Zapdos for raids or for PvP, using an Elite Fast TM to have it learn Thundershock would be a great idea, should you have been unable to get one all the way back in 2018.

Answer: Magnezone

While the three incorrect answers to this question can certainly be situational good Kyogre counters, they will all swiftly be ripped into a million pieces by the Blizzard that hits them super effectively. Magnezone, resistant to this move, can be extremely valuable for trainers, either as a team of six, or used to backup a team mainly consisting of Grass types who are weak to Blizzard.

Answer: Dragon

Much like Mega Sceptile, Mega Ampharos' secondary Dragon typing lets it aid fellow Dragons as well as Electrics. However, similarly to Mega Sceptile, Mega Ampharos does not learn a Dragon Fast move, making it a poor choice for a Dragon attacker.

Answer: Discharge

Discharge is a painfully average Charged move. However, because of Xurkitree's ridiculously good stats, it's good enough to allow Xurkitree to be an elite Electric attacker with DPS that puts almost the entirety of the game to shame in the Electric conglomerate.

However, if Xurkitree had even received Thunderbolt, much less Wild Charge instead, it would have indeed gone on to be the undisputed #1 Electric attacker in the game by a country mile. Perhaps Niantic aimed to restrain it slightly to avoid this.

Answer: Shadow Ball

This was in close proximity to Niantic introducing PvP to the game, so it's possible they wanted to give prominent Pokémon like Raikou a coverage move for such a setting. Entei received Iron Head, Suicune gained Snarl, Zapdos got Drill Peck, and many more instances of such a thing at the time.

Answer: Magnetic Lure Module

When in the proximity of an active Magnetic Lure Module, the player will be able to spend 100 candies to evolve Magneton into Magnezone, or Charjabug into Vikavolt. Once deployed, these Lure Modules will be active for half an hour on default, and they extend to all players in the area. If in a raiding group trying to improve your Electric attackers, only one of you would need to play the Magnetic Lure Module if in the same area.

Answer: Their Defense decreases

Even the fairly tanky Zekrom will become quite glassy after using Wild Charge just once. The player should be prepared to either quickly switch it out, or they should be in a position to sacrifice Zekrom, before clicking Wild Charge in PvP.

Answer: Zap Cannon

Zap Cannon's niche as far as Registeel is concerned stems from its 50% chance to reduce the target's Attack stat upon use. It also deals generally good damage, though it costs a massive amount of energy.