Great Ground Types Trivia Quiz

Answer: True

It would make sense that the first game in the series would introduce the largest amount of Ground-type Pokemon, but it's still a fairly small number with only 14 being introduced; six of them being pure Ground types. It also makes sense that the region that introduced the fewest amount of Ground-type Pokemon would be the series that only introduced 100 new Pokemon. Hoenn introuced 13, Sinnoh introduced 12 and so forth. For those of you who don't know the regions to the games: Kanto is the region in "Pokemon Red/Blue", Hoenn is the region in "Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire", Sinnoh is the region in "Pokemon Diamond/Pearl", Unova is the region in "Pokemon Black/White" and Johto is the region in "Pokemon Gold/Silver." While Ground types do lack a disadvantage of hitting Flying Pokemon and Pokemon with the ability Levitate, they are the only type of Pokemon that is super-effective against Electric types, and are totally immune to any Electric attack that tries to hit them. Also Ground types share almost the exact same weaknesses with Rock except for Fighting, Ground, and Steel. Ground types are also weak to Ice where Rock types are not. Ground types are super-effective against Rock, Fire, Poison, Electric, and Steel types.

Answer: Poison Sting

Seems kind of odd that two of the six pure Ground type Pokemon introduced in the first generation would not have a single Ground type move. Except for Poison Sting, Sandshrew and Sandslash's roster of moves not learned by TM's are all Normal type moves. True it could learn Sand-Attack but back in the days of Generation I and II, Sand-Attack was considered a Normal-type move.

It wouldn't be until Generation III before it changed its type to Ground and Sandshrew and Sandslash could learn their first ground type offensive move by leveling up, Sand Tomb.

Answer: Four

Until the inclusion of Generation IV, Cubone and Marowak were the only Pokemon that could use Ground-type moves with the word Bone in them like Bonemerang, Bone Club, and Bone Rush. In Generation IV, Steel/Fighting type Lucario could learn Bone Rush and in Generation V Dark/Flying type Mandibuzz could also learn that.

However, Bonemerang and Bone Club are still exclusive to Cubone and Marowak. Cubone and Marowak both pure Ground types house some of the most haunting stories in Pokemon lore and shows how serious this game can be at times.

In "Pokemon Red/Blue" in Lavender Town you will come across the Pokemon Tower where DEAD Pokemon are honored. When a trainer battles Pokemon they never die but they faint, so that was an awakening. At the top of the Pokemon Tower, there is a ghost who cannot be identified unless you have the Silph Scope.

This ghost turns out to be "Cubone's mother" Marowak who died trying to defend the tower from Team Rocket. Team Rocket is so cruel that they actually killed a Pokemon! Cubone is also a sad story as it is known as the Lonely Pokemon and no one has ever seen it's real face as it wears it's mother's skull.

Answer: 29

Yes out of all 60 Ground types, almost half of them have accrued a quadruple weakness. This trend started in the Kanto region with Rock/Ground types such as Rhydon and Golem having a quadruple weakness to Grass and Water types. Then another trend started in the Johto region with Water/Ground types.

Although they can resist Electric types they have a quadruple weakness to Grass types. Another common quadruple weakness to ground types are Ice. Ground/Dragon types such as Flygon and Garchomp and Ground/Flying types like Gliscor and Landorus all have a quadruple weakness to Ice types. Starter favorite Torterra also has a quadruple weakness to Ice. Even one of the most powerful Pokemon chains, the Tyranitar chain is chock-full of quadruple weaknesses. Larvitar and Pupitar are Rock/Ground types so they have a quadruple weakness to Water and Grass and when it evolves into Tyranitar a Rock/Dark type it gains a quadruple weakness to Fighting.

Answer: False

Most of these evolutions did. Piloswine was able to evolve into Mamoswine, Rhydon was able to evolve into Rhyperior, and Gligar was able to evolve into Gliscor. However, way back in the Johto region with the addition of steel as a type, Onix was able to evolve into Steelix a Steel/Ground type instead of a Rock/Ground type. Steelix was increased in every stat except for speed, which most Steel Pokemon are known to be slow.

In the same sense, Steelix also got rid of the quadruple weaknesses of Water and Grass that Onix had. Steelix was one of the few Pokemon in the Johto region that could only be obtained by trading a Pokemon holding a specific item.

In the case of Steelix, and Scizor from a Scyther, this item was a Metal Coat. Slowking and Politoed could be evolved by trading a Slowpoke or a Poliwhirl holding a King's Rock. Rhyperior could also be obtained by trading a Rhydon holding a Protector. Mamoswine could be obtained by leveling up a Piloswine who knew Ancient Power. The only way to have a Pilsowine who knows Ancient Power, is to use a Heart Scale or to breed a Swinub that has Ancient Power. Tangrowth and Yanmega evolve the same way, from Tangela and Yanma, respectively. Gliscor could be evolved by leveling up a Gligar at night who is holding a Razor Fang. Weavile, who evolves from Sneasel, could also be evolved the same way except it had to be holding a Razor Claw.

Answer: Stunfisk

Stunfisk is a weird Pokemon in that it is Ground/Electric yet resides in the water resembling a flatfish. The Stunfisk appearing in Striaton City are not catchable and for the most part they are indigenous to Icirrus City and the moor surrounding it. Stunfisk does not evolve and can learn a variety of move types including: Ground, Electric, Normal, Water, Fighting, and Flying without the use of TMs.

It can even learn the one hit K.O. move Fissure, which was the TM given to you by Giovanni in "Pokemon Red/Blue." Surprisingly, in the Flygon series the only Pokemon that can learn Fissure naturally is its fist form Trapinch. All of the choices were Pokemon new to the Unova region. Sandile is a Ground/Dark type. Drilbur is a pure Ground type but evolves into Ground/Steel type Excadrill. Golurk is the evolved form of Golett both Ground/Ghost types.

Answer: True

Burmy can either be a Bug/Grass type, a Bug/Ground type, or a Bug/Steel type depending on what kind of environment it's battling in. However, once a female one evolves it is stuck with the last cloak it was wearing. If it's a male it evolves into Bug/Flying type Mothim. Burmy and Wormadam are also somewhat similar to Pineco and Foretress as they're all know as the Bagworm Pokemon. Also depending on what cloak Wormadam is wearing when it evolves from a Burmy depends on what types of moves it learns. If it's wearing its Leafy cloak it learns Grass type moves. If it's wearing its Sandy Cloak it learns Ground type moves, and if it's wearing its Trash cloak it learns Steel type moves.

The only other Bug/Ground type is Nincada. Nincada also has a weird evolution as once it evolves it kind of goes through a short metamorphosis.

It turns into Bug/Flying Ninjask, but if you have a spare slot in your party and a Pokeball when it evolves you also get the husk of the Pokemon and it becomes Ghost/Bug Shedinja.

Answer: Escape Rope

Many people know that Dig is a Ground-type move than can be learned by quite a few Pokemon outside of Ground-types, including Fire types. Like other moves such as Bounce, Fly, and Dive, the Pokemon disappears for one turn and then attacks the next turn.

The bad side about this is that Earthquake and Magnitude will still do damage to you, if you're underground at the time. What many people may not know is that Dig when used on the field is just like an Escape Rope. Escape Rope is an item that allows you to return to the entrance of a dungeon that you just entered.

This can be really helpful if you're very weak and don't have any recovery items and need to go back to the Pokemon Center that was at the entrance to the cave.

Answer: Seven

Groudon by leveling up can learn moves that are: Normal, Psychic, Fire, Ground, Rock, Fighting, and Grass. Groudon for a long time was the only Pokemon that had the ability Drought which automatically set Sunny Day into motion when it entered the battle.

In "Pokemon Black/White" both Vulpix and Ninetales had the ability of Drought but only if caught in the Dream World. Every weather condition has an ability like this. Kyogre the counterpart to Groudon had Drizzle which automatically made it start to rain. Tyranitar had Sand Stream which automatically started a sandstorm. Abomasnow had Snow Warning which made it start to Hail. Groudon first appeared in "Pokemon Ruby" for the Game Boy Advance as the main legendary.

It could also be caught in "Pokemon Emerald" by finding routes that were bathed in intense sunlight and uncovering the Terra Cave.

Much like another Ground type Pokemon, Torterra, it is known as the Continent Pokemon. The only Grass type move Groudon can learn is Solar Beam.

This is a common tactic used with Fire Pokemon too. Once Sunny Day is activated Solar Beam can be used in one turn instead of two. The only Normal type move it learns is Scary Face, which reduces the target's speed by two levels. The only Psychic type move it learns is Rest. And the only Rock type move it learns is Ancient Power.

Answer: Double Edge

I recently used Marowak in my copy of "Pokemon Black 2" but it had its Dream World ability, Battle Armor, which means my opponents cannot give me a critical hit. In my personal opinion that's probably Marowak's, and Cubone's, best ability. Lightningrod only really works in double or triple battles.

This ability makes any Electric type move hit the Pokemon who has that ability. Pretty useless in Single Battles as Electric type moves don't affect Marowak anyway. Rock Head, as stated before only protects against recoil damage from Double-Edge which is good if you want to use that move. Oddly enough, Double-Edge is the only move that it can learn that has recoil damage as it can't learn any of those types of moves from TMs, breeding, or Move Tutors. Marowak's best stat is its Defense stat, followed shortly by Attack and Special Defense stats which are just about the same as base stats.

However, attacks that it learns naturally are good as most of them are direct attacks and most of the moves are above 50 in attack power. For those that are 50 or below they usually hit more than once or can be increased in power, such as Rage.

The only move that cannot be changed or hit more than once, that is below 50 is False Swipe. False Swipe is the perfect move for catching Pokemon that don't do recoil damage as False Swipe guarantees that the Pokemon you're battling is left with one HP.