Type Effectiveness Guide
The Soul Guardian Guide
In Soul Guardian, you get to battle a lot of different opponents with your team. Each team member that you have will have a corresponding elemental type, and this will determine their strengths as well as their weaknesses. There are a lot of types that you’ll find in the game as well, so you will want to know which ones are effective.
In our Type Effectiveness Guide, which check how Types work in Soul Guardian so you can plan out on your battles in order to get the best results. Let’s check out what’s in store with this mechanic below!
What are Types?
So, what are types? When starting out in Soul Guardian, you’ll get to pick out your partner. You can either choose Fire, Grass, and Water and this can be a good example for learning out the type advantages. Fire beats Grass, Grass beats Water, and Water beats Fire.
However, there are a lot of types in the game, and there are some who have dual types as well which can either give them more weaknesses, or even better resistances. When fighting an opponent, you can check your moves to see if they are effective or not. When choosing damage dealing moves, you can either have the following effects:
By learning your type match ups, you will be able to create a balanced team that can help cover each other’s weaknesses. Moves of different types can also be learned in the game that can help you out. Also, you can get bonuses for using moves if its type is the same as your partner’s type as well.
Type Effectiveness Chart
In this chart below, we are listing each type that is available. Their strengths and weaknesses are added below, make sure to take note of dual types as well since they can either get increased weaknesses or better resistances.
Type | Super Effective vs. | Weakness | Not Very Effective vs. | Resists |
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Bug | Grass, Psychic, Dark | Flying, Rock, Fire | Fighting, Flying, Poison, Ghost, Steel, Fire, Fairy | Fighting, Ground, Grass |
Dark | Ghost, Psychic | Fighting, Bug, Fairy | Fighting, Fairy, Dark (No Effect) | Ghost, Psychic, Dark |
Dragon | Dragon | Ice, Dragon, Fairy | Steel, Fairy (Immune) | Fire, Water, Grass, Electric |
Electric | Flying, Water | Ground | Grass, Electric, Dragon, Ground (No effect) | Flying, Steel, Electric |
Fairy | Fighting, Dragon, Dark | Poison, Steel | Poison, Steel, Fire | Fighting, Bug, Dark, Dragon (Immune) |
Fighting | Normal, Rock, Steel, Ice, Dark | Flying, Psychic, Fairy | Flying, Poison, Psychic, Bug, Fairy, Ghost (No effect) | Rock, Bug, Dark |
Fire | Bug, Steel, Grass, Ice | Ground, Rock, Water | Rock, Fire, Water, Dragon | Bug, Steel, Fire, Grass, Ice |
Flying | Fighting, Bug, Grass | Rock, Electric, Ice | Rock, Steel, Electric | Fighting, Bug, Grass, Ground (Immune) |
Ghost | Ghost, Psychic | Ghost, Dark | Normal, Dark | Poison, Bug, Normal (Immune), Fighting (Immune) |
Grass | Ground, Rock, Water | Flying, Poison, Bug, Fire, Ice | Flying, Poison, Bug, Steel, Fire, Grass, Dragon | Ground, Water, Grass, Electric |
Ground | Poison, Rock, Steel, Fire, Electric | Water, Grass, Ice | Bug, Grass, Flying (No effect) | Poison, Rock, Electric (Immune) |
Ice | Flying, Ground, Grass, Dragon | Fighting, Rock, Steel, Fire | Steel, Fire, Water, Ice | Ice |
Normal | None | Fighting | Rock, Steel, Ghost (No effect) | Ghost |
Poison | Grass, Fairy | Ground, Psychic | Poison, Ground, Rock, Ghost, Steel (No Effect) | Fighting, Poison, Grass, Fairy |
Psychic | Fighting, Poison | Bug, Ghost, Dark | Steel, Psychic, Dark | Fighting, Psychic |
Rock | Flying, Bug, Fire, Ice | Fighting, Ground, Steel, Water, Grass | Fighting, Ground, Steel | Normal, Flying, Poison, Fire |
Steel | Rock, Ice, Fairy | Fighting, Ground, Fire | Steel, Fire, Water, Electric | Normal, Flying, Rock, Bug, Steel, Grass, Psychic, Ice, Dragon, Fairy, Poison (Immune) |
Water | Ground, Rock, Fire | Grass, Electric | Water, Grass, Dragon | Steel, Fire, Water, Ice |
There are a lot of combinations available in terms of move effectiveness. By knowing the strengths and weaknesses of each type, you’ll be able to master your battles and switch out partners in order to take advantage of their strengths. This is useful especially if you’re going to battle other trainers in the game.
With different possible partners that you can catch, make sure to have a lineup that has types that can cover each other’s weaknesses. Some excel in damaging, while others have defensive capabilities too, so don’t forget to read each move available.
This concludes our page on the different Type Effectiveness in Soul Guardian. We hope that this helps you in your gameplay, there are a lot of other features as well that you’ll find so don’t forget to continue with your game’s progress.
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