Help Does the stab work for the 2nd type ?

[TheTainted_Wisdom]

This was bugging the hell out of me too (pun unintended).

The only thing I can think of as to why such a type discrepancy would exist is if it was to make sure that the player was more likely to win against their rival in the initial battle so that newbies don't get thrown to the wolves right away. It would make sense given the fact that Orchynx has a Grass-type move in the form of Leech Seed but doesn't actually do direct damage. And it's possible that rather than increasing the damage for water and fire attacks in that one instance, it ended up applying to the game as a whole and it's just harder to notice since most of the time you gravitate towards one move and one move only when battling against opponents due to most pokemon having multiple types and only one attack type tends to be ideal for engaging them?

I myself only took notice when I was using my Eletruxo against one of the EV training Ninjas, and noticed that even though Scald had lower base damage than Thunderbolt, both were special attacks, and both attacks did neutral damage to the target, Scald was still doing way more damage.

I just assumed that there was a gameplay shake-up that I was not aware of over the generations, like the Physical/Special Attack split, Fairy types, etc. That maybe the primary type did +50% and the second type only got a +25% STAB boost or something like that.

I also agree that fixing this should definitely be prioretized. Archilles and Inflagetah's teir 2 piorety Flame Impact with STAB damage and possible boosts from Sunny Day/Swords Dance is terrifying enough without having a magical damage boost that doesn't apply to anything else.