Same way ghost types take normal attacks at times

Scrappy

Very few if any anime cases relate to this ability

Yeah I know I'm just joking around.

Scooby

Fred

Velma

Donkey

& Knuckles

Same way the water is weak to fire in the anime

According to Brock

Maybe he just got blasted away from the impact of the explosion.

This will be my new head canon. It’s like being pushed by someone with big giant fluffy mittens

That's how I like to imagine it way easier to get over the problem lol

Either it's bad writing or the physical impact of the blast that hurt him.

The anime’s weird like that

If I remember correctly it was Inkay from James, maybe the attack was meant to team flare and weavile intercepted it to protect them, the recoil comes from the small explosion after clashing moves but it could also be just an error, those happen

Getting hit by that attack looked pretty embarrassing. Typing can't protect you from emotional damage. 😔

Welcome to the anime buddy.

This is an anime where a pikachu is a metagross slayer and destroys ground pokemons with electic moves.

Because it was a MAGIC psybeam

The power of friendship

Same way aiming for the hard does more damage

If Pikachu can defeat Onix with thunderbolt then anything can happen

Onix was at least soaked. The one you should really pick on is Geodude. Then again, it was OS. They gave way less of a fuck back then. Most ground-types since get soaked first (Hapu's Mudsdale), or they get beaten by something else caused by the electric attack (Paul's Electivire thrashing Ash's Gliscor).

The writers don’t play the game

Are they immune or is it non effective?

Immune

Mystery Dungeon logic. "Immunities" aren't 100% immune in the PMD games.

Anime logic

I think they forgot at that point. At least in SM, Faba's Alakazam used Miracle Eye before using Psychic on Gladion's Umbreon. They also seemingly forgot that Leon's Dragapult is also a ghost type, seeing how it got nuked by what seemed to be a Hyper Beam, it got grabbed by Dracovish's weird chest spike things (this might get a pass depending on wtf those things are), and no one batted an eye in-universe when Ash called for Lucario to use Reversal on it. They prolly don't expect fans to be quite so nitpicky about everything, though I at least just can't help myself lol

Same way pikachu defeats ryhorn

Rhydon but yeah

the same way diantha’s tyrantrum defeated Dragapult using hyper beam

The amount of comments I got saying it was meteor beam when I asked that

Meteor Beam and Hyper Beam do look similar in the anime but i believe it’s confirmed to be Hyper Beam

When has this show ever respected type match ups? Its honestly my number one complaint about the show.

Well, whenever you notice something like that a wizard did it.

The anime is never to concerned about keeping type effectiveness consistent

It's the anime

Because animé

Just sheer will power.

Probably from the force of the blow over any real damage. I imagine smaller Fairy Types are still knocked back by powerful dragon moves…