The New Move system:

Back in the Ye Olden Days on RBYGSCFRLGRSE (Quite a mouthful), before all this fancy, "Dual Screens," and the only time we touched the screen was to wipe of marks, the battle system was quite well known and evolving troughout the games. RBY bought us the whole basic system, GSC split the specials making some Pokemon greater, giving some a better chance and making others totally useless, and RSEFRLG came and bought a big iron caps for the stat experience, (Which now is known as EVs.) But one thing always remind the same, the way the attacks were handled.

Damaging Attacks were split in to Physical and Special to decide what stat (Attack of Special attack) they would run off, while nothing explaining was given in game until FRLG, the types that ran of Special Attack were: Dark, Grass, Dragon, Fire, Ice, Water, Electric, and Psychic, while the Physical attacks were: Fighting, Normal, Steel, Ground, Rock Bug, Ghost, Poison and Flying. Let's take Fire Punch for example, it's a special type move because it is from the Fire typing, despite it's name. However all this in Pearl/Diamond, this is all set to change.

See the little red Icon? That's shows the move as a Physical Type move.

But wasn't electric a special type move? Why is this guy lying to me, he just told me a few lines up electric was a special type move! I'm now going to leave this site in rage!

Calm down, this is the new Battle system. Types are no longer used to determined if an attack is physical or special, rather the attack themselves.

Yes, that's right, Fire Punch will now run off Attack! Why? Because it uses physical force, unlike Thunderbolt which uses the Pokemon's Special abilities, there is also another type, Other, this is used when an attack isn't a damaging one like Sleep Powder or Calm Mind.

The easiest way to remember is:

Physical Attack - Anything that uses physical force, doesn't have to be contact, this could be like throwing rocks (Rock Slide) or punching.

Special Attack - When the Pokemon has to summon the attack, like Thunderbolt or Psychic.

Other - Non attacking, Leech seed etc.

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