Teaching skill against pal's natural element?

[Tea ♡]

Sorry if it sounds dumb, but is it viable?
I was often met with these scenario:

1. let's say i teach water skill to Foxparks which is a fire pal.
then I fought Mammorest (which is a grass element) USING the water skills, and I get the message "Foxparks's attack are highly effective against Mammorest!"
I reckon its because foxparks is a fire pal to begin with, it doesnt matter what skill I use.

2. So the damage bonus is actually from the pal's type, not the skill itself?
if I teach water skill to a fire pal then, do I get less damage output and vice versa?

3. I should always teach the same element skill as the pal?

[Buffmania]

The damage bonus is from the attack's type. The color of the damage numbers indicates this.
Also, pals using an attack with their same type will deal slightly more damage.

[Tea ♡]

but then .. how come i get the message of highly effective attack, when water is weak against grass?

[Cryten]

did you replace all 3 attacks with water?

[Prossy]

Originally posted by Tea ♡:

but then .. how come i get the message of highly effective attack, when water is weak against grass?

The message box windows doesn't seem accurate and sometimes have a delay atm, i often get messages that my party pals learned a new skill when a base pal leveled up

Also water only weak against electric, it still takes normal damage from grass, for now every element is weak/strong against one type of damage excluding fire which is the only type which is strong against 2 types atm, the elemental match up is in the survival guide if you wanna check it out

[Lahgtah]

There is STAB(same type attack bonus) where attacks matching the pal's type do 20% bonus damage. Maybe this 20% is what sends it over the threshold to be "super effective."

[Buffmania]

After doing a little more testing, it looks like it only gives the notification when an attack gets both the same type and supereffective bonuses.