Downsides
Weaknesses and downsides are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Weaknesses" instead a noun "Downsides".
Weaknesses
Downsides and weaknesses are semantically related. You can use "Downsides" instead a noun "Weaknesses".
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- During all of this, they also have to deal with the troubles and downsides of their new bodies, as well as being made painfully aware of the weaknesses they had in their original ones, and to say hilarity ensues would be a grave understatement.
- The added Fire doesn't really have any downsides either, since Desolate Land nullifies water attacks, one of Primal Groudon's only weaknesses, whereas Kyogre picks up an immunity to a type it already resisted.
Source: Game Breaker / Smogon
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