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Battle Mechanics Research
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Do you guys know how overgrow/torrent/blaze works on the turn something megaevolves?
My blastoise has torrent and less than 30% health. I mega and scald. Does it get the torrent boost?
My blastoise has torrent and less than 30% health. I mega and scald. Does it get the torrent boost?
It does not. Damage calculation is done after mega evolution, unlike turn order, so only the mega ability is factored into damage.
Cheers! Rain dish it is then.
With the Pledge moves, does the Grass + Water swamp combo reduce the Speed of Pokémon with Clear Body and White Smoke?
It would reduce their speed similarly to Thunder Wave or Iron Ball because it is a field effect rather than something which reduces speed in stages.
They revert immediately
Do the Pledge combos cancel one another out? For example, if I set up Water + Grass Pledge and then next turn used Fire + Grass, would the Fire + Grass override the old one?
This is regarding whether or not the probabilities of multihit moves changed in gen 5.
Does anyone know if this actually changed as Bulbapedia says it did? I know it's implemented on PS, but the only source I've found searching through Smogon and the rest of the internet is Bulbapedia and other posts referencing the Bulbapedia post as fact. I looked in the Bulbapedia history and talk pages, but there were no sources confirming this. Perhaps I'm searching for the wrong things. Git blame and a search of git log from lines 322-326 of data/scripts.js yielded no sources either.
Not sure how to verify this as I don't have much experience in the way of disassemblies.
As an aside: it wouldn't be the first time I've found blatantly incorrect information on Bulbapedia, they've got berry activation pretty screwed up as well.
tl;dr:
Did multihit probability:
2, 3 hits: (3/8) and 4, 5 hits: (1/8)
actually change in gen 5 to:
2, 3 hits: (1/3) and 4, 5 hits: (1/6)
http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/b-w-research-thread.79340/page-59#post-3110008
A bit more digging and I found it.
Nevermind, those 400 tests are significant assuming I can plug numbers into a stats function. Still was ridicuclously difficult to find a source.
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Yes.
Yes, as long as the Pokemon with Unaware isn't attacking it. Unaware only ignores stat stages when the Pokemon with it is involved in a damage calculation or accuracy check, either as the attacker (Defense, Sp. Def, evasiveness ignored), or as the defender (Attack, Sp. Atk, accuracy ignored). This behaviour is also why Foul Play against a Pokemon with Unaware ignores its own Attack stat stage, because Foul Play uses it as the attacker's Attack stat stage in the damage formula.
Nope, they're different effects so they don't interact at all.
Mimic hasn't worked on Transform since Gen 4, but yes Mega Evolving is still possible while Transformed. You change types, stats, and Ability as usual, and until you switch out you keep the Transformed moves and can't be Transformed into. Mega Evolution and the Shaymin-Sky reversion to Land Forme when frozen happen to be the only effects that can still change your forme while Transformed (since Gen 5, anyway).
As for as I know, confusion damage is unaffected by Helping Hand
from what i understand, a pokemon is able to use belch as long as it used a berry before and this condition remains even if it is switched out. would like to confirm whether these situation applies for using belch:
1- receive berry from ally Fling berry.
2- consume berry with natural gift
3- losing berry after opponent used knocked off
4- receiving baton pass from someone that ate a berry or triggering hypothesis 1~3 above (if they actually works...)
1- receive berry from ally Fling berry.
2- consume berry with natural gift
3- losing berry after opponent used knocked off
4- receiving baton pass from someone that ate a berry or triggering hypothesis 1~3 above (if they actually works...)
No it's still super effective on Water types, Sheer Force just gets rid of the freeze chance.
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7customgame-511557709
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7customgame-511557709
Do you have any evidence of this? Cart evidence, I mean, not simulator "evidence".
Does the effects of things such as psychic terrain and queenly majesty stop prankster perish song?
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Gniubbo come sempre
I think it doesn't, QM / Psyterrain only stops targeting moves aimed at the foe with priority from hitting. On a note, does a targeting move called by Prankster Copycat fail against priority protection (dazzl / psyterr)
Also wat Skymin reverts to land forme if frozen?
