It's not just self-referring, this gimmick also nails a large amount of vanilla moves as well. 12 characters is not very long, especially when you consider thay many moves consist of two or more words, and spaces are also counted for this gimmick. And I've been playing Staff Bros formats for years, ever since the original iteration, and this gimmick is imo easily in the top 5 most broken sets that've ever appeared. Although the recently buffed snake is also up there...
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SSB Super Staff Bros: Ultimate Discussion
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It clearly mentions alphanumeric characters when you /dt it; eleven-character attacks such as Flash Cannon, Dragon Pulse, Draco Meteor, etc. all work fine
Not from my experience, but I'll playtest some more. I definitely recall seeing an 11 character move with a space get caught once which is why I said it. But even discounting spaces, many vanilla multi-word moves get easily caught within 12 characters.
Actually, maybe a good compromise would be to change the ability so only moves that contain individual words longer than a certain length are caught. The character limit could be reduced to something like 8 to compensate, but in exchange it would still fit the spirit of catching silly long names with less stray hits on vanilla moves.
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Got this message during the battle, turn 13
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9superstaffbrosultimate-2135057913
Shoutout to Rumia, I usually don't like defensive mons but its ability to completely stonewall any physical attacker is crazy. Especially when I roll xy01 in the same team. Super fun.
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9superstaffbrosultimate-2137045742
Scumhunt is not factoring in the opponent's Tera Type.
Also, I was unable to reproduce Illiterit blocking a move that's 11 characters plus 1 space, so either I miscounted before or there's a special case (most likely the former)
Scumhunt is not factoring in the opponent's Tera Type.
Also, I was unable to reproduce Illiterit blocking a move that's 11 characters plus 1 space, so either I miscounted before or there's a special case (most likely the former)
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Platinum record now deals damage to the opponent successfully, but heals them instead of the user afterwards
New mons
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/...-2137436129-624xow4hopwm10zkue8ukbo93azd4mxpw - on turns 30 and 32, Keys uses protector of the skies before Daki is able to move. On turn 40, Daki is able to dragon pulse before Keys moves, however. Possibly something to do with free switch move (used on turns 29 and 31).
Do you have a replay of this? Nothing in the code could make this happen.
E: NVM, found the bug
The priority is -1, but turns to 0 if any pokemon on the field has a stat change. The only possible bug here is that it shouldn't take keys' stat changes into account, but this currently works as intended
If that's intended, it isn't reflected in the move description. The current description reads 'Both the target and the user are forced to switch out and be replaced with random unfainted allies. This effect cannot be blocked by any means other than having no valid allies that can be sent out.'.
Who is Neko?
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9superstaffbrosultimate-2137755189
Anyways, they appear to be bugged since the catstampofapproval boost persisted throughout the entire game.
I also was able to Terastalize twice at turn 5 and turn 18. On turn 17, Irpachuza transformed blazeofvictory into a Hydrapple.
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9superstaffbrosultimate-2137755189
Anyways, they appear to be bugged since the catstampofapproval boost persisted throughout the entire game.
I also was able to Terastalize twice at turn 5 and turn 18. On turn 17, Irpachuza transformed blazeofvictory into a Hydrapple.