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Somebody discovered this interaction in a room tour: if a Pokemon with native Hustle and Shared Power No Guard uses an attack that self-KOs it, such as Explosion, it seems to lose the No Guard volatile before the attack's accuracy is determined, meaning that the attack can miss due to Hustle's...

Lost to WindWarrior75 in SHAAAZUGGSK BO3. Fun matches, good luck in next rounds! https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8sharedpower-1635047017 https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8sharedpower-1635053490 https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8sharedpower-1635057637

Unlike cases like Body Press and Foul Play that have special damage calculations that are independent of category, because altering the Physical and Special categories is the premise of the metagame, I think there are three reasonable possible implementations for moves with dynamic categories...

Nitro Indigo: Just to check, how is Photon Geyser supposed to work here? Thank-you.

Don Vascus beat me in SnM Bonus Type: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8mixandmega-1623930138 GL in future rounds Don!

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I looked into this a bit, and while this is a correct description of how Body Press and Psyshock work, at least on Showdown (they replace which stat is used in damage calculations), Foul Play works differently. It replaces the Pokemon that is used as the source attacker in most respects, but...

Something of a convoluted question that became relevant for a new OM. Is the part of the cart damage calculation algorithm that corrects the damage source for Foul Play agnostic to whether the attack category is Physical or Special, i.e. if you could hack the in-game move database so that Foul...

PokeAAA Bugs Round-up Intimidate Counter-abilities Sometimes Don't Activate It happens when one side activates Intimidate before the Pokemon on the opponent's side gets its Pokebilities counter-ability added on switch-in (in addition to the ones mentioned here it could likely also occur with...

Yes. RPW status should be independent of a user's rank because if multiple users who are supposed to have different ranks are both RPW, it's not possible to distinguish their permissions properly. The current behaviour creates a ton of weird issues like:-...

Yes...yes it would. /challenge [Gen 8] Anything Goes @@@-Focus Sash > 1

I don't think it would be coherent to try to simulate probabilistic scarcity for ONLY this mechanic, and not for e.g. IV distribution, or whether a given user account has access to all of the games and hardware to trade certain obscure past-gen sets into Sword/Shield, etc. Perhaps the one...

I think this is an especially good idea because Dynamax is disallowed in SO many formats (for good reason) that there are very few chances for the average player to learn these mechanics from experience before encountering them in e.g. Randoms.

I think this could be addressed by having the client consider Mega Stones as Popular/Great Items when the active format is a MnM format. They aren't really Pokemon-specific items in those formats anyway.

Pichu-Spikyeared's back sprite seems to be missing (the front sprite is fine). Replay: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8hackmonscup-1561678963 Front sprite link (OK): https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/gen5/pichu-spikyeared.png Back sprite link (Broken)...