Recent content by LonelyGaruga

In gen 1, Giovanni gives the TM for Fissure. Earthquake is instead found in Silph Co.

That should be a pretty simple flag to check for too, just needs to check for move type changes before selecting a move.

Enabling the AI to recognize ability-based immunities would be the simplest fix to the Lightningrod example, albeit one with a bit of cheating. But that's better than blindly ignoring them entirely.

I more or less understand the first example, even if that's already something that could happen under gen I mechanics (I.E. cure Sleep vs. a Hypnosis user and they'll immediately click Hypnosis again, mainly applicable for Psychic weak mons), but the second scenario is something that would...

And? I should think suggesting the AI have a capacity for "hard reads" (in practice, randomly making baffling decisions for no discernible reason) would be similarly without merit in the reality of the games being casual experiences. I don't see what your point is in saying something few here...

Honestly a fully omniscient AI can at least be analyzed, understood, and exploited. That rewards knowledge and team building skill. Any kind of randomized behavior makes an AI come across as erratic and greatly muddles any value in decoding its behavior.

I honestly don't see the equivalency here when there is a very real possibility of not being able to outpace the entire team and getting 2HKO'd by coverage for every instance the opponent is the faster one. It is much more realistic for a single Pokémon to sweep a monotype team simply by being...

Having to switch to a counter because the opponent put in a Pokémon sufficiently disadvantageous to fight against is a very effective way to discourage snowballing tactics, so there's that at least. If the AI had actual strategic capacity capable of, for example, proactively switching in...

The only Bug types that get Dark Pulse are Skorupi (evolves into a Dark type), Genesect (probably tied to its cannon), and Golisopod, so I'm gonna interpret this as a matter of insects having a limited capacity for higher thinking. By and large, they are not capable of thoughts of malice or ill...

Wasn't aware of this and was initially thinking it was not always correct on the basis of Rockman ZX being pronounced "Zex" (as opposed to Zetto-Ex or Zee-Ex), but further looking into it indicates that's just the game title being "unique" and every instance of a standalone Z within the Rockman...

Just learned the official pronunciation of Z-A is "Z to A" and not simply the two letters...just sounds really awkward compared to what I would have normally read it as.

Gen I did have Rock Slide as a TM...and one of the only two Rock moves in the whole game, at that.

Solar Beam is a funny one because it has really limited distribution in gen 1 that was expanded upon in gen 3 and 4 (mostly Fire types in 4). Lapras notably had it cut and briefly added again in Let's Go. Going over some gen 1 examples, -Butterfree and Venomoth get Solar Beam in gen 1...

I didn't realize Rhyhorn had Ice Beam, so I looked it up, and Rhyhorn does not actually learn Ice Beam specifically in gen 1. Rhydon learns it in all generations, but it wasn't until Crystal that Rhyhorn became compatible with Ice Beam as a tutor move.

Honestly it is rather telling how commonly Palworld is defended as a parody of Pokémon when that's contradictory to official statements saying it's not a parody, literally word for word. That's a fairly critical failure on the part of the developers if they weren't trying to parody Pokémon, yet...