Rejected Iron Ball Negates Levitate

[GuardArc]

Hey! I'm recommending an edit to the article for Iron Ball. It does not mention that it negates Levitate as well, it only mentions Flying types at the moment. Not sure if this is a mechanic issue on Showdown that doesn't match the base game (unlikely) or if it just needs an updated description.

https://www.smogon.com/dex/ss/items/iron-ball/

Here is proof that it negates Levitate too from a draft league game I saw: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen8nationaldexag-1310320456-x45ivtnzqvyyu2hcsok9sekr3uoc7gupw

 

[GuardArc]

An alternative to this would be macho brace, funnily enough. People would just need to be able to figure that out based on the description for Iron Ball

 

[GuardArc]

Also worth mentioning that Excadrill did not say Mold Breaker. So that isn't it either.

 

[Dawn of Ares]

The description says "holder is grounded." This means levitate and the flying immunity to ground are negated. Nothing's missing there.

 

[Zarel]

I agree it definitely could be phrased better, but this is the suggestion board for Pokémon Showdown, not Smogdex.

 

[GuardArc]

I agree it definitely could be phrased better, but this is the suggestion board for Pokémon Showdown, not Smogdex.

All I did was click the link that the smog article itself provided for inadequate descriptions. I also think this post got moved once it was rejected

 

[dhelmise]

I agree it definitely could be phrased better, but this is the suggestion board for Pokémon Showdown, not Smogdex.

To be fair, the Smogdex uses PS's descriptions.

 

[Zarel]

Yeah, I did check that after making my post. I think it's a reasonably good point that PS's long description could be improved.

 

[GuardArc]

Yeah, I did check that after making my post. I think it's a reasonably good point that PS's long description could be improved.

Thank you for not just shutting the idea down, lol you're the goat Zarel. I think the wording could definitely be improved.

My point in this now, for others reading this, is that if you're saying "grounded," don't just mention flying types alone and add reinforcement to only one of the two things that being grounded would include; that partially implies that levitate doesn't count when it actually does. In reality it's just a redundancy in language that leads to misconceptions on Iron Ball which I've seen on numerous occasions past the one replay I saved and posted here. It's a real shame the number of games that are likely lost because of a simple writing redundancy that can potentially mislead the reader.