Pending Removing abilities as possibilities when it's obvious they are not possible

[zuloon]

If there's an ability that normally would send a message to chat, and no message is sent, then take it off the possibility list

ie: no message for intimidate is sent → take it off the possibility list when you hover over an opponents pokemon

 

[Irpachuza]

Doesn't certain in-battle elements affect the appearance of ability messages, like Neutralizing Gas or Stalwart? So something like this should account for the possibility that those "counters" to the message have chances to be present.

 

[Aqua Jet]

Building onto this, if an ability is obvious then imo it should be also revealed. For example 66% Amoonguss is withdrawn and then comes back in at 99%, it should be revealed that it’s Regenerator because there is no other way (to my knowledge) that it can regain that health without using a move.

 

[Irpachuza]

Building onto this, if an ability is obvious then imo it should be also revealed. For example 66% Amoonguss is withdrawn and then comes back in at 99%, it should be revealed that it’s Regenerator because there is no other way (to my knowledge) that it can regain that health without using a move.

Could be an Illusion mon.

I'll also take the chance to clarify that I don't believe this suggestion is necessary at all. There are certain limits on what we should ask to have on the tooltips, one thing is using them as a memory saving resource, but cases like this seem too complicated to apply + they'll probably cause a lot of visual bug reports, specially on OMs.

 

[zuloon]

Could be an Illusion mon.

I'll also take the chance to clarify that I don't believe this suggestion is necessary at all. There are certain limits on what we should ask to have on the tooltips, one thing is using them as a memory saving resource, but cases like this seem too complicated to apply + they'll probably cause a lot of visual bug reports, specially on OMs.

How would this be complicated to apply? It's a simple if-then statement.

And I have a really hard time believing this would take up any significant amount of memory.