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Attacks and Abilities Guide

Sandstorm

Personally, I would have sandstorm act the same as sun or rain do in terms of reducing damage--they essentially reduce the effectiveness of an attack by one stage. So a special attack that a rock-type would ordinarily be weak to would deal damage as though it were neutral, and an attack that a rock-type resisted would deal damage as though it were 2x resisted. An attack that was 2x resisted would deal 1/3 the normal damage.

Since this applies to all special attacks rather than just to attacks of one specific type, it gives rock types in sand a significant boost; however, since sandstorm doesn't power any types up the way that sun or rain do, and because it applies only to rock types instead of any pokémon influenced by the weather, I think it's fair.

Squornshellous Beta

If I haven't posted answers in response to anyone, reposting your questions is pointless.

Extreme immobility has no direct effect on battle mechanics. It simply means that the pokémon can't move.

Ditto can transform into anything biological or any solid non-biological object.

Execute are extremely difficult to shatter and do not "spill" if tipped over, held upside-down, etc.

Just go with impossible attacks as best you can. I would have gorebyss' clamp look identical to a bind attack, for example.
 
Sorry. I thought that when some of the qestions had been answered, my others might go unseen.

Conversion. does it just take any attack from the movepool randomly, like with Sleep Talk, and take that as the type, or is it even between every type that the Pokémon can use?

Conversion 2. Is there a reason it works so differently from in-game? It chooses a random type that has been used in the battle (that also seems hard to keep track of in long battles) rather than changing to resist whatever it was last hit with.

EDIT: I'd guess ~12.5 speed per Double Team clone is a good average?
 
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In regards to Super Fang...

It says it is affected by damage caps. If the damage done is higher than the cap, would it just cause the target to hit the cap right away? Or does it cause damage equal to half the damage cap? I would assume the former, but...
 
Squornshellous Beta said:
Sorry. I thought that when some of the qestions had been answered, my others might go unseen.

Conversion. does it just take any attack from the movepool randomly, like with Sleep Talk, and take that as the type, or is it even between every type that the Pokémon can use?

Conversion 2. Is there a reason it works so differently from in-game? It chooses a random type that has been used in the battle (that also seems hard to keep track of in long battles) rather than changing to resist whatever it was last hit with.

EDIT: I'd guess ~12.5 speed per Double Team clone is a good average?
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A pokémon can choose what type it converts to in ASB, so long as it can use an attack of that type.

Conversion 2 "Changes the user's type to a random type either resistant or immune to the last move used against it," so the ASB version works more less like it does in the games.

That speed increment should be fine for double team clones.

Shadow Serenity said:
In regards to Super Fang...

It says it is affected by damage caps. If the damage done is higher than the cap, would it just cause the target to hit the cap right away? Or does it cause damage equal to half the damage cap? I would assume the former, but...
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The former.
 
Negrek said:
Conversion2 - Normal 100%
Target: Self
Class: Special
Contest Type: Type Fueled
Contest Score: +20 (+40)

Works in the same way as the first conversion, but the user will change its type to one matching an attack that it has observed some other pokémon in the match using before; thus, it does not have to be related to any attack within the user's movepool.
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?

EDIT: Splash isn't really an OHKO, is it.
 
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Has it?
...*Checks* Oh, yeah. Well, I don't believe Negrek ever gave a definite answer.

Would a combination of Vicegrip / Seismic Toss / Something else that involves holding the foe and and Elemental punch be feasible? It wouldn't be a punch, per se, but the energy would still damage the foe, I think.
 
Well, I am assuming it's a joke, but I'd like to be sure. Besides, I'd already got a post, so it wasn't wasting any space, unlike your replies and my replies to your replies.
 
It would be accurate to say that Sketch fails if called by Metronome, yes?

EDIT: Also, can a Pokémon be commanded to attack itself (with an actual move rather than just a confusionfail)?
 
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Squornshellous Beta said:
Aw darn it, it can't? Are there others that can't?
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Yep. At least in the games, it can't call Assist, Chatter, Copycat, Counter, Covet, Destiny Bond, Detect, Endure, Feint, Focus Punch, Follow Me, Helping Hand, Me First, Metronome itself, Mimic, Mirror Coat, Mirror Move, Protect, Sleep Talk, Snatch, Struggle, Switcheroo, Thief and Trick. I'm not sure whether all of these should be prevented from being called by Metronome in the ASB; some limitations would be valid, like Metronome itself, but some others are only valid as far as the game goes, like Chatter.
 
Squornshellous Beta said:
It would be accurate to say that Sketch fails if called by Metronome, yes?

EDIT: Also, can a Pokémon be commanded to attack itself (with an actual move rather than just a confusionfail)?
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Sketch would not be called by metronome. I typically let chatter be called by metronome, but if it's convenient to just exclude it with the rest of the typically-unusable moves then it's fine to do so.

Squornshellous Beta said:
Has it?
...*Checks* Oh, yeah. Well, I don't believe Negrek ever gave a definite answer.

Would a combination of Vicegrip / Seismic Toss / Something else that involves holding the foe and and Elemental punch be feasible? It wouldn't be a punch, per se, but the energy would still damage the foe, I think.
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You could, but the attack wouldn't do as much damage as it would if delivered with an actual punch--less than half the full amount.
 
Would said elemental punch combo take correspondingly less energy?

EDIT: I assume that Spiky-Eared Pichu's special moves are usable by Pichu here?
 
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Normally one would be able to command their Pokemon to wait before attacking, but I'm wondering if this is the case with Bide? I'm pretty sure the +1 priority doesn't apply to the turn it releases, but I have doubts about a Pokemon being able to hold in all that damage/energy/whatever for that long.
 
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