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Missed a changelog update due to hospital. I'm fine.
March 1, 2025:
Gen 9 Random Battle:
-SubCM Raikou: +Tera Grass
-Hazards Whiscash: +Tera Ghost
-Deo-D: -Teleport (since reverted)
-Sneasler is now always Dire Claw on Choice Band and 50% Dire Claw on Swords Dance (reducing Gunk Shot from 75%...
Metronome Battle, while technically under the Random Battles umbrella, requires a team to play. The reason it counts as a random battle is because the execution of the battle is fully random, as opposed to the teambuilding. Look at the resources for Metronome Battle here! This is not a bug.
We knew this was a 1/10000 chance of happening, roughly, when we decided to keep Chansey (both times the council voted on it, even). It's a small enough chance that it's not worth specifically coding out. Tough luck, though, and thanks for the report. Definitely the kind of thing we're looking for.
yeah, main downside of this one is you can't heal off your substitutes as easily and that makes it a lot less effective at Punching with its speed/bulk. and unlike dusknoir, the main thing they'd be switching into you with (i.e. the most likely time to get a free sub) is birds. which you can't...
We're not going to be adding Moonblast to Sylveon just because you can sometimes lose to Mightyena. Everything except the last point is marginal at best and the last point isn't enough to warrant a global cut of Sylveon's move power.
We've considered SubPunch Breloom in the past in various generations and in none of them did we ever consider it consistent or worthwhile enough to drop grass STAB and Mach Punch; only having oneSTAB attack and that attack being focus punch means you're really quite exploitable, especially with...
It's all come down to this. Will Zeraora's type advantage ring true and lead them to the win, or will Suicune successfully Pressure-stall all of the Plasma Fists PP away with Substitute and Protect? Only time will tell. Though, I'm sure some of y'all are gonna try to tell it instead with...
Right. It's been a year. Sorry for the lack of updates, it slipped everyone's mind collectively until someone notified me of its existence again.
I'll do a truncated Minutes for this, covering what we've voted on, how they went, and slight elaboration on any other important issues.
The survey...