Jorgen
World's Strongest Fairy
Here's a link to the post on PO forums I made. For those that would rather not click a link, here's the full post:
Basically, from looking around on Bulbapedia, the best source I can find for details on event Pokemon, there's two things iffy with PO's (and possibly Showdown's) implementations of GSC event Pokemon:
1) Encore Donphan is Japan-exclusive and therefore not possible in a US cartridge (which I assume is the standard regional cartridge for these simulators). Encore Donphan is currently allowed on PO.
2) Growth Eevee and its evolutions MUST be shiny. They are currently allowed to have any DVs.
There's probably other problems to be found, too. If anybody has information to debunk these claims, please do so. I wasn't going to post these as bugs because I just don't feel comfortable enough to say "yep, definitely bugs" without independent confirmation.
So I was browsing around looking at details for some event moves implemented on the PO GSC teambuilder. The pages I'm referencing are here and here. The two main things I found were:
A) Encore Phanpy, the basis of Encore Donphan being allowed on server, is a Japan-exclusive event Pokemon. If memory serves me correctly, the Japanese and US versions of the game are not compatible for trading or battling. I'm assuming the US version is the one being emulated for simulator purposes.
B) Even more shocking, apparently Growth Eevee was only distributed with Shiny DVs. This is huge, as this means GrowthVap and its bretheren can have, at best, 15/10/10/10/10/10 DVs.
There's probably a few other details in there, but I thought I'd bring this up here to cast light on some questionably accurate movesets currently implemented in PO. The reason this isn't a bugs/fixes post is because I'm no expert on event distributions and am therefore unsure whether somebody can debunk these as bugs using better information than just Bulbapedia.
A) Encore Phanpy, the basis of Encore Donphan being allowed on server, is a Japan-exclusive event Pokemon. If memory serves me correctly, the Japanese and US versions of the game are not compatible for trading or battling. I'm assuming the US version is the one being emulated for simulator purposes.
B) Even more shocking, apparently Growth Eevee was only distributed with Shiny DVs. This is huge, as this means GrowthVap and its bretheren can have, at best, 15/10/10/10/10/10 DVs.
There's probably a few other details in there, but I thought I'd bring this up here to cast light on some questionably accurate movesets currently implemented in PO. The reason this isn't a bugs/fixes post is because I'm no expert on event distributions and am therefore unsure whether somebody can debunk these as bugs using better information than just Bulbapedia.
Basically, from looking around on Bulbapedia, the best source I can find for details on event Pokemon, there's two things iffy with PO's (and possibly Showdown's) implementations of GSC event Pokemon:
1) Encore Donphan is Japan-exclusive and therefore not possible in a US cartridge (which I assume is the standard regional cartridge for these simulators). Encore Donphan is currently allowed on PO.
2) Growth Eevee and its evolutions MUST be shiny. They are currently allowed to have any DVs.
There's probably other problems to be found, too. If anybody has information to debunk these claims, please do so. I wasn't going to post these as bugs because I just don't feel comfortable enough to say "yep, definitely bugs" without independent confirmation.