Possible Sleep Clause bug

[Sabinfrost]

Hi,

I was recently playing on the Smogon PO server and Magic Coated my enemies spore, a few turns later I felt safe going for the yawn on a different target (even though the spored Pokemon was still asleep as he did it to himself). I was unable to due to Sleep Clause.

Is this intended? It seems to me putting yourself to sleep by having your ability reflected should be on par with Resting.

 

[shnen]

This seems to be correct as by magic coating his spore you are actively putting your opponent to sleep,which is what sleep Clause affects if I am correct.

 

[Antar]

Yeah... while I don't necessarily agree with it, this is almost certainly a "feature, not a bug."

IIRC, it's hard-coded into PO, so you'll have to take it up with them.

 

[haunter]

I believe that it already worked this way on shoddy.

 

[Sabinfrost]

I believe that it already worked this way on shoddy.

Any chance of it being changed/addressed or is it there to stay? It seems to me if I predict a spore and use magic coat, that it shouldn't be treated the same as using spore myself. This particular instance it was a Smeargle, I would have rather had something other than his Suicide Spiker asleep but I didn't want my lead to get put to sleep.

 

[Great Sage]

We have no control over the Sleep Clause that comes with PO. Post on the PO forums if you would like to advocate a modification.