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Is the bolded exclusive to link battles? I did a solo ditto run and found that ditto was using the new transformed critical hit ratio. For example, ditto was able to crit as sandslash using slash 50/50 times. Then I tested mew vs. machop, and mew crit with karate chop 4/15 times.
As an example...
Forum name: Princelina
Cycle 2 Alt: LT82ZW Princelina
Does my alt for Cycle 2 contain my forum name or a very similar variation/abbreviation of it as required by the rules?: yes