Done Alter/don’t show weather backgrounds if air lock/cloud nine is in effect

[idea]

It’s fairly easy to miss the fact that air lock/cloud nine is active since there’s no visual indication of it. If it’s possible to slightly change the backgrounds to be more muted that would be a nice QoL change.

 

[DrPumpkinz]

If I recall correctly, weather continues to play its animations on cart even when a Cloud Nine / Air Lock Pokemon is present. I also feel like seeing a giant green dragon on your screen is a pretty good visual indicator for weather not having any effect.

 

[Aquaa]

If I recall correctly, weather continues to play its animations on cart even when a Cloud Nine / Air Lock Pokemon is present. I also feel like seeing a giant green dragon on your screen is a pretty good visual indicator for weather not having any effect.

In that case, I wouldn't mind an indicator of Air Lock through text; the same way it works for Light Screen and Reflect on the main battle screen.

 

[HiZo]

I think much better would be to cross out weather (and remove the weather background) when Air Lock is active. I think the big problem is that it's just easy to miss that Air Lock is active.

:)

 

[Zarel]

Like my post says, I strongly support this (both crossing out the weather name in the top left, and removing the weather background) when Air Lock is active.

While it's true that the games themselves don't do this, we've never restricted our convenience features to only what the games themselves do.

 

[DrPumpkinz]

I don't think the background should be completely removed, since it's still helpful to know it's there if the Cloud Nine mon switches out.

Edit: Oh yeah, and definitely don't do anything with Gens 3 and 4, since Cloud Nine doesn't have an activation message in those gens, so indicating that weather is negated would be an info leak.

 

[DaWoblefet]

Adding on to what DrPumpkinz says, the Cloud Nine / Air Lock message can result in information leaks even in modern generations (including Gen 8). For whatever reason, Air Lock and Cloud Nine aren't included like the rest of entrance activation Abilities (e.g. Intimidate or Pressure) to trigger after Ability changes happen (like Skill Swap or Entrainment). You can easily create an information leak like this:

1) Switch in Neutralizing Gas
2) Switch in Cloud Nine
3) Switch out Neutralizing Gas

So Cloud Nine would never activate in this whole exchange, even though after step 3) weather really is being negated. But if you don't know whether or not the Pokemon has Cloud Nine (say Golduck, or a Pokemon in hackmons formats), this would leak that the Pokemon really does have Cloud Nine.

So this implementation would need to be based on revealed Cloud Nine / Air Lock activations.

EDIT: Zarel has since pointed out that this won't be a problem; it will be based on revealed Cloud Nine / Air Lock activations.

 

[DaWoblefet]

Oh yeah, Karthik did this a while ago!