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[Acast]

How this charizard X OHKO my landorus-T? There's no way...
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-621004670

252 Atk Tough Claws Charizard-Mega-X Flare Blitz vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Landorus-Therian: 277-327 (86.8 - 102.5%) -- 18.8% chance to OHKO

Looks like you just got unlucky. In the future please use the damage calculator for things like this. https://pokemonshowdown.com/damagecalc/

 

[TrainerNoodle13]

How do I change a Pokemon stats? I can so far only change its EVs and IVs. I am trying to change its HP, ATT, DEF and stuff.

 

[Adeleine]

You can't, since pokemon stats are pre-set in the Showdown code

 

[Anthony Lilacs]

How can I get a private group chat on the main showdown server to invite people to? Ive been looking all over, I can't seem to find an answer anywhere

 

[Quantum Tesseract]

How can I get a private group chat on the main showdown server to invite people to? Ive been looking all over, I can't seem to find an answer anywhere

Get roomdriver+ in any public room, or global voice. Then, type /makegroupchat.

 

[RoakOriginal]

Question - How did the Guzzlord outsped anything in my team while using different moves, without trickroom or tailwind?

 

[Sondero]

Question - How did the Guzzlord outsped anything in my team while using different moves, without trickroom or tailwind?

There's currently a bug floating around that messes with stats. I'm not sure what causes it, but you can read a bit about it here: http://www.smogon.com/forums/thread...-before-posting.3469932/page-363#post-7493375

 

[A]

RoakOriginal looks like PS is currently undergoing some bug regarding Random Battles with pokemon getting random stat buffs. They're a known issue.

EDIT:
[17:10:46] %Wally~: the stat bug is now fixed, everything should be fine if new battles

 

[OrdA]

How do I change a Pokemon's stats? I can so far only change its EVs and IVs. I am trying to change its HP, ATT, DEF and stuff.

The stats are, like in the games, based on evs and ivs.

At level 100, they're calculated like this: Stat = 2 * base + 5 + ivs + evs / 4.

This means that a Mew (100 base attack), with 252 evs and 31 ivs, will have an attack stat of 2 * 100 + 5 + 31 + 63 = 299. If it has adamant nature, that is increased by 10% to 299 + 29 = 328.

For HP, the formula is Stat = 2 * base + 110 + ivs + evs / 4 instead.

 

[Deleted User 400951]

Why is Latios-Mega listed as OU rather than OU by technicality, given that it didn't receive enough usage to make it to OU?
(attached a screenshot of this)

 

[Acast]

Why is Latios-Mega listed as OU rather than OU by technicality, given that it didn't receive enough usage to make it to OU?
(attached a screenshot of this)

Because the fact that it's a technicality is unimportant. "OU by technicality" is a lot of unnecessary characters to say that Mega Latios is essentially OU.

 

[cityscapes]

Because the fact that it's a technicality is unimportant. "OU by technicality" is a lot of unnecessary characters to say that Mega Latios is essentially OU.

but mega garchomp is in ou by technicality (which is abbreviated by "(ou)")

 

[Acast]

but mega garchomp is in ou by technicality (which is abbreviated by "(ou)")

Ah, to be honest I was unaware they used parentheses to indicate it was a technicality. Sorry for that. In the case of Mega Latios, I'm sure it's just because it was only recently released and they haven't gotten around to updating it yet.

 

[zo]

Because I'm a big idiot, where may I find the Rename thread?

 

[cityscapes]

Because I'm a big idiot, where may I find the Rename thread?

http://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/new-new-name-and-profile-change-requests-read-the-op.3609246/

 

[zo]

aight thanks

 

[Gummy]

dumb question but how long do other admin requests generally take? i posted one a month ago today regarding a ps namechange and haven't heard anything back.

 

[mZet]

so I have a problem with my background on ps, I upload it and the width is cool, but the height is messed up, It happens to every image.
My monitor is 22 inches, my res 1920:1080 if this helps.

 

[jetou]

If, "/roomauth room" shows online room staff by using bold formatting why isn't it the same for "/auth" or "/globalauth"?

 

[Sondero]

If, "/roomauth room" shows online room staff by using bold formatting why isn't it the same for "/auth" or "/globalauth"?

Global staff are much more limited compared to the userbase of the entire server than roomauth are to userbases of rooms. Whenever an issue pops up, it's more often than not a scenario where a global staff member doesn't need to be involved, as a roomauth would direct to a global if necessary.

It would also be difficult for global staff to have privacy if they could be spotted from the /auth list as online, even when they're not in a public room.

 

[OrdA]

It would also be difficult for global staff to have privacy if they could be spotted from the /auth list as online, even when they're not in a public room.

This. Note that /roomauth only shows the staff members who are currently in the room (and thus available for moderation). That allows them to close the room and focus on other things on the site, rather than receiving PMs about moderation at all times.

With global auth, this isn't feasible. The closest thing to this behavior would be bolding the globals who are currently in the help room.

 

[Millennial]

If I lost my username, who could I contact to get the password back?

 

[OrdA]

If I lost my username, who could I contact to get the password back?

The roomintro in pokemonshowdown.com/help should have directions for you.

 

[Millennial]

The roomintro in pokemonshowdown.com/help should have directions for you.

got my account back, thanks alot

 

[Heliodor]

Is it possible to clear my alt list? I know i can logout to not leave a trace on .alts, but it happened and i want to delete that list