Rejected Assist should not be allowed to select Revival Blessing

[madvorak]

I have been playing this team: https://pokepast.es/8a45ee730d88f722
It is such an abomination. I usually win the battle but neither I nor my opponent enjoys it.

It needs to stop!
Deciding whether Assist can select Revival Blessing seems to be an arbitrary decision about how we extrapolate move effects into generations where it didn't exist. I believe we can prevent Assist from selecting Revival Blessing in PS's implementation of the game mechanics and still be faithful to the original games.

 

[BIG ASHLEY]

revival blessing is flagged as callable by assist (even though assist isn't in the game) so current implementation is the most accurate way of doing it

 

[Dusk Mage Necrozma]

-Showdown does not modify game mechanics (apart from Sleep Clause)
-The point of AG is that there are no bans
-This isn't really the place to ask this anyway

 

[DaWoblefet]

Although there are no games with both Revival Blessing and Assist, in Gen IX, Revival Blessing is listed among the moves that can successfully be called by Assist. Revival Blessing can be called by Sleep Talk and Copycat as well in Gen IX, so there's nothing suggesting that if Assist were added, it couldn't call Revival Blessing. Although it is National Dex, where the community simply makes up mechanics, this would be a hard sell to make I think.

 

[R8]

natdex forum mod here

As mentionned above, Revival Blessing is flagged to be callable by assist. NatDex tries to be as mechanically accurate to the code of the game as possible. If something is broken or uncompetitive, we should not try to fix it by arbitrarily changing the code of the game : this is what tiering actions are for.

 

[Dusk Mage Necrozma]

If something is broken or uncompetitive, we should not try to fix it by arbitrarily changing the code of the game : this is what tiering actions are for.

Well they’re talking about AG but yeah mechanics changes are not an option