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doipy hooves said:
This is a new change in Gen 9.
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Aqua Jet said:
Pokemon Database, which I generally find to be more reliable then Bulbapedia, refutes this claim (link).
If my memory serves me correctly, MWL is incorrect, though admittedly I haven't seen the interaction in awhile so I could be misremembering. Would someone be able to test it out (and preferably record the interaction)?
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Outrage being broken by a Fairy-type switchin confuses if it's the last turn of Outrage. A 2-turn Outrage can still confuse if a Fairy-type switches in on the second turn (but if it's a 3-turn Outrage and you switch in on the second turn, you don't get a confusion).
Frubblez said:
Can someone please tell me how booster energy interacts with sticky web? Because it seems completely inconsistent. In one replay, it activates before sticky web lowers the pokemon's speed, giving iron moth a speed boost. https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-1958072043
In another replay, it activates after webs lowers the pokemon's speed, giving iron valiant an attack boost. https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-1958127889
One way or another this is an inconsistency and a bug that needs to be fixed but I'm not sure which way it works on cartridge.
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From my testing, Sticky Web activates before Booster.
 
Game Freak did a funny with Bloodmoon Ursaluna that appears to be currently overlooked on PS. This was brought to our attention by at least one Japanese player on PS and BSS Discord asking why Yawn was illegal on PS, but Bloodmoon Ursaluna should have access to all of regular Ursaluna's egg moves. Right now all of these moves are flagged as illegal on PS, but the Mirror Herb method still successfully passes any Ursaluna egg move to Bloodmoon Ursaluna. This was tested on cart by Whitephoenixace, credit to him for the screenshot below.

This is potentially unintended because Ursaluna-BM can learn Close Combat via "egg move" despite the fact that it cannot learn it via TM, and the majority of these moves are physical and thus useless for it. However, Yawn does appear in Ursaluna-BM's top 10 moves in BSS (at around 2% usage) so these moves appear to pass the legality check for ranked.

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The interaction between Clangorous Soul + Throat Spray against a mon with a Mirror Herb doesn't work on Showdown as it does in-game.
In-game, the mon that goes for Clangorous Soul will get both the omni boost and the Throat Spray trigger for the additional +1 sp.atk boost, which then triggers Mirror Herb on the opposing mon, giving them both the omni boost and that additional Throat Spray sp.atk boost.
While on Showdown, Mirror Herb will trigger immediately after Clangorous Soul, giving only the omni boost, and after wards the Throat Spray triggers giving the additional +1 sp.atk only to the mon that used Clangorous Soul.
In-Game interaction: https://www.twitch.tv/churroshu/clip/AcceptableWonderfulWatercressPeteZarollTie-u9BpbHvgSpnaC0jl
Showdown interaction: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen91v1-1962000241
 
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There is an interaction between intimidate and pokémon holding the eject pack that for some reason works differently on PS than it does in the game. The issue being that in-game if a pokemon like Torkoal with drought is sent into battle at the same time as an opposing pokemon with intimidate, both abilities will activate before the eject pack is used up and switches out Torkoal after drought sets up harsh sunlight. On Showdown however, they interact with the abilities activating in order of speed as usual, but if intimidate activates before drought (which it does pretty often in Torkoal's case), Torkoal will be ejected immediately before having the chance to set up sunlight.
Hopefully in the future I won't have to hold back my poor Torkoal (pictured below) every single time i see my opponent using a Landorus-T lol.
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somebody please save the turtles!
 
Beerrito said:
There is an interaction between intimidate and pokémon holding the eject pack that for some reason works differently on PS than it does in the game. The issue being that in-game if a pokemon like Torkoal with drought is sent into battle at the same time as an opposing pokemon with intimidate, both abilities will activate before the eject pack is used up and switches out Torkoal after drought sets up harsh sunlight. On Showdown however, they interact with the abilities activating in order of speed as usual, but if intimidate activates before drought (which it does pretty often in Torkoal's case), Torkoal will be ejected immediately before having the chance to set up sunlight.
Hopefully in the future I won't have to hold back my poor Torkoal (pictured below) every single time i see my opponent using a Landorus-T lol.
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somebody please save the turtles!
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i can confirm this interaction as well as someone who actively used a team with torkoal on cart in july for bss. I often took advantage of landorus t activating eject pack when torkoal came in so i can get my sun up and not have to worry about torkoal taking dmg before i bring my sun abuser in
 
Tea Guzzler said:
From my testing, Sticky Web activates before Booster.
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Tested ingame, can confirm it is messed up as well. On showdown, hard switching into a booster energy pokemon when webs are up will result in a boost going off before sticky web, erroneously boosting speed. This should be a high-priority fix because sticky webs and booster energy are both extremely meta relevant in current OU, and a sticky web team can absolutely lose the game off the incorrectly applied speed boost.
 
I have noticed two bugs with uploading teams:

1. You can upload both regular teams and boxes to the Showdown database, but it's only able to save them as regular teams.
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(Before uploading team)

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(After uploading team and reloading page)

2. Small, but the Tera Type will for some reason change to all lowercase when uploaded.
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(Before uploading team)

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(After uploading team and reloading page)
 
I noticed a bug with the new feature, uploading teams to the server. Only on the teams that I save to the server, the Tera types for some reason end up being wrong. For example, I login on another computer and then log into my account. Then when it loads my teams up, the right tera type is shown but uncapitalized. Then instead, it has the fitting tera type "Bug" as my mons tera type. Then if making a pokepaste, the tera types end up being messed up as well. As a team rater, I look at pastes alot and need to paste them into my builder quickly, but it also messes up the paste too. (I guess the formatting is weird so it fails). In my experience, it only happens if you upload it to the server.

Hope this is resolved, Thanks Alot :blobthumbsup:.

P.S. I asked about the bug to my friend, they can confirm that it also is effecting them. Also, tested it more, and the second you upload it onto the servers, the tera types go all weird.

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:zygarde: should be fixed, reupload the teams with problematic tera types
 
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Grugspro said:
I was playing Random Battle Mayhem and halfway through the game the abilities of my Pokemon changed; on turn 13 my Espathra with Speed Boost was ko'd, next turn opponent used U-Turn and I attacked, with my Iron Moth that didn't have Speed Boost earlier on in the battle but suddenly did, and my Dondozo that was later swapped in also gained the ability.
Replay of battle: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9randombattlemayhem-1965399108
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Random Battle Mayhem is Random Battles but with a few mods, one of which is Shared Power, where Pokémon share their Ability once they've been sent out.
 
Unsure where exactly to put this but I noticed if you import a team from the server and then later make changes to it, the team icon that shows when you select a team to ladder with shows it with the changes, but the battle screen and teambuilder show it as if those changes were never made.
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As you can see here, this Godly Gift team has Hoopa Unbound in one image but Iron Moth in the other.
BUG STATUS (CLIENT) Fixed: by Mia
:zygarde: was part of the teams overwriting bug, should be fixed now - refresh to get the new code
 
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Platum said:
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-1965913770-b3pu0ibev1wrojid6ndhlur37qhawx3pw
Turn 4, i missed Chloroblast with Electrode-Hisui and didn't take damage, even though the description of the move says that "whether or not this move is successful [...] the user loses 1/2 of its maximum HP". I couldn't find whether if it works like that on cartridge (thus making the description inaccurate) or if it's a bug.
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Chloroblast works more like Struggle than Mind Blown and Steel Beam, it only damages the user when it successfully hits.
The description is outdated, it was written at the start of SV when it was assumed that it was identical to Steel Beam, but further research has revealed that if is not.
 
Pretty significant bug I encountered while Laddering:

I initially built this webs team:
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Then later on, made a copy of the team, switching one member out:
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Now whenever I queue a game on the ladder, while having my New Team selected:
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It pulls me into the game with my old team:
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Unsure if this is due to the nature of having a copy of a team, or due to the fact both teams share the same name.

Update:

Clicking the team in my teambuilder (which still appeared to contain Gking on the preview), somehow made the team switch back to the old Empoleon variant? The old copy that I've been using is nowhere to be found. Assuming this has at least something to do with the new team system
BUG STATUS (Client) FIXED: by Mia
:zygarde: should be fixed as part of team-duping in teambuilder, refresh to get new code
 
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Bug with Booster Energy and webs

When doing a hardswitch using a mom with Booster Energy on Sticky Web, the boost will be a Speed boost.

If you, however, switch in from a dead ally, the boost will the next best stat (in example, its Special Attack)

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-1966772015
 
Bug: Even when a Pokemon faints it can still appear as "alive".
This happened when there was an illusion Tyrunt copying a Ducklett. (Hackmons cup)
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Before the impostor Tyrunt fainted but after it was revealed, notice 2 ducklet and 2 meltans?
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Before the last Pokemon is sent but after Tyrunt fainted
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Last pokemon, notice Meltan is still considered "alive"
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Battle over due to all moms fainting but the meltan is still in color.
Replay: https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9hackmonscup-1966933494
 
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I was preparing for a natdex draft league and noticed an interaction that doesn't seem to be working correctly. After using fighting-tera, Power-Up Punch is no longer receiving an Iron Fist boost. It's getting the correct boost to 60bp but is no longer getting the Iron Fist boost. I'm assuming this is is some jank from the move not being available on cartridge but wanted to ask about it regardless.

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9natdexdraft-1966993710 With Iron Fist
https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/battle-gen9natdexdraft-1966978505 Without Iron Fist
 
Helio said:
I was preparing for a natdex draft league and noticed an interaction that doesn't seem to be working correctly. After using fighting-tera, Power-Up Punch is no longer receiving an Iron Fist boost. It's getting the correct boost to 60bp but is no longer getting the Iron Fist boost. I'm assuming this is is some jank from the move not being available on cartridge but wanted to ask about it regardless.

https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9natdexdraft-1966993710 With Iron Fist
https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/battle-gen9natdexdraft-1966978505 Without Iron Fist
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I believe this is intended. When you use a move of the type you terad into, it gets boosted to 60 BP if it's less than that and isn't multi-hit or priority, which I believe happens after Abilities.
 
Generation 4 Double Battles have a couple of significant bugs with spread damage reduction.

1. On Showdown when a pokemon uses a spread attack move, all the damage calculations appear to be done at the start of the attack, however in generation 4 this is incorrect. On cartridge, instead (my understanding is) the damage should be calculated individually for each pokemon that is effected by the attack. So if, for example, Regirock uses Rock Slide and first KOes the faster opponent, then spread damage reduction does not occur for the slower opponent, since Rock Slide is now considered to be single-target.
2. On Showdown when a pokemon uses Explosion against two targets, the damage is reduced by the spread damage reduction on both effected pokemon. On cartridge, instead there is no spread damage reduction for the final two pokemon on the field, unlike any other spread damage move. So if, for example, Regirock uses Explosion and its ally Latios uses Protect, then if there is just one target remaining on the field the damage will not be effected by spread damage reduction.

Both of these bugs are demonstrated in this replay:
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen4vgc2010-1967772555
Turn 1: Rock Slide deals spread-reduced damage to Dialga, which is incorrect.
Turn 2: Explosion deals spread-reduced damage to Dialga, which is incorrect.
Turn 3: Explosion deals spread-reduced damage to Dialga, which is incorrect.
Which corresponds to the twitter link below:
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1713371113755984374
Regirock Attack = 141
Bronzong Attack = 141
Dialga HP = 207, Defence = 140
Rock Slide dealt 23 damage on cartridge
(21, 22, 22, 22, 23, 23, 23, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, 25, 25, 26) (Single-target)
Rock Slide dealt 19 damage on showdown
(16, 16, 16, 16, 17, 17, 17, 17, 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 19) (Spread damage)
Explosion (Regirock) dealt 101 damage on cartridge
(94, 95, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111) (Single-target)
Explosion (Regirock) dealt 74 damage on showdown
(70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 80, 81, 82, 83) (Spread damage)
Explosion (Bronzong) dealt 109 damage on cartridge
(94, 95, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111) (Single-target)
Explosion (Bronzong) dealt 73 damage on showdown
(70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 80, 81, 82, 83) (Spread damage)

Also note that the cartridge test was done on HeartGold version on the MelonDS Emulator, this result should be the same for all generation 4 games to my knowledge, however.
 
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