Hello,
I encountered an issue with the timer in a Gen 1 OU battle I was having. After discussing with someone on showdown support, they suggested I post the issue on here.
Essentially I didn’t realize that battle animations counted for your battle timer. I was in a guaranteed winning position, but the battle was going to last over 200 turns. Just after turn 200, I was forfeited for not making a move. My opponent must have turned off their battle animations while I didn’t. I realize I could have just turn them off now, but didn’t at the time, and this issue could easily be fixed by setting the minimum amount of time to start the turn to 10 seconds instead of the current minimum of 5 seconds.
Now, why do I care so much? Because the stall situation I was in was hilarious. My Onix was stalling my opponent’s Starmie. That will never happen again! It was a perfect storm of preceding moves to get this to happen. My Chansey had to stall out all of Starmie’s surfs, and then Starmie couldn’t touch Onix - Starmie’s remaining moves were Thunder Wave, Thunderbolt, and Recover. I’m using an Onix on my OU team, so I clearly I’m just playing for fun, but now a really funny replay is ruined! We actually had a random other user watching the battle, who was rooting for my Onix and was disappointed this happened too.
Since this is such a simple fix, we might as well do it!
I encountered an issue with the timer in a Gen 1 OU battle I was having. After discussing with someone on showdown support, they suggested I post the issue on here.
Essentially I didn’t realize that battle animations counted for your battle timer. I was in a guaranteed winning position, but the battle was going to last over 200 turns. Just after turn 200, I was forfeited for not making a move. My opponent must have turned off their battle animations while I didn’t. I realize I could have just turn them off now, but didn’t at the time, and this issue could easily be fixed by setting the minimum amount of time to start the turn to 10 seconds instead of the current minimum of 5 seconds.
Now, why do I care so much? Because the stall situation I was in was hilarious. My Onix was stalling my opponent’s Starmie. That will never happen again! It was a perfect storm of preceding moves to get this to happen. My Chansey had to stall out all of Starmie’s surfs, and then Starmie couldn’t touch Onix - Starmie’s remaining moves were Thunder Wave, Thunderbolt, and Recover. I’m using an Onix on my OU team, so I clearly I’m just playing for fun, but now a really funny replay is ruined! We actually had a random other user watching the battle, who was rooting for my Onix and was disappointed this happened too.
Since this is such a simple fix, we might as well do it!
