Done Clarify Explosion and Self-Destruct Descriptions in Gens 1-4

[berry]

Currently, Explosion and Self-Destruct have the following descriptions in Gens 1-4.

"Deals double damage" seems like an extremely vague way of describing what these moves do in this gen. Bulbapedia states the following:
Explosion: The target's Defense is halved, effectively doubling the power to 500.
Selfdestruct: The target's Defense is halved, effectively doubling the power to 400.

I believe a clearer way of describing these is
"On the turn this move is used, the opponent's Defense is halved before taking damage from this move. The user faints."
Currently thinking of a better way to word this that doesn't run into this loophole. Potentially something like
"The opponent takes damage equal to a 400/500 base power move. The user faints"

edit:
In The Hills has informed me that this is the case in Generations 1-4. I have updated this post to reflect that.
edit2:

changed description to account for any implications of halving the opponent's defense in doubles formats.

 

[Dawn of Ares]

Explosion doesn't halve the defense for an entire turn, only in damage calculation. That also seems too long for a shortdesc. Something like "Target's defense halved when damaging. User faints." might be better?

EDIT: Wrote this before your edits, my bad. Additionally, https://www.smogon.com/forums/threa...tion-to-something-better.3667495/post-8541451 is the max length for a shortdesc.

 

[berry]

Explosion doesn't halve the defense for an entire turn, only in damage calculation. That also seems too long for a shortdesc. Something like "Target's defense halved when damaging. User faints." might be better?

EDIT: Wrote this before your edits, my bad. Additionally, https://www.smogon.com/forums/threa...tion-to-something-better.3667495/post-8541451 is the max length for a shortdesc.

Thanks for this, I didn't know about these limitations. With those in mind, I'm not sure if there's a feasible description that would fit, or if I could fit something within those limits without using slang
"Deals damage equal to a 500 BP move. User faints." fits , but I'm hard pressed to find somewhere else to cut a couple extra characters to fit "power" instead of BP.

Maybe "Deals damage" -> "Damages"? I'm not sure if that still makes sense though.

 

[Marty]

Thanks for noticing this was egregiously incorrect, probably put in while PS was still literally doubling the power of the moves. Went with https://github.com/smogon/pokemon-showdown/commit/139179f872aaf70b3ea508f389309f6cd5272943.