Howdy! I've been using showdown since as far back as 2010. Awesome service, couldn't ask for a better battle sim. I have one suggestion for a feature I think would really improve the site for teambuilders! I think it would be really cool to add a "Notes" feature for each pokemon on a team. This section would be collapsible so as to not hurt the ui for mobile users, it maybe you could even have users opt-in as a setting or something. This would be cool for a number of reasons including setting reminders of benchmarks for ev/iv spreads, reasoning for alternate items/moves, or just whatever really. Anyways, keep up the great work!
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Smogon Simple Questions Thread
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Hiya, super glad you've been enjoying PS!
Suggestions for the simulator should go in the PS! Suggestions forum. This is actually an approved suggestion that is waiting on one of our developers to have the time to implement it.
How does the RBY simulator handle divide by 0 errors in damage calculation? I heard there's a couple ways to get a Defense stat to be handled as 0 in RBY and these errors crash the game
- Overflowing the Defense to be too high by using Withdraw and Reflect on Cloyster to get 0 Defense
- Using Screech on a low level Pokemon 3 times and using Explosion
- Overflowing the Defense to be too high by using Withdraw and Reflect on Cloyster to get 0 Defense
- Using Screech on a low level Pokemon 3 times and using Explosion
there is not currently an API for Smogon or for Xenforo
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what is an api
Application programming interface
that doesn't really help me tbh
The "simple answer" is that it's just a system two computer, softwares or otherwise different systems use to communicate with each other.
The user earlier was basically asking if there are ways to get / send data to and from smogon forums from a external software.
There is an API, but only the site owner has access to actually generate those for Smogon because it's not exactly something we use. Functionally it means there's no API for public use that is available for you. See https://xenforo.com/docs/dev/rest-api/.
API stands for Application Programming Interface. In the context of APIs, the word Application refers to any software with a distinct function. Interface can be thought of as a contract of service between two applications. This contract defines how the two communicate with each other using requests and responses.
I checked that site
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Probably it is for the site owners
There is a api for xenforo, but it is for the forum owners, unless it's made public
Does using SelfDestruct/Memento/Healing Wish/etc. count as pivoting? On a similar note, is there any real point in trying to define this?
Are there plans to introduce new battle music to PS?
You’re better off asking that in the PS SQSA thread
What's VGC's rationale for allowing OHKOs? I heard that Fissure is a mainstay of Dondozo's sets there
VGC generally doesn't do bans outside of Legendaries/Mythicals.
Is there much degeneracy in VGC in the absence of these bans?
considering they balance the game around this format, typically no. Whenever there is its usually addressed in future games, such as nerfing Dark Void, nerfing Mega Kangaskhan and -ate Abilities like Mega Salamence's and Sylveon's, and restricting the distribution of Ally Switch.
I think it would be helpful if all of the tier pages on the Smogon Dex linked to resources like VRs and Sample Teams for the tier. At the moment only about half of the OU tiers have this as GSC, ADV, DPP, and BW do not. Lower tiers are, understandably, much more inconsistent with how the pages are formatted.
In case I poorly explained something, I am talking about these pages:
https://www.smogon.com/dex/rb/formats/ou/ - Has resources linked
https://www.smogon.com/dex/bw/formats/ou/ - Does not
Also the SV OU page still has the old Viability List linked instead of the Viability Rankings
In case I poorly explained something, I am talking about these pages:
https://www.smogon.com/dex/rb/formats/ou/ - Has resources linked
https://www.smogon.com/dex/bw/formats/ou/ - Does not
Also the SV OU page still has the old Viability List linked instead of the Viability Rankings
Hiya! I've added the relevant resources to the GSC, ADV, DPP, and BW OU pages, as well as removed or updated the outdated links on the ORAS, SM, and SS OU pages. I've also contacted the RoA Leaders regarding any resources that are missing or outdated with no current version. I didn't touch the SV page since 1) I don't generally touch current gen stuff and 2) We're expecting HOME to come out any day now, so it'll just be outdated again soon anyways.
Thanks for bringing it to our attention!
How come Counter is only really used in RBY (with the exception of Wobbuffett)? is it just that it's a somewhat more situational Sucker Punch? Is it that you're forced to take damage for it to do anything?
Idk why you’re comparing to Sucker Punch but in RBY there’s way less moves so some stuff just runs Counter because there’s nothing else lol. Also there’s a ton of Normal-type attacks and Counter only works against those and Fighting moves; Counter can punish Body Slam and Hyper Beam which are like the most spammable moves. Also everything in RBY can have maxed out evs so everything can be bulkier than other gens to take hits and Counter more effectively