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Sword & Shield Battle Mechanics Research
- Thread starter Marty
- Start date
CTNC
Doesn't know how to attack
This isn't a battle mechanic, but I still think it needs to be pointed out. Overworld Pokemon do not appear Shiny if they are until you run into them. I know that Rookidee was blue! Speaking of that beautiful (after evolution) bird...
Something that happened in my playthrough makes terrains even more confusing. After Gigantamax Grimsnarl used Max Starfall and started Misty Terrain, G-Max Snooze did not make my Corviknight drowsy or make him fall asleep. Maybe it's because Grimsnarl was grounded?
How much damage does Mimikyu take when Disguise is broken, 10% or 12.5%?
If Mimikyu is hit with a move that would do less than the Disguise damage, does it still take the full Disguise damage?
If Mimikyu is hit with a move that would do less than the Disguise damage, does it still take the full Disguise damage?
Nope, it doesn't work that way. You get the typing after you attack. Based on what I saw from a Libero Cinderance at the Battle Tower.
Just a random observation from in-game play that may or may not be correct, but Brine may double in power when the user has a status condition now.
I was training on some Arrokuda and the damage I took from >50% HP Brine while it was paralyzed seemed to be about the same as the damage I took when the same Arrokuda dropped below 50% HP.
I could have just noticed things wrong but I think it's worth checking.
I was training on some Arrokuda and the damage I took from >50% HP Brine while it was paralyzed seemed to be about the same as the damage I took when the same Arrokuda dropped below 50% HP.
I could have just noticed things wrong but I think it's worth checking.
If you are holding a Choice item, and the move you used gets diabled, what happens when you dynamax? On PS, it forces you to Struggle, which becomes Max Strike, which then fails.
It's been found here multiple times now that on cart you are allowed to choose from your moves as normal and skip out on the Choice boost. When dynamax wears off, you get to choose again and are then locked back in and get the boost.
This wasn't a demo bug, it was someone failing to recognize that Drednaw in the demo had, and used, Smack Down, causing Corviknight to be grounded after all.
If your Choice-locked move has been disabled, clicking the Fight button should immediately lock you into Struggle without even giving you an opportunity to click Dynamax, if the precedent from how Z-moves work in that case still holds. We've already seen from earlier in the topic that if a Pokemon that's already maxed properly runs out of PP on everything, it will use a plain old Struggle that doesn't get upgraded to a max move of any sort.
it makes sense when you consider the attack is based on hellfire missile which are super accurate missiles
cool mechanic nonetheless
They still wouldn't faint. Showdown has the Dynamax reversion take place at an incorrect time. The Dynamax reversion is really only supposed to happen after the opponent's replacement switches in. Meaning that the player would still be Dynamaxed temporarily after the opponent replaces their Pokemon that used Destiny Bond.
There's no reason it wouldn't. Body Press is a just an ordinary physical attack that happens to do more damage the higher the user's Defense stat is. It has no special relationship with the attack stat whatsoever.
Oh, ok, so burn doesn't half ATK but rather the damage of physical attacks. Apparently this change was introduced in gen3
There's conflicting information about how exactly body press is calculated, whether a higher defense just increases the BP like how electro ball works, or whether it actually uses the defense stat to calculate damage.
It's determined by a flag on the pokémon itself. Gigantamax pokemon have one of those stylized red X's on the summary screen next to their level, regular pokemon don't. There's no way to change a normal pokemon into a gigantamaxable one and vice versa. The only way to obtain them ingame is through raids (or the gift charmander in postgame) and it can't be passed down onto children through breeding.
It's always the same amount of damage no matter how powerful the attack was.
A lot of people think that and I believe it's because of the hover over display in PS that shows your Attack halved when you are burned, which is a mistake I've noticed for quite a while now.
I didn't report it because I'm sure people that implemented it know about it, as technically it changes minimal things (1 or 2 HP damage off, between being burned and being at 0.5x Atk), and gives a decently good info to the player, but it is not exactly accurate.
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Either way, it should have nothing to do with the attack stat, correct? Meaning it still would have no special relationship with burn.
-Edit: Burn has nothing to do with the Attack stat, so all the more reason to believe the physical damage is still halved.
So this is consistent with Weather Ball behaviour (also shows Max Strike, but will use the corresponding Max attack instead)
Would need someone to check for Nature Power's behaviour in this regard.
Pokemon that learn it:
267 Nature Power Bulbasaur, Oddish, Corsola-0, Corsola-1, Lotad, Lombre, Ludicolo, Seedot, Nuzleaf, Shiftry, Cherubi, Cottonee, Grookey
(In before it just changes to Max Guard since it's a status move)
Is this also true for Gigantamaxing a Pokémon? They look like they would be more in line with regular form changes where Typings and Abilities would reset.
Gigamax is still a normal Dinamax with the twist of having a specific move altered. I see no reason for this being a thing.
It changes appearances beyond a bigger size and some clouds. It might be counted as a form change...
It gains it back as soon as it switches in.
So a fun interaction I found with Sandaconda: Sand Spit triggers after the max moves effects. Meaning if you try to set up with Max Geyser or flare, Dand Spit will activate right after, setting the Sand back up. Pretty useful for countering weather dependent teams