Theorymon
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So basically a joke discussion on the Smogon discord sorta developed into a serious idea.
As some of you know, RBY is a pretty weird Pokemon game mechanically, with tons of glitches and stuff effecting the metagame. However, there is one weird thing that I have never actually seen implemented in a simulator for RBY: starting with status.
For those of you that don't know: I think when you initiate a link battle, your team is actually not fully recovered. This means that if you REALLY don't want your Alakazam to get paralyzed, you can get it burned in game, recover it with a Max Potion, and send out an already burned Alakazam in a real link battle.
I'm not sure if that is considered worth it in RBY (on a surface level, that sounds huge to me though with all the Thunder Wave spam in that metagame), but it was even mentioned on the official Pokemon website as a strategy (the article is a fun read btw, it was surprisingly ok! http://www.pokemon.com/us/strategy/classic-link-battle-flashbacks/ )
So what I'm wondering is: should Pokemon Showdown implement this? I can understand if you don't want to since its getting rather close to SPL time and a dramatic shake up like that might be unwelcome, and its a very bizarre, specific mechanic to RBY that might be a pain to implement. Still, I remember the whole "Body Slam doesn't paralyze Normal-types" thing being implemented despite that being a recent discovery, and I don't think this is a very recent one, so I'm just wondering what the general stance on implementing this is!
As some of you know, RBY is a pretty weird Pokemon game mechanically, with tons of glitches and stuff effecting the metagame. However, there is one weird thing that I have never actually seen implemented in a simulator for RBY: starting with status.
For those of you that don't know: I think when you initiate a link battle, your team is actually not fully recovered. This means that if you REALLY don't want your Alakazam to get paralyzed, you can get it burned in game, recover it with a Max Potion, and send out an already burned Alakazam in a real link battle.
I'm not sure if that is considered worth it in RBY (on a surface level, that sounds huge to me though with all the Thunder Wave spam in that metagame), but it was even mentioned on the official Pokemon website as a strategy (the article is a fun read btw, it was surprisingly ok! http://www.pokemon.com/us/strategy/classic-link-battle-flashbacks/ )
So what I'm wondering is: should Pokemon Showdown implement this? I can understand if you don't want to since its getting rather close to SPL time and a dramatic shake up like that might be unwelcome, and its a very bizarre, specific mechanic to RBY that might be a pain to implement. Still, I remember the whole "Body Slam doesn't paralyze Normal-types" thing being implemented despite that being a recent discovery, and I don't think this is a very recent one, so I'm just wondering what the general stance on implementing this is!