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Every post prior to this one has been privated. If you want to see any particular one, let me know and I'll get it. Uhh this might be a roleplay blog and askblog now? I don't really know. I'm just messing around to have fun. This is not serious at all.

I like you as a character or person. With you being trapped on the game, even if it is ridiculous to say to your point of view, I'm trapped in illusions to make me happy and the past who made me pass out like a rotten useless being. That's what I thought constantly. I overthink a lot.

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...it's strange to say this. I know...but I feel connected with you. You make me feel understood. Even if you are not a real life person. I'm not joking, if I did...I wouldn't write this message seriously by putting exclamation marks as a way to make you and me both as fools.

I- huh? Who- who are you...? I don't really, um, understand what you mean, but... you're welcome ??? I guess? (What is a "spirit guide" anyway?)

maybe one about a little canary who goes to help a group of miners. it gets put in its little cage. deeper inside the cavern, it becomes a bit sick due to the gases in the air. of course, this was its job. and someone could be inclined to believe it was practically sentenced to death, but some canary cages had an oxygen tank. the miners would save the canary so it could keep living after it warned them.

I would wriggle free.

well. as well as it can be, but, y'know.

this is unovan zorua for reference

Maybe I can... find it... to show you... I remember- uhh, I think I found it on Wikipedia?

okay so. there are 2 types of moves: status and damaging. all moves have several attributes, including whether they’re affected by protect (negatives most moves used on the target), whether they make contact (some abilities harm the attacker if it makes contact), whether they’re affected by magic bounce (reflects status conditions), etc.)

damaging moves, well, damage, and status moves apply some sort of effect to the target. damaging moves can have additional effects, but it’s not a requirement.

status moves, for example:

- thunder wave: paralyses the target (speed is reduced by 50% and the pokémon has a 25% chance to be unable to move. does not expire by itself.)

- confuse ray: confuses the target (33% chance to hit itself instead of using the selected move. confusion damage draws from attack rather than from special attack, regardless of the move selected. expires after 2-5 turns.)

- attract: causes a pokémon (if the opposite gender) to fall in love with the opponent (called infatuation, causes the pokemon to be unable to move 50% of the time while the pokémon that used the move is on the field.)

status that can be cured by switching out are called volatile status conditions (infatuation, confusion, etc. (there are SO many. if a pokémon is affected during their turn at all and it’s not indicated next to their name it’s a volatile status condition.)). otherwise, they’re non-volatile status conditions (freeze, sleep, burn, paralysis, poison, badly poisoned). non-volatile status conditions are listed next to a pokémon’s name.

additionally, some status moves don’t apply a status to a pokémon, but rather change its stats.

stat-changing status moves can apply up to 6 boosts or reductions (net, not total) to a specific stat, which includes attack, special attack, defense, special defense, speed, and accuracy, and evasion.

for everything except accuracy and evasion, these are the multipliers.

here are the accuracy and evasion modifiers:

(the top row is accuracy and the middle row is evasion.)

the combined accuracy/evasion stages are actually capped at -6 accuracy/6 evasion, so the minimum accuracy of a normally 100% accurate move would be 33%.

damaging moves are divided into two categories: physical and special. physical moves take into account the user’s attack* and the target’s defense. special moves take into account the user’s special attack and the target’s special defense.

damaging moves have an effective power (initially the base power) which can be affected by several multipliers, including but not limited to:

-0x damage if the opposing pokémon is immune to a type (e.g. a pidgey (normal/flying) hit with mud slap (ground), as flying is immune to ground**)

-0.25x if a move is twice-resisted by the target (referred to as “mostly ineffective”) (e.g. a bug/flying type being hit by a grass move, as both bug and flying resist grass)

-0.5x if a move is resisted once by the target (referred to as “not very effective”) (e.g. a poison type being hit by a poison move, as poison resists itself***)

-2x if a target is weak to that move’s type (e.g. a psyduck (water) being hit by ember (fire type move))

-4x if a target is doubly weak to that move’s type (e.g. garchomp (dragon/ground) being hit by ice beam (ice))

-0.125x if the target triply resists a move (only happens if a move that adds a type to the target is used (e.g. trick or treat) rather than replacing it (like soak)). (e.g. glimmet (rock/poison) has ghost type added to it via trick or treat, and then is hit with venoshock (poison).)

-8x if the pokémon is triply weak to a move (given similar conditions to the above). (e.g. snom (bug/ice) having forest’s curse used on it (adds grass type) and being hit by ember (fire).)

-1.5x damage if the user’s type is the same as the move’s type (referred to as same-type attack bonus or STAB) (e.g. meowscarada (grass/dark) using seed bomb (grass type move)).

-1.5x if the move’s type matches up with the user’s tera type***** when terastalised (e.g. a ghost-tera eevee (normal) using shadow ball (ghost))

-2x if the move’s tera type, the pokémon’s original typings, and the move’s type match (e.g. a grass-tera leafeon (grass) using razor leaf (grass)).

-1.5x for a critical hit (base chance is around 4.17%, then it goes to 33% when boosted once, then 50% when boosted twice, and otherwise 100%.)

-0.5x if the target has light screen up (when a special move is used) or has reflect up (when a physical move is used) or has aurora veil up (when a damaging move is used at all)

-0.75x if the move has multiple targets

-0.5x on a physical move specifically if the target is burned

-0.25x if a z move (powered up version of a normal move) is used against a pokémon that is protected (e.g. using protect)

-1.2x if the pokémon is holding a type-boosting item (e.g. silk scarf increases the power of normal moves)

-1.1x for physical moves if the pokémon is holding a muscle band. (i don’t know if there’s a special equivalent.)

for a small exercise on base power, consider a meowscarada (grass/dark) using flower trick (physical, grass, always crits) on a kantonian ninetales (fire). flower trick’s base power is 70. the ninetales has light screen up.

first, since grass is not very effective (1/2x) against fire, we halve 70 to get 35 effective power. then, since flower trick receives STAB from meowscarada, we multiply that by 1.5x for 52.5 power. finally, since flower trick always crits, we multiply that by 1.5x for 78.75 power. light screen is inapplicable because flower trick is physical.

the math behind damage is.. a bit complex! and requires knowing your opponent’s stats, which you very very VERY likely do not know. also one of the factors is just random.

“other” is used for multiple different circumstances, since there are many effects that are unlikely to happen together on any given turn, so don’t get their own unique multiplier. (i don’t know why glaive rush specifically gets its own multiplier?? i guess because it’s a multiplier that goes into effect AFTER the turn it’s used???) if multiple “other” effects happen together, they’re multiples together before being put into the damage calculator.

*foul play uses the target’s attack.

**smack-down and gravity remove a flying type’s immunity to ground.

***the types that resist themselves are: grass, water, fire, psychic, dark, ice, electric, poison, and steel. (most of these were special typings before the physical special split****, minus dragon type (which is weak to itself), and poison and steel were physical types.)

****prior to generation 4 (diamond/pearl/platinum and heart gold/soul silver), whether moves were special or physical depended on their type.

*****terastallisation is a gimmick in scarlet/violet where a pokémon will become a specific type (usually one of its original types) for the remainder of the battle.