>Just found out they removed NatDex AG because of a Liepard meme
>Just found out they removed NatDex AG because of a Liepard meme
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>This & Liepard make Smoggies cry and shit their pants
Why couldn't they just slap a clause on it and call it a day? Why must they be such gays every time?
The autistic reasoning is:
>Well, we can't be certain that Assist wouldn't trigger Revival Blessing (if Assist was in gen 9) so just throw out the whole tier
It's completely retarded. As dumb as GF are, they obviously wouldn't let Assist trigger Revival Blessing.
It feels like they were just looking for an excuse to axe it. Why let it stay up for a decade in the first place if they were gonna do that?
As much as I hate copyright law, the day that Nintendo shuts down Pokemon Showdown will be one I celebrate. Fuck omgon pedos. Fuck showdown pedos.
Revival Blessing can be called by Assist?
It can't. Assist isn't in gen 9. Assist has a list of moves that can and cannot be called upon. The problem is that Smogon is extremely autistic, and since Revival Blessing isn't in the list because Assist isn't coded into the game, they can't use common sense to say "GF wouldn't let this obvious exploit persist" like they did with roar riolu, except way more broken
>Revival Blessing isn't in the list because Assist isn't coded into the game
They couldn't just have Assist not call any Gen 8 and 9 moves and treat it as frozen in Gen 7 because...?
presumably because game freak actually bothered to flag some moves as not being called by assist. (the starmobile signature moves, for example)
Each move is flagged 0 or 1 for whether it can be called by assist. Every move is 0 by default, and gamefreak didn't bother setting any moves in SwSh or SV to 1 because Assist didn't exist. So technically by these idiotic fanfic rules, Obstruct is also callable by Assist even though Protect, Detect, Spiky Shield, Baneful Bunker, etc are not.
In all likelihood, the real reason it wasn't removed is because Showdown's main dataminer also happened to be the person who came up with Assist Revival Blessing "strat" and topped the ladder with it.
Assist was one of the moves that got cut in gen 8.
We don’t know since Assist was Dexitted. With National Dex, they just said it would even though that even GameFreak would pull this shit.
qrd?
Smogtards outright removed the cart rules ladder because of a meme with Liepard and Revival Blessing
elaborate
I took a break shortly before this shit apparently became egregious enough for them to remove the whole ladder, but what I remember is you could make a team with a bunch of Prankster Liepards and Rabsca/Pawmot that would waste your PP and use Assist to revive themselves indefinitely with Revival Blessing. Essentially just a way to PP-stall you to death.
Based cat, breaking the game once again, even when he isn't in it.
To be fair, it's not just a "meme." It's actually competitively viable and nearly impossible to stop without a specific counter.
Did involve the N word? What a bunch of cucks!
Wasn't the point of AG that you could do these ridiculous strategies without restraint? Why is smogon so fucking retarded?
Yes, for a decade that's what it was about. This meme wasn't even impossible to beat, just annoying. Just leave the battle if you don't want to waste time, probably too much for those retards to bear.
>Wasn't the point of AG that you could do these ridiculous strategies without restraint?
Because retards were going into the chat and discord and bitching NON STOP.
Yes the showdown devs were autistic, but the gays crying and complaining that their waifu team gets meme stalled would not end
Showdown removing the ladder was a big fuck you to those gays
>A couple of loud autists who probably spent all their time in chat sucking off the mods instead of playing shit their pants over a meme
>Entire ladder gets banned
Checks out for Smogon, chud staff rewards chud behavior
That's why I can't have enjoyable casual games with friends and instead have to navigate a bunch of restrictive bullshit that I don't understand? Fucking hell.
I haven't played competitive since XY. AG is supposed to be no rules right? Why not just make Natdex Ubers which bans those strats and keep AG separate?
no one is interested in natdex ubers
>breaks two generations
>proves that Pokemon's combat is shit