move.zPowered is renamed move.isZPowered. It's now documented in JSDoc
exactly how it differs from move.isZ.
This commit includes several minor refactors to Z-move mechanics,
including a bug fix: Z-boosted called Weather Ball is now correctly
typed.
The types Template, Move, Ability, and Item are now read-only. This
should guard against accidental writing to types that shouldn't be
written to.
A new type, ActiveMove, has been introduced. Like it sounds, it's
used for moves that are currently actively being used. A lot of
attributes that are only relevant to active moves, such as
`hasBounced`, are now only available on ActiveMove, not on Move.
ActiveMoves are mutable, unlike Moves.
getMoveCopy has been renamed getActiveMove, to better reflect its
role. `isCopy` has been deprecated, and distinguishing Moves from
ActiveMoves is now done by `typeof move.hit === 'number'` where
necessary.
ActiveMoves now internally track which hit of a multihit move
they're on, in move.hit, so move.hit doesn't need to be manually
incremented by Triple Kick and Parental Bond anymore.
move.hasParentalBond has been replaced by a more generic
move.multihitType.
So if a Prankster-mon chooses in two successive turns an attacking move and an Status move,
and this Pokémon is encored into the attacking move before the Status move proceeds,
the attacking move will be used and it won't affect a Dark-type target.
Mechanically refactor code which uses PRNG#random for booleans to use
PRNG#randomChance instead.
Take advantage of the following properties:
random(x) < y is equivalent to randomChance(y, x)
random(x) <= y is equivalent to random(x) < (y + 1), i.e. randomChance(y + 1, x)
random(x) >= y is equivalent to !(random(x) < y), i.e. !randomChance(y, x)
random(x) > y is equivalent to random(x) >= (y + 1), i.e. !randomChance(y + 1, x)
random(x) === 0 is equivalent to random(x) < 1, i.e. randomChance(1, x)
!random(x) is equivalent to random(x) === 0, i.e. randomChance(1, x)
Boolean(random(x)) is equivalent to random(x) > 0, i.e. !randomChance(1, x)
This commit should not change behaviour. In particular, PRNG#next is
called the same number of times with the same number of parameter as
before this commit, and PRNG#next's results are interpreted in the same
way as before this commit.
Latest research (http://www.smogon.com/forums/posts/7625046/) shows that although Z-Synthesis bypasses Heal Block, using Z-Copycat to copy Synthesis does not. (Z-Copycat on a damaging move does of course turn into a damaging Z-Move.)
pokemon.moveset is now pokemon.moveSlots, which is at least slightly
clearer about what it's doing (tracking move state, mainly PP).
Mostly, this gives a consistent naming scheme for `move` (a Move
object) vs `moveSlot` (a MoveSlot object).
This also refactors a lot of existing `moveSlot` accesses to be modern,
including using `for...of`.
We are now tracking source effects for switch actions, if they're
initiated by effects such as U-turn or Baton Pass. This will lead
to better messages client-side.
Previously, if we wanted to test if A was either 'B' or 'C', we would use
the pattern:
A in {B:1, C:1}
I actually don't know how common this pattern is; I just started using
it because I was tired of typing `A === 'B' || A === 'C'` all the time.
I never really liked it, though; the `:1` part made it kind of
blatantly a hack.
I did some testing and `['B', 'C'].includes(A)` is overall faster.
(A switch statement is around 20x faster still, but who wants to type
that much code?)
Anyway, the new standard is
['B', 'C'].includes(A)
Something something progress!
Random team generation scripts are no longer in scripts.js, but instead
in a new file random-teams.js.
The scripts are now also no longer run from inside battles, but in a
new team generator object. This makes it easier for external scripts
to generate random teams by running Dex.generateTeam(format).
PS's rule table has been renamed from banlistTable, and works a bit
differently now. It's a Map instead of an object now, and the keys
work a bit differently.
The original banlistTable was designed to store bans, and later
additions shoved rules and then unbans in there. The new table is
designed to support all of these.
* Random Battle: Add possibility for Fly-Z or Bounce-Z
This involves adding Fly to some Flying Pokemon without a good Flying
STAB. (This also makes sure Fly is not their only STAB, and only exists
with setup.)
* Update scripts.js
Armaldo is far too slow to utilize Swords Dance well, and only works on
dedicated Rain teams (which are very uncommon in Randoms).
Update item selection for Substitute and Reversal in combination.
* Magnet Pull Magnzone now gets HP Fire 100% of the time
* Change Ditto's IVs to allow players to know it's Hidden Power at Team
Preview
* Dittos are now Sassy to give a better download matchup in the case of
a 'double down" - mirror matchup remains unchanged
* Removed weather restriction on Chlorophyll to bump up Venusaur usage
* Removed unused weather abilities
Also updated the link to the VR thread in the BSS format description
