The full description is in the comments of the Endless Battle
Clause entry in rulesets.js.
This update fixes a lot of the issues with yesterday's version.
Also included: A minor refactor of deductPP, which did not need
a success variable.
The new Endless Battle Clause attempts to ban endless battles by
detecting situations in which a battle could become endless.
This approach bans endless battles without banning Leppacycling.
The exact formulation is:
A Pokémon is considered cornered if:
- it has no available moves other than Struggle
- OR a stale Pokémon used Assist Whirlwind on it
- OR it has been hit by a Struggle from a stale Pokémon on the turn
it switched in
(at the beginning of a turn, if you have available moves other than
Struggle, you are no longer cornered)
A Pokémon is considered stale if:
- it has gained a Leppa berry through any means besides starting
with one (including but not limited to Harvest, Recycle, Pickup,
Symbiosis, Bestow, Thief, Switcheroo, and Magician)
- OR it has been targeted with Fling Leppa Berry
- OR it is cornered and begins a turn with more HP than it the last
turn it began
- OR it is cornered and begins a turn with as much HP as the last
turn it began, and was not fully paralyzed, loafing around from
Truant, or immobilized from Attract
- OR it uses Transform/Imposter against a stale Pokémon
(a Pokémon that becomes stale stays stale for the rest of the match)
If all active Pokémon are stale, the player whose team originally
started with a Leppa Berry loses. If both or neither team started
with a Leppa Berry, the team that had the first stale Pokémon wins.
Any Pokemon with only one Ability in Gen 3 can get the new Gen 4 one by
evolving. Such as, Extreme Speed Zigzagoon has Pickup only in Gen 3 but
its evolution, Linoone, can have either Pickup or Gluttony in Gen 4 or
higher.
Before, locking/banning an unregistered user wouldn't punish the
username. In practice, though, PS has millions of user accounts and
sharing an unregistered username with a recently-banned spammer is
unlikely to be a coincidence. Bans are commuted to locks, though,
so users can still PM a moderator in the case of a mistake.
- Reject Sunny Day if the Pokemon lacks an ability that benefits, and
lacks SolarBeam
- Add Dark Pulse to Pyroar to fix the issue raised in #2063
- Reordered the Status cases to weather/status/recovery/other instead
of just alphabetical
