The
RBY movelist is currently using post-RBY statistics and data, making it inaccurate in a number of places. Due to the changes in Power, Accuracy, and rate of secondary effects that were put into place for certain attacks in GSC, as well as the reassigning of a few attacks to different Types and the splitting of Special into Special Attack and Special Defense, several corrections will need to be made to the RBY list. I mistakenly refreshed the window I was typing in when I was up to Tri Attack (serves me right for not copy-pasting into Notepad as I went along), but I've attempted to reconstruct my list of mistakes I've noticed:
- The description of Amnesia currently reads: "Forgets about something and sharply raises Special Defense." The word "Defense" should be dropped from this description.
- The Accuracy of Blizzard should be 90%, not 70%.
- The Power of Dig should be 100, not 60.
- The Power of Double-Edge should be 100, not 120.
- The Power of Explosion should be 170 (before Defense is halved), not 250.
- The Eff% of Fire Blast should be 30%, not 10%.
- The description of Growth currently reads: "Forces the body to grow and heightens Special Attack." The word "Attack" should be dropped from this description.
- The Type of Gust should be Normal, not Flying.
- The Type of Karate Chop should be Normal, not Fighting.
- The description of Light Screen currently reads: "Creates a wall of light that lowers Special Attack damage." The word "Attack" should either have its first letter in lowercase (and an "s" added to the end) or be removed entirely (the word, not the letter) from this description.
- This is because, while the current description is technically correct, the fact that the Special Attack statistic didn't exist in RBY means "Attack" isn't part of a proper noun.
- Lowercasing it (or removing it) also keeps it consistent with the description for Reflect: "Creates a wall of light that weakens physical attacks." Note that "attacks" is entirely in lowercase.
- The Power of Low Kick should be 50. Its description currently reads: "A kick that inflicts more damage on heavier foes." This entire description should be scrapped and rewritten, as Low Kick's damage is not determined by weight in RBY.
- The Eff% of Poison Sting should be 20%, not 30%.
- The Eff% of Psychic should be 30%, not 10%. Its description currently reads: "A powerful psychic attack that may lower Special Defense." The word "Defense" should be dropped from this description.
- The Accuracy of Rock Throw should be 65%, not 90%.
- The Type of Sand-Attack should be Normal, not Ground.
- Oddly enough, Bite had its correct RBY typing, but Gust, Karate Chop, and Sand-Attack were overlooked. I assume it's because the list was was created after the Advance list. An entire Type (Dark) had to be removed in the case of Bite, whereas Flying, Fighting, and Ground are "still around" in RBY, even if they're the wrong Types for the aforementioned attacks.
- The Power of Selfdestruct should be 130 (before Defense is halved), not 200.
- The Eff% of Thunder should be 10%, not 30%.
- The Eff% slot of Tri Attack should be blank. Tri Attack has no secondary effects in RBY.
- The Accuracy of Whirlwind should be 85%, not 100%.
On a related note, the data on the RBY movelist is currently conflicting, as some attacks are described if used in RBY, while others are described as if used in Pokemon Stadium 1. (I assume this, and all other inaccuracies in the RBY lists, are a result of basing the RBY list off of the list for the Advance Generation.) It would probably be a good idea to decide whether to display the RBY pages as if they occured in the Game Boy games (making RBY the "standard"), to display the RBY pages as if they occured in Pokemon Stadium (making Stadium the "standard", or to attempt another solution, such as giving the GB and N64 separate RBY pages, or somehow including both statistics in the chart, etc. While there are several differences in mechanics beyond those mentioned below, the following are some differences that affect the data shown on the Moves page:
- Acid has a 10% chance of reducing Defense in RBY, but a 20% chance in Pokemon Stadium. Currently, it is in line with RBY on the movelist.
- Aurora Beam has a 10% chance of reducing Attack in RBY, but a 30% chance in Pokemon Stadium. Currently, it is in line with RBY on the movelist.
- Bubblebeam has a 10% chance of reducing Speed in RBY, but a 30% chance in Pokemon Stadium. Currently, it is in line with RBY on the movelist.
- Focus Energy actually reduces the critical hit ratio of the user in RBY due to a glitch, but functions as intended by the game in Pokemon Stadium. Currently, it is in line with Pokemon Stadium on the movelist.
- Whether RBY or Stadium is used as the "standard" would affect whether the attack's description described Focus Energy as improving or hindering the user's critical hit ratio.
- Haze removes only stat changes in RBY, but it removes stat changes and cures status effects in Pokemon Stadium. Currently, it is in line with RBY on the movelist.
While the list is overwhelming in line with RBY over Stadium, it should be noted that the Weakness/Resistance listings for each individual RBY Pokemon currently use the Stadium rule of using both types in a Dual-Type Pokemon, rather than the RBY rule of counting one defending Type at a time. For instance,
Venusaur isn't listed with a weakness to Ground or a Resistance against Poison, which it would have in the Game Boy games, but not in Stadium or any game since. Whether RBY or Stadium rules are used also affects how strategies and articles are written; Substitute prevents status effects (and confusion, flinching, all damage from HP-stealing attacks...) only in Pokemon Stadium, while Hyper Beam users get to avoid recharging after missing or making the enemy faint only under RBY. And so on and so on.
I'm done looking up information and cross-checking old player's guides and FAQs for now, but as a final note I'll mention that, given the errors present in the movelist (of which there are probably more that I didn't catch), there may well be similar mistakes elsewhere in the RBY pages. TM compatibility seems like it'd be a possible location for goof-ups, but I'm not up for researching and sifting through 151 different pages at the moment. I bring it up as something to look into.
In conclusion:
HI.
