Caliginosus Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 Hi guys, Would like to hear more about the unburden ban. With which Pokemons was it broken? I bred a Drifblim a few days ago, fell in love with it and realised the Abilty is not working. I respect the decisions of the balance team of course, would just like to hear more on that topic. Cheers! Link to comment
Zymogen Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 9 minutes ago, Caliginosus said: Hi guys, Would like to hear more about the unburden ban. With which Pokemons was it broken? I bred a Drifblim a few days ago, fell in love with it and realised the Abilty is not working. I respect the decisions of the balance team of course, would just like to hear more on that topic. Cheers! It's banned until Baton Pass is fixed/banned Currently the Unburdened ability is also transferred to the Pokemon on the receiving end of a Baton Pass, which shouldn't be the case JorgeFirebolt 1 Link to comment
Caliginosus Posted March 17, 2019 Author Share Posted March 17, 2019 But Baton Pass is already banned in every Tier. Why ban Unburden in addition? Elite4? Link to comment
OrangeManiac Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 2 minutes ago, Caliginosus said: But Baton Pass is already banned in every Tier. Why ban Unburden in addition? Elite4? Not in Little Cup. Link to comment
Zymogen Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 2 minutes ago, Caliginosus said: But Baton Pass is already banned in every Tier. Why ban Unburden in addition? Elite4? Baton Pass is currently legal in Little Cup, for whatever reason Link to comment
Caliginosus Posted March 17, 2019 Author Share Posted March 17, 2019 (edited) 8 minutes ago, OrangeManiac said: Not in Little Cup. Sure, but I don't really think that that's connected with the Unburden ban. Well, thanks Zymogen! Makes a bit more sense to me now, even though I feel there could be a better way of containing the problem, without removing precious little Drifblim (and probably some others). Edited March 17, 2019 by Caliginosus Zymogen 1 Link to comment
OrangeManiac Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 (edited) 45 minutes ago, Caliginosus said: Sure, but I don't really think that that's connected with the Unburden ban. Well, it is. Better option obviously could have been to temporarily ban Unburden + Baton Pass combination but it seems like nullifying Abilities is something the Devs seem to do when there is a bug regarding it, perhaps because it's the easiest way and doesn't require a server shutdown. Edit: Disabling an ability in general makes a lot of sense because a bug tells that something is wrong and there might be some other ways in which Unburden interacts with other mechanics is wrong. So disabling it until everything has been looked into makes sense. Edited March 17, 2019 by OrangeManiac Link to comment
Caliginosus Posted March 17, 2019 Author Share Posted March 17, 2019 (edited) Never played LC, so I just assumed. I think it would have been a more elegant solution to just ban Baton Pass + Unburden in LC. Baton Pass is banned everywhere else already anyway. And blocking an Ability (just for LC) sounds more intruding and unintuitive than another ban. Not trying to bash on LC, just a shame that I can't play my non LC properly because of LC. But I know, it's just a little issue that barely affects anyone and dev resources are limited. Just leaves me hoping. /Edit Regarding your edit: I just wanted to bring attention to the fact that this disable also locked out certain Pokemon, or rather learn why that step had to be taken. If the problem is bigger than I assumed (bugs, several balance issues) it's of course a good decision to disable the Abilty, can't argue with that. Edited March 17, 2019 by Caliginosus Link to comment
Dibz Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 If an ability is broken or bugged, it's generally not allowed in competitive PvP until everything has been sorted out with it and it works without any issues, which will probably require an update to fix. So until it works perfectly, it's most likely going to stay banned like it currently is. 12 hours ago, OrangeManiac said: Disabling an ability in general makes a lot of sense because a bug tells that something is wrong and there might be some other ways in which Unburden interacts with other mechanics is wrong. So disabling it until everything has been looked into makes sense. ^^ Teddiursa 1 Link to comment
MHkaserz Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 (edited) I was wondering why everything was out-speeding me after Acrobatics/Flying Gem with my Drift vs various mons.. Not that it stopped me from finding a way to win, it was confusing none-the-less.. Now it makes sense tbh I thought I sucked at speed-tiers or that everyone is running choice scarf! xD Edited March 18, 2019 by MHkaserz Link to comment
Caliginosus Posted March 18, 2019 Author Share Posted March 18, 2019 Yea mate, I opened the cals and thought I'd be missing something or people are running some weird choice scarf sets. :D I'm excited for the Abilty to come back. Drifblim is pretty cool! Link to comment
Caliginosus Posted April 14, 2019 Author Share Posted April 14, 2019 Any news on unburden? Got a IRL tournament coming up and would love to use Drifblim. Link to comment
suigin Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 Just now, Caliginosus said: Any news on unburden? Got a IRL tournament coming up and would love to use Drifblim. We haven't had an update patch to fix it so yeah I'd wait until then. Link to comment
Caliginosus Posted April 14, 2019 Author Share Posted April 14, 2019 Makes sense, gotta be patient. :) Thanks! Link to comment
Dibz Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 On 4/14/2019 at 7:58 AM, Caliginosus said: Any news on unburden? Got a IRL tournament coming up and would love to use Drifblim. Pretty sure it's been fixed by now, I remember it not bugging out with baton pass recently. Would need TC or staff to confirm though, don't take my word for it Link to comment
Caliginosus Posted September 22, 2019 Author Share Posted September 22, 2019 (edited) Thanks m8. Read it in the related patch notes already and was happy af. Edited September 22, 2019 by Caliginosus Link to comment
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