The Frostbite status from Legends Arceus does cut the Special Attack

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To answer your question around 7:40, there's actually terms to differentiate them, though I don't know if they're official or community-made. But non-volatile statuses are the "major" ones being Sleep, Poison, Paralysis, Burn and Freeze, while volatile statuses make up everything else. So you can stack volatile statuses with each other or with a non-volatile status, but you can't stack non-volatile statuses with each other. Another way to look at it: volatile statuses go away on switch out, non-volatile statuses don't.

Ok imagine the fear thing for ghost types and not only are the mons forced to switch out, they dont want to switch in again for a few turns because of the fear, except if they are the last mon standing

I've always thought Sleep would be the Normal status, because what could be more normal than sleeping?

I love the fact that they showed Garchomp for dragons as they know who would use and abuse the fear status effect.

Everybody gangster until someone petrifies their opponent with a dugtrio that has arena trap

Here are two I thought of partway through Grass - Hayfever 25% chance every turn to sneeze and drop held item Chance doubles in Sun and is neutralized in Rain Lasts until switched out or fainted Bug - Skin Rash The pokemon takes 1/16th of it's max health when it makes contact Sandstorm and hail deal double damage Lasts until the end of battle

I used to think the same thing for infatuation... Except there wouldn't be a fixed number of unusable moves, it would randomly decide yes or no on every move separately and independently when the pokemon would get infatuated, with the chance of them getting refused being higher depending of the move itself.

3:00 MISCONCEPTION Burn doesn't cut the users Physical Attack in half, it's cuts the Base Power of Physical Moves in half. Your Rhydon's attack doesn't drop from 128 to 64, Earthquakes power is just reduced to 50.

Here are some of my personal takes Bug: Stung (the pokemon has been stung by a bug and can't do anything but scratch the itch so they can't use moves, the status disappears when using the only type of move you are able to: a healing move, when being healed by an object or by an already set move like leech seed). It seems a bit extra with the inability to move but since it can be fixed with a healing action it balances out. Psychic: Random (it has the effect that the status Confusion usually has in other games but I didn't want to repeat the name. Random status makes you use one of your moves at random and lasts 3 turns or until the pokemon is switched out). Normal: Reset (this status effect resets all the stats like attack, speed, special defense... no matter if they were increased or decreased and can't be affected by any status changes until Reset diseappears, which will happen after 3-5 turns or after switching out) Flying and Ground would be counterparts: Light and Heavy (Light would make the damage taken from Flying doubled. Heavy would make the damage from Ground moves doubled. Light would be gone after switching or after being hit with a Ground move that will have no effect, same with Heavy but with a Flying move).

Petrified would be too overpowered because then all VGC battles would just become "Spam rockslide until all opponents are petrified". Rockslide Serene Grace... (shudder)

Possession would've been perfect for the ghost type. Let AI choose a random move while the pokemon is possessed.

For normal I had the idea of: when inflicted with the status condition, removes all secondary effects from moves. So all atack moves that also have chance to raise/lower stats, cause a status effect, those are gone.

"Guys I swear, I haven't watched this video" STOP GIVING THEM REASONS TO BE SUSPICIOUS😂 Love this guy

Always a great video your the best Pat!

People always forget “Dark type” is supposed to be the Evil type

I had an idea for more combo terrains with typing triangles ever since the pledge moves were introduced, if you care to read, the types are rock, flying and fighting, each being a type triangle like fire water and grass, flying + rock would be a landslide effect that would lower the opposing sides defense stats temporarily, flying and fighting could create an airborne like terrain that could make Pokémon immune to ground moves or make moves not miss (albeit the latter would be very busted) and fighting and rock could create a broken down terrain caused by shattered rocks that could be a more potent stealth rock doing 24% damage instead of 12% while being temporary to balance it out

PREWATCHED!! all jokes aside i love the input you put into these reacts, makes for an easier/more fun watch

16:56 Incoming news: Water is, indeed, wet. Sorry, Patterrz. I love you, but I couldn’t resist. 😂

Love the vids! I haven't watched the vid yet, but I don't doubt it'll be too tier!

For the water one, I feel like adding a higher chance to be frozen by ice moves would also be a fun addition

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Not sure how balanced these would be but here’s just a few ideas I had. This would specifically be for water against steel types but a “Rust” status condition would be interesting. Have some water moved have a chance of rusting steel types, cutting their speed and probably attack as steel items are a lot more difficult to move when rusted. It’d stay in play till the steel type Pokémon is swaps out. Another idea I had was for the bug type, “pheromones”. It would guarantee that the opponent won’t do anything for that turn with the additional effect of roar where it is swapped out at the end of the turn, removing the status effect. The logic here is that bug pheromones are pretty icky smelling so it sorta paralyzes the Pokémon in place and it wants to return to its pokeball due to the terrible smell. Aside from bug types themselves I can also see this have no effect on poison types as they’re used to bad smells. If anyone who’s really into competitive wants to apply any specific numbers or make any changes to these go for it

Honestly whenever I think of fighting type status the first thing that comes to mind is bruises. I'd make it a bit strong since fighting is a bit on the weaker side (increases damage recieved rather than reducing def, like an extra STAB buff on all attacks on that pokemon so it stacks with defense drops) and isn't removed by switching out, but most forms of recovery (healing/status removing moves/abilities, medicine...maybe not vending machine drinks) would heal them. Extremely powerful status but easily handled. As for rock...petrified, even the lite version, seems overpowered and not very fitting for a lot of rock moves. I'd go with buried. Can't use contact moves or switch until a few turns pass (you're not gonna reach the opponent while under a ton of rubble and it's unlikely the pokemon can be brought back without a clear line of sight on it. Still powerful, but leaves options open even for fully physical attackers as long as they know to prep around it. Maybe to make up for the downside it also increases physical defense (since the opponent ALSO has to get through the rocks to deal damage) so it'd force the user to be just as cautious about using the status as the user. If it HAD to be petrified, I'd limit what moves could apply it and make it "pokemon becomes rock type, speed is halved, and if hit it removed the status but reduces defense 1 stage" as a less gruesome balance (since the idea of being turned to stone has... unpleasant implications). This way is just a more powerful version of the move soak.

23:06 man you hella got me with the Larry effect joke 😭😭

I was thinking about this the other day. I have not finished the video yet so idk if something like this is talked about however, just dropping it now. Frozen should be changed. If we can go from hail to snow why not frozen to frosted (or frost bite, freezer burn idk) and have it work like burn where it S.atk is damper and you take damn when you end your turn. Also a fun twist could be it only hurts when you don't attack, so set up moves, missing an attack, attack doesn't affect the target, used against someone protecting etc. basically if you're not "moving" you take more damage.

Late, but just wanted to appreciate how good reacton videos in the pokemon community are, like patterz and mandjtv. Good job guys 👏👏

How i would make the statuses work: -fire: burn, it works like the usual burn, but if you get will-o-wisped again the status will evolve to Scorched, you loose 1/8 of hp instead of 1/16. Fire types are immune -Grass: leech seed, they remain after switching out but they drain hp only if the statused mon is against a grass type. Grass types are immune. -water: it doesn't really need it and i have no idea. -electric: Paralisys, it halves the op speed, it can be staked to make it be 1/3 of the original speed. Electric types are immune. -ice: frost bite (it's just the frost bite from PLA) -Psychic: Drowsy, -1 stage of speed and special defense, -1 stage of speed and special defense at the end of every turn and switch-in. Psychic types are immune. Fighting: concussion, -1 of def and the op will use a random move instead of the selected one for 3 turns. Fighting types are immune. -rock: stealth rock, the statused op lose 1/8 of his hp on switch-in. Rock type are immune -steel: spikes, the statused op loose 1/10 of his hp every time he attack. Steel type are immune. -Dragon: fear, the op is forced to switch out afer one turn. Dragon types are immune. -Bug: Infestation (it's just infestation) -Dark: taunt -Ghost: cursed

9:50 don't worry, until just a couple months ago I thought that water was super effective against steel, it isn't, it is neutral offensively and resists steel defensively. I was thus fully convinced that heatran had double weakness to water, when it actually only has one against ground, with regular weakness to fighting and water.

Dragon's Might and Dragon's Roar would be two cool effects for Dragon types. Dragon's Might - Adds a lingering chance of not attacking that is linked to the opponents Attack/Special Attack compared to the dragon pokemon's BST, that lasts for three complete turns regardless if the Dragon Pokemon is out or not. Dragon's Might initiates upon use of the move, and the status can be reset if you re-use the move, but will only remain for up to two complete turns after the Pokemon is swapped out. Dragon's Roar would inflict the Fear effect that was mentioned during the video.

Patterz your love for BG3 makes me want to DM a game of d&d for you. You would love the system for sure. Great content btw! Love the reacts

I completely understand the weird mindset with infatuation. Sometimes you just have that one move that always seems to work, and the ones that always seem to fail. So eventually you just kinda internalize it that it works a certain way, even though it’s not really true

"Null Shedinja" actually would never be a problem outside of shenanigans, because it is a ghost type and has 1 hp. It can't be hit by normal moves to have the status inflicted, and if you pull type swap or ability swap tricks, you are relying on your opponent to not ko shedinja or the swap partner, inflict the status, and be in the correct position to finish your stunt. It'd be no different than burnup null fire types stealing wonder guard from their partner.

My main criticism of this proposed "one status effect for every type" system is that it ignores, if not outright eliminates, the two-tier system of status effects that exist now, where you have "primary" status effects like Sleep, Paralysis, Poison, Toxic Poison, and Freeze, that are one at a time, can't be overwritten by another and don't go away when switched out, and tons more "secondary" status effects like Confusion, Infatuation, Flinching, Partial Trapping, Curse, Taunt, Torment, and Nightmare that can stack on top of primary effects and one another, but can be cleared by switching out. Are all these new effects primary or secondary? Can they stack? If they all work like primary effects, that would really screw with the metagame (especially redoing Confusion as a primary effect.) Maybe each type could have primary AND secondary status effects, but at that point there would be WAY too many status effects to keep track of.

I love how pokemon already had the basis for a lot of these suggestions, but they made them into moves instead of the type's unique status. Leech Seed, Infestation, Mean Look, they could've been statuses

Fear could also be cut your Special Attack in half since you're less likely to attack something you're scared of. Or special defense, since you're not thinking straight when you're scared. Also a 25% chance to miss every attack until you switch out.

Technically there is a Fear status in the Kanto games if you don't have the Silph Scope against Cubone's Mother's ghost

Me being the Persona fan that I am every time was like oh that status condition is like that one from Persona I was half expecting to see hunger and for psychic type to be brainwash 😂

A. I called normal being last! B. Null or as I called it neutrality would have to be like simple beam where it temporarily changes (is removed when switched out) an inflicted opponent’s ability to “null” And petrification should be like freeze but 3 turn max and Turn 1 is a 100% chance to not move Turn 2 is 66% chance to not move Turn 3 is 33% chance to not move Turn 4 is 0% chance to not move But… the inflicted gets a temporary +3 to Def and SpDef

I like your Ringing Status idea, but instead of not being able to use sound based moves it could make it so that Pokemon have a chance of not hearing trainer commands, it'd basically be a paralysis that makes you weak to sound attacks

i like that patterz explanation for the water type statues is that water is wet

Honestly for bug a cool status effect I thought of was Host/Hosted where the Pokémon infected with it will now take double damage but only for one attack and would stay on that Pokémon even if you swap out. It would only be removed by either getting hit, fainting the Pokémon who cast Host/Hosted, or maybe it can’t be healed by items until the previous effects are met.(My thoughts behind it was like how some wasp lay eggs in other living bug or like the zombie mushrooms thing in real life.)

I can see a competitive player hitting their own Shedinja, giving them Null and then Shedinja being banned

If ghost types had the spooked effect, then they would be horrible to try and catch because there's always a chance it'll just yeet you from the fight like Abra 😂

Imagine when you get spooked you can’t go back into the battle against that pokemon unless the spooked pokemon is the last available option.

For bug I thought “swarm” Cuts accuracy by 10% and does 1/16th damage per turn

21:07 Why not Petrify for Rock types? Maybe instead of being like freeze, maybe it can boost defense by 50% but cut speed by 50% as well.

I think grass’ status could be “Allergic” or something similar. Maybe a chance to flinch/sneeze? 😅 To edit, maybe it slightly lowers defense? Since your body may be weaker.

Null Shedinja, I was like, "that would be the easiest thing to kill" before remembering Wonder Guard makes it so only Super Effective hits deal damage, and not resistances become immunities. I also believe Terastallization is the sole reason the Nincada line aren't in Scarlet and Violet. A Tera Electric Shedinja holding an Air Balloon would essentially be invincible.

Water already kinda has a Status effect, with the move Soak, which changes the opposing Pokemon to Pure Water. I think that could work for a water status, making the inflicted pokemon weak ti Electric regardless of its typing, and maybe even weak to Ice like how Freeze Dry works.

I remember hearing that the Fighting type is the Hero type in Japan. If it had a Status Condition it probably wouldn't be something like Berserk. It would be something like "Dark(wicked) type attacks do 50% damage" or alternatively it could be 200% since a Hero is doing it. After hearing the relevant type maybe it just has a rally ability that gives all present pokemon that aren't Dark type more health.

22:20 A high damaging move; Super-effective would crumble the rockshell but an uneffective move would cause an additional 1/16th dmg and take 2 turns for escape

People already play "Way too many types" why not Pokemon "Way too many Status Conditions"?

So if Normal= Sleep Ice = Frozen Poison= Poisoned Electric = Paralyzed Fire = Burned I'd add Psychic = Confused Fairy = Infatuated/ In Love And I'd add Fighting = Concussed (3-5 turn, Drop a stage of speed and accuracy) Flying = Thrown/Falling (1-5 turns, atk up, always goes last, damage upon landing- ie status end- based on how many turns falling and pokemon weight) Ground = Gravity (Speed and Evasion dropped by 3. Flying pokemon lose typing similar to roost) Rock = Buried (Atk drops 2 stages, Evasion drops 2 stages, SP Atk raises one stage) Bug = Swarmed/Infested (DOT 3-5 turns, special attack drop since victim has trouble focusing) Ghost = Haunted (Haunting pokemon faints. If haunted pokemon faints, haunting pokemon revives at full health) Steel = Magnetized (All attacks guaranteed to hit, regardless of accuracy) Water = Washed away (1-5 turns, DOT, 25% chance to fail to move, 10% chance to be swapped to random party) Grass = Overgrown (basically Leech seed) Dragon = Oppressed / Terrified (1-5 turns, 75% chance to not move. Does not work on pokemon with an equal or higher level. Yes I know worthless in competitive) Dark = Blinded (1-5 turns. Blinded attacks target random pokemon, including oneself. This can include double battles, where you may end up targeting your teammate or either enemy pokemon. Overridden by other redirecting attacks or abilities)

7:44 volatile and non-volatile status conditions. I remember that from a loong time ago, never really use the terms though.

weird idea.. but what if fear meant a pokemon was locked out of battle unless it absolutely had to come out. like roar or whirlwind, but with lingering effects, so for the next two to four turns that pokemon will not come out if an alternative is available

I like Petrified... "You just encountered your first ROCK Pokemon on your new Game, and on the first turn, your pokemon attacked the wild Pokemon, but the wild Pokemon attacked and made your pokemon Petrified. On the next turn, your pokemon is Petrified and cannot attack, but when the wild Pokemon attacks, your pokemon is free from the Petrified status, almost like your Pokemon was trapped inside the statue, and that attack made creaks on the statue, then your pokemon within can easily/barely escaped it's cold imprisonment"...I love it!

The fire poison burn etc are called non volatile

This man has fully caught the bg3 bug 😂

Good question

For an HP reducing one, it could be like one that reduces max HP for a small amount of time, like they cant heal fully unless they get rid of the status. It is ki da like the wound ability from FF.

Petrified could work like frozen but with a twist that attacks that hit it deal increased damage but the pokemon breaks out.

I was thinking for fighting type either “bruised” or “winded” could work too Bruised being, well, bruised, perhaps leaving you weakened in some way Winded, which is when after an abdominal strike when you struggle to catch your breath, perhaps being almost like a flinch 2.0

Paralyzed had a confusing introduction. It half your speed and 50% chance to not attack, tho if you used agility. The secondary effects of Paralyzed goes on you instead.

4:39 "THE OPPOSING POKEMON NOW HAS TINNITUS"

I think a good one for steel type would be "magnetized". Pokémon inflicted with magnetized suffer from all steel type moves used against them bypassing accuracy checks, similar to the move Swift. The magnetized condition can be removed by switching the afflicted Pokémon out.

13:00 I think Frenzied is a better name, since Reckless and Berserk are both abilities. Maybe it inflicts Taunt on you and increases physical attack by 50% but you also have a 50% chance to hit yourself at that power. High risk, high reward, you know. If you want to take the Reckless Attack approach, maybe both you and the opponent have doubled crit rates against each other.

20:27 Shaken could also cause a rare chance for Reckless to afflict the pokémon if they strike back

One I thought of for Fairy was Faetouched. Has a 25% chance of not moving and whilst active for 3 to 4 turns, it negates the afflicted Pokémon's ability.

Infestation was introduced in x and y. You get the TM after beating Viola.

13:09 The pokémon(s) without warning would rapidly attack, regardless of commands

21:06 Imagine The Rumbling in Pokemon

I use "hard starus" for things like burn (basically anything with a symbol) and "soft status" for stuff like attract

For fighting there should be bruised which lowers defense and maybe does little damage over time

Stung: reduces the pokemon's defenses against bug type moves by 1 stage each is removed on healing or on stat changes

primary status effects: frozen, paralyzed, burn, poisoned

So Dark is associated with Blinded, right? It was only mentioned in passing rather than having a section to itself...

In gen 1, stat cuts from status conditions didn't go away after healing. Also, freeze was non-auto-healing.

Here's something he missed. Paralysis via static can't effect ground type pokemon, since electric type moves can't effect ground types. Aswell, you can't poison steel types. So then since Dragon moves don't effect Fairy types, fairies shouldn't get struck with "fear", In addition, Petrified shouldn't effect flying types, and null shouldn't effect ghost types.

Rock type status infliction could simply, be "Dizzy" and make it harder to land your moves (cuts your accuracy) and cause a chance to trip. Cause getting hit in the head with a rock might leave you a bit concussed and dizzy.

3:43 well there is Neo Champion Red in Pokemon Masters who uses a Buddy Move (dont ask, long story) that always freezes if possible

I honestly think ghost should do the inverse, it's not for nothing that a lot of ghost pokemon can learn Mean Look and the abilities Shadow Tag is called... Shadow ! You want to run but the concept of a ghost is to keep you with him (sorry for my english, i'm learning)

23:33 Honestly, Sleep could work just as well. What's more normal than sleep?

13:33 So a kind of glass cannon effect?

I'm not sure how it would work but the first thought for me for ghost was "possessed"

Interesting to associate confusion with psychic types even though there are only 2 psychic moves that actually cause confusion. Though there wouldn't really anything else that fits psychic unless you make a new status for it that's mind focused

0:12 ah yes hitting yourself in Confusion is so great and euphoric 😒

Grass: Seeded: makes the opponent not able to switch without special moves, and after 2-4 turns, a flower will bloom and explode, dealing double the damage of the move that made the opponent seeded in the first place.

16:54 as a smash bros brawl player, we do not talk about trip chances

Pat, respec Shadowheart as a Light Domain Cleric. She can get rid of Darkness. :) (Also great vid!)

As a fellow baldurs gate enjoyer with nearly 200hrs my brain can’t stop thinking about stuff from it or linking other games to baldurs gate

9:01 love those 3 and I'm offended

Slippery for water would be perfect

3:00 not everyone could learn scald in the past though, so it was a bit rare

Only thing I would change with the water type one i would call it soaked instead of flooded just think it makes more sense

Paralysis burn poison freeze and sleep are considered non volatile statuses and everything else that fades when switching like confusion and infatuation is volatile

Now this is just a theory but i think Patterz likes Baldur's gate

Oh, that's easy for the difference: Volatile: Confusion, Attract, Nightmare, etc. Non-Volatile: FRZ, BRN, PAR, PSN/TOX, SLP

Reckless attack in BG3 gives the enemie 2(2d20) chanses to hitt you instead of 1 (1d20)