No Guard ability notification

[SierscMaster]

There should be an ability notification (the one which is by default in right corner of the battle window) when enemy pokemon land a hit only because of "No Guard" or smiliar ability if any other exists. It is very confusing when we are getting hit even tho we used for example Fly or any other move that should make us invulnerable for the turn. Simillar mechanic is already in place for example for "Static" ability - we know that enemy pokemon has "Static" only after we receive a notification about it after we get paralyzed.

[FighterChamp]

Abilities are better as hidden.

[LifeStyleNORE]

If you get hit while using Fly, then you know it's No Guard. So why is it confusing and why would you need the game telling you something that you already know?

 

And why are you using Fly really, story?

[Rache]

1 hour ago, LifeStyleNORE said:

If you get hit while using Fly, then you know it's No Guard. So why is it confusing and why would you need the game telling you something that you already know?

 

And why are you using Fly really, story?

Confusion around this ability is extremely common for storyline players who are unaware of it, there's nothing telling them why they got hit by a move that would otherwise miss so they tend to assume that it's a bug. As long as ability indicators only display when the move would be guaranteed to miss otherwise, this is a pretty harmless suggestion.

[LifeStyleNORE]

38 minutes ago, Rache said:

Confusion around this ability is extremely common for storyline players who are unaware of it, there's nothing telling them why they got hit by a move that would otherwise miss so they tend to assume that it's a bug. As long as ability indicators only display when the move would be guaranteed to miss otherwise, this is a pretty harmless suggestion.

Yeah it makes sense I guess considering the direction this game has been going for. I'm personally not a fan of having everything being spoonfed (i.e. showing which moves are SE vs opposing mons). Oh well.

[pachima]

2 hours ago, Rache said:

 this is a pretty harmless suggestion.

storyline maybe, but in pvp, not so much. Giving away, for example, a guts machamp for free just cuz storyline shouldn´t happen.

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Edited March 26, 2020 by pachima

[SierscMaster]

I think you guys (except for Rache) did not understand one thing: - this notification won't show at the start of the battle or on a switch like for example Intimidation. This will be shown only after the attack that otherwise should miss hit. For those of you who knows whythe ability hit this information won't change anything, but for other players this will provide explanation why this happened.

[Rache]

8 hours ago, pachima said:

storyline maybe, but in pvp, not so much. Giving away, for example, a guts machamp for free just cuz storyline shouldn´t happen.

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11 hours ago, Rache said:

Confusion around this ability is extremely common for storyline players who are unaware of it, there's nothing telling them why they got hit by a move that would otherwise miss so they tend to assume that it's a bug. As long as ability indicators only display when the move would be guaranteed to miss otherwise, this is a pretty harmless suggestion.