Cancel Button

[Rendiz]

While I am aware that this has been suggested a bunch of times before and If its currently being worked on and I missed it then I sincerely apologize. I feel like now with the upcoming doubles seasonal is the right time to highlight this issue once again.

 

I'm primarily making the thread to highlight its need for doubles but it should be in singles as well and there is no good reason as to why it shouldn't be implemented in all formats.

 

In doubles having the ability to cancel your move is vitally important. I have seen many battles won / lost because people accidentally swapped out the wrong Pokemon and i have fallen victim to this myself a couple of times. This is already an issue that is to a lesser extent plaguing doubles and with the upcoming seasonal it would be very disappointing to see the biggest doubles accolade decided by a lack of this feature. If you wish to continue pushing for doubles to be a viable tier this needs to be implemented and its honestly laughable how it isn't already implemented as it is already a staple in the competitive Pokemon scene.

 

Pros:
Reduces mistakes in picking moves / swapping Pokemon in doubles.

Helps alleviate timer problems to a lesser extent as people know if they mess up they have the choice to go back.

Allows for people to change their mind in singles while waiting for their opponent.

Forces Devs to use their development time implementing something that is genuinely useful for once.

 

Cons:
None.

 

Spoiler

Please implement this before the finals of the seasonal

 

Edited May 2, 2016 by Rendiz

[Bilburt]

Id love to see this in singles too
Ofcourse you might be last anyway and have no time cancel(something that could be maybe added too? Dont want to ask for too much)just makes the chance of you losing by misclicks so much smaller 5/7 suggestion

[SamuraiHunter]

I am glad someone brought it up...I have been trying to somewhat keep alive the other topic on this but seems like no one cares. But I am of full support of a cancel/back button

[Jerryzoo]

I agree having this cancel option takes priority over the other suggestions involving pvp like adding the forfit option. The pressure on a pvp is enough and having no second chance to go back after rethinking things is very frustrating to the point where you start hating yourself for one misclick that cost the whole game. I think this option should only be available if you picked the move 1st and your opponent is still thinking.

Edited March 30, 2016 by jerryzoo

[Rendiz]

 I think this option should only be available if you picked the move 1st and your opponent is still thinking.

That is obviously the intent for its functionality in singles much like on showdown.

 

But this is eve more needed if for doubles if you wish to change your first pokes move.

[Rendiz]

Bumping this because its nearing the finals now and its relevant.

[Rendiz]

Guessing its too late anyway bu last try to try and get this implemented because its honestly really important in doubles and would be a shame if the finals got fucked because of this not being a thing.

[sephiroth1977]

This is overpowered. Human error is the reason battles are fun. If everyone had this feature there wouldn't be any errors. It takes away from the "original" pokemon experience. 

[Arimanius]

1 hour ago, sephiroth1977 said:

This is overpowered. Human error is the reason battles are fun. If everyone had this feature there wouldn't be any errors. It takes away from the "original" pokemon experience. 

WTF are u talking about? get out of here. There's no reason to keep this the way it is now

[NikhilR]

Lmao at human error.

 

But like Rendiz said, this is needed so badly in doubles especially when you want to switch out one of your pokemon but you accidentally switch out the other. 

[Pokemonerd25]

Look at the battle between NikhilR and frags during the OU leaderboard. Thanks to a missclick, frags used rapid spin instead of surf and lost the battle.

[BlackJovi]

3 minutes ago, Pokemonerd25 said:

Look at the battle between NikhilR and frags during the OU leaderboard. Thanks to a missclick, frags used rapid spin instead of surf and lost the battle.

nah, that was a mispredict 

[NikhilR]

14 minutes ago, Pokemonerd25 said:

Look at the battle between NikhilR and frags during the OU leaderboard. Thanks to a missclick, frags used rapid spin instead of surf and lost the battle.

Frags thought I had an endure Hera instead of sub. That wasn't a misclick but he lost out on an unfortunate 50/50.

[Pokemonerd25]

Ah, misunderstanding

[Matoka]

I fully agree, although I feel like your passive aggressive 4th "pro" point doesn't help get this implemented

[sephiroth1977]

This is too overpowered guys. If this gets implemented then so should switching out your active poke when you faint your opponents poke. At least thats in the vanilla games by default. 

[Matoka]

On 6/2/2016 at 8:25 AM, sephiroth1977 said:

This is too overpowered guys. If this gets implemented then so should switching out your active poke when you faint your opponents poke. At least thats in the vanilla games by default. 

What, how is this even comparable, also "Switching out your active poke when you faint your opponent's poke" is only a thing for NPC battles, it isn't a thing for PvP battles in any game I don't think, definitely not the newer ones anyway

 

Being able to cancel what you selected is in no way overpowered, It is literally just a countermeasure to help prevent input error, it doesn't actually affect skill levels or the thought processes in the battle AT ALL, how can something that has no impact on the battle be overpowered?

Edited June 3, 2016 by Matoka

[sephiroth1977]

5 hours ago, Matoka said:

What, how is this even comparable, also "Switching out your active poke when you faint your opponent's poke" is only a thing for NPC battles, it isn't a thing for PvP battles in any game I don't think, definitely not the newer ones anyway

 

Being able to cancel what you selected is in no way overpowered, It is literally just a countermeasure to help prevent input error, it doesn't actually affect skill levels or the thought processes in the battle AT ALL, how can something that has no impact on the battle be overpowered?

How isnt it not having an impact.  Please explain? 

[Matoka]

2 hours ago, sephiroth1977 said:

How isnt it not having an impact.  Please explain? 

Say you are in a battle, you click you want to use Waterfall on gyarados, but you accidentally click Earthquake, if you cancel you can re-select your move that turn but only if you do it before they make THEIR move

 

The outcome is exactly the same as if you never missclicked, it doesn't impact game play in that sense, it is purely quality of life

[Rendiz]

pretty please?

[LifeStyle]

14 hours ago, Rendiz said:

pretty please?

I didn't fully realize of how much we need this until I had my 1st Doubles match

We need this so fucking much it's insane we don't have it yet

[Zymogen]

Even outside of doubles this is desperately needed. You'd have thought it was one of the first modifications to the Battle UI to have been made. 

[Liberalisme]

@Kyu @Squirtle

 

Please give us this option next update. 

[ragstal]

Why you guys ask stuff so meaningless, like can't you play without smashing the keyboard or just wait and select what u want? This is a stupid suggestion and it would take time to add another freaking confirmation window with yes or no. Just no thumps down.

[BlackJovi]

2 minutes ago, ragstal said:

Why you guys ask stuff so meaningless, like can't you play without smashing the keyboard or just wait and select what u want? This is a stupid suggestion and it would take time to add another freaking confirmation window with yes or no. Just no thumps down.

We need more people like you in this community. 

[DoubleJ]

Yes, no, maybe?