Closed ecrs98 closed 1 month ago
This seed shows up in both PokeFinder and RNGReporter as Ability 1 which doesn't matches what PKHeX expects. Ideally, the issues should be for legitimate Pokémon that are being flagged, not for asking why genned Pokémon are being flagged.
EDIT: I forgot that both of these programs use Ability 0 or 1 rather than 1 or 2, so 1 would match up to the 2nd ability. But I'm unsure if there's something else to that Pokémon such that all of them end up as Ability 1 after transferring to RS, for example.
Understood, thank you.
Made an edit to my earlier comment once I realized the programs index ability differently.
I also noticed that the 111 Ageto Celebi examples provided on PPORG are all Ability 1.
I'll leave this issue open for someone else to explain what we are observing.
In generation 3, Pokemon without distinct second abilities have their second ability as 0, and the game will not set the ability bitflag. Thus, it will only select the first slot.
This seed shows up in both PokeFinder and RNGReporter as Ability 1 which doesn't matches what PKHeX expects. Ideally, the issues should be for legitimate Pokémon that are being flagged, not for asking why genned Pokémon are being flagged.
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EDIT: I forgot that both of these programs use Ability 0 or 1 rather than 1 or 2, so 1 would match up to the 2nd ability. But I'm unsure if there's something else to that Pokémon such that all of them end up as Ability 1 after transferring to RS, for example.
Just wanted to point out that PokeFinder correctly calculates Celebi as ability 0 only. You have to use latest release/commit for this.
The problem The legality checker erroneously flags a legal PID/ability combination of the following Pokemon in a blank RS save file.
For reproducibility 0251 - Celebi_JP - 8CC8AB87D82B.zip
Expected behavior Given the PID
AB87D82B
, I expect the ability to be Natural Cure (2). However, the legality checker flags this PID/ability combo with the message "Invalid: Ability does not match ability number." Keeping the same PID and changing the ability to Natural Cure (1) returns a "Legal!" message.Converting the PID
AB87D82B
to binary yields10101011100001111101100000101011
. The last bit in this number is 1, so the Pokemon should have its second ability.Additional context I am matching a genned Celebi to a legitimate Ageto Celebi from the JP Colosseum Bonus Disc, in accordance with the retail RNG guide contained in this Reddit post. The Celebi I am matching is described in the second row of data in the screenshot below, displaying the correct PID and ability --![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2feff4b1-2f37-40c6-bb41-6afe92ebbe05)
AB87D82B
and 特性2 (Ability 2), respectively.