List likely moves before opposing Pokemon attacks

[karllhughes]

Porydex does a great job listing probabilities of what moves an opposing Mon is likely to have: https://porydex.quinlancircle.com/stats/2019-09/gen-7-ou/1695/pokemon/kartana

This info would be really helpful during a battle, especially if you're playing random battles or a new tier.

The challenges are (1) how do we get this data, and (2) how could we best display it?

Porydex gets it from the raw data dumps that Smogon releases, but parsing those is quite an effort. We could scrape Porydex, but obviously that's brittle as Porydex could change their HTML at any time.

Displaying a large list of attacks presents a challenge too. Some mons have a diverse move pool and we're working with limited space in the UI.

I held off on this issue because it's more of a pipe dream. Maybe a better solution is just linking to Porydex?

[rowin1]

Perhaps we could have a key-modifier when hovering over a Pokemon to show their move probabilities. Besides scraping, I don't know of another way we could get this detailed info.

From the looks of it, Porydex seems to still be on SM and not SS.

[bkirikoglu]

Any chance we can revive the random battle tool tip? https://github.com/nikhilreddy6547/random-battle-tooltip

[karllhughes]

@bkirikoglu that would be sweet!

It looks like they hard-coded a lot of the data into the extension, which makes it really hard to deconstruct their code, but I would be interested in brainstorming a better way to do this.

[rowin1]

Hmm... could we scrape data and statistics from a reliable source?

[bkirikoglu]

I believe it’s all in the Pokémon showdown github page it’s all open source

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Hmm... could we scrape data and statistics from a reliable source?

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[karllhughes]

Yes, the data is open source, thanks for pointing this out @bkirikoglu!

Here it is: https://www.smogon.com/stats

So, we'd just have to build a scraper that gets the latest movesets for the generation in play. For example, here's June's data for Gen 8 OU: https://www.smogon.com/stats/2020-06/moveset/gen8ou-0.txt

This would be a significant project, but I'm interested in trying it out if I can get a day or two of free time to work on it. Will keep y'all updated. 👍

[karllhughes]

I have a first version of this working locally: https://github.com/karllhughes/Pokemon-Showdown-Enhanced-Tooltips/tree/likely-moves

Right now I have to refresh before each battle to get the latest data from the stats API, but when I have time I'll figure that out and make a PR here.