Battle Mechanics

Pokefind’s PvP and most PvE battles follow Gen 8 battle mechanics, with no Mega Evolution (server-wide).

Generation rules at a glance

This means a normal-form Pokemon plays close to ORAS-era mechanics with the Gen 7 ability list bolted on. Anniversary forms get the broader Gen 8 movepool + ability access on top of that as a deliberate power tier above standard play.

Battle mechanics topics covered in this section

• Damage formula — stat calc, modifier order, critical hits
• Type chart — full chart, includes Fairy
• Status conditions — sleep/burn/freeze/paralysis/poison/badly-poisoned durations and side-effects
• Weather + Terrain — turn counts, stacking with abilities (Drought + Heat Rock, etc.)
• Doubles-specific mechanics — Wide Guard / Quick Guard / Imprison interactions
• Server-specific deviations from Gen 8 mainline — listed explicitly so players coming from the official games don’t get caught out

Mega Evolution is not supported on the server. Anything in this section assumes no-Mega play.

Movepool reference (Gen 6 ORAS)

Pokefind species lookups use Gen 6 ORAS movesets as the baseline — particularly relevant for tutor moves that no longer exist in later gens. The Pokedex entries already include each species’ Gen 6 ORAS-era level-up moves, TMs/HMs, Move Tutor moves, and Egg Moves; check a species page for its specific movepool.

Authoritative source: Bulbapedia per-generation learnset subpages (/Generation_VI_learnset etc.) are static HTML and the canonical reference when the wiki and the in-game data disagree.

Each species’ Pokedex page lists:

• Level-up Moves — ORAS-era level-up table
• TMs & HMs — every TM/HM the species can learn in ORAS
• Move Tutor — ORAS tutor moves (this is the list that diverges most from later gens)
• Egg Moves — ORAS egg-move pool

For anniversary forms, the Pokedex tab for that form lists its own movepool, which includes Gen 8 additions on top of the Gen 6 base.