AbilityDex

[Zhen Lin]

I am now sitting on a bot that can generate stubs for all 77 abilities.

Opening lines.

Yes, I know that some of them are gramatically / format-wise off, but nothing to do about it unless I incorporate an English parser into the bot as well...

I also know it isn't very detailed, but I'm too lazy to pull from the main article - I'm just using what's in my database, which should be taken directly from the game.

Sample for Arena Trap.

Trivia:
* The most common ability combination is Levitate + no second ability. 17 total.
* The two most common first abilities are Swift Swim + Chlorophyll. 19 each.
* The most common second ability it is Early Bird. 10 total.
* The most common ability, full stop, is Swift Swim. 20 total.

 

[Misty]

* The most common ability, full stop, is Swift Swim. 20 total.

Any other hints that there are too many Water Pokemon? :[

 

[Zhen Lin]

There are 78 Water-type Pokémon. That is 20%. In contrast, there are only 47 pure Normal-type Pokémon, 17 Normal/Flying-type Pokémon and 1 Normal/Psychic-type Pokémon for total of only 62 Normal-type Pokémon.

The next most numerous type combination is pure Water-type, at 38. Then pure Psychic-type, at 19, with Fire-type a close fourth at 18.

 

[TK n Happy Ness]

I'm not sure if this goes here, but is it me, or are almost all the Pokemon with Levitate weak to Ice, with the exception of Gengar, Weezing, and Duskull?

 

[evkl]

Solrock and Lunatone aren't.

 

[Jshadias]

IMO a division between the Pokemon with the trait as their first ability and the Pokemon with the trait as their second ability doesn't add anything. With the types, a lot of the time Pokemon will draw more from their primary type than from their secondary, and there are enough Pokemon that dividing them is useful. With traits however, it means nothing at all wheter the trait comes first or second.

edit: iirc misdreavus gets levitate too

 

[Zhen Lin]

Levitate and Arena Trap updated.

I have not edited them in any way, these come direct from the bot.

 

[Jshadias]

That looks good.

 

[ainohuyuah]

As Jshadias has implied, the distinction between pokemon that have access to only one ability or two abilities doesn't really affect the overall character of that pokemon species. The use of the 'Single Ability' and 'Dual Ability' could be misleading - Pokemon can not possess two abilities at the same time and there isn't anything on the exclusive ability or pokemon page to suggest that pokemon abilities are an A OR B system and not an A AND B system. It think it would be easier to list the pokemon that each ability is available to and then mark pokemon that can only attain on ability rather than refering to this phenomenon as 'Single Ability'.

 

[Zhen Lin]

It's a bit late to tell me that, but, I suppose we could link the Dual ability heading to an appropriate section of the main Ability article...

 

[coppro]

the ability in parentheses should be caps, like Move and Pokemon articles.

 

[Zhen Lin]

You must be confused with some other community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia. Last I looked, all 354 move articles used a lowercase m.

 

[coppro]

weird... I swear it was caps. Oh well.