@vaporeon_ @aescling https://play.pokemonshowdown.com Battle simulator :)

@amy @aescling I kind of want to try it out, but also I worry about embarassing myself because I'm not familiar with the format at all...

@amy @aescling Can I somehow play against you specifically, so at least I fail miserably against a friend who knows I've never done this before and not a random stranger who would've expected a good battle?

@vaporeon_ @amy you can challenge just about any arbitrary purrson so long as you know their account

@aescling @amy OK, so either Amy or Aescling just need to tell me their account name?

@vaporeon_ @aescling We can play a battle with random teams if you like :)

@amy @aescling Sure! One moment

@vaporeon_ @aescling My account name is monorail

@amy @aescling Still trying to get a username for myself that this thing accepts... So many of them are already taken...

@amy @aescling OK, the name of my Pokémon Mystery Dungeon character works... Now to find Monorail...

@vaporeon_ @aescling If you tell me the name I can challenge you

@amy @aescling WadieTheEevee

Actually I clicked on "Find a user" and it let me challenge you, but now: which format? There's a long list and I don't know which to choose

@vaporeon_ @aescling Random Battle works

@vaporeon_ @aescling gg :)

@amy @aescling I can't reply, but really close indeed :3

@vaporeon_ @aescling Oh whoops ha ha

@amy @aescling What does terastalization actually do? Just changes the type of a Pokémon? So that if I terastalize e.g. a Grass type to the Poison type, then Fire-type moves won't be super effective against it anymore?

@vaporeon_ @aescling Yep :) You get STAB for both the new type and the old type, as well. If you tera into a type the pokemon already had, then it gets 2x STAB instead of 1.5x

@amy @aescling Does that website have an option to exclude the latest generation of Pokémon? I've never played the newest Pokémon game, nor seen the corresponding anime, so it's slightly confusing to have lots of Pokémon that I don't even recognize...

@vaporeon_ Yeah, check this out :)

@amy Wow, SleepPowder is a powerful move...

@vaporeon_ @amy you can play in any specific generation

@amy @vaporeon_ *meowscarada user voice* notably, terastellizing a pokémon with two types will drop all weaknesses associated with the second type (or, if applicable, both types) while still retaining both STABs