Effect and Short Effect are not Reliable

[GreatNovaDragon]

There are some attacks that get constantly updated and buffed, the pure numbers get updated, but not the effect texts.

Example Fury Cutter: The Long Effect text describes an end multiplier of 16x, the short effect of "maxing out after 5 turns"
Both dont even work, cause the maxing out of power happens at 160 power, which was 16x in Gens 2-4 and the 5 turns in 5.

Example Bind: The Effect texts claim an 1/16 of max hp damage, but that category of damage has been overall buffed to 1/8th of max hp damage.

I did not check all moves, but I happened to see this often enough that i can't call the effect text data reliable

[Naramsim]

Good catch! We should revise all the effects. It's gonna be a tough one

[Naramsim]

As of now keep the pure numbers as a reference

[Naramsim]

I created #1024, this can help us have a single source of truth for our numbers.

If you are willing maybe you can help with the analysis and coding.

Thank you!

[GreatNovaDragon]

Yeah, i am working on actually updating the move effects currently, additionally adding a translation to german for those, basing myself on the german member of the Encyclopædiæ Pokémonis Pokéwiki, of which Bulbapedia is also a member.

German Prose helps myself for my own projects, and if i do it already, i can update the english prose in one go.

[Naramsim]

Hi! That would be great! Will you create a script or manually update the CSVs?

[GreatNovaDragon]

Manually updating

[GreatNovaDragon]

Reason why i dont write a script: you'd need a LLM to parse an complete site of handwritten prose, and i dont trust it yet to work

[GreatNovaDragon]

Sorry for the Zero Progress here. The Project i had been going that depended on PokeAPI data had been archived in March. I will look into this again now.