TheYushu

Hey Stars, looks like there may still be an issue with Duking's trades. I tried trading a Chansey (Lvl 18, Party Slot 6) for a Quilava, and while Duking doesn't refuse the trade and immediately crash after, he now completes the trade and crashes once the textboxes clear. Shown below is the last successful message from Duking before the game soft-locks, followed by an admittedly useless screenshot of everything being frozen (Different attempts, ignore the different positioning of the models). I play on Dolphin 5.0-5774 with Dual Core disabled to prevent other crashes. No error messages (Panic Handlers are enabled) appear during the softlock. Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year!

It seems odd that Shadow Smash works where Shadow Ascent doesn't. I've been seeing the bug periodically over the past few hours every time I don't notice that Shadow Rayquaza is sent out, so I guess I'll have to head to Mt. Battle and try out Shadow Smash. Has anybody replicated this on console? I've been playing on Dolphin, so I don't fancy rushing through the story to test the bug.

I'll go ahead and add that Dragon Ascent (Rayquaza, Mt. Battle Zone 99) has the same bug. Considering they all lower multiple stats (Def. + Spec. Def.), I'd go ahead and say the bug applies to all three moves for the same reason. Also, the bug is not Mt. Battle exclusive since Last note for replication purposes, the softlock doesn't appear to happen when the move knocks out the opponent. This may be a bug in itself where the stat drops don't occur if the target faints. I haven't tested that to be sure, unfortunately.