Unfortunately, yet another critical bug has been found for Sword and Shield. We had one a few months ago where everyone in Master Ball Tier was banned, but that was thankfully fixed in about 12 hours (In fact, I made a rather paniced thread about it!). We only recently had that Surprise Trade bug after weeks of waiting, in which people could put malicious code in their Pokemon that'd brick people's online services.
Today, a particularly devestating bug that massively impacts competitive Pokemon has been found.
This bug is easy to exploit. All that must be done is pushing the power button to disconect the Switch at a specfic time after losing the match. When done correctly, not only does the loser NOT lose points for their match, but the winner does not GAIN points for the match won. So basically, this totally nulls the match, and ruins the whole point of laddering in Pokemon.
Before anyone chides me for mentioning the method, it's already everywhere in the Japanese twitter sphere, its now a well known bug.
Hell, I've already seen a smogon buddy of mine get hit on the reciving end of this exploit! This is what it looks like when this glitch has been used against you:
Needless to say, this totally destroys the idea of laddering in Pokemon. This was shown publicly RIGHT before this season ended, so that might cause some late season mayhem. But it's going to be especially bad next season, which starts in 2 days. I have no idea if Gamefreak is going to take their sweet time to patch this or not. I sure hope they don't, I had a new team almost ready for next season and everything :(
In the mean time, I'd advise against laddering in Pokemon Sword and Shield, it's pointless when its this easy to just disregard losses.
Today, a particularly devestating bug that massively impacts competitive Pokemon has been found.
This bug is easy to exploit. All that must be done is pushing the power button to disconect the Switch at a specfic time after losing the match. When done correctly, not only does the loser NOT lose points for their match, but the winner does not GAIN points for the match won. So basically, this totally nulls the match, and ruins the whole point of laddering in Pokemon.
Before anyone chides me for mentioning the method, it's already everywhere in the Japanese twitter sphere, its now a well known bug.
Hell, I've already seen a smogon buddy of mine get hit on the reciving end of this exploit! This is what it looks like when this glitch has been used against you:
Needless to say, this totally destroys the idea of laddering in Pokemon. This was shown publicly RIGHT before this season ended, so that might cause some late season mayhem. But it's going to be especially bad next season, which starts in 2 days. I have no idea if Gamefreak is going to take their sweet time to patch this or not. I sure hope they don't, I had a new team almost ready for next season and everything :(
In the mean time, I'd advise against laddering in Pokemon Sword and Shield, it's pointless when its this easy to just disregard losses.
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