Trainers, many of you asked us how does the new Frenzy Plant move look like in the Game Master file, looking for details about damage windows and how to dodge it. Well, we are happy to say that we finally got the info, thanks to our good old Game Master decompiler we published ages ago! 🙂
Here we go, meet the new all-star Venusaur exclusive move:
item_templates {
template_id: "V0296_MOVE_FRENZY_PLANT"
move_settings {
movement_id: 296
animation_id: 5
pokemon_type: POKEMON_TYPE_GRASS
power: 100
accuracy_chance: 1
stamina_loss_scalar: 0.01
trainer_level_min: 1
trainer_level_max: 100
vfx_name: "frenzy_plant"
duration_ms: 2600
damage_window_start_ms: 2145
damage_window_end_ms: 2550
energy_delta: -50
}
}
You can read more about Frenzy Plant in our Frenzy Plant Venusaur: a comprehensive meta analysis and compare how well it performs vs other popular Grass types. In a nutshell, the move is really strong and it makes Venusaur much more viable than before.
In addition to this change, we were expecting to find something else in the Game Master file. We were quite certain that the Bulbasaur BCR (Base Catch Rate) was changed for the duration of the event, but we are not able to find any evidence of that in the Game Master.
Either it was changed back to 2% after the event (which is when we extracted this Game Master) or it was never changed in the Game Master at all. Quite curious, isn’t it? The timestamp of the GM file we downloaded from our Android device is Sunday, March 25, 2018 3:10:29.931 AM, so it seems that Niantic has a new mechanism to modify catch rates which is not visible in the GM file.
Our database site is also now up to date, with Venusaur boasting a new best moveset: Vine Whip and Frenzy Plant!
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