[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Dragonstrike]

So, I was looking through some of the effects of Flower Veil earlier (for obvious reasons), and I discovered something veeeerrrryyy interesting.

The description of Flower Veil's effect in the book lacks text that indicates the affected pokemon can inflict stat reductions and status ailments on themselves, unlike Clear Body and White Smoke.  This would mean that Close Combat wouldn't lower your defenses, Petal Dance wouldn't Confuse you, attempting to use Rest would fail because you can't fall asleep...

And let's keep in mind that this Ability originally only affected Grass type allies in the games, and it's a combination of Comatose's status immunity with Clear Body (which I noticed they worded a little differently in the book from White Smoke to make a distinction between the two.  Clear Body users are completely immune to having their stats changed in any way by any pokemon besides themselves, while White Smoke users can have their stats changed in any way by allies or raised by foes). The way Flower Veil is worded in the book, it's an incredibly broken Ability with few drawbacks or restrictions (and it's only present on two rather rare evolution lines, but it's still veeeerrrry strong).


I also looked at Symbiosis because that's the Flabebe line's Hidden Ability, but giving your held item to an ally seems very lackluster compared to total immunity to all stat reductions and status ailments for yourself and all your allies.