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

[Dragonstrike]

For now, I'm going to operate under the assumption that Foul Play is a catch all Anti PD Move until Iron proves otherwise and/or fabricates a Legend that it's mechanics wouldn't work against (Such as Fairy and Fighting Legends, or Defensive Juggernauts with esoteric 'Strength values), as the way the Move is worded and how PD Defense works it would seem like that it would just bypass it because it's not the user's own power that is being leveraged against it, but the Legend's itself. I can easily see the Legend taking counter measures to make sure FP isn't as effective after the first time it's used against them (or at all), but I logically from a mechanics stand point see how 'Using a Legend's own PD Strength To Break Through Its Own PD Defense' WOULDN'T work in some manner. Against Legends, Foul Play might as well be a pseudo Counter Move of sorts (Speaking of which, how would those work against Legends? Hmm...)

Have to agree with you about Super Fang, though. Forget that The Sword can only power up SE Moves, so my bad with that assumption! Pixie still has everything else going for her, however, so it ain't the end of the world if she can't use Super Fang on DEOXYS.....hopefully, anyway.

Concerning PDing Moves, though....I thought that doing so would also carry over their mechanical affect too, not outright override it with pure DAMAGE? If not, oh well......

I have a bit of a different interpretation, actually.  Remember how Mural Mew had 5 Dex?  And Foul Play copied Genesect's actual Strength score and didn't directly do PD damage?  Legendaries still have actual stats for their Attributes.  They just don't need to use them most of yhe time.  Foul Play specifically says it uses the target's Strength score instead of the user's, which is exactly what happened with Genesect.  PDed effects are also not meant to be copied easily, if at all, and the book states in multiple places that PDed stuff cannot truly be copied or similar at all.

Effects still seem to be treated as normal.  Genesect's Rock Slide's Flinch chance didn't act any different.  It's only the damage that becomes PDed.  However, effects hardly matter if generally applying them to Legends is super difficult, if not outright impossible.

The Sword makes STAB moves PDed, not SE ones.  Calam can use Dark and Fairy PDed moves regardless of the target, for example.  Pixie could use PDed Steel and Fairy moves.  I want to make sure we're absolutely clear on this, because it could heavily affect our team compositions.