An app to find checks and counters.
For my last post, I had to do a lot of damage calculations. While online calculators are great for a specific situation, they don’t really help you get the big picture of who can do the most damage to whom.
My first idea was to simply expose all the damage calcs and create a search tool for finding counters to Pokemon. The idea is to select a Pokemon like Zacian and it will give you a dataset of what each Pokemon could do to him with a 100-power STAB move. For dual-types I take their best move since that’s what anyone would use. Calculating coverage moves is much too complicated for this exercise, though I included those as well in my defensive rankings with meta adjustment.
This was pretty cool, but after looking at the initial list I saw a lot of unrealistic matchups. What was missing was not just how much damage you can do to the Pokemon but how much damage you do relative to what it can do to you. Thus was born the payback ratio, which is just the max 100 base power STAB damage a Pokemon can inflict relative to what would be inflicted upon it.
So here it is. This is hosted for free by RStudio, so if it gets too popular I may have to come up with another hosting solution. Enjoy!
Pokemon Checks and Counters Search
For attribution, please cite this work as
melondonkey (2022, Feb. 1). Pokemon Analysis: The Payback Ratio: Even Deeper Down the Damage Calc Rabbit Hole. Retrieved from https://pokemon-data-analysis.netlify.app/posts/2022-01-24-the-payback-ratio-even-deeper-down-the-damage-calc-rabbit-hole/
BibTeX citation
@misc{melondonkey2022the,
author = {melondonkey, },
title = {Pokemon Analysis: The Payback Ratio: Even Deeper Down the Damage Calc Rabbit Hole},
url = {https://pokemon-data-analysis.netlify.app/posts/2022-01-24-the-payback-ratio-even-deeper-down-the-damage-calc-rabbit-hole/},
year = {2022}
}