It's not just self-referring, this gimmick also nails a large amount of vanilla moves as well. 12 characters is not very long, especially when you consider thay many moves consist of two or more words, and spaces are also counted for this gimmick. And I've been playing Staff Bros formats for years, ever since the original iteration, and this gimmick is imo easily in the top 5 most broken sets that've ever appeared. Although the recently buffed snake is also up there...
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SSB Super Staff Bros: Ultimate Discussion
- Thread starter dhelmise
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It clearly mentions alphanumeric characters when you /dt it; eleven-character attacks such as Flash Cannon, Dragon Pulse, Draco Meteor, etc. all work fine
Not from my experience, but I'll playtest some more. I definitely recall seeing an 11 character move with a space get caught once which is why I said it. But even discounting spaces, many vanilla multi-word moves get easily caught within 12 characters.
Actually, maybe a good compromise would be to change the ability so only moves that contain individual words longer than a certain length are caught. The character limit could be reduced to something like 8 to compensate, but in exchange it would still fit the spirit of catching silly long names with less stray hits on vanilla moves.
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Got this message during the battle, turn 13
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9superstaffbrosultimate-2135057913