Crests not Working as Intended

[ThreeVela]

Hi, been testing out Claydol and Thyphlosion Crests in particular, and Claydol does the same amount of damage whether it's at neutral defense or it's at +5 physdef, whereas Typhlosion does not do fire damage on some moves like Quick Attack and such, even though they are clearly contact moves. I still get the extra little hit but steel types resist it.

 

 

Any suggestions? Did the new episode change how crests work or is this just a bug/me not understanding?

 

 

Thanks in advance!

[bloww]

both are working as intended, the claydol crest doesnt take defense boosts into account anymore since v13 because it was way too op with cosmic power and the typhlosion crest doesnt actually do fire damage despite what the description says

[ThreeVela]

Thanks for the reply, but if thats the case then why even keeping the thing? i wanna use it but now, as it is, it's kinda trash...

 

 

I get it that the thing is very good, but i'm kinda sad now

 

 

 

as for typhlosion, i guess quick attack is useless then

thanks a lot for answering!

 

[Acemaster171]

So what does claydol crest do from now on? Only removes the drawbacks of beam moves such as hyper beam's turn skip and solarbeam's 2 turn charge?

[ThreeVela]

that, also still scales from def but can't boost it and still boosts beams by like 20%