Not many new features this month (as I predicted at the end of my update post last month), but there’s a few fun things worth mentioning at least!
First: evolution chains now specify when breeding a baby requires a parent to hold an Incense item. They aren’t necessary in Scarlet/Violet, and likely never will be again, but it still matters for the old games and I wanted Porydex to reflect that.
Second: on the dex/pokemon pages, moves can now be filtered by type and/or by damage category. This is huge, and should be super exciting for anyone who ever wanted an easy way to look for non-STAB moves in any Pokémon’s learnsets. I’m still going to make an Advanced Move Search page for the sake of searching by learnset plus by move flags (e.g., to find a list of all moves Gallade can learn and that are boosted by Sharpness)—but this right here covers the vast majority of basic move search necessities.
Third: the Let’s Go, Pikachu!/Let’s Go, Eevee! stat calculator now also calculates CP in addition to the stats. Why? Because I can. (Also because I finally played Let’s Go this month, so I was in the mood to flesh out Porydex’s Let’s Go-related functionality.)
Lastly: on every page that has a “Filter by Pokémon name” input, or “Filter by ability name,” or “Filter by move description,” and so on, if you’ve typed anything into any of those filter inputs, the page will stay filtered if you navigate to a different version/generation.
As in, if you’re on the SV Pokémon page, you can filter by “poli” to see just the Poliwag line. Then if you click over to the SwSh Pokémon page, that page will still be filtered by “poli”.
That might sound like a boring addition, but I’m super excited by it because (incoming web developer jargon warning) it was the feature that finally required me to migrate from the JavaScript library Vue.js 2 to its newer version Vue.js 3. Specifically, because I needed its ability to have custom components with multiple v-model bindings.
This feature might be more useful on the /stats pages rather than the /dex pages, which are much more dimensional in terms of navigation. Now you can go to the stats/usage page, filter by “therian” to see just the Therian Formes, click back a few months, click to a different ELO, go to the Leads page, and it’ll still be filtered to the Therians.
And that’s it for November! Next up: starting the Advanced Search pages in earnest.
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