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 Wait, I missed the "half"... Never mind.--[[User:Mackinz|Mackinz of SoulSilver]] ([[User talk:Mackinz|talk]]) 01:54, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
+== About the Effect section and its accuracy [[User:Lunos|Lunos]] ([[User talk:Lunos|talk]]) 01:11, 27 February 2020 (UTC) ==
+The Effect section for this ability should be separated as Gen. 3 and Gen. 4 onward, in my opinion.
+It's inaccurate to say that the ability reduced the Attacker's Attack stat in all the games that it's featured in without separating the effect in generations, because in the Gen. 3 Pokémon Games it reduces the attacker's Special Attack stat specifically, regardless of the P/S Split or lack thereof.
+https://github.com/pret/pokeruby/blob/6cf22f72d6c00406db59a7516c9708dccd820558/src/calculate_base_damage.c#L180
+https://github.com/pret/pokefirered/blob/43f66fce5574592ac1c37b9452fe858e482156bb/src/pokemon.c#L2444
+https://github.com/pret/pokeemerald/blob/172cb7bae96822dd9281b3b94ad738c3ce6e0161/src/pokemon.c#L3171
+For insight, the lines of code I just linked come from the decompilation projects of the GBA Pokémon Games. An effort started by a group named "pret" who are aiming to recreate the matching source code of the GBA Pokémon Games ''(matching as in the same code that Game Freak wrote)''.
+This is achieved by dumping the game's code in ASM, rewriting those functions to C and then passing them through the same open source compiler that Game Freak used back in the day, in order to make sure that the code written in C matches theirs.
+I'm not sure if this would be an accepted change, which is the reason why I'm submitting this talk page to discuss it. I didn't want to take unnecessary liberties.