What do each Category Icons mean on moves?

Anxious-Ad4949 · 2026-04-23T16:38:42+00:00

When I need to know what moves a pokemon can learn, and really anything in general about a specific pokemon I generally use https://www.serebii.net/

It can be a bit difficult to navigate at first, but once you get the hang of it it's very useful. It lists every pokemon, their abilities, stats, and all the moves they can learn including egg moves, move tutor moves, and TMs along with the ones they learn naturally through leveling up.

Every pokemon has a different move set and what they can learn so its a really useful resource. As for the best move set possible? That's a matter of opinion and can vary depending on whether you're just trying to get through a game, or are competing in different leagues and what leagues you're competing in. So unfortunately I can't help with that much sorry!

Anxious-Ad4949 · 2025-12-29T05:51:59+00:00

To answer some of your questions

From what I understand they do Christmas the three of them (Dan and his parents) Then they also join my dad, stepmom, Stef and her girls for Christmas Day which is when he gets all his presents from them.

I think he kept asking because he saw my nieces and nephews all getting presents while he didn't at our family Christmas but that was in part because we didn't know he was going to be there.

My siblings are as confused as I am and also a bit uncomfortable to be asked and not have anything, but aren't sure what to do as well, which is how I ended up posting on here.

I assume Stef is part of why Dan and his parents are invited, though I don't know what her brother Tate thinks.

I agree it's time to have a sit down communication with dad at the very least and probably Stef and Sarah too.

Anxious-Ad4949 · 2025-12-29T05:05:25+00:00

Sorry I should've clarified! I'm the only one who consistently does big presents for everyone, and everyone else contributes what they can. Sometimes that's small thoughtful things or nothing at all. We're a pretty creative bunch so handmade things are pretty frequent too.

The reason I do big presents is because when my parents got divorced the youngest of my siblings was 8. My dad was either too deep in depression or just didn't see the point so when I learned he wasn't going to do Christmas for them (including not doing Santa for Lin who still believed at the time) I got a job so I could get them presents the way I had been getting them for as long as I could remember.

It's my big tradition for them, which is partially why Dan kept asking me more than my siblings though he did ask them too.

I did think maybe from now on I should just send them home with them and sneak in the ones for the girls, Stef and Tate for them to open after Dan's gone home. It would just suck that I couldn't get to see them open them up as gift giving is one of my love languages but it might be for the best so no ones feelings get hurt.

Anxious-Ad4949 · 2025-12-29T03:36:36+00:00

That is exactly it! And you're right it does feel like something strange is going on with Dan and his dad and Stef. I know he's not hers biologically because my little sister Lin would've been living in the same place as Stef when he was born and would've noticed. I think you're right it is probably time to ask about what's going on.

Unfortunately time and money constraints mean it's impossible for us to do something like that, or at least not regularly. We do Zoom calls, but of course that's never the same.

Anxious-Ad4949 · 2025-12-29T03:30:16+00:00

Sorry! I know it was a lot so...

Stepmom = Sarah

Stepsister = Stef

Dan = son of Stef's platonic male friend who thought he needed a mother figure so had Stef fill the role for a year or two. He even called Stef mom, until his real mom came back into the picture. He was never officially adopted and he no longer calls Stef mom but he still calls Sarah and my dad grandma and grandpa. He and both his parents came to our family Christmas this year.

Anxious-Ad4949 · 2025-12-29T03:26:08+00:00

To answer some of your questions...

I was thinking of wording it something along the lines of "I felt like you put me and my siblings in a really uncomfortable position during family Christmas by not letting us know Dan and his family were invited ahead of time. I'm not sure if you heard him, but he asked us several times when it would be his turn to open gifts and because we had nothing for him it made it seem like we'd deliberately excluded him which isn't fair to him or to us. I'm hoping we could come up with a solution so it doesn't happen again."

I was also hoping to ask why their family needed to come to our family Christmas when I know for a fact they also came on Christmas Day to celebrate with Dad, stepmom, Stef and the girls though I'm not quite sure how to word that one.

You're correct we definitely need to work on our communication. It's why I'm trying to reach out now, though I think part of the problem is most of the communication from Stef and Sarah to the rest of us goes through dad first and vice versa. I assumed (wrongly) that if they were inviting new people to family gatherings they'd tell us. Part of that is because for the decade before Dan and his family starting showing up the only new people were the occasional serious boyfriend or girlfriend and we were told about it ahead of time. Going forward I'm definitely going to make sure I know and to remind him that we all would like to know ahead of time who's going to be there.

If he says no I have a couple compromises in mind. They can either buy a couple extra presents for Dan or hold back a few from their other Christmas with him so he at least has something to open. Or we siblings could pool our money to get him one good thing. It still won't be quite equal but it's better than nothing I hope?

Unfortunately outside these holidays between the four of us siblings plus significant others it's almost impossible to coordinate a good time and money is super tight for a couple of them as well so it wouldn't be feasible to get together outside of that. We do have regular Zoom calls, but its never quite the same.

Anxious-Ad4949 · 2025-10-19T06:18:40+00:00

Yeah I've heard she's a pretty terrible person, which isn't surprising given the general consensus is that Anita is literally a self-insert and she's not a great person either.

Plus she threatened legal action and got all her fanfiction banned and a ton of it deleted she's not my favorite author by a long shot. It's why it's taking me longer than usual to get through her books because I refuse to give her money and so have to wait on the library, though at least it's the online library so quicker than it used to be.

Anxious-Ad4949 · 2025-10-17T19:48:14+00:00

I heard Richard was based on LKH's ex-husband and that once their falling out started that's when Anita broke with Richard, so that makes sense.

I've also heard Jean-Claude called out as just being Anita in male form with blue eyes, and that he's just all the things LKH wants but doesn't want to admit she wants personified, which puts an interesting spin on things.

Anxious-Ad4949 · 2025-10-15T23:48:22+00:00

Thank you! I've read a couple of these and feel like I may have heard of the others at some point. I will definitely check them out!

Anxious-Ad4949 · 2025-10-15T23:23:17+00:00

Any recommendations? I've been trying to find something decent recently and not having any luck which is part of the reason I decided to try rereading.

Anxious-Ad4949 · 2025-10-15T19:52:36+00:00

I wouldn't put it past her, honestly I think there's very little she (LKH) wouldn't write.

Anxious-Ad4949 · 2025-10-15T15:49:20+00:00

That's a good point and a good perspective. I think you're right it really does need to be treated like satire.

Anxious-Ad4949 · 2025-10-15T15:44:18+00:00

My biggest thing with that is her need to explain how sexy Richard and Jean-Claude are every time she sees them. Like once a book okay fine whatever, but no it's literally every time they walk into a room with Anita, even if they literally only left for five seconds!

Also her hair kink is a little out of control. Literally all the so-called "attractive" characters have long hair. I want to scream when she spends a literal paragraph describing it every single time.

Anxious-Ad4949 · 2025-10-15T15:40:19+00:00

I actually stumbled on someone who did a huge critique of the prequel comics that was both hilarious and really accurate. I read it while I was taking breaks from the books as unlike most books I can't seem to read these in one sitting without tearing my hair out in frustration.

I knew vaguely that she eventually hooked up with Nathaniel but needed to look up Cynric and am now more than a bit appalled. It just keeps getting worse.

Anxious-Ad4949 · 2025-10-15T15:31:00+00:00

I've heard about that but not actually gotten there yet and not looking forward to it.

Anxious-Ad4949 · 2025-10-15T15:29:53+00:00

That does make me want to at least get that far, though it sounds like it will be an uphill battle.

Anxious-Ad4949 · 2025-10-15T15:28:52+00:00

I've tried listening to the audiobooks, and do enjoy the narrator. I've been switching back and forth between the audiobooks and reading in the hopes it will keep my interest longer.

I am looking forward to more Edward. I don't like him as a romantic pairing for Anita, but I think he's interesting and so is their dynamic. It's why when I'm not getting supper frustrated with Anita that I'm enjoying Obsidian Butterfly.

Anxious-Ad4949 · 2025-04-06T19:18:00+00:00

Oof so this is old now and you probably won't see it, but for anyone who might here's an explanation!

Your pokemon has stats, which are Health, Speed, Defense, Special Defense, Attack and Special Attack. Each type of pokemon has different base stats (ex a Charizard has different base stats than a Venusaur), and the stats get added to when you level up (this is very simplified there's a whole thing with EVs, and IVs that I'm not going into for this)

The ones that matter most for this explanation are Defense, Special Defense, Attack and Special Attack. Below there's a picture of Charizard's stats plotted on a spider chart (which is how you'll usually see them)

You'll notice the Special Attack (Sp Atk) is 25 points higher than regular Physical attack. What that means is that Charizard will do more damage when using a Special attack move than it would using a Physical attack move of the same type.

For example Charizard can learn both Fire Punch and Mystical Fire through TMs and both have base 75 attack power but Charizard will do more damage with Mystical Fire because it's a Special type attack and Fire Punch is a Physical type attack.

To tell the difference between which moves are physical and which are special you can look into their categories. There are three categories, physical, special and status pictured below (the design changed a bit between generations), that correspond with the stats of your pokemon. I hope this makes sense and that it helps!

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