So far what you have to understand is that a search is composed of 4 things:
- The search key
a key, is a field, if you search by type on species, you will have all pokemon
that have this type, and for moves the moves of the type.
Note that panels are reactive to a selected number of keys,
asking for a Fire type on an ability pannel would not make sense.
At least so far (you can still ask on the discord to implement new keys)
- The search text
The text is what you're searching for considering the key, if the key is "type" then
entering "bulbasaur" would show nothing because there is no types called bulbasaur
- The search Not
It's an On/Off button that simply means you don't want this to be shown.
If you want all but no water type, ask for water types and click the ¿?
button
- The search operator
If you have multiple filters on, you may want to have all to Match
AND
AND matches all filters included with no exception, if you ask for water type AND ground type
,only pokemons that have this double typing will show
OR
OR means that for one specie to show up it has
to at least get 1 of right, it can be 1 in 500 filters as long 1 matches
XOR
XOR means that you're asking for only 1 filter to match, not 2, not 0, 1.
You may ask for a water type or for a grass type, but not both at the same type. I don't expect
people to use this operator that said.
Please note that each panel (Specie, Abilities, Moves) are separate search,
so if you look at abilities by name in the panel ability, it will not affect
the species panel, if you want to sort out pokemon species by abilities, you have to
affect it from the species related search.
the mode monotype settings is there for the type selection to match only monotyped pokemons,
(abilities induced types aren't taken in consideration)