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What type of bug are you reporting? Mechanics
What is the bug?
In Gens 2-4, despite dealing typeless damage, Struggle is still considered to be a Normal-type move. This means that when a Pokemon hit by Struggle uses Conversion 2 in these gens, the move will succeed and turn the user into a...
What type of bug are you reporting? Mechanics
What is the bug?
In Gen 3 (and only Gen 3), OHKO moves are impacted by an oversight where they do a fixed amount of damage equal to the target's HP stat. While in most cases this oversight is unnoticeable, if the target has a substitute and an HP...
At least personally, my solution would be to simply not show the Prankster hint if the targeted Pokemon is currently illusioned, except if the Pokemon illusioned is a Dark-type (I am not a programmer so I have no idea if this is technologically feasible or not). Imo this would be the simplest...
From my understanding of the game's mechanics, that is correct. Here is a link for what happens when Prankster moves are bounced back onto a Dark-type.
That was a Zoroark-Hisui disguised as a Lunala. Bitter Malice is Zoroark-Hisui's signature move, and Zoroark-Hisui is Normal-type, so it is immune to the Ghost-type Moongeist Bean.
The move state is completely reset when the status move is bounced back. (proof) This means that in the given scenario, the bounced Thunder Wave would be Electric-type. However, the bouncing Pokemon's ability can still change the type of the move before it is bounced back (for example, a Liquid...
What type of bug are you reporting? Mechanics
What is the bug?
An info leak occurs involving Prankster and Illusion such that if a Prankster powder move is used on a Zoroark illusioned as a Grass-type, the message involving Prankster and Dark types will appear, even though the move could...