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I could swear I've seen the Def/Spdef down from shield breaks disappear on that action several times, but perhaps I'm spacing out and missing other boosts every time. To clarify when I say enemy mon in this example I'm saying the Raid-mon is removing its own negative stat changes.

For what it's worth: while the HP gates on barriers are definitely a pain, you can still deal significant damage through the shields outside of those HP gates. On more frail mons (and/or usually with good human teamwork) you can even sometimes do enough to drop a 5-star to its 2nd shield gate...

Form changing abilities in general are not copied by Trace.

To be specific, because it's confusing for some: -PsyTerrain's priority-negating effect is a "shield" on grounded pokemon, not a "can't use it". A Dragonite and Arcanine can both click Extremespeed but Dragonite's will fail because it's targeting a grounded pokemon in the terrain. (As an aside...

Same goes for basically all un-Trace-able abilities, such as Schooling or Stance Change.

Evidently the Whimsicott didn't have Prankster, or it would have failed. No other part of that statement would lead towards Leech Seed having no effect; Poison Touch has 0 interaction with it and Leech Seed works on Poison types just fine.

Cart or sim? That shouldn't be happening. If you click All-out Pummeling you shouldn't even see the focus charging.

Attacking Z-moves never inherit any additional effects or priority from the base move. You are essentially just getting one-time access to a 5th move of a set power, phys/special, and type with regular priority, no effects, and (for all of the regular and some of the exclusive ones) doesn't make...

You essentially release the first Zygarde and get a brand-new Zygarde whenever you disassemble and reassemble a Aura Break Zygarde.

It's in the OP of the Battle Mechanics sticky. ctrl+f Crystal

May or may not matter much, but Null actually has quite a shortened movepool compared to Silvally. Misses out on basically any Special moves, so no Ice Beam, Flamethrower, Tbolt, Shadow Ball, Draco Meteor, Surf, or Flash Cannon. Also misses on Parting Shot as well as Crunch and any Fang moves.

Doesn't have nearly the coverage as any of those, isn't exactly sturdy, and is almost required to run Scarf or have setup into Z-somethingboostingspeed. It's far from Ubers material. Running Zap Cannon for the sole purpose of Z-ing it also isn't wise since you now limit your coverage even more...

Pollen Puff isn't classified as a status move so it's not affected by Taunt.

The attack calls on a specific-BP version of the Z-move and is not influenced by the attack's actual end BP. As an arbitrary example, Beat Up always calls a 100 BP Black Hole Eclipse no matter how many un-fainted Pokemon are on the user's team.

Power Gem is better anyways because Stone Edge, even with investment, basically does not get any OHKO/2HKOs that uninvested (and even minus natured) Power Gem doesn't. The only reason you'd pick Rock Slide over either is the flinch. Speaking for the Shell Smash set, anyways. See post #8.