What type of bug are you reporting? Mechanics
What is the bug?
I was playing Generation 9 Random Battles, and I had a prankster sableye, and my opponent had a prankster Illumise. As I am sure you know, dark types like Sableye are immune to prankster moves. I used thunder wave in their illumise and it became paralyzed, they attempted to paralyze my Sableye back and it was obviously immune due to being a dark type. I then used encore on the illumise to lock it into thunder wave. To my surprise, the encored thunder wave went through and paralyzed my Sableye. I am by no means a coder, or even game developer, and have no extensive knowledge of how things in the game work inside, but my best guess is that the paralysis making prankster move afterwards somehow makes the game think that it was just thunder wave being used without prankster, so the dark type wouldn’t be immune.
Are you able to replicate it? If so, how?
Get a Sableye and another prankster pokemon, I’m not sure if it just works with Illumise or even if Sableye can be substituted for a pokemon in the Grimmsnarl line, have the opposing, non-dark type prankster pokemon use thunder wave unsuccessfully on the opposing dark type, and then use encore to lock it into that move. It should paralyze the dark type using prankster, even though it should not.
What is the bug?
I was playing Generation 9 Random Battles, and I had a prankster sableye, and my opponent had a prankster Illumise. As I am sure you know, dark types like Sableye are immune to prankster moves. I used thunder wave in their illumise and it became paralyzed, they attempted to paralyze my Sableye back and it was obviously immune due to being a dark type. I then used encore on the illumise to lock it into thunder wave. To my surprise, the encored thunder wave went through and paralyzed my Sableye. I am by no means a coder, or even game developer, and have no extensive knowledge of how things in the game work inside, but my best guess is that the paralysis making prankster move afterwards somehow makes the game think that it was just thunder wave being used without prankster, so the dark type wouldn’t be immune.
Are you able to replicate it? If so, how?
Get a Sableye and another prankster pokemon, I’m not sure if it just works with Illumise or even if Sableye can be substituted for a pokemon in the Grimmsnarl line, have the opposing, non-dark type prankster pokemon use thunder wave unsuccessfully on the opposing dark type, and then use encore to lock it into that move. It should paralyze the dark type using prankster, even though it should not.
