Mechanics Interaction of Pluck/Bug Bite and Jaboca Berry

[Cazenovia]

What type of bug are you reporting? Mechanics

What is the bug?
Since Gen 5, using Pluck or Bug Bite will not prevent the user of the move from being damaged by the opponent's Jaboca Berry. However, PS! is incorrectly still using the Gen 4 interaction between the move and the berry and not dealing damage to the Bug Bite user.

(6/17/25 edit: Somewhat relatedly, the Coba and Tanga berries have the opposite issue - they do activate before the move on PS!, which is true in every gen except for Gen 4, where they do not.)

Are you able to replicate it? If so, how?
Gen 4 Cart Footage (this is how PS! has the interaction for all gens)
Gen 5 Cart Footage | Gen 5 Replay
Gen 9 Cart Footage | Gen 9 Replay

(I can show additional gen cart footage if needed, but for the sake of brevity I stuck with these three)

 

[DaWoblefet]

The reason this happens in modern games is because of event timing in the checks done after move success. Bug Bite/Pluck happen pretty late (the same event as Eject Button, Moxie, Color Change, Knock Off, Thief, Thousand Arrows, things like that). Jaboca/Rowap happen much earlier, after things like Rough Skin, Weak Armor, Mummy, etc. and at the same time as King's Shield, but before things like Pokemon fainting.