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Duplicate Intimidate fires twice when traced

I cannot explain the first replay, but for the second one, Trace has always had that visual quirk of activating a copied Ability and then announcing it copied an Ability. I do not think it activated twice there but I am unable to confirm this.

Going to spend time seeing what happened to cause the first replay's bug.
 
I know this is an older post, but the new one provides an explanation for why this is happening, so I'll mark this one as a duplicate.
PrincessGardevoir

Done Thread 'Trace triggers ability twice'

What type of bug are you reporting? Mechanics

What is the bug?
Turn 9; when a Gardevoir switches into an Arbok, it Intimidates twice. This is caused by the game remembering that it needs to copy an ability with Trace, but is unable to copy Quark Drive, and holds onto needing to copy an ability. When Gardevoir switches in again later, the saved use of Trace activates to copy Intimidate, and activates, but the game then sees that the ability needs to be run again, and intimidates again.

Further note, this incident only occured because Trace also could not copy Comatose; If the...
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