So it seems to be that the Max Moves apply their secondary effects at the same time most secondary effects of other moves would be activated (before the enemy Pokemon faints and contact abilities activate).
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Sword & Shield Battle Mechanics Research
- Thread starter Marty
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Oh, you're right. I had it mixed up, my bad.
This happened to me while in the battle tower not sure if this is known.
A Frosslass outsped my Dracozolt while I was Dynamaxed. The Frosslass used Destiny Bond, it knocked Frosslass out, but my Dracozolt was unaffected by Destiny Bond, lived, and still got his Max Flying Speed boost and everything.
A Frosslass outsped my Dracozolt while I was Dynamaxed. The Frosslass used Destiny Bond, it knocked Frosslass out, but my Dracozolt was unaffected by Destiny Bond, lived, and still got his Max Flying Speed boost and everything.
GF might have done this in order to prevent raid cheesing, but yeah Dynamax Pokemon don't faint from Destiny Bond.
That makes a ton of sense actually.
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Are Slow Start and/or Truant in the code and implementable on a Pokemon via hacking? If so, are they nullified when paired with a Pokemon with Neutralizing Gas in Doubles?
In theory it should be possible to get a Durant with Truant via Max Raid battles, right? So it would be possible to check that one without hacking.
I'm actually going to slightly retract my statement, Kurt's raid dump doesn't seem to be accurate. e.g., I got a 4 star Koffing raid with the normal ability, but that isn't possible under that list.
Which also makes me wonder, do raids change daily or something? Or could they be slightly different depending on the copy?
As far as I can tell no one has tested yet if Pyro Ball is blocked by Bulletproof. I doubt the opposite is true but you can't be too sure.
I tested it. Bulletproof does block Pyro Ball.
Does G-Max Sweetness act as an aromatherapy or does it only affect pokemon on the field?
Unless I'm missing something, this video and calc proves Fishious Rend being Strong Jaw boosted.
The only important stat is the 143 atk and the level 71.The damage in the video adds up, Dracovish has the strongest Water attack in the game.
"Liquidation" is Fishious Rend without the Strong Jaw boost.
"Psychic Fangs" is Fishious Rend WITH the Strong Jaw boost (I changed the type to water).
Looks very promising, but I feel a bit more testing is needed to be 100% sure. May need to do some of the test on Wifi/Battle Tower for consistent level and stats.Fishious Rend nearly doubles the power of Araquanid's Liquidation.
A couple of things I tested out:
- A Pokemon can simultaneously be under the effects of Octolock and a damaging trap move like Wrap or Snap Trap.
- Court Change affects Tailwind, Reflect, Light Screen, Aurora Veil, and Entry Hazards. I would assume it also affects things like Swamp, Rainbow, Sea of Fire, and G-Max Wildfire, but I couldn't test them.
- A Pokemon can simultaneously be under the effects of Octolock and a damaging trap move like Wrap or Snap Trap.
- Court Change affects Tailwind, Reflect, Light Screen, Aurora Veil, and Entry Hazards. I would assume it also affects things like Swamp, Rainbow, Sea of Fire, and G-Max Wildfire, but I couldn't test them.
So, about snapped moves...
Despite having no description and the game preventing you from transfering a Pokémon with them over, they retain data such as power and accuracy, but have a CanUse flag set to false.
Certain other moves like Geomancy have no such transfer restrictions (because they are learned only by mons that can't be transferred over) but also have the CanUse flag set to false; I guess you can call them soft-snapped. What happens when you hack either an hard snapped or a soft snapped move in the moveset of a Pokémon? This question is mostly relevant about OMs such as BH and CAP (Syclant, Aurumoth, Jumbao and especially Necturna).
Despite having no description and the game preventing you from transfering a Pokémon with them over, they retain data such as power and accuracy, but have a CanUse flag set to false.
Certain other moves like Geomancy have no such transfer restrictions (because they are learned only by mons that can't be transferred over) but also have the CanUse flag set to false; I guess you can call them soft-snapped. What happens when you hack either an hard snapped or a soft snapped move in the moveset of a Pokémon? This question is mostly relevant about OMs such as BH and CAP (Syclant, Aurumoth, Jumbao and especially Necturna).
If a galaran weeasing attacks a configuras would mummy disable neutralizing gas?
Does Eviolite boost the defenses of Kantonian Mr. Mime, Johtonian Corsola, or Hoennian Linoone?
I love how sarcastic people are on this website
And to add on this, Kantonian Farfetch'd?
Because of some... hype Cramorant has been getting for Battle Stadium Singles, me and Martin tested out some more stuff related to Gulp Missle.
- The big one: Cramorant getting Arrokuda or Pikachu depends on its HP. When its above 50%, Arrokuda is in Cramorant's mouth. When it's under 50%, It's Pikachu instead! This seems to be a gurantee, no chance was observed in our testing. Note that I'm not quite sure what happens if Cramorant is at exactly 50% of its health.
-It can still change formes vs Dynamaxed mons and gulp missle still hits them just fine, the animation is pretty funky though lol
-Gulp Missle's 25% damage works much like most perentage moves vs Dynamax: it's based off of the original HP, not the dynamaxed HP.
-If Cramorant gets below 50% of its health via passive means such as Toxic, if it has an Arrokuda in its mouth and uses Surf, it won't "re-fish" for a Pikachu, it stores the Arrokuda.
-If Cramorant Dynamaxes or switches out, it loses its Arrokouda / Pikachu. Poor mons probably got eaten...
Cramorant losing its Pikachu and Arrokuda catch upon switch out is bummer. Just imagine what a great sack it could be later in the match.
Send out the weakened Cramorant and as it goes down, it either takes -1 Def off the foe paralyzes them while taking 1/4 health off all the while and priming the target for a revenge kill.
An extra thing I want to ask is that only Physical and Special moves activate it right? It gets bypassed by status moves? Also since Pikachu causes paralysis I take it Ground types aren’t affected.
Also thinking about it, Gulp Missle can bypass Wonder Guard right?
Send out the weakened Cramorant and as it goes down, it either takes -1 Def off the foe paralyzes them while taking 1/4 health off all the while and priming the target for a revenge kill.
An extra thing I want to ask is that only Physical and Special moves activate it right? It gets bypassed by status moves? Also since Pikachu causes paralysis I take it Ground types aren’t affected.
Also thinking about it, Gulp Missle can bypass Wonder Guard right?
It's indirect damage (Magic Guard mons don't take damage, although they get the side effects) so it should bypass that.