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  1. JackPK

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    This is the answer I got when I asked the same question last year:
  2. JackPK

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    Per Bulbapedia, the effects of Focus Energy, Lansat Berry, and Dire Hit can't stack with each other. I'm not sure if we've modified that in ASB (somebody, please speak up if I'm wrong), but if we haven't, your calculation would add up to a crit domain of 5. Anyway, the games treat excessively...
  3. JackPK

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    When a Pokemon uses Me First (or, I suppose, any copying move, although that's the one in question at the moment) to copy a draining move, can it choose whether to drain health or energy? Or is it locked into whichever one was used by the Pokemon it's copying?
  4. JackPK

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    Can a Pokemon use up its consumable held item even if doing so would have no effect? (e.g. Mental Herb while not affected by mental moves, Red Card if the holder has not yet been hit by a move, etc.) If so, does it take a full action? I know this is mostly functionally identical to just tossing...
  5. JackPK

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    Can Sleep Talk call Chill?
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    If a Pokemon is put to sleep mid-Encore, Eifie tells me the Encore is paused until it wakes up again. Is this true? And if so, can the Pokemon follow conditionals like "if you're asleep, use Snore" or is it too busy paying attention to the Encore to listen to its conditionals?
  7. JackPK

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    A handful of questions: In the last round of this battle, a Pokemon was Encored into Flinging some icicles that were left around the arena. There are no icicles left. I'm pretty sure this means the Encore ends automatically, but I wanted to double-check. Is this the case? If not, then would the...
  8. JackPK

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    The Red Card's description says it bans a move "for the rest of the battle." Does this still apply in battle styles like Outside the Battle Arena, where the bout system is structured more like three small 1v1 battles than a traditional 3v3 battle? Would the Red Card still apply to the whole...
  9. JackPK

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    So I know sound-based moves bypass Substitute, but what if I want to hit a Substitute with one? Am I shit outta luck and gotta pick a different move to use, or can I command my Pokemon to target the Substitute specifically? (And out of curiosity, what's the flavor justification? Do substitutes...
  10. JackPK

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    If a Pokemon is holding a type-resist berry but its owner hasn't mentioned whether or not to eat it in their commands, will the Pokemon automatically eat the berry when it's hit by (or about to be hit by) a move of the matching type? If not, are there any circumstances in which it'll eat the...
  11. JackPK

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    As in the games, Inverse Battles make type immunities become single weaknesses, not double weaknesses, right? For some reason I got it in my head that immunities became double weaknesses, but I can't find anything to that effect in any official documentation. So I'm asking here just to confirm.
  12. JackPK

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    In the games, Endure works off the same counter as Protect and Detect (and this is implied but not explicitly stated in the asbdb's entry for Endure), but Bulbapedia doesn't tell me anything about how it works when the user isn't reduced to 1 HP. In ASB, how would it work if the user of Endure...
  13. JackPK

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    If a Pokemon drops its item, is there an official ruling on whether the item remains on the field after its original holder is KO'd/returned to its Pokeball, or is it up to the ref's discretion? And if the item remains on the field, can Pokemon sent out later pick up/use the item?
  14. JackPK

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    How do single-target, never-miss moves interact with Double Team clones? Do they automatically pick the correct clone, or are they simply guaranteed to hit the target and then it's up to the RNG whether it was the correct one?
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    If a Pokemon with Double Team clones hurts itself in its confusion, do its clones disappear (as they would if it were damaged by some other means)? If Memento is used against a Pokemon with Double Team clones, does it have to make the check to see if it hits the right clone, or does it...
  16. JackPK

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    Is there a generally accepted standard for how to account for accuracy/evasion boosts? Is it up to the ref's discretion? Should I just follow the games' modifiers?
  17. JackPK

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    Assuming no Pokemon with any Sandstorm-related Abilities (like Sand Veil) are on the battlefield, would Sandstorm affect accuracy at all? If so, by how much? I tried using the search function and couldn't find anything about it, so I had figured it was "no" or "it's up to the ref", but official...
  18. JackPK

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    When multiple Pokemon are using Round in the same action and one of them gets a critical hit, is the bonus damage for the crit based on the normal base power for Round (60) or its effective power in this situation (120)?
  19. JackPK

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    Quick confirmation/denial, please? Abilities/etc that boost the damage and energy cost of attacks (specifically Pure Power, in the instance I'm reffing) wouldn't affect a fixed-damage attack like Counter, right?
  20. JackPK

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    Ah, that explains why CTRL+F didn't bring anything up. Thanks!
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