Attacks and Abilities Guide

[Zhorken]

Bunch of questions I don't know how to answer so I'm deferring them here:

Does Wish take enough concentration that it could be hindered/prevented with a well-timed Echoed voice? Specifically an Echoed Voice strong enough to do 10% damage (first use, Adaptability and +2 special attack) and the target is an Eevee busy treading water. What about if it did 16% damage (second use)? What if it was trying to stop Rest instead of Wish?

 

[Negrek]

Wish doesn't require a lot of concentration; I would say no. Likewise rest. If the user had already started resting and was asleep, a boosted (second use at least) echoed voice would wake it up, stopping its healing.

 

[Zhorken]

Didn't you say pretty much the opposite re: Rest at some point when someone asked pretty much the same question with Screech or something? You could potentially prevent the user from falling asleep, but once it's under, it's under?

Also, if Jump Kick hits Protect, does it cause crash damage? And if so, does it still make Protect cost more energy?

 

[Negrek]

Sound-based moves like screech aren't enough; really loud sound-based moves (>= 90 bp) or those specifically tailored to waking up will. Preventing them from falling asleep, all right, I'll say that's fine, if the move is timed so that it actually goes off when the pokémon is trying to rest, i.e. it's not just a case of one pokémon happening to use screech in the same action as another is trying to rest.

If jump kick hits protect, it will cause crash damage, and the protect will still cost more energy because the attack did hit it.

 

[Zhorken]

Yeah, that's the idea.

Hm, that's what I thought...

 

[Zhorken]

Does Wish's duration include the action it's used on? (And is there any particular reason it's not constant? Three actions not including the one it's used on makes sense to me; that means it happens in a round.)

Will the holder of a type-efficacy berry automatically eat it when an attack of the right type hits it?

EDIT: Also, if a Pokémon gets Yawned at when it's in water, does it fall asleep and wake right back up at the end of the next action, or just not fall asleep? If it's the former, would that make it miss one action? What if it were Hypnosis or Sleep Powder or something?

 

[Negrek]

Wish's duration doesn't count the action it's used on. It's variable to make it a little less reliable and, thus, good.

Yes, a pokémon holding a berry will automatically eat it when it gets into a situation when it would be useful--the first time it gets statused, if it's a lum berry, or the first time it gets hit by the appropriate type of attack. You can tell your pokémon to forgo doing that if you want, but if you want the effect later you'll have to spend an action on a command to eat the berry.

If a pokémon were put to sleep while it was in the water--if the water was deep enough that it would be submerged if it stopped swimming, and it weren't able to breathe underwater--then it would wake up at the end of that action, regardless of what sleep move had put it under. A pokémon won't continue to sleep when it's in a life-threatening (here interpreted as "automatic KO") situation.

 

[allitersonance]

If your pokémon has a lum berry, and you tell it to forgo eating it if it gets poisoned, and it does so and later gets paralysed, would lum berry activate then?

 

[Zero Moment]

If your pokémon has a lum berry, and you tell it to forgo eating it if it gets poisoned, and it does so and later gets paralysed, would lum berry activate then?

If the above situation happens (i.e. a Pokemon is afflicted by a status and is holding a lum berry when it gains another status), would the lum berry cure only one or both/all conditions? If only one, which would it cure?

 

[Blastoise Fortooate]

How powerful is a Vacuum Wave's vacuum? What could it pull out of the way?

 

[Zhorken]

Re: Litwick locomotion: I finally got around to watching the Litwick episode of Best Wishes and I was right; it just slides around while wibbling its base.

 

[Negrek]

If your pokémon has a lum berry, and you tell it to forgo eating it if it gets poisoned, and it does so and later gets paralysed, would lum berry activate then?

Yes, unless you stated that you want the "don't eat" command to extend beyond the round where you initially give it.

If the above situation happens (i.e. a Pokemon is afflicted by a status and is holding a lum berry when it gains another status), would the lum berry cure only one or both/all conditions? If only one, which would it cure?

Lum will always cure as many major statuses as possible, and it can wipe out all of them at once.

How powerful is a Vacuum Wave's vacuum? What could it pull out of the way?

Not very. Things like feathers, leaves, very small rocks, twigs, it could probably handle. It will put out very small fires, i.e. half the size of ember. If you want to be seriously moving things around with a vacuum, aeroblast is what you want. Pity about the distribution.

 

[Zhorken]

Does Bide get unleashed at the beginning or the end of the third action?

 

[The Omskivar]

It's priority. I believe a Pokemon can be told to wait to release.

 

[Zero Moment]

If a Grass-type holding an Occa berry is hit by an Incinerate, is the berry eaten or destroyed?

 

[allitersonance]

Eaten.

 

[Zhorken]

Can a Pokémon with Arena Trap prevent a consensually flying/levitating Pokémon from lifting off? And if it does manage to get in the air, does it escape the effects of Arena Trap? Also, does Arena Trap actually prevent switching, or does "no other pokémon may leave the arena" just mean e.g. they're trapped on the island in an island-based arena?

 

[Negrek]

It could, but not through the effects of the arena trap ability itself. If it's in the air, it is able to escape the effects of arena trap. It actually does prevent switching.

 

[1. Luftballon]

should miracle eye lock ghosts in? smogon doesn't mention that it does.

 

[Negrek]

Yes. Ingame it has no effect on ghosts.