---------------------------------------------------------- Pokemon Chat Report - Thursday, October 26, 2000 by Ka-Lok Fung - Scrye Contributing Editor Rules Only Version edited by PokePop ---------------------------------------------------------- master_trainer_pat presents the speaker with question #1 from pikabruce: If Clefable is opposite Brock's Ninetales with Wigglytuff attached, can Clefable Metronome "Do the Wave" or only "Will-o'-the-Wisp"? master_trainer_pat says, "Clefable can do both." [Ed Note: Following is the correct ruling, pulled out of order] master_trainer_mike presents the speaker with question #44 from pikabruce: Are you saying that if Ditto or Clefable is opposite a Brock's Ninetales with an evolution attached, then Ditto or Clefable can do the attacks of either Brock's Ninetales or the evolution? master_trainer_mike says, "No they could only use the attacks of the attached card on the Brock's Ninetails." master_trainer_mike presents the speaker with question #2 from pikabruce: Can the Giovanni trainer card still be used if Aerodactyl is in play? master_trainer_mike says, "While you could play the card, it would not do you any good. Aerodactyl would still prevent the evolutions form occuring (i.e. playing cards from your hand)." master_trainer_pat presents the speaker with question #3 from scrye_fung: A Buzzaped Electrode is put into the discard pile (say after Charizard was KO'd). Would the Buzzaped Electrode revert back to being Electrode or stay as an Energy card in the discard pile? master_trainer_pat says, "it would revert back to Electrode..." master_trainer_mike presents the speaker with question #5 from pikabruce: If Brock's Ninetales has a non-Brock evolution card attached, can Brock's Protection be attached (and prevent energy removal)? master_trainer_mike says, "NOPE!!!!!" master_trainer_pat presents the speaker with question #6 from chrisbo: If I have two Sabrina's Alakazam's out, and if I used MegaBurn last turn, can I retreat the active one, bring out the second one, and use the second one's MegaBurn? master_trainer_pat says, "You won't be able to use an attack named Mega Burn during your next turn." master_trainer_mike says, "No way Jose!" master_trainer_pat presents the speaker with question #8 from chrisbo: If I use Poliwhirl's Amnesia against an active Sabrina's Alakazam with "Psylink" pokemon power, can I choose to prevent S's Alakazam from using one of the benched Psy pokemon's attacks or does it have to Amnesia the MegaBurn attack? master_trainer_pat says, "Yes, good question..." master_trainer_mike says, "Good question sparky!! We actually had to think about that one for a sec!" master_trainer_mike says, "Yes you could do that as Psylink says it always has copies of those attacks." master_trainer_pat presents the speaker with question #9 from pikabruce: Suppose Koga's Beedrill is paralyzed. You play a Devolution Spray, discard the Koga's Beedrill, which makes Koga's Kakuna active. Can you use Koga's Kakuna's Pokemon Power to evolve back into Koga's Beedrill on that same turn? master_trainer_pat says, "Yes, Koga's Kakuna's Pokemon Power breaks the evolution rules as it is." master_trainer_pat presents the speaker with question #10 from turbocharizard: If I have a Ditto out against a Heroes Sabrina's Abra and I have a fire energy on Ditto and I use Energy Loop, do I put the energy back in my hand? (The fire is still a fire card, but counts as psychic energy?) master_trainer_pat says, "You would have to, because S. Abra's attack requires it." master_trainer_pat presents the speaker with question #12 from master_elekid: If you have a defender attached to the Defending, and you do Life Drain and it works, do you have 30 damage left instead of 10? master_trainer_pat says, "No, because Life Drain moves damage counters and Defender doesn't stop that." master_trainer_pat presents the speaker with question #15 from thundrchld: if a clefable uses metronome and it copys TR Zapdos' electroburn does it take any damage if it has 0 lightning energies on it? master_trainer_pat says, "Right-o" [Ed. Note: Translation: No damage] master_trainer_pat presents the speaker with question #18 from pikabruce: If Brock's Ninetales has Brock's Protection attached, and then a non-Brock evolution card is attached, is energy removal still prevented? master_trainer_pat says, "Yes, as long as you do this in the order you mentioned." master_trainer_mike presents the speaker with question #19 from articuno21: Do the Lightning energy cards required for TR Zapdos's attack count toward the self damage? I haven't read the card yet... master_trainer_mike says, "Yes they do." [Ed. Note: Usually helps to read the card...] master_trainer_mike presents the speaker with question #24 from tyais: For refrences sake, can the Compendium provided by Team Compendium at http://pokegym.thedojo.com/compendium be used for DCI Sanctioned tournaments as arefrence guide? master_trainer_mike says, "No shameless self promotion there!" master_trainer_mike says, "The rulings that have been gathered from our chats are DCI official, so yes." master_trainer_mike presents the speaker with question #37 from pipipi: If you evolve, is the smokescreen effect removed> master_trainer_mike says, "Yup!" master_trainer_mike presents the speaker with question #43 from a0030war: on blanies charzarid when you discard fire energy does it count for two fire energys master_trainer_mike says, "No they don't." master_trainer_mike presents the speaker with question #51 from pipipi: I have a Sabrina's Alakazam (3 dmg counters) active and a benched Rocket's Mewtwo, (6 dmg counters), and my opponent has an active Blaine's Growlithe (2 dmg counters). I decide to use Juxtapose(there is one psy. on S. Alakazam), utilizing Psylink. The flip is heads. Does the B's Growlithe switch damage counters with the Alakazam, or with the Mewtwo? master_trainer_mike says, "With the Sabrina's Alakazam." master_trainer_pat presents the speaker with question #62 from tyais: My Brock's Ninetails evolves into Muk. What the heck happens now. master_trainer_pat says, "First of all, B. Ninetales doesn't evolve into Muk." master_trainer_pat says, "Then discard the Muk and B. NInetales returns to normal. Muk-B-Gone" [Ed Note: This answer is wrong and is corrected next week] master_trainer_mike presents the speaker with question #73 from pikabruce: In past weeks you stated that Ditto opposite Brock's 9tales with an evo would be just Brock's 9tales, and that Ditto could attach its own evo card. Today you say Ditto could use the attacks of the card attached to Brock's 9tales. Clarify. master_trainer_mike says, "I don't recall ever saying that! It says on Brock's Ninetails, TREAT it as that Pokemon (i.e. the attached card). Ditto would copy that Pokemon (though if it was discarded, then of course Ditto would become Brock's Ninetails.)" master_trainer_pat says, "Because of the wording on B.9tales, the Ditto would still have the Shapeshift P-mon Power" master_trainer_mike says, "These are headache cards and we will definately vote them off the island if we could!!" [Ed Note: See next week's log for the correct R&D ruling] master_trainer_mike presents the speaker with question #100 from lugia_2001: if rocket's minefield is out, and i bring out a pokemon, and the coin is tails and it gets knocked out, does my opponent draw a prize?? (even though its on the bench)? master_trainer_mike says, "There is no way that scenario would work my friend.No Pokemon only has 20 HP (Myst Fossil and Clefairy Doll do not give the other player prize cards)." master_trainer_pat presents the speaker with question #101 from calathon: Ditto against Brock's Ninetales that has a Blastoise attached to it: Ditto would be Transformed into B's Ninetales, not the Blastoise, correct? darkmt_mike says, "What if it was a Maple Bar Pokemon?" master_trainer_mike says, "We will check with R&D BUT I'm pretty sure that the Ditto would be a Blastoise, period." master_trainer_mike says, "It could NOT be a Blaines Ninetails that is treated as a Blastoise because there would NOT be a Blastoise card on the Ditto as Ninetails to be able to discard like the Shapeshift power states." master_trainer_mike says, "So, since Shapeshift says to Treat the Ninetails as the attached card, Ditto would copy the attached Pokemon card, period." master_trainer_pat presents the speaker with question #102 from kangabanga: If I Swords Dance with my Scyther and my opponent retreats his active Pokemon the next turn would I still be able to do 60 damage on my next turn? master_trainer_pat says, "Yes." master_trainer_mike presents the speaker with question #107 from lugia_2001: what do u mean? the card says "put damage counters on the defending pokemon" master_trainer_mike says, "Are you talking about the defender question? Defender, Pluspower, etc affect combat damage, NOT damage counters." master_trainer_pat presents the speaker with question #108 from calathon: For Nidoqueen's Boyfriend Attack, would a Giovanni's Nidoking on the bench add 20 to the Damage? master_trainer_pat says, "Nope." master_trainer_mike presents the speaker with question #114 from pikabruce: You say that Ditto opposite Brock's 9tales with an evolution would be like the evolution. Since the evolution on Brock's 9tales cannot use its PokemonPower, can Ditto use the Pokemon Power? master_trainer_mike says, "We will have to ask R&D all these Ditto/Ninetails questions (though they always bang their heads on the table when we say the word "Ditto")." master_trainer_mike says, "My guess is that Ditto would NOT be able to use those powers as the attached card on Ninetails is NOT allowed to use them BUT wait until we get an official answer (and they bang their heads)." master_trainer_pat presents the speaker with question #126 from a0030war: when i use swords dance and they use gust and i bring scyther out does it still do 60 damage master_trainer_pat says, "Nope" master_trainer_mike presents the speaker with question #131 from calathon: The reason I think Ditto would be B's Ninetails is because Ditto says copy the card of the active pokemon and the Blastiose is just "attached" to the Active, it's not the active itself. - PokePop master_trainer_mike says, "Gang, we do not have any official answers on this one, except that I hate Ditto!!! Wait til next week." master_trainer_pat says, "Ditt--I mean , yeah." master_trainer_mike presents the speaker with question #132 from kangabanga: If I put a PlusPower on my Pokemon and evolve do I discard the PlusPower? master_trainer_mike says, "Nope." master_trainer_pat presents the speaker with question #133 from soslowpoke: Can you damage Swap damge to a card face down for Surge's Secret plan? master_trainer_pat says, "Yes, you could but you would have to reveal the card." master_trainer_pat says, "Thus, no damage swap would take place if it wasn't a Basic P-mon." master_trainer_mike presents the speaker with question #159 from zanytrainer: does the minefield damage equal 2?? master_trainer_mike says, "Yes it does." master_trainer_pat says, "YUP" master_trainer_mike presents the speaker with question #161 from soslowpoke: what does 'Neo based" mean? master_trainer_mike says, "It won't be the same as your mother's Neo sets. :)" master_trainer_pat says, "It's around about way of saying...IT"S NEO" master_trainer_mike says, "or your japanese friends for that matter." master_trainer_pat presents the speaker with question #173 from dooglas: Does a poisoned pokemon continue to take poison damage after going to the bench? master_trainer_pat says, "No, benching removes Poison." master_trainer_mike presents the speaker with question #182 from calathon: It won't be the same as our Japanese friend's Neo set? Are you saying that there are brand new cards or that you are releasing them in different groups like you did with Gym? master_trainer_mike says, "I'm not saying anything else :)" master_trainer_pat presents the speaker with question #208 from calathon: Was the change on G's Pinser on purpose, the reduction of the bonus damage from 20 to 10? master_trainer_pat says, "We don't know." master_trainer_mike presents the speaker with question #266 from calathon: For the record: Ditto rules! ;-) master_trainer_pat says, "To Calathon: Ditto is rules. and Rules. and rules and more rules...." master_trainer_mike presents the speaker with question #269 from scrye_fung: So what is the _real_ reason why you decided to announce the signing ofthe Neo contract on Pokegym (http://pokegym.thedojo.com) on Tuesday via DMTM's UBB message? master_trainer_mike says, "we never announced signing any contracts, just that we will be releasing neo based tcg expansions in the next few months, lots of disinformation out there, we wanted to clear the air."