Reffing Taunt and Encore

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Reading the thread linked above made @Pidge and I actually do something and check it out in game to see whether Taunt and Encore really worked that way and we found out that they did! :blush:

The turn when taunt and encore are used still counts towards the three turns it is supposed to last if the Pokemon that used taunt and encore is faster than its opponent.

Test from in game:

Mienshao used Taunt
Drifblim uses Spit Up (Fails)

Mienshao used Bounce (goes up)
Drifblim uses Spit Up (Fails)

Mienshao used Bounce (hits)
Drifblim uses Spit Up (Fails)

Taunt ends


If the Pokemon that used Taunt and Encore is slower than its opponent, then the turn one of those moves is used does not count towards the three turns.

Test from in game:

Swellow used wing attack
Minun used encore

Swellow used Wing attack
Minun used Nasty plot

Swellow used Wing attack
Minun used Nasty plot

Swellow used Wing attack
Minun used Nasty plot

Encore ended

As you can see this is a very important change to battles so you better remember it!
(I will because I lost my BW Tourney match because of this :uhoh

Edit: I tagged every ref I could find that was active!

@The Jr. Trainer@Volcanflame@Rohypnol@Pidge@SiberianTiger@We Taste Pies...@Nyurgh@Team Evolution@Fossil Fusion

 

@husnain is right.

All refs please take note of this, and battlers, please politely show refs this link if they are reffing it the old, wrong way.

 

I disagree, husnain is useless this information can't be right.

 

See? I was right goddammit.

... I think, maybe.

 

I thought it's always been this way... since I've been reffing em this way. Maybe I'm just a pro ref.

 

I'm fairly sure I reffed them this way anyway.

 

Okay, I guess you guys are perfect.

 

Did you test Encore when it's faster and Taunt when it's slower? Because I don't want to assume that they work the same way...

 

I did, they do

Spoiler

@The Jr. Trainer@Volcanflame@Rohypnol@Pidge@SiberianTiger@We Taste Pies...@Nyurgh@Team Evolution@Fossil Fusion

 

Wow, this sounds a lot like exactly what I said =O

 

I've been doing this since day one. Y'all are nubs.

 

And you all find it out now?
I knew this like when I reffed for the money, and some of you know how long that has been.

 

To put it simply, you're old as balls.

 

It's not as bad as reffing consecutive Protects/Detects wrong for the entirety of URPG in Gen 4. In Gen 3, the chance of those moves working in succession halved each time. In Gen 4, it is always 50% after the first use, but URPG was never notified about this change until around Gen 5. Although this was never really relevant unless someone tried to use Protect for the third time in a row in an FFA or something, so I guess it's not that big of a deal in retrospect.