Pro tip: you can hit your own dark types with prankster!

did u just self-paralyze to out-speed in trick room….. your mind…….

The true definition of prankster

insane anti kingambit kit

You lure them in with the defiant boost, then knock them out with the paralyzed CC

Wait, does that mean I can do prankster swagger and lum berry strats?

Yes!

@Clone394 That’s definitely bugged And is not supposed to work like that Prankster isn’t supposed to effect any dark types

@Clone394 It's been this way since generation 7 so I don't think it's a bug. Dark types are only immune to opposing prankster moves.

gambling with that 12.5%

Don't forget the 90% accuracy for thunder wave too!

What was the reason to use thunder wave ? Sorry still trying to understand vgc me strata

Trick room was up, meaning kingambit would go first, but thunder wave meant incineroar moves first instead before kingambit could attack

@RaynagaLive Does paralyze make a mon slow instead of immobile? Sorry if that’s always been the rule in vgc

@RaynagaLive It halves speed and they have a 1 in 8 chance of not moving

@MarkieChill Oh is it nerfed in champions?feels like the rate is lowered

This is the second close combat incin I've seen. At first I thought y'all were crazy, ig it beats kinggambit.

It's more of a hard TR tech so Incin can be a sweeper too

Is this a champions error or a known exploit?

This is intentional - it's been this way since gen 7

White Herb feels very "We have Clear Amulet at home"😅

Oh for sure it's really to stop intimidate drops but I guess at least it gets some use for close combat drops too

element of surprise

I knew that and prankster can hit your own monster in psychic terrain too since that blocks priority moves

this is amazing

The more i see of them, the more i wanna use Klefki

I'm biased, but you definitely should!

Like ive seen you and another friend use it and i love it Prankster, screens, speed control/answer to trickroom and amazing defensive typing. This thing looks pretty good

I’ve been debating on Close Combat Incineroar. I just find Thunder Punch hilarious to catch unsuspecting Pelipper and Gyarados lacking

Used to buff malamar into a killing machine in scarlet a violet. Loved using scary face to boost its speed to let it then superpower for another boost. Then throw in fake tears to boost special defense and another superpower. In 2 turns it could be +2 in spd, spe, def, atk. Nasty

Definitely took me a while to understand what was going on here, that was crazy!

Absolutely INSANE IQ play right there, it took me a second to realize why you T-waved your own incineroar

Nope, this is a zoroark I do not believe it

wait how I thought dark types were immune

what in the weedletwineedle play was that

Someone had to point it out in the comments cuz I didnt get it at first.

Funny as shit

You're amazing Sam

If I missed t-wave or was fully paralyzed and got hit by a +1 helping hand low kick you might not be saying that 😂

That's just details... but it was an amazing strategy

Oh u playeddd

Wow

what just happened

I won a couple of tournaments in SV with self scary face tornadus Adamant AV incin + choice band dark urshifu against TR. Nothing was sweeter than watching the ursaluna player lose their mind when I outsped in TR

I'm new to the game, what would be the benefit of doing that?

there are psychopaths in the world and they are all currently playing pokemon champions

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That another Champions change or something? Cause it should be that Dark types in general can't be affected by Prankster stuff, not that you can hit your allies with it...

I think it's always been that way since they introduced it in gen 7