Does this strategy to prevent damage from Dynamax Pokemon work?
so basically as soon as your opponent dynamaxes you use whirlwind or a move that has the same effect, and as long as it hits and your opponent is not on their last Pokémon. so here are two Pokémon that I have thought of that can activate this affect possibly without taking any damage before it uses whirlwind.
snorlax @ iron ballimmunity /thick fativs: 0 speedevs: 252 attack, 64 defense, 64 sp defense, 128 hpflingwhirlwindheavy slammega kick
before sending out snorlax make sure you set up a trick room.
noivern @ life orbinfiltratorevs:252 speed, 252 sp attack, 4 hpshadow ballwhirlwindflamethrowerhurricane
Pleaselog inorregisterto add a comment.
This strategy won’t work for two reasons.
It doesn’t matter if Trick Room is up, because Whirlwind is negative (-6) priority, which means it will always go last regardless of speed control, except when a Pokemon uses Trick Room, which is -7 priority, but this is impossible to do while dynamaxed and will turn into Max Guard.
Dynamax Pokemon are actually immune to phasing moves like Roar and Whirlwind and will not be switched out of battle. Similar moves like Circle Throw and Dragon Tail will do damage, but can’t phase out the dynamax Pokemon. Items that will normally phase out a Pokemon upon being targeted like Red Card will not phase out a dynamax Pokemon, regardless of the Red Card being consumed upon being attacked.
Hope this helped!
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