Mega Evolution: when do the effects kick in?

Ok, so I decided to use Banette because when it Mega evolves it has Prankster, but it didn’t take into effect that turn it happened the next turn but by then the damage had been dealt. What other things arent in effect until the turn after Mega Evolving?

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The effect of your ability kicks in right away with the exception of speed and priority abilities.Actually, everything kicks in right away besides those two. Appearence, stats, all of that stuff.

As for why you didn’t get priority from Prankster on the turn you Mega Evolved, it is because the ability didn’t kick in and normal speed was used.

As why you didn’t get priority in the turn after, here are a few reasons:

Source: Testing this out

All effects will kick in, including stat changes APART FROM SPEED.

The only reason that you may have not seen Prankster taking affect was that a faster opponent utilised a priority move, therefore bypassing Prankster, or you used an offensive move, which Prankster does not increase the priority of.All stat changes also take place, apart from speed in conjunction with abilities. So Speed will take effect the second turn, and the Pokemon that moves first will be decided on original speed on the turn you mega-evolve.

All Mega abilities like Mega Launcher and Prankster activate from the get-go.Are you aware that Prankster will only activates when you use moves like Will-o-Wisp or Toxic not every move