Question

The move Explosion is powerful, but the user faints. does this mean that you wouldn't faint by using it with a pokemon who has the ability encourage? The ability says that the user automatically faints as a side effect, not as a large sum of damage. If that were the case, steelix could do a ton of damage.

Answer 1

No, the pokemon would faint. Encourage only affects secondary effects - the same ones that would be amplified by serene grace.

I looked it up http://www.gamespot.com/ds/rpg/pokemonds3/show_msgs.php?topic_id=m-1-56361094&pid=989552

Comments

Could you show me the source from which you got this information? If you do that, I'll give you BA.

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I typically don't trust comments on forums, but I'll still vote up and all that.

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We'll know for sure once the game info gets through. Maybe we can have Will test this for us.

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That forum thread seems fairly legit and is what I expected when I heard about the ability - your attack boost is the positive side, you can't have ANOTHER positive side like not fainting or no recoil damage.
Also this is called "Brute Force" in some places which I think is a better name. :)