Articuno hit me but I used Detect..?

Question

Hacked?

Comments

Doesn’t matter my very nice Pokémon from the hall of origins helped me out there...

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What move did the Articuno use?

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Forgot. Y?

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It knows Sheer cold. Blizzard, Roost and Toxic.

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Because we need to know what move Articuno used to figure out why it hit.

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Sheer cold or Blizzard. It did damage.

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Wait no it was blizzard sheer cold would have OHKO me I think.

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And I thought I was using Arceus I was using Absol. Does Absol have like something to do with it?

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Are you sure Detect actually worked and didn't fail?

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yeah. His artículo was badly poisoned at low health. I was stalling with Absol.

Answer 1

In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, due to a glitch, when used in hail, it has a 30% chance to hit a target that has used Protect or Detect; this was fixed in Pokémon Platinum onward.

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Comments

Oh. No wonder when I tried it again Detect worked.