Could mold breaker bypass sword of ruin if you use body press?

Question

So chien pao has sword of ruin lower all defensive stats except itself right and mold breaker ignores abilities that affect its moves - so if a Pokemon with mold breaker + body press would ignore sword of ruin?

Comments

I think hawlucha is the only pokemon with body press + mold breaker

Answer 1

Sword of Ruin does not lower the damage of opposing Body Press, the defense lowering only takes effect when the Pokemon affected by Sword of Ruin takes damage.

Comments

0 Def Hawlucha Body Press vs. 0 HP / 4 Def Chien-Pao: 328-388 (108.9 - 128.9%) -- guaranteed OHKO

Adding Mold Breaker doesn't change the calc, so this is correct.

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Also supported by Bulbapedia: "...with Beads of Ruin and Sword of Ruin, while the Special Defense and Defense drops, respectively are ignored, this does not affect the damage an attack by the Ability-ignoring Pokémon will do, not even if it uses Body Press (for Sword of Ruin specifically), as that only takes into account Defense stat stages..."
https://m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Ignoring_Abilities#cite_ref-ruin_3-1

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ok but when I see the stats on my koraidon is says that my defense is lowered, even when chein pao doesn't attack and other people attack it.

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That only increases the damage taken, the only thing that affects Body Press damage is Stat Stages (ie: Iron Defense). Other than stat stages Body Press is affected by attack altering items and abilities—such as Huge Power, Choice Band, or Tablets of Ruin—rather than defense altering—such as Sword of Ruin or Eviolite.

Answer 2

Yes, it would.

Mold Breaker prevents a target's ability from affecting moves that the Mold Breaker Pokémon uses. It only affects abilities that change the power, accuracy or other effects of moves.

Source: this website

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Can someone tell me how to do that green thing along the right of the quote?

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you mean best answer?

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thanks