Ruling poison or body

[fc4]

if the defending pokemon is poisoned and has 10 hp left after attack, and my active is flygon SW, will the new active take 10 damage due to the flygon body, as the defending pokemon dies?

 

[Devastator]

i believe it will. the first pokemon you speak of (the poisoned 1) will die at the end of your turn after you have attacked. they then have to pick another poke to be their active (or else they lose). then that new poke will take the 10 damage from flygon (as long as its not fighting) in between turns then your opponent will start their turn

 

[Kronar]

This is a case of in between turns effects, obviously. All in between turns effects must occur before any checks for KOs are done. So you could take the Poison damage, yes it would be KOed, but you still must resolve the effect of Flygons Body before anything is checked for a KO. The new active Pokemon takes no damage from Flygons Body if the previous was Poisoned and 10 away from being KOed. If the case was that you KO with the attack, and then they bring up a new Pokemon, then the new Pokemon WOULD take damage from Flygons Body. The same applies for if they KO your current active Pokemon, and you bring up a Flygon, they would take damage as you bring up your new active, which, in this case is a Flygon.

Now, obviously, this is all assuming the defending Pokemon isn't a {F} type, because if it is Flygons Body doesn't do anything.

 

[Foxtrot]

Just in case you were also wondering if you sent up another flygon and tried to activate its body:

== BURNING AURA (Typhlosion - EX:Unseen Forces)
Q. If your active Pokémon is KO'd by Poison between turns and you send out Typhlosion, does its "Burning Aura" Poké-BODY apply right away?
A. No, you don't send out a new Pokémon until all of the between turns effects have been resolved. (Oct 20, 2005 PUI Rules Team)