Ruling Porygon Z v. Unown G(as tool)

[LAMR]

When Porygon uses Tri-Attack, is the attack canceled because of Unown's effect, or Tri-Attack doesn't count as an effect?

 

[Po-Po-Pocchama]

Tri Attack is an attack, it will not be cancelled

 

[cacgbass]

Tri attack doesnt have any effect, it only has the amount of damage itll do conditioned. read the attack: "Flip 3 coins. This attack does 40 DAMAGE times the number of heads."
If you are referring to the pokepower effect, then no again. Unown g only stops effects of an attack excluding DAMAGE, not pokepowers, pokebodys, damage conditioned, etc.

 

[LAMR]

thanks, btw i was only referring to the attack, if the "flip 3 coins bla bla bla" was an effect

 

[~Roxasora~]

But that effect does damage. Like Gallade, its first attack brings you down to 50HP and you switch. With Unown G attached to the pokemon Gallade attacks, that pokemon doesn't switch. Switching is an effect of an attack.

 

[DarthAxle]

^DarkBliss, putting damage till an opponent is 50hp away from death IS an affect. Damage is when an attack says "does damage" or the bold numbers on the right of the attack. So Gallade's first attack is prevented completely if Ukn G is attached.

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong

And Cacgbass is right for the initial question.

 

[Lieutenant Houndoom]

Okay, as Kaga says... the flipping is not an effect on your opponent's/your Pokemon, it's an effect on the Porygon-Z. It's not doing anything to the opposing Pokemon so it's not prevented.

 

[~Roxasora~]

^DarkBliss, putting damage till an opponent is 50hp away from death IS an affect. Damage is when an attack says "does damage" or the bold numbers on the right of the attack. So Gallade's first attack is prevented completely if Ukn G is attached.

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong

And Cacgbass is right for the initial question.

You are wrong. Please look it up in the Compendium. That is not an affect.

 

[Chairman Kaga]

Okay, as Kaga says... the flipping is not an effect on your opponent's/your Pokemon, it's an effect on the Porygon-Z. It's not doing anything to the opposing Pokemon so it's not prevented.

QFT.

The flip is an effect, but it's not an effect done to that Pokemon. It's something you do beforehand to figure out the damage. Unown G doesn't prevent things like that. It has to be something directly affecting the Pokemon. Indirect actions like coin flips and such are not prevented.

^DarkBliss, putting damage till an opponent is 50hp away from death IS an affect. Damage is when an attack says "does damage" or the bold numbers on the right of the attack. So Gallade's first attack is prevented completely if Ukn G is attached.

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong

You are wrong.

Uhhhhh....no, he's not. Sonic Blade does no damage, it places damage counters. That is an effect, and it's one done to the opposing Pokemon, so Unown G blocks it.

Please look it up in the Compendium. That is not an affect.

Maybe you're thinking of Gallade's second attack? The one that flips prizes? The prize flipping is an effect, but not an effect done to the opposing Pokemon -- so just like the first question, Unown G doesn't block it.