Ruling [Unlimited] Invisible Wall Mr. Mime
- Thread starter Elray
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The way this works is you resolve all inbetween turns effects before checking of knockouts but in this case you can choose in which order they resolve so you have do the 20 damage first, which would put it to zero HP or whatever it has left, then heal the 20 damage or heal the 20 first and then do the damage. Even if the HP reaches zero first, you don't knock it out because you still have another effect to resolve, which is the healing of 20 damage.
This is correct. However just to clarify, Mr. Mime (Jungle)'s Pokemon Power only prevents damage from attacks, which is not the case when it is Burned. Burn also places damage counters, which is distinct from doing damage. Even if an effect causes the Burn to place more than two damage counters between turns, it is unaffected by Invisible Wall and is applied in full. However, a Pokemon's HP cannot go below 0, so no matter how much damage Mr. Mime incurs between turns, if you choose to activate Floral Crown's healing after the burn check ( remember that you now apply the damage counters and then flip to see if the Burn goes away), Mr. Mime would be left with 20 HP.
Most Pokémon Powers shut down when that Pokémon is affected by a Special Condition. Burned is a Special Condition. This is sort of a mass errata issued long, long ago (under WotC). I'll post the announcements, but they were originally made via chat, so there are MANY annoying typos.
* [Effective 1/17/02:] There is alsoa new Pokemon rule change that will even FURTHER give the current environment somediversity. In working on keeping the Pokemon rules as close as possible to the Japaneserules of the game, there is a new term that will be introduced in a later set thisyear. This is "Special Conditions". Asleep, Confusion, Paralysis, POISON,and later on Burned are all defined as Special Conditions. All of these effects areremoved from the Active Pokemon if they Evolve, Devolve, Leave Play, or are Benched.They ALSO shut off ALL Pokemon Powers on the Pokemon effected by a Special Condition.This means that Poison (and later on Burned) shut off Pokemon Powers on the Pokemonaffected by them. This is a clarification of the rules for Pokemon and WILL takeplace in all of the upcoming Challenge series events and tournaments. TPC has toldus that is how it supposed to work. (Jan 17, 2002 WotC Chat Announcements & Q1280)
* Basically any Pokemon Power on any Pokemon that says it stops working if the Pokemonis Paralyzed, Asleep, or Confused, now should ALSO include Poisoned, or Burned aswell. These 5 effects are known as Special Conditions. Almost every Pokemon powerstops working if its Pokemon has a Special Condition on it. If a Pokemon power saysit still functions if Asleep, Conufused, or Paralyzed, that also holds true for Poisonedand Burned as well. Char, while similar to Burned is NOT the same thing and doesNOT fall under this rule change. All Special Conditions are removed from a Pokemonif it Evolves, Devolves, Leaves play, or is Benched. (Jan 17, 2002 WotC Chat, Q1278& Q1284)
* Basically any Pokemon Power on any Pokemon that says it stops working if the Pokemonis Paralyzed, Asleep, or Confused, now should ALSO include Poisoned, or Burned aswell. These 5 effects are known as Special Conditions. Almost every Pokemon powerstops working if its Pokemon has a Special Condition on it. If a Pokemon power saysit still functions if Asleep, Conufused, or Paralyzed, that also holds true for Poisonedand Burned as well. Char, while similar to Burned is NOT the same thing and doesNOT fall under this rule change. All Special Conditions are removed from a Pokemonif it Evolves, Devolves, Leaves play, or is Benched. (Jan 17, 2002 WotC Chat, Q1278& Q1284)