OK, looks like I'll have to use my amazing card-reading powers to solve this problem. Metal Energy says, "Damage done to Pokemon with Metal Energy attached to them is reduced by 10(after applying weakness and resistance)..."

I don't know if anyone has noticed, but read Alakazam, "Pokemon Power-Damage Swap: As often as you like during your turn, before you attack, you may move 1 damage counter from one of your Pokemon to another one of your Pokemon as long as it doesn't knock that Pokemon out". Since your just moving damage, not doing damage, this trick will not work. Also, damage is different from damage counter. Listen to these sentences, "Life Drain-Flip a coin. If heads, put a number of damage counters on the Defending Pokemon so that it has 10 HP left." Now the second one, "Life Drain-Flip a coin. If heads, do damage to the Defending Pokemon so that it has 10 HP left." Seems like there's no difference, right? Now, let's look closer. The first one won't be affected by Weakness, Resistance, or anything else that they have protecting them that says "prevent damage", because we aren't doing damage, we are putting damage counters on them. The second one is co

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