From: Brian Brokaw To: Subject: Re: NidoQueen question (Clefary) Date: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 10:26 PM > Ok, picture this senario. > > You have a Nidoqueen active with 2 Nidokings on your bench. I bring out Clefable and > Metrinome your Love-Love, er Boyfriends, attack. > > Would it metrinome the 60 damage of my opponent (Nidoqueen + 2 Kings on his bench) > or would it only be 20 because there are no Nidokings on MY bench? > > Kate Johnson > The Pokemon Lady The Metronome copy of Boyfriends would read: "Does 20 damage plus 20 more damage for each Nidoking you have in play." So, the owner of this attack would need the Nidokings in play. Metronome copies ALL text from attack moves, except: 1) You change the "self-referenced" names to Clefairy/Clefable e.g. "Chansey does 80 damage to itself" converts to "Clefairy does 80 damage to itself" 2) You remove all "In Order To" phrases e.g. "Discard 2 Energy cards attached to Charizard *in order to* use this attack" converts to " " (that's right... nothing :-) In the japanese version of Metronome ("finger-waving" actually) it is much easier to understand this stuff... Attacks like Double-edge do NOT use the word "Chansey" (heh, or whatever Pokemon #113 is called), but use the term "self". e.g. "Does 80 damage to self". Now, when duping with Metronome, no need to mess with proper name changes... ah well ;-) Brian Brokaw