From: Brian Brokaw [brokaw@pojo.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 1999 12:42 AM
To: Kube617@aol.com
Subject: RE: magmar smokescreen and retreating

> Here's the situation. I have two scythers and my opponent has a fossil 
> magmar. He uses smokescreen. So if i retreat my active scyther for the other 
> one then retreat scyther #2 for the original would i still have to flip to 
> attack?

No.  When you benched Scyther #1, it cleared the smokescreen effect
and you are free to move it back active "effect free".

> Basically the rules say benching a pokemon erases all effects of attack so 
> does smokescreen affect only the defending pokemon or does it affect any of 
> my pokemon even if i bench the active who was attacked?

Smokescreen only affects the defending Pokemon (magmar's opponent's active
pokemon).  It cannot effect Pokemon on the bench.

Brian Brokaw