Pokemon Quiz Hard
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. A Haxorus with Mold Breaker uses Earthquake against a Rotom Wash with Levitate. What happens under standard battle conditions?
Earthquake fails because Levitate always grants Ground immunity
Earthquake hits, but its damage is neutral
Earthquake hits and is super effective because Mold Breaker ignores Levitate
Earthquake is absorbed because Rotom Wash is Water type
2. Beginning in Generation VI, Steel-type Pokémon stopped resisting which two types?
Bug and Psychic
Dark and Ghost
Fighting and Ground
Dragon and Fairy
3. In modern main-series games, one Pokémon selects Roar while another selects Trick Room. Assuming both moves can proceed and no priority modifiers apply, which is scheduled first?
Trick Room, because slower-priority moves always act first
Whichever user has the higher Speed stat
Roar, because its −6 priority is higher than Trick Room's −7 priority
The order is randomly selected because both moves have negative priority
4. Which pairing can produce a Phione Egg through breeding in the main-series games?
Phione and Manaphy
Phione and any Water 1 Egg Group Pokémon
Manaphy and another Manaphy
Manaphy and Ditto
5. A burned Pokémon uses Flamethrower. Ignoring residual burn damage and all other effects, how does the burn alter Flamethrower's direct damage?
It does not reduce Flamethrower's direct damage because Flamethrower is special
It halves the damage because every attack is weakened
It doubles the damage because Fire moves are strengthened by burns
It reduces the damage to one quarter
6. After a Ghost-type target is successfully identified with Foresight, which attacks can hit it despite its usual type immunities?
Normal- and Fighting-type attacks
Ground- and Electric-type attacks
Psychic- and Dragon-type attacks
Poison- and Bug-type attacks
7. In Pokémon Emerald, which category does Bite use when calculating damage?
Special, because all Dark-type attacks were special before Generation IV
Physical, because Bite makes contact
Status, because Bite can cause flinching
Physical or special depending on the user's higher attacking stat
8. A full-health Charizard enters a battle where Stealth Rock is active. With no abilities, items, or other modifiers involved, how much of its maximum HP does it lose?
One half
One quarter
One eighth
All of its HP
9. In a Generation VI or later battle, Crobat uses Toxic against a target with maximized evasion. The target is not immune and is not protected. What happens?
Toxic automatically misses because the target's evasion is maximized
Toxic uses the ordinary accuracy check because Crobat is not a Poison-only Pokémon
Toxic hits because a Poison-type user causes it to bypass accuracy checks
Toxic hits only if Crobat is faster than the target
10. In Pokémon Platinum, what must be true when Nincada evolves for the player to receive Shedinja as well as Ninjask?
Nincada must level up at night while holding a Spell Tag
The party must have an empty slot, and the Bag must contain a regular Poké Ball
Nincada must defeat a Ghost-type Pokémon during that level
The party must contain a fainted Pokémon and no Bug types
11. Under the standard type chart, what is Freeze-Dry's effectiveness against Quagsire, a Water/Ground Pokémon?
Normally effective
Two times effective
Four times effective
Not very effective
12. In the original Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, how many qualifying Underground player interactions are required as part of awakening Spiritomb at the Hallowed Tower?
16
32
40
108
13. How many officially recognized forms of Unown exist when the alphabet forms and punctuation forms are counted together?
26
27
30
28
14. In current main-series battle mechanics, a physical attacker is at −2 Attack and its target is at +2 Defense. If the attack becomes a critical hit, how are those stat stages treated for the damage calculation?
All stat stages are doubled because critical hits amplify modifiers
Only the attacker's negative Attack stages are ignored
Only the target's positive Defense stages are ignored
The attacker's negative Attack stages and the target's positive Defense stages are ignored
15. Which move can directly damage a standard Shedinja through Wonder Guard, assuming no type-changing effects are active?
Aqua Jet
Shadow Sneak
Psychic
Leaf Blade
16. What does the ability Skill Link do for moves that normally strike a variable number of times?
It doubles the power of the first strike only
It makes every strike a critical hit
It allows the move to continue until it misses
It makes the move strike its maximum number of times