What, exactly, does Trick-or-Treat do?
Turns out that, unlike Soak in Generation V, Trick-or-Treat does not change or negate the Pokemon's original typing -- use it against a dual-typed Pokémon and that Pokémon is now effectively triple-typed.
I conducted the following experiment to evaluate this:
- Find a wild Normal-type Pokemon (because Normal is immune to Ghost) and use Trick-or-Treat.
- Test Ghost, Dark, and other types against the affected Pokemon.
My results:
- vs. pure Normal (Bidoof, Dunsparce):
- Shadow Sneak had no effect (Normal influence).
- Night Slash was supereffective (Ghost influence). Signal Beam was not very effective.
- vs. Normal+Flying (Fletchling and Pidgey):
- Shadow Sneak had no effect (Normal influence).
- Discharge proved supereffective (Flying influence).
- Night Slash proved supereffective (Ghost influence).
- vs. Azurill (Normal+Fairy):
- Shadow Sneak had no effect (Normal influence).
- Night Slash inflicted neutral damage and was NOT supereffective (Fairy resists Dark).
- vs. Litleo (Fire+Normal):
- Surf proved supereffective (Fire influence).
- Shadow Sneak failed to affect Litleo (Normal influence).
- Night Slash proved supereffective (Ghost influence).
- vs. Pumpkaboo (Ghost+Grass):
- Trick-or-Treat failed outright.
(PS - And while running around locating all these Pokemon I caught a shiny Azurill. :) ) --Stratelier 18:33, 28 October 2013 (UTC)