ancient traits - attack twice a turn - medicham questions

[peruviansisters]

Hi all, thanks for your help. My daughter plays Pokemon and I play with her and I help judge our town's informal, unlimited tournament we have at the local toy store. I was playing with her new fighting deck which features the new medicham that attacks twice a turn. A couple scenarios came up that I couldn't figure out well. These scenarios would apply to all attack twice a turn Pokemon but we will use medicham as an example. So here it is:
If you attack with medicham and the first attack knocks out a Pokemon, do you take a prize card right away? Also if you do take the card right away, before the second attack, can you play that card (if its playable, like an item card)?
If your medicham is confused, do you have to flip a coin for each time you attack? If you lose the first toss (tails) can you flip for the second still?
Lets take a scenario where the medicham faces a Pokemon with a damage back tool on it like rock guard. If medicham damages the Pokemon twice, does the rock guard damage medicham twice, or once? if it damages it twice, is the damage back for the first attack calculated immediately (doing 60 damage to medicham right away), or is it all calculated at the end of the turn- AKA the second attack (effectively knocking medicham out)?
If medicham faces a steel/metal type Pokemon with special energy such as metal or shield energy is the reduction of damage done for each attack or only once? So if you face an cobalion with a special metal energy does the two yoga kicks do a combined damage of 40 or 50?

thanks for your help all!

 

[FincastlePokemon2]

Hi all, thanks for your help. My daughter plays Pokemon and I play with her and I help judge our town's informal, unlimited tournament we have at the local toy store. I was playing with her new fighting deck which features the new medicham that attacks twice a turn. A couple scenarios came up that I couldn't figure out well. These scenarios would apply to all attack twice a turn Pokemon but we will use medicham as an example. So here it is:
If you attack with medicham and the first attack knocks out a Pokemon, do you take a prize card right away?

Yes. you do.

Also if you do take the card right away, before the second attack, can you play that card (if its playable, like an item card)?

No, you can't. You are in the attack phase, and you can't exit that phase. You can choose not to attack a 2nd time, but you can't go "back" to your turn and then attack a 2nd time.

If your medicham is confused, do you have to flip a coin for each time you attack? If you lose the first toss (tails) can you flip for the second still?

Yes, you flip for each time, and still have the opportunity to attack twice - so you can flip tails, then still try to attack for the 2nd time.

Lets take a scenario where the medicham faces a Pokemon with a damage back tool on it like rock guard. If medicham damages the Pokemon twice, does the rock guard damage medicham twice, or once? if it damages it twice, is the damage back for the first attack calculated immediately (doing 60 damage to medicham right away), or is it all calculated at the end of the turn- AKA the second attack (effectively knocking medicham out)?

You do the attack and resolve all effects of the attack (place the Rock Guard damage) then check for KO's. After that, you may attack a 2nd time (as long as Medicham wasn't knocked out), and resolve all effects of the attack (place the damage again) and check for KO's. So if Medicham is knocked out after the 2nd attack, then you would discard him (and your opponent would take a prize) and you would promote a new active pokemon. If your opponent's pokemon was also knocked out, then they would promote an active pokemon first.

If medicham faces a steel/metal type Pokemon with special energy such as metal or shield energy is the reduction of damage done for each attack or only once? So if you face an cobalion with a special metal energy does the two yoga kicks do a combined damage of 40 or 50?

Same general answer here

I think several of these types of questions were address in a Compendium update/"Ask the Rules" forum post - http://compendium.pokegym.net/ and search for Omega Barrage.

 

[Noah121]

Essentially, each attack that Medicham/Omega Barrager does is a completely separate attack, but is still within the same attack phase.