Zoroark vs Terrakion

[votalesin]

So this happened.

Player 1 has an active Zoroark (BW) with two basic fighting energy
Player 2 has an active Terrakion with no energy and 30 damage
Player 2 has a benched Virizion with no energy and no damage
All other game state information is not applicable.

Player 1 attacks with Zoroark, using "Foul Play". "Foul Play" copies Terrakion's "Sacred Sword" and deals 100 damage to Terrakion. Terrakion is discarded, a prize is taken by Player 1, Virizion is promoted to active.

Player 2 begins their turn by drawing a card, then ends their turn.

Player 1 begins their turn, performing various actions unrelated to this issue. Player 1 attacks with Zoroark, using "Foul Play". "Foul Play" copies Virizion's "Sacred Sword".

What happens?

Sacred Sword reads "This pokemon can't use Sacred Sword during your next turn"
Foul Play reads "Choose 1 of the Defending pokemon's attacks and use it as this attack"

Zoroark used Sacred Sword last turn as a copy of Terrakion. Is the "Benching either pokemon ends this effect" rule coming into play here or is it different due to Virizion being a different pokemon?

 

[PokePop]

You have to go all the back to 2000 for similar situations in rulings!

From the original Compendium:

Q. If Ditto is copying Scyther and does Swords Dance, and your opponent retreats his Scyther to bring up a different Pokemon (say, to remove Poison), then switches that new one again with the Scyther, does Ditto lose the advantage of Swords Dance? And if so, is it because there is a Ditto-as-something-else between the two Ditto-as-Scyther stages?
A. The effect is still there, but unless Ditto's new form has Slash for 30, he cannot make use of it. For example, if Scyther retreated for Parasect, the Ditto-as-Parasect's Slash will do 60 if previously 'Danced' as a Scyther (Direct from R&D, folks). If the Slash does NOT have a base damage of 30 (such as Sandslash's Slash attack) then the Dance will not affect it. (4-6-00 WotC Chat Q47)

Now, how this applies, is that You have done Sacred Sword and the effect of that ("you can't use Sacred Sword next turn") is on Zoroark.
So, even though the Sacred Sword is being copied from a different Pokemon, it is still the same attack and therefore blocked by the effect on Zoroark!