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- ↓ 0.18
- ꩜ 0.47
- ↑ 1.80
{F} → Surprise Attack : 20
Flip a coin. If tails, this attack does nothing.
{F}{C} → Tremor : 40
Does 10 damage to each of your own Benched Pokémon. (Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
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Warnock 2022
Debut of “Surprise Attack,” which appears in every generation since!
(fun fact — this is the name given to “Sucker Punch” in Japan)
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Sucker_Punch_(move)
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This comment isn’t a correction/clarification – because the way localization has handled some of the attacks in question is such a mess I doubt it can be clarified – I’m moreso making this comment for my own sake if I end up coming across this in the future;
· There is the TCG-exclusive move ふいをつく, which was translated as Surprise Attack (e.g. this card). Appearances of “Surprise Attack” in the EN edition are always this TCG-exclusive move.
· There is also, and completely separately, the video game move ふいうち, which should have been translated as Surprise Attack*, but was instead translated as Sucker Punch. The EN TCG first translated it as Sneaky Attack (as on its debut, SW Raticate) and later on translated it as Sucker Punch (e.g. BW Liepard).
* Or Ambush, or just about anything other than what it did get translated as.