Welcome to the official Pokémon Forums!

Click here to review our official Rules & Guidelines.

Active Pokemon and Benched pokemon returning to hand and being treated as trainer cards

I am on Windows 11 desktop v1.37.0.942447.20260410_0019

I just had a match where upon starting my turn, my Benched munkidori with a dark energy returned to my hand but was shown as playable. The game would only let me place it in the active area where trainer cards go, and upon placing it there, the adrena brain ability was automatically activated. It stayed in the active trainer card area until the end of my turn, when it then disappeared from play altogether. This happened again in the same match with my active dragapult ex tera, where at the beginning of my turn, it returned to my hand and when I "played" it from my hand as a trainer card, its first attack , Jet Headbutt, was automatically selected to win the match.

For any relevant information, the stadium card Academy at Night was in play, and for the second instance of the behavior, my openent's active Pokemon was Slowking SRC 058/142 and had just used Seek Inspiration. I do not recall if this was also the case in the first instance of the incident.

Comments