Phantasmal Barrage vs. Shaymin
I'm not sure if this is a bug. I just tried using the Spectrier ASC 098 move Phantasmal Barrage. It reads "…place 12 damage counters on 1 of your opponent's Pokemon". I placed them on the opponent's benched Shaymin and it was blocked. My understanding is that placing damage counters is different from dealing damage. For example, Dragapult Phantom Dive ("Put 6 damage counters…") bypasses Shaymin's protection though seems to be the same thing. Unless there is actually a distinction between "place" and "put".
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this is working the way it is supposed to. Shaymins ability reads “prevent all damage done to your benches Pokèmon that don’t have a rile box by attacks from your opponent’s Pokemon (Pokemon ex, Pokemon V, etc. have rule boxes)” as Spectruer is placing damage counters and not doing damage, flower curtain doesn’t work.
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Yes that is what I would expect. But what I said was flower curtain DID work when it should not.
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You're right about how Shaymin works... placing damage counters is an effect of an attack, not direct damage, so Flower Curtain alone shouldn't block Spectrier's Phantasmal Barrage.
But it's probably not a bug... you might have missed something else in play, like... if the target Pokemon had a Mist Energy attached or if there was a Rabsca on the bench... those protect against effects of attacks (like damage counters).
This is where battle logs can help to get the full picture and figure out what really happened.
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