Hide an sneak Spiritomb blocks battle cage effect ? battle cage 085 —— spiritomb 035/084

The "quadruple the number of damage counters" is counted as placing them so Battle Cage would block the damage counters placed by spiritomb onto benched Pokémon.

So if a spiritomb targeted the active and a benched Pokémon the damage counters would only be quadrupled on the active Pokémon.