Can a Pokemon with Helping Hand move first ahead of a Pokemon Switching out?

Aug. 3, 2016

An old revision of a bulbapedia article I remember seeing once listed switching as +6 priority, and wouldn’t a Pokemon with prankster and helping hand also have +6 priority for that move?

I’m not very good with bulbapedia when it comes to history revisions, so sorry if a better link exists. Ignore what was revised in that too btw, just scroll down to the list of priority.

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Prankster increases the priority of status moves by +1.

Now this is quite ambiguous as to whether it simply adds one to the priority. However this won’t let you Helping Hand before switching out.

Certain actions always occur before any moves can be performed (with the possible exception of Pursuit). The messages for the activation of Quick Claw, Custap Berry, and O-Powers are always shown before anything else.Switching out, rotating, using items, escaping, and the message that Focus Punch is charging are next

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Hope I helped!