<p><a href="https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-tcg/pokemon-cards/ss-series/swsh45/46/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Shining Fates Amazing Rare Yveltal</a> has the following attack text:</p>
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<p>Amazing Destruction</p>
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<p>Your opponent’s Active Pokémon is Knocked Out.</p>
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<p>That is an attack, and the effect of that attack is that the opponent’s Pokémon is knocked out. A Pokémon that was protected from the effects of attacks would be protected from that; it is not dealing damage.</p>

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2021-03-19T07:51:50.270Z
So a card like Big Parasol would block it I assume?
Beerhunter
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2021-03-19T10:52:54.383Z
Correct. Big Parasol would block it from doing anything if it were on the active Pokémon.
Joe
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2021-06-15T18:44:21.760Z
I wonder if Hero's medal applies here. The card mentions "damage from an attack", but this move doesn't inflict dmg.
FluffyFlareon
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2021-06-15T18:50:41.703Z
same thing for experience share, cursed shovel, rocky helmet, etc...
FluffyFlareon
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2021-06-15T18:52:33.140Z
Right - [Experience share says](https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-tcg/pokemon-cards/sm-series/sm1/118/) "damage from an attack", so it would not proc here, nor would any other card that says "damage from an attack".
Joe
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2021-06-15T18:55:19.537Z
Note that damage *counters* are also *not* damage from an attack, so attacks that place damage counters (Bench Barrier Mew's attack, for example) would not proc these things either.
Joe
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2021-03-19T00:49:23.147Z
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Joe
<p>Is the Amazing Destruction (Yveltal) knock out an effect or part of the attack?</p>

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Pokemon tcg knock out attacks versus effects
Beerhunter
# Pokemon tcg knock out attacks versus effects

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-03-19)

Is the Amazing Destruction (Yveltal) knock out an effect or part of the attack?

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2021-03-19. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

[Shining Fates Amazing Rare Yveltal](https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-tcg/pokemon-cards/ss-series/swsh45/46/) has the following attack text:

> Amazing Destruction
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> > Your opponent’s Active Pokémon is Knocked Out.

That is an attack, and the effect of that attack is that the opponent’s Pokémon is knocked out. A Pokémon that was protected from the effects of attacks would be protected from that; it is not dealing damage.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: So a card like Big Parasol would block it I assume?  
> **username_1**: Correct. Big Parasol would block it from doing anything if it were on the active Pokémon.  
> **username_2**: I wonder if Hero's medal applies here. The card mentions "damage from an attack", but this move doesn't inflict dmg.  
> **username_2**: same thing for experience share, cursed shovel, rocky helmet, etc...  
> **username_1**: Right - [Experience share says](https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-tcg/pokemon-cards/sm-series/sm1/118/) "damage from an attack", so it would not proc here, nor would any other card that says "damage from an attack".  
> **username_1**: Note that damage *counters* are also *not* damage from an attack, so attacks that place damage counters (Bench Barrier Mew's attack, for example) would not proc these things either.  

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