Eh?

[Frozen]

I was just fighting a Rocket Grunt in my Silver, and his Koffing used Poison Gas on my Quilava, and it didn't affect, why is this? Poison attack work of Fire Pokemon in R/S/FR/LG but why not here, I'm not complaining, just interested.

 

[~Bent~]

For certain attacks (specifically ones that don't deal damage), they say "It didn't affect <Pokemon>!" instead of saying "Its attack missed!".

For ones that really don't affect the opponent, it says "<Pokemon> was unaffected!".

 

[The Benmeister]

Either that or 'It doesn't effect <Pokemon>.'

 

[Bronze_Dragon]

Yeah, it does affect it. But before, instead of an attack missing, it said it was unaffected by it. Basically what ~Bent~ said, actually.


EDIT: Yay, new rank! XD

 

[Hikikomori]

For certain attacks (specifically ones that don't deal damage), they say "It didn't affect <Pokemon>!" instead of saying "Its attack missed!".

For ones that really don't affect the opponent, it says "<Pokemon> was unaffected!".

yea this is the way it was in the old games

 

[Pure]

Actually, i've seen "didn't affect" in 3rd gen games.

It says "didn't affect" if the attack is not one that causes direct damage, ala Poison Gas, but causes a status change.

"Doesn't affect" or "unaffected" means that the Pokemon was completely immune to that type of attack, not that particular attack.