Baton Pass (move)

Baton Pass (Japanese: バトンタッチ Baton Touch) is a non-damaging Heart-type attack.

Effect
Baton Pass switches the user with another Puppet in their team, keeping certain special effects in play. The effects carried over by Baton Pass are as follows:
 * Any staged stat boosts or drops, such as through Swords Dance or Intimidate
 * Focus Energy
 * Substitute, which will keep its own HP
 * The Confusion status
 * Ghost-type Curse
 * Ingrain and Mystic Water will restore HP and keep the user trapped
 * Leech Seed, which will sap based on the new Puppet's max HP
 * Block, both on you and your opponent
 * Perish Counters from Perish Song

Statuses, such as Poison, will not carry over. Status-related stat drops such as from Paralysis or Burn will not carry over. Baton Pass will not activate Pursuit and will go after the opponent switches or makes a move if the user is slower.

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