When one player disconnects from the battle spot, how does the game decide which one will take the win?

Question

One guy disconnected from a battle with me, and I took the loss. Another time a different person did the same and I took the win. This is for rating battles. It is very annoying when your are definetly about to win and then they disconnect. I think it might be that the higher ranking trainer takes the win, but IDK.

Comments

Probably based on the amount of pokemon you have left

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He disconnected midaway through a z move animation, which took the KO on the opposing pokemon, so that I had a Pokémon advantage but he still got the win

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You want to ask this on Smogon?

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Will they know?

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Given that some of them are globally ranked in Battle Spot, probably.

Answer 1

The person who disconnects always loses. If you are losing points from "their disconnect", then you were the one who disconnected.

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Comments

I am 100% sure that they disconnected, but I still lost points. I was very mad from that as it took out a lot of points from my score

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Do you have a video or replay?