How does Last resort work with Max moves?

Question

Because max moves replace your move slots, do they count towards being able to use last resort? Or would you have to use their normal counterparts to be able to use it?

Comments

https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/333996/how-does-last-resort-work-as-a-max-move

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That's a different question! That asks if a  max strike replacing last resort will fail if you haven't used the other moves. My question asks if the max moves will count towards being able to use last resort.

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I don’t think the people who flagged this understood the question...

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I'm pretty sure that max moves don't count, but don't quote me on that

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Yeah.  Pretty sure Max Moves are independent.

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Contrary to you all, I think Max moves would count. They use up 1 PP of the move that they were upgraded from, so I don't see why it wouldn't count.

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Not sure if you mean this but: http://pokemondatabase.psim.us/battle-gen8anythinggoes-6931
Last resort does work

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Ok cool but the replay doesn't work

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Oh woops i forgot to save it smh

Answer 1

Max Moves count towards the moves used for Last Resort. For example you can use 3 Max Moves and after the Pokémon reverted to its original form you can use Last Resort. You can also use for example 1 Max Moves and 2 normal moves and then use Last Resort too.

Source 1, 2.

Comments

I'm sorry but this trick only works with Pokemon Showdown. I tried using it with my Snorlax in Pokemon Shield and it didn't work at all. I Dynamaxed it and used 3 different Max Moves and Last Resort when it reverted back to normal and it said "But it failed!"
Not everything that worked in Showdown would work in the actual games and there are nothing we can do about it. Oh well...