Can an SOS Pokemon different from the Pokemon that called it make SOS calls to its species?

Question

For example, if you wanted a shiny Castform, or Mareanie, would they be able to SOS Call to make it easier?
Like this:
SOS Call a Corsola until Mareanie appears
2. KO the Corsola
3. Adrenaline Orb the Mareanie
4. Get to 1 HP

Would that make it SOS Call, or does that not work?

Comments

I may be remembering wrong, but I believe they can, but the Mareanie would call a Corsola with the same chance it would that a Corsola would call a Corsola

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So it wouldn't call itself as a super high chance?

Answer 1

In the example of Corsola and Mareanie

If Corsola calls a Mareanie, and then you, the player, kills the Corsola, it becomes impossible for the Mareanie to call anything at all. This goes for all examples of a Pokemon calling a species that is different than itself, with the single exception if Dragonair, who is necessary to making a Dragonite show up via Sos chain.

For example, Mareanie are known to eat Corsola branches. If a Corsola calls a Mareanie, the Mareanie will attack the Corsola. If the Corsola faints, the Mareanie will not call for new allies, which will break the chain.

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Comments

Thanks! So pretty much, you'd have to kill the unique pokemon over and over again to get things like HAs or Shinies of those Pokemon?

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Yeah, you should watch adrive shiny hunting mareanie