Noob Rules Questions

[Boppl]

Hi, i had 2 questions about the rules.
1. Are you allowed to move your pokemon onto your own goal space? (ie defending it so the enemy pokemon must defeat or surround your pokemon to be able to move onto the goal)
2. in the rules, pg. 4 it states: " You must do something each turn You may move your Pokemon to a new space (but not back)" Does that mean in you cant move your pokemon backwards? It just seems difficult to work out, because theres no arrows on the map, so how can you tell if they are going backward or not?

 

[momogirl]

1. When I play with the kids at school (they dont collect them, they just like my figures, lol) We normally move onto our goals all the time, it doesn't say anything in the rules AGAINST it, so we just do it XD;

2. it means if your piplup can move 3 spaces, you can't move one space in one direction, then 2 spaces in the opposite direction, pretty much saying you cant just back-track during one turn. Atleast thats what I ASSUME it means. But you could move your charizard one space to the right on your first turn, and then move it one space to the left on your next turn, i imagine.

the rules ARE worded a bit confusing, so hopefully theyll make a new rulebook some day with better explanations, lol. otherwise what I said above is how I see it.

 

[Jigglychu]

Oh so you can go backwards?

I have a question: If one pokemon attacks (white), and the other dodges, (blue) is the attacker KOed?

 

[warpy]

^nope, dodges do absolutly nothing and beat/negate everything (the exception to this is abras unique dodge)