TMTRAINER effect
The TMTRAINER effect is a common effect of Super Glitch moves that occurs in battle. It consists of many random weird occurrances, but gets its name from the phrase involved which says "TM TRAINER (Pokémon)", with the Pokémon most commonly being Ditto when using its famous "Cooltrainer move". It can also be a Pokémon from the player's team that last appeared in battle before the move causing this effect was used (thus most commonly Ditto again as the move user). This what most commonly happens during the TMTRAINER effect:
- The music fades out slowly until it is completely silent, and then a random sound plays (it is usually the soundfor opening the START menu, but other sounds sometimes happen, like in the ZZAZZ glitch. This sound repeats every minute or so, so most of the time it is silent, besides Pokémon cries, moves, and status conditions (just the music is silent).
- The opponent, idle to the move, gains a random status condition and suffers from another, or the same one. The most common would be freezing, and then the game saying "TM TRAINER (Pokémon) is frozen solid!" with "TM TRAINER (Pokémon)'s hurt by the burn!" directly following. Then the burning animation plays and the opponent gets the "mega HP bar". It loops around from a few to maybe 20 times before the damage stops, or (most commonly), the Pokémon faints.
- The second happening repeats each time the move is used again.
After a battle with this used, like other Super Glitch effects, the game always freezes. It can also possibly change the species of the opponent's Pokémon, and give it different moves.
The trainers seen in the ZZAZZ glitch carry an exception to two things with this: first of all, the TMTRAINER effect begins right as the battle starts, starting at the "(Trainer) wants to fight!". Also, with that version, with both the glitch trainer and the "death trainer", the game doesn't freeze after the battle.