'Spiky Shield' ignores 'Long Reach'

[Felicia 0]

Allright, I encountered this problem when leveling up my team in the reborn main hall. One of the trainers, Elder JB, has a Chesnaught with the move Spiky Shield.

I was attacking this Chesnaught with my Decidueye, that has the ability Long Reach, using the move Brave Bird.

The opponents Chesnaught used Spiky Shield, then I attacked with Brave Bird. After that my Decidueye took damage form the Spiky Shield (It was also said so in the battle text).

Like I said my Decidueye has the ability Long Reach, wich makes it so that his move make no contact.

Spiky shield is supposed to only damage enemies that make contact, therefore I presumed this to be a bug.

[Dan82 15]

On 7/26/2018 at 5:30 PM, Felicia said:

Allright, I encountered this problem when leveling up my team in the reborn main hall. One of the trainers, Elder JB, has a Chesnaught with the move Spiky Shield.

I was attacking this Chesnaught with my Decidueye, that has the ability Long Reach, using the move Brave Bird.

The opponents Chesnaught used Spiky Shield, then I attacked with Brave Bird. After that my Decidueye took damage form the Spiky Shield (It was also said so in the battle text).

Like I said my Decidueye has the ability Long Reach, wich makes it so that his move make no contact.

Spiky shield is supposed to only damage enemies that make contact, therefore I presumed this to be a bug.

i think its related to brave bird's recoil damage 

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Brave_Bird_(move)

[Felicia 0]

On 8/2/2018 at 10:44 AM, Dan82 said:

i think its related to brave bird's recoil damage 

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Brave_Bird_(move)

The thing is, it says in the text bar that it is the damage from Spiky Shield. But even it were the recoil damage, that shouldn't happen to begin with.