Quick question that I entrust ni one else to not fuck up the answer.

When I'm chaining calls for help to try and get one of these adorable fucks with Snow Warning...I should know right away, yes? When the main one calls for help, and an ally with Snow Warning comes in, it should summon hail, correct? I shouldn't need Trace or whatever to see when one of these guys shows up, right?

I got literally Baby's First Chain going and it was calling for help and getting a new Vulpix every 3 turns or so. And I must have slaughtered about two dozen of the little guys. None had the Hidden Ability. How deep do I need to go? CaN I just leave the first Vulpix alive (until I foolishly forgot to count pp and it Struggled to death without successfully calling for help), or does it help to literally chain new moN into new mon?

I did find a way to preserve my own pp, which is to use a Dire Hit, then try and use another and fail. The other one does not get consumed, so you can sit there forever and not damage the poor crippled animal that is calling for friends.

Anyway, just let me know so I can stop questioning my sanity.