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 }
 ```
 
+Note that this only affects how AVA transpiles your tests. If you use `babel-register` you'll still need to add separate Babel configuration as explained [here](#transpiling-sources).
+
 ## Use Babel Polyfills
 
 AVA lets you write your tests using new JavaScript syntax, even on Node.js versions that otherwise wouldn't support it. However, it doesn't add or modify built-ins of your current environment. Using AVA would, for example, not provide modern features such as `Array.prototype.includes()` to an underlying Node.js 4 environment.