Pokémon Red nuzlocke, where Mewtwo spends 3 of the 5 turns using Swift on my Vaporeon. The other two Recover and one, just one Psychic. I had allowed 5 healing items for the battle and only needed 2. (Lmao this was just 5 hours ago)
Update: it’s definitely something with the AI. Even the supercomputer intelligence of Turo decided that the best way to deal with Ice Face was to have his Iron Bundle use Snowscape…five times in a row.I’m not sure if this is stupidity or genius, but I thought this was interesting.
Alfornada Gym in Violet, the second trainer has a Medicham that knows High Jump Kick/Psych Up/Acupressure/Power Trick. Against my Eiscue with Ice Face up, the Medicham just refused to use High Jump Kick despite that being the only offensive move it has. I assume it heavily discouraged selecting HJK due to the crash damage (I don’t know for sure if crash damage applies when attacking into Ice Face, but I assume it does), and instead decided to…spend multiple turns using useless stat modifiers.
This Medicham is evidently a loyal follower of OSHA.
Lol might as well fight until the very end, not take the easy way outI dunno, if you're going out might as well do it in style.
Also, last 'mon Explosions are still quite deadly when doing a Nuzlocke.
Truly on some galaxy brain shit trying to make Ice Face too heavy to move with all that snow.Update: it’s definitely something with the AI. Even the supercomputer intelligence of Turo decided that the best way to deal with Ice Face was to have his Iron Bundle use Snowscape…five times in a row.
I don't entirely know how the AI functions, but I bet it doesn't read enemy attacking stats; why would it need to when it never switches. I do know that in some (if not most?) of the games the trainer AI's actions are heavily informed by whether or not it sees a move that can KO, and suspect it went roulette in that instance.This literally just happened now.
Champion Steven sent out a Claydol. I swapped into Gyarados predicting Earth Power. Earth Power was used.
On the very next turn, Claydol is standing there. It sees that Gyarados is in front of it. This is a Gyarados. Physical attacker. It's about to ddance and sweep. What does it do?
Claydol used Light Screen! Yeah Reflect definitely was not the right move there...
Either two things happened:A sublime example of AI stupidity today.
One of my apprentices in the Emerald Battle Tower uses a Shedinja on his team and something hilarious just happened when I chose to partner with him for the hell of it (wasn't a serious streak). Both of my Pokemon fainted in the sixth battle, leaving his Shedinja alone against the last Pokemon: Forretress.
...which knew Explosion, Giga Drain, Earthquake, and Zap Cannon. Well, none of those can damage Shedinja so it's a foregone result!
Forretress clearly agreed, as it went straight for Explosion.
I just... why?!
If I had to guess I'd say that point 1 is probably closer to the mark. I don't think it chose randomly though, the AI most likely rationalised that - all other things being equal - it should use the highest-powered move. I don't think it thinks in terms of "last ditch effort" or otherwise. Everything I've learned about it points to the AI simply wanting to get the maximum possible yield out of each turn - i.e. a KO (or more than one if it's a double battle). Generally when the AI has four offensive moves and none are super-effective against the target it will default to using the highest-powered move unless there's some drawback (like low accuracy or recoil) or one of the other moves comes with a benefit (such as a guaranteed stat drop/raise or status infliction).Either two things happened:
1. The game detected all Moves are immuned thus no Move is more effective than the other, so it chose randomly and just so happened to select Explosion.
2. Could be, when a Pokemon has Explosion, they're programmed to use as a "last ditch effort" Move. And not just if its low on HP, but also in Move effectiveness. In the unlikely case all others Moves are immuned, use Explosion. Doesn't matter if Explosion also will do no damage, Explosion will still initiate which is all what the game cares about.
Bet the logic under the hood here is:Hey look at that, two in a row!
In the Battle Subway, using Gyarados and Marowak against Emmet. He sends out Eelektross as his last Pokemon. It uses Thunderbolt...
...but it gets nullified by Marowak's Lightningrod.
Okay then, rationalises Eelektross. I'll just use Gastro Acid on Marowak to remove Lightningrod!
Very clever indeed. But you know what'd be even more clever?
Using Discharge!!
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You'd think so, but what I've read (on here and elsewhere) seems to go against this:Bet the logic under the hood here is:
-Discharge would hit Gyarados, but would also do nothing to Marowak. AI probably prioritizes single target moves in this scenario
-Discharge, in addition to doing nothing to Marowak, would also deal less damage to Gyarados. AI loves prioritizing more damage
-Discharge would also power up marowak!!! That Marowak could be throwing out fire blasts and ice beams!
Was your Zoroark disguised? If so, that's a common pitfall the AI has to face, which is exactly why Zoroark/Zorua can solo things like Ultra Necrozma.They clicked a normal move into my hzoro not once but fucking twice