I'd love to see what happens if you fight Totem Wishiwashi with Primal Groudon. Too bad the Red Orb hasn't been released yet. Probably continue to use Rain Dance while Groudon sharpens his knives for the kill.
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The dumbest thing the AI has ever done?
- Thread starter TheGamedawg
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You can get the Red Orb in Hau'oli City's Mall. It's from the antique store that's at the upper right corner if I recall. They sell it, the Blue Orb, Adamant Orb, Lustrous Orb, and Griseous Orb for 10k each. They also sell some of the Plates.
I didn't know that! I expected the Orbs to be released in some Competition!
just caught tapu lele. as you can see its legendary status and psychic typing meant that it was only logical that it used the right moves...right?
"hey guys check out my cool signature move"
"hey guys check out my cool signature move"
It kind of happened to me when I tried to catch Tapu Koko. It almost KOed my MAROWAK with Nature's Madness due to how reluctant it was to let me catch it.just caught tapu lele. as you can see its legendary status and psychic typing meant that it was only logical that it used the right moves...right?
"hey guys check out my cool signature move"
In the process, perfectly demonstrating Nature's Madness.
Route 11 in B2/W2 has a breeder you can fight over and over again as an alternative to audino grinding. In my 30+ battles with her she would always turn one encore with her emolga- despite always outspeeding, and therefore the move failed. I grinded up a jellicent against that thing and it always started with encore, despite having electro ball.
Opponent's Espeon in the Maison used Hyper Beam on my Gyarados.
Except the Gyarados had 3 HP when the move was used. Overkill much?
Except the Gyarados had 3 HP when the move was used. Overkill much?
While doing the Battle Arena in Emerald, on the Gold Symbol fight, Greta's Breloom tried to Focus Punch my Swampert turn 2 instead of Giga Draining for the kill. Would have lost the fight if she hadn't done that, as we were both on our last pokemon.
You have no idea how many times the AI has used a Z-Move on my Pokemon when it's in the red in the Battle Tree.
...when it's not even my last Pokémon.
I've probably posted this before, but I had an AI blow its Z-move at my Vaporeon when it was at 7 HP. The Z-move was Hydro Vortex. Barring exceptional circumstances, Vaporeon all have Water Absorb as their ability.
Let me guess, that healed your Vaporeon completely? Now that is dumb.
CTNC
Doesn't know how to attack
In the Battle Tree, sometimes it feels like the AI gives up or just doesn't care. When I KOed someone's first Pokemon with Thunderbolt from Xurkitree, they sent out a Pelipper and let it be killed by another Thunderbolt. I thought they sent it out because they had nothing that resisted Thunderbolt... until they sent out their Ground Type Marowak. It's at least forgivable when they hold back their Steel Types against my Moxie Salamence because they know I have a Mega-Blaziken that's still alive. This was just pure stupidity.
Overall the AI seems to have no idea whatsoever of when to use a Z-Move. They pretty much use it at the first opportunity.
Hence why you see things like Z-Moves on almost KOed Pokemon, Z-Moves on a Mimikyu that still has its Disguise intact (I'll never forget this one), or Z-Moves that are nullified by abilities (is it that hard to check first with the regular move?). Or Hau using Oceanic Operetta on you.
Hence why you see things like Z-Moves on almost KOed Pokemon, Z-Moves on a Mimikyu that still has its Disguise intact (I'll never forget this one), or Z-Moves that are nullified by abilities (is it that hard to check first with the regular move?). Or Hau using Oceanic Operetta on you.
Deleted User 400951
Banned deucer.
^ times like 1000000x
Really though, the AI isn't bad, it's just not a chance for mindless, sheer brute force or item stall (revives and hyper potions). I beat the notorious Totem Lurantis with a Brionne, which just comes to show how easy it can be. Items imo can be pretty broken.
The AI has always been bad at this sort of thing, it just is more obvious due to Z-Move mechanics.
an absol in the battle tree just taunted my aegislash, then promptly followed it up with a magic coat. i have no idea what it was hoping to accomplish
Deleted User 400951
Banned deucer.
yeah, GF does this dumb stuff with mons, they were guessing that it'd take a special hit and then retaliate but that's obviously flawed for several reasons.
I think you’re mixing up magic coat and mirror coat. What he’s saying is magic coat only works against status moves, so taunting the previous turn makes it impossible for magic coat to work
Deleted User 400951
Banned deucer.
Lol I misread.
That is even more retarded than what I had suggested.
Probably a necropost, but I found this one pretty funny after it happened a few days ago.
OR Maison Super Triples. I had my trusty rain team and the opponent had a Steelix, which used Explosion.
Which wouldn't be a bad idea except that the Steelix was their last Pokemon and my entire team was still alive.
OR Maison Super Triples. I had my trusty rain team and the opponent had a Steelix, which used Explosion.
Which wouldn't be a bad idea except that the Steelix was their last Pokemon and my entire team was still alive.
Conni
katharsis
I keep on running into AIs that attack initially at full HP, but once they reach low HP then they start to set up, I mean its too late for that because they're already at so less health and that the set up boosts aren't really that significant anymore at that point of health. It's pretty baffling, at no point in time have I've seen setting up at around 15% HP work in the long run in-game, yet.