Wow, that is actually one of the most unluckiest, frustrating things I've ever heard.
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Bad Luck You've Had So Far
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Doing a Nuzlocke in X.
- Begin fight against Snorlax. Land Karate Chop with Pancham. Critical hit, does about 60%. Snorlax heals back up to about 55% with Sitrus, then paralyzes me with Lick.
- Snorlax uses Defense Curl, full paralysis on the Pancham.
- Snorlax uses Defense Curl again. Pancham uses Karate Chop again, crits again, and kills Snorlax. Cue rage. No idea how I killed it with +2 defense, but now I don't have anything to show for Route 7.
CTNC
Doesn't know how to attack
Crtis ignore tue users stat drops and the targets stat raises
While I was practicing for the Kanto Classic a week or two ago, I was setting up with my Clefable. I had +6 Evasion, yet my opponent's Flamethrower (I can't remember what the 'mon was, but it had nothing to change accuracy or ignore my Evasion boosts, I know that for sure) hit me four times in a row. That's 33.3...% accuracy, for a total chance of 1.234567890123...% of that happening.
Tbf, you were using Evasion so I am happy for your opponent.
It's the Kanto Classic! Everyone is using Minimize Clefable! Just ask Gary Oldman:
EDIT FROM A MONTH LATER SINCE NO ONE WANTED TO REPLY TO THIS:
I was battling in the Rock Gym in X and I was facing a Dwebble. I used a Water attack. It had Sturdy. Then it used Rock Blast and got every single hit. Every. Single. Hit.
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"I see... I see...
This Pokémon has outstanding potential overall.
That's how I judge it, anyway.
Incidentally, I would say that its greatest potential lies in its HP.
Hmm. And its Defense is good, too.
Although its Sp. Atk stat is equally good.
Its Sp. Def stat seems just as good, though.
And, well, its Speed stat is good, too.
Stats like those... They simply can't be beat! That's how I judge it.
But this Attack stat... It's terrible..."
The Pokémon in question was a Shroomish. Right IVs, wrong Pokémon.
Edit: Of course all the babies are inheriting the 0 Attack, lol
This Pokémon has outstanding potential overall.
That's how I judge it, anyway.
Incidentally, I would say that its greatest potential lies in its HP.
Hmm. And its Defense is good, too.
Although its Sp. Atk stat is equally good.
Its Sp. Def stat seems just as good, though.
And, well, its Speed stat is good, too.
Stats like those... They simply can't be beat! That's how I judge it.
But this Attack stat... It's terrible..."
The Pokémon in question was a Shroomish. Right IVs, wrong Pokémon.
Edit: Of course all the babies are inheriting the 0 Attack, lol
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Along those lines, I DexNaved a Shroomish with a perfect IV...in Special Attack. That was Timid. With Poison Heal (Effect Spore is better for in-game purposes due to Poison Heal being so situational).
I did end up with my first-ever Pokerus doing so, though, so it worked out alright.
EDIT: No, no it didn't.
So yes, I get Pokerus for the first time ever. Except I can't actually play that much right now because I have a crapload of schoolwork. Great timing.
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This is why we use hacks. Welcome to the Dark Side. :-P
DISCLAIMER: It's just a joke so please don't start a flame war on hacks vs breeding again.
i dont care about hacks lol, the only reason i did this is cause I wanted to breed my own riolu. The rest of the team was genned in LOL
(One in four chance of full para)^5 x 1/16 chance of a crit = 1 in 16,384. Yikes, dude, that really sucks.
Opponent's Cresselia is paralyzed and I have Heracross on my side. Seems like an auto-win for me, right?
WRONG! Megahorn missed 3 times and Cresselia Psyhocked my Heracross to defeat.
WRONG! Megahorn missed 3 times and Cresselia Psyhocked my Heracross to defeat.
Stall Sableye new meta
Edit: It's my birthday. What better way to celebrate my birthday than to let the RNG do it for me?
http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/vgc2016-360276736
...and then this happens in the very next battle http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/vgc2016-360278921
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I have 600+ hours on one game and no shiny (other than the ones I crammed on my PC box from GPS bringing in Pokemon and Hackmons)
and hatched about 100+ Charmanders even with one parent from a different country, no shiny.
This was Pokemon Black (1 out of the few games I actually went Shiny hunting in. The other was Black 2 in which I eventually did get a shiny.) Although, I have hatched a bunch of Charmanders on other games as well, but never got a shiny one.
I haven't really gone shiny hunting on Emerald.
and hatched about 100+ Charmanders even with one parent from a different country, no shiny.
This was Pokemon Black (1 out of the few games I actually went Shiny hunting in. The other was Black 2 in which I eventually did get a shiny.) Although, I have hatched a bunch of Charmanders on other games as well, but never got a shiny one.
But then, I found 2 Wild Shiny Poochyena in Emerald within less than a 24 hour time span (Real life not game play) just training Ralts which evolved into Kirla before I found the 2nd Poochyena, in game play it would be somewhere between 2-5 hours. I forgot since I didn't pay attention to the play time and it was in 2013.
1 Shiny Mudkip as a starter on one Emerald game (I restarted Emerald many times)
On Heartgold, I found a Shiny Geodude and found out that I wasn't using an Action Replay. This was around the time I used Action Replay for so many things on Gen 4 and 5 games.
1 Shiny Mudkip as a starter on one Emerald game (I restarted Emerald many times)
On Heartgold, I found a Shiny Geodude and found out that I wasn't using an Action Replay. This was around the time I used Action Replay for so many things on Gen 4 and 5 games.
On Emerald's battle factory, I found a level 100 Shiny Arcanine and managed to beat all 7 trainers with it. Too bad I can't keep Battle Factory Pokemon.
I haven't really gone shiny hunting on Emerald.
HP.
Ice.
Thundurus.
I've done 61 resets so far, among them these gems:
31/e/30/31/31/1
31/e/16/31/31/29
I mean, yeah, the RNG hates me. But I hate the RNG more.
Ice.
Thundurus.
I've done 61 resets so far, among them these gems:
31/e/30/31/31/1
31/e/16/31/31/29
I mean, yeah, the RNG hates me. But I hate the RNG more.
I guess this counts as both good luck and bad luck:
In a Hackmons Cup battle, there was a moment where I had a Genesect at 1 HP vs a Litleo. My only damaging move is Needle Arm, but Genesect happened to have Serene Grace. I say "Well, let's get some chip damage", and I click Needle Arm, even though it only does 10%. And it flinches... "Cool!", I thought. And it flinched again, and again, and again, and again until the Litleo was at about 10%, flinching about nine times in a row.
The Litleo happened to carry a Custap Berry.
No need to explain how it ended.
In a Hackmons Cup battle, there was a moment where I had a Genesect at 1 HP vs a Litleo. My only damaging move is Needle Arm, but Genesect happened to have Serene Grace. I say "Well, let's get some chip damage", and I click Needle Arm, even though it only does 10%. And it flinches... "Cool!", I thought. And it flinched again, and again, and again, and again until the Litleo was at about 10%, flinching about nine times in a row.
The Litleo happened to carry a Custap Berry.
No need to explain how it ended.
A couple of months ago, I was training a Charizard in ORAS. I had just fought the Gentleman on Route 121, and Zard was paralyzed from his Manectric. I just needed a little more experience to level up so I walked around for a wild encounter.
Found a wild Shuppet, which would work.... only it didn't.
RNGesus decided that I was a heathen and made Charizard become fully paralyzed four turns in a row. The Shuppet had used Curse, so I could do nothing but watch as Charizard lost to a wild sock puppet ghost stabbing itself in the head with a nail.
Needless to say, I was reduced to a state of dumbfoundedness and blind rage for the rest of that afternoon.
Found a wild Shuppet, which would work.... only it didn't.
RNGesus decided that I was a heathen and made Charizard become fully paralyzed four turns in a row. The Shuppet had used Curse, so I could do nothing but watch as Charizard lost to a wild sock puppet ghost stabbing itself in the head with a nail.
Needless to say, I was reduced to a state of dumbfoundedness and blind rage for the rest of that afternoon.
Being critted 6 times in a row without the aid of Scope Lens/Focus Energy/Super Luck is really game-breaking.
These are the times I'd like to play in-game with the "luck controlled" mode*.
* This is a particular metagame in which a move with i.e. 90% accuracy hits 9 times in a row, but the 10th time you know it will fail. Moves with higher or lower accuracy are treated accordingly to this. Other examples: moves like Stone Edge (80% acc) hit 4 times in a row, but then fails in the 5th ones and so on. The same concept is applied to the crit chance.
These are the times I'd like to play in-game with the "luck controlled" mode*.
* This is a particular metagame in which a move with i.e. 90% accuracy hits 9 times in a row, but the 10th time you know it will fail. Moves with higher or lower accuracy are treated accordingly to this. Other examples: moves like Stone Edge (80% acc) hit 4 times in a row, but then fails in the 5th ones and so on. The same concept is applied to the crit chance.
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Serene Grace does not increase the chance to crit. You're thinking of Super Luck.