The dumbest thing the AI has ever done?

[Pikachu50]

Always trying to lower my pokemon stat that is already lowered to the maximum amount.

Winona in emerald had an illegal altaria (early dragon dance)

In emerald only, in Victory Road there was a fucking cooltrainer with Earthquake Lanturn, which can't learn it. It then proceeded to use it on my flygon.

By the way, did you know in the X and Y trailer Gardevoir was seen using Fairy Wind?

Yeah so why not let Gardevoir learn it instead of false advertising nintendo

 

[King Feraligatr]

>Me and my brother are fighting in the Gen 4 Battle Tower.
>Enemy Koffing uses Smokescreen against my Gyarados.
>I'm concerned about my Gyarados's worse accuracy, especially against the AI.
>Next turn the Koffing uses Haze, thus removing my accuracy drop.
>We destroy the the enemies' Pokemon easily afterwords. Hell, my Gyarados might have fainted that Koffing.

 

[CoolMan6001]

Once in a Battle Royal, I had an Incineroar out and the opponents had, respectively, a Mega Sceptile, and two Magnezone (Yes there were two. I once entered a match in which all 3 opponents had an Oven Rotom out at the same time). Naturally, as I was in the lead, my mon was the first thing that needed to be taken out right?

both Magnezone proceed to use Thunderbolt on me, forgetting that Mega Sceptile has Lightning Rod. They do this for three turns, boosting it's SpAttack to +6 (But all of the Focus Blasts missed so I had a free opportunity to get a KO on Sceptile).

 

[Pikachu50]

A wild Chansey just used fling on gen 7 when it still had PP for other moves, and had no hold item for fling to deal any damage.

 

[jordanthejq12]

A wild Chansey just used fling on gen 7 when it still had PP for other moves, and had no hold item for fling to deal any damage.

Wild mons have literally no AI, and select any of their available moves at random.

 

[Pikachu50]

Wild mons have literally no AI, and select any of their available moves at random.

Nothing in Pokemon has an actual AI we just call it that instead of saying CPU or computer

 

[Worldie]

Nothing in Pokemon has an actual AI we just call it that instead of saying CPU or computer

Except there's actual degrees of AI in Pokemon games, with facility trainers having the highest (thus making properly weighted selection of moves, swapping mons in specific situations, even using battle tactics like setup or conditions), and wild mons having the worst (literally rolling a d4 to pick their attack)

 

[Pikachu50]

Except there's actual degrees of AI in Pokemon games, with facility trainers having the highest (thus making properly weighted selection of moves, swapping mons in specific situations, even using battle tactics like setup or conditions), and wild mons having the worst (literally rolling a d4 to pick their attack)

Except AI stands for artificial intelligence. So no there really isn't any in Pokemon, as it is nothing but programs that use variables and run if, if else, else, for, and other miscellaneous code rather than there being any actual AI.

 

[Merritt]

Except AI stands for artificial intelligence. So no there really isn't any in Pokemon, as it is nothing but programs that use variables and run if, if else, else, for, and other miscellaneous code rather than there being any actual AI.

"The dumbest thing the AI has ever done?" is a much catchier title than "The dumbest thing the various code that controls enemy Pokemon and trainers has ever done?"


On the subject of the thread rather than nomenclature, had a "fun" fight in a recent Emerald run where the enemy trainer's Pelipper used Protect 10 times in a row (successfully 7 times in a row). In hindsight it was funny, but during the battle it was frustrating.

 

[Siggu]

On the subject of the thread rather than nomenclature, had a "fun" fight in a recent Emerald run where the enemy trainer's Pelipper used Protect 10 times in a row (successfully 7 times in a row). In hindsight it was funny, but during the battle it was frustrating.

Trainers in RSE have a ridiculous obsession with Protect and Detect.

 

[Pikachu50]

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Yeah I know it is a better title, but worldie was going and saying wild Pokemon don't have AI after I posted my (very recent) experience (and saying there are levels of AI) when Pokemon doesn't have AI at all.

 

[Worldie]

Trainers in RSE have a ridiculous obsession with Protect and Detect.

Oh you just wait to try Koga's gym in Let's Go.....

 

[Siggu]

Oh you just wait to try Koga's gym in Let's Go.....

At least it makes a little more sense there because they try to Toxic stall...

Talking about Let's Go, I saw a Rocket grunt have her Raticate use Super Fang against my Marowak. Except my Marowak was at 6 HP and the Raticate was obviously faster.

 

[Worldie]

Talking about Let's Go, I saw a Rocket grunt have her Raticate use Super Fang against my Marowak. Except my Marowak was at 6 HP and the Raticate was obviously faster.

And that is why he's still a Grunt and didn't ascend to Admin yet =(

 

[Detective Barricade]

At least it makes a little more sense there because they try to Toxic stall...

Talking about Let's Go, I saw a Rocket grunt have her Raticate use Super Fang against my Marowak. Except my Marowak was at 6 HP and the Raticate was obviously faster.

Like I always say, Rocket Grunts aren't exactly paid to be smart...

 

[bdt2002]

There was a time once when I saw Bugsy's Scyther in HGSS use Focus Energy twice in a row.

That's...literally all I can remember lol

 

[NormalNavi]

Battle Tree trainers regularly try to use Will 'o Wisp or Thunder Wave on Meteor form Minior.

Several times in a row.

 

[Melons-N-Soda]

Playing Theta Emerald Renev (a ROM hack), a Double Battle occurs:

On my side: Staravia and Onix
On the opponents' side: Jigglypuff and Clefairy

Jigglypuff used Rollout.......on Onix.

 

[Magnus0]

Playing Theta Emerald Renev (a ROM hack), a Double Battle occurs:

On my side: Staravia and Onix
On the opponents' side: Jigglypuff and Clefairy

Jigglypuff used Rollout.......on Onix.

I'm fairly sure that you can't target a specific opponent with rollout in a double battle. Uproar has this as well.

 

[jordanthejq12]

I'm fairly sure that you can't target a specific opponent with rollout in a double battle. Uproar has this as well.

Same is true of Outrage and Thrash; the general theme is that moves that imply some loss of control on the part of the attacker do not allow the selection of a specific target.

 

[lucariomaster2]

I'd like to nominate my own Medicham, while playing through the Battle Palace. Facing off against a Stantler, it decided to use Protect... for about 5 or 6 turns in a row, instead of attacking.

 

[HeadsILoseTailsYouWin]

For some unexplained reason, the gen 7 AI has this weird fetish for using Payback. It selects Payback when there are much better options available, even when they are faster than you and they have a 90 BP super effective move. However, by far the dumbest Payback-related AI blunder happened tonight when I was playing in Battle Tree Doubles and got to Blue. After sending out Gyarados and Machamp against my Incineroar and Cofagrigus, I decided that I would fake out Gyarados while hoping Incineroar would faint so that I could send out my Sylveon immediately and start wrecking house. Turns out that the Gyarados isn't mega, and Machamp decides to Earthquake. Fair enough, as it didn't have a KO on either of my active mons after Intimidate and "hey i have a spread move that doesn't hurt my partner, let's use it". Machamp gets burned by Flame Orb, and I realize that I may have to manually switch in Sylveon.

Turn 2 I double target the Gyarados and it faints. Machamp then uses Payback, into Cofagrigus, which takes over half. Mummy activates, showing that Machamp had Guts. Key word. HAD. As in, no longer has.

Not only did Machamp pass up a free OHKO on my Incineroar, it went for chip onto Cofagrigus, dividing its attack by 3 in the process (loses guts boost, and then burn drop applies). That has got to be high up on this list, probably second only to the AI going out of its way to burn its partner Terrakion with Will-o-Wisp.

 

[HeadsILoseTailsYouWin]

Continuing on the gen 7 AI's Payback fetish, I have a battle video to show in which the AI demonstrates that it can be a bigger choke artist than Darth Vader.

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Here's some context as to the team I'm using (I know it seems like a major "what the fuck how did she get 176 wins with that team") and to why this was such a big choke on the AI's part.

Starting in mid-December 2018, I've been amassing a collection of Pokemon that work well in Trick Room, along with some mons that can set it up reliably. I roll a random group of six of these mons, pick the four that I think work together the best (or re-roll if no TR users were rolled), and do a round of ten battles with the squad. Rinse and repeat indefinitely. Now, among the pool of 24 TR abusers are some rather ...unusual picks for a Trick Room team. Namely, Gyarados, Tapu Bulu, and Tyrantrum. Also note that I am only allowed to re-roll if I don't get a setter, so I can't call a mulligan on a terrible roll. All you need to know is that the group of six Pokemon that was chosen by RNGsus was so horribly unsynergetic that my best option was Mawile, Aromatisse, Gyarados, and Tyrantrum.

Now, as to why using Payback here was such a big choke. The only Battle Tree Rhyperior set that runs Metal Burst and Payback does not run any STAB. Its other two moves are Horn Drill and Reversal. You know, the Fighting-type attack whose damage scales inversely proportional to its user's HP and has probably hit 150 BP by now and could easily redline Tyrantrum. Yeah. That one. Never saw it once, just Payback and a single Horn Drill (went into a Protect).