The LEAST ACCURATE Moves in Pokemon
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- čas přidán 31. 10. 2023
- Most moves in Pokemon are 100% accurate, which makes them very reliable for casual and competitive play alike. But on the flip side there are a handful of moves with much lower accuracy. Today we'll be looking at every move in Pokemon that's 75% accurate or less.
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@@robertlupa8273 what do you mean ?
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A wise man once said.
“If it’s not 100% accurate, it’s 50% accurate.”
hail yea he did!
Arcoos would be proud.
@@cosmictheorist6091 indeed he would
As of gen 7, confused pokemon actually only have a 33% chance to hit themselves in confusion, not 50%
one thing that wasn’t mentioned is that thunder and hurricanes accuracy is lowered in sunny weather. i believe it is 50% accuratel in sun
Right, we forgot to mention that, but this video took eons to make as is so I’m not too salty about it
18:19 Something that I've found with these moves is that Zap Cannon + Blunder Policy is a hilarious and surprisingly effective jank strategy. If the move hits, your opponent's speed is halved. If it doesn't, your speed is doubled.
I used it to decent effect on Xurkitree in Gen VIII and I really hope they bring the Ultra Beasts back because it's such a funny thing to pull off.
That is ingenuity
3:40
Actually, Burn status halves the power all physical attacks.
The idea of burn halving the Attack stat come prior to Gen 8, where all physical attacks where calculated with, well, the Attack stat.
However, Body Press, a move introduced in Gen 8 which is physical and calculated the damage dealt based on the user's Defense stat, is also affected by the Burn status. So, that status actually drops the power of your physical attacks in general
i was low key expecting the legendary 75% will-o-wisp mention
This was a long video that took forever to make, so we didn't include moves that used to be 75 or less. Otherwise we'd also include stuff like Poison Gas, Rock Throw, Razor Wind, most of the partial trapping moves, long story short it would end up being like half an hour
One has a calm soothing voice while the other is like a screeching penguin in my ear.
I will never forget Ice Fang, a 95% accurate move, missing FOUR times in a row under normal circumstances during an important gym battle. I only use fully accurate moves as a rule now.
My favorite thing to do with OHKO moves is pair them with accuracy fixing moves like Mind Reader to make them hit. It works especially well on Poliwrath transferred up from gen 1 because you can use this combination to force switches for Focus Punch. He also learns Hypnosis as well
Using Gravity also works too!!
until you play in vgc format where 99% of the pokemon run protect so you they can just do that. Or even in single where they can just switch into the pokemon that are immune to those moves
@@bruv7521 It's definitely built more for singles where protect is less common and if the Ghosts are really giving you trouble, you have other team members for that. Heck, you could also just throw out a Hypnosis or Fissure and hope you get lucky. Been working pretty well in the current gen lol
Or just use perish song for 100% accuracy. :p
OHKO moves man. 30% of the time it works every time.
sums it up quite nicely doesn't it
Okay I just discovered this channel and I love yalls style. Actually feels like a good friend group having some fun
I’m really glad that that’s the vibe people get from this channel. Elias and I have been friends for a long time, so we’re glad people enjoy the silly stuff we leave in between actual information
You missed the real issue with Outrage... No one cares about the confusion at the end, the problem is that your opponent essentially has a free switch in to a Fairy
Same goes with moves like Slam, Smog and Poisonpowder wjich are specifically designed for very low-leveled Pokemon like Tackle is
The real clunkers are moves like Mega Kick or Egg Bpmb that are actually supposed to be good...
I just discovered this channel and it’s absolutely fantastic! Your friendship is so good and I’m very glad I found ya.
Low accuracy moves are exactly why I LOVED Z-moves. They turn low accuracy moves into high power nukes that NEVER MISS! Same for Max Moves but less nukey (if that's even a word). I miss those mechanics. Terastalizing is cool, but I think I prefer Dynamax and Z-moves just 0.1% more.
ngl "stubbed my toe"'s base power is very justifiable cuz HOLY HECK THAT HURTS
19:40 I very much enjoyed that random sneeze. XD
Technically OHKO moves aren't always 30% accurate, they follow this formula:
[(The level of your pokemon+the enemy's pokemon level)+30]%
So it will always miss if your pokemon's level is lower than the rival pokemon
We addressed that in the video
The formula doesn't agree with your conclusion.
The formula is wrong too.
@@MouldMadeMindnope, it fails if your pokemon is lower level, they just forgot to mention that
You mean minus the opponent's level, right?
@@supremeclamitas5053 yes
Rock throw in gen 1 was 60% accurate if I recall correctly
Yeah a few moves have gotten their accuracy buffed over the years, but we just focused on the ones that are currently 75% or less because this is already one of the longest videos we've done together. I think Rock Throw was 65 but that's besides the point. It was awful back then either way
@@MEPlaysGamesNot trying to be rude because this content was great, but rock throw was 55% accurate in gen 1
Just like focus blast is in gen 6-8
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Good video, good visuals, also in love that you added cc. Genuinely you’re doing great keep up
I don't see any reason to NOT include closed captions personally. They make our videos accessible to a wider audience, and they're super easy to add since we have a script. All we have to do is copy and paste it when we upload a video and CZcams does the rest. Glad that people appreciate that little extra effort :)
I find it odd that Focus Blast is so inaccurate, like I picture it more as 85% accurate like Fire Blast, it would be cool if there was a weather that makes Focus Blast never miss like Blizzard never misses in hail or Hurricane never misses in rain, what weather to give it though, maybe misty or psychic terrain, I dunno
The reason Focus Blast is so inaccurate is a combination of it’s insane 120 power, on par with Thunder and Blizzard, and because fighting type special attacks have insane coverage with some of the best special attacking types, like Ghost
@@alestanealonraskin6155focus blast has more power tha thunder, blizzard and hurricane, 120 vs 110
ah mb was remembering from gens 1/5@@albi2066
@@alestanealonraskin6155Yes but also doesn’t have as much going for it to make up for the more dmg. No weather helps it and it has less of a chance to apply it’s secondary effect. I mean it only has 10% chance to lower sp def which a lot of people even forget it has that effect with that low of a chance and the fact you’ll miss much more then that effect actually applies. It should at least be 80%. U could say well hydro pump also has 80% and is only 110 and has no secondary effect but hydro also gets buffed in the rain where as focus blast doesn’t have that. So it doesn’t have something to help with it’s accuracy or it’s dmg when it comes to weathers. I see no problem with making it 80% accurate I feel it would fit in perfectly fine even with the slightly higher based dmg. It’s also a fighting move and so ghost Pokémon are immune and all the other moves your only immune if u have a certain ability (like water absorb for hydro pump). And if they did make it 85% accurate and they reduced the dmg to 110 I’d be fine with that. It definitely needs to buffed accuracy wise.
the fact that its a fighting type move with wide distribution among non-fighting type special attackers is why the accuracy should be low. special attackers are by nature more powerful then physical attackers and fighting provides great coverage. fighting is one of the best attacking types in the game and focus blast is often paired with ghost attacks.@@davidstratton696
What has 75%:throwing a power that make them sleep
What is 100%: a mushroom throw a power and make them sleep
3:06 RIP dark void.
Golden rule of Pokemon: If it isn't 100% accurate, it is 50% accurate.
It either hits or it misses, 50/50 odds
About smog, Poison fang is 100% accurate and has a 50% chance to badly poison.
Reason why lance’s Pokémon knows slam is that opponents Pokémon only had level up moves. While they can learn body slam, that’s only through tm. Move pools are known to be extremely shallow in gen 1 (especially since the only dragon move in gen 1 was dragon rage, set 40 damage move)
It wasn't entirely level up moves though, Lance's Dragonite is well known for having Barrier, despite Dragonite normally not being able to learn that move at all
@@MEPlaysGames I forgot about barrier, but at this point I just consider it apart of dragonite’s moves. I’ve watched so many solo rby runs it slipped my mind
You are right that it's almost entirely level up moves though. I noticed that while I was editing, but since Elias and I had already recorded the script, I decided to just leave that section alone and accept that we'd get some comments about it. I'd rather not make him go back and re-record stuff if I can avoid it. And there is at least some truth to the Lance bit, so I just left it be
@@MEPlaysGames it’s great the way it is, a very enjoyable video. I just have a fascination with gen 1 and how it manages to even work and I saw that no one else seemed to have realized it so I was hoping to spread information
8:49 I was just doing the part in Platinum where you go through Eterna Forest with Cheryl that has a Chansey using Egg Bomb lol
OH RIGHT I forgot about that
was hoping you would bring up the insanity that is gen 1 Rage missing: if you have lowered accuracy or your opponent has increased evasion, and you miss with Rage, Rage's accuracy drops to 0.4%
Hydro Pump has 80% accuracy but I think it deserves a honorary mention for not having a secondary effect like its elemental relatives
Hone Claws Dragon Rush kinda goes crazy
My favorite niche with Sleep Powder is that Butterfree and Vivillon can both learn Sleep Powder and have access to Compound Eyes (increasing their accuracy by 30%), so when they use Sleep Powder, it is 97,5% accurate, which is incredibly useful for an early game encounter!
Heya MEPlays, Im happy you responded to message last time. If you wouldn't mind what do you use to edit your footage and what do you record the voices. I always love learn how its all done and hope to apply it to make better content. ^u^ Also, I want a compilation of all the banter in all these vdieos, xD
Right, so here's the rundown of what we use to make our videos.
Audio:
Elias has a Blue Snowball Ice and I have a Blue Yeti. You can buy them for $40-100 USD or so. A microphone is absolutely a worthwhile thing to spend a little money on, because good audio goes a long way towards making higher quality videos.
We record and edit our audio using Audacity, which is a free program. There's tutorials out there on CZcams that show you what settings to use to get the most out of your microphone, so I would look into those once you've got a mic you like.
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I record most of the footage in the videos myself. If I'm recording my Switch I use an Elgato HD60S capture card, which cost us around $200. Elias and I bought one three and a half years ago when we started the channel and it's still serving us very nicely.
Some of the other footage comes from an online battle simulator called Pokemon Showdown. I build my teams on the site, then I collect footage of those teams in action by battling myself on two different monitors. If you've got a Windows computer I'd recommend using OBS to record that stuff, but on Mac your best bet is probably QuickTime Player. Aside from that, we also use clips from the Pokemon anime, and some screenshots of stats and movesets and such from Bulbapedia.
I edit my videos in Adobe Premiere Pro and make thumbnails and move/ability graphics in Photoshop. The Adobe suite is pretty expensive, but I'd say it's worth it because I get plenty of mileage out of these programs
@@MEPlaysGames That you so much, no have no idea how it has been since someone made immediate understand about the best things I need worded in a way that I can understand clearly. I have autism so it a sentence or question is not explain in a certain way, I wont understand it at all, however this, THIS i understand completely. You are a truly great person MEPlays. And I hope you get to 1 MILLION SUBS one day. :3
3:33 I like how Brock just chucks a 277 pound (125 kg) pokemon with little to no effort
y'know how it is
@19:17 "And the chance of knocking something out obviously goes up the more you use it."
No, no, NO! That's the gambler's fallacy. Fissure has a 30% chance of working, each time you use it. Using it more times in a row does not increase its chance of hitting. You *can* make statements about specific scenarios, just as you did when you said "hitting at least 1 out of 2 is a 51% chance". But the odds of each individual Fissure hitting will always be 30%, no matter how many times you use it.
Right, that probably wasn’t the best way to word it. When we say that the chance goes up, we meant the chance of hitting at least 1 out of however many you’ve used up to that point, not the chance of any individual Fissure hitting. Didn’t mean to make it sound like we were falling for the gambler’s fallacy, but when you write such a long script, some things aren’t quite worded perfectly
@@MEPlaysGames It's cool. Sorry if I sounded overly upset, it was a good video.
Yea it was more of a semantic thing than a statistical one, because we both agree that the calculations that followed are right. Glad you enjoyed yourself :)
11:24 sludge bomb is also effectively more likely to poison your enemy with a 30% chance per turn rather than the 28% chance of smog
"Stubbing your toe on a rock"
I WAS DRINKING WATER
Yesterday I remembered why I would rather run thunderbolt over thunder. I was using a Zapdos with thunder on Pokemon stadium 2 and it missed 5 thunders consecutively 😭
how is stubbing your toe on a rock a normal move? that's totally a rock type move.
Rock Climb would like to have a word with you
Good video, and I don’t mean this in an insulting way, but the first speaker(don’t know your name sorry) needs to slow down a little bit when talking. It doesn’t ruin the video or anything, I just found it worth noting
Sup I’m Matt, and yeah that’s a comment I get a lot. It’s something I’ve been trying to work on, but I find that I forget to slow myself down a lot of the time
@@MEPlaysGames that’s perfectly ok! I’m sure you’ll get better as time goes on!
9:19 That was one satisfying chord, my man
Dragon Rush triggers my Cynthia ptsd. Don't sleep on it if you outspeed your target.
Smog actually has less of a chance to poison than sludge bomb or poison sting due to its accuracy, what a great move.
is the editor that picked the hurricane move's flying type background colorblind?
not being mean or anything, just curious if it was to differentiate flying from ice, water, and normal, and I wanted to leave a comment to boost this good video
15:03 I thought they were talking about Xurkitree using Z-Hypnosis in gen 7, nevermind then
great video but yall forgot to mention the menace that no guard fissure machamp could have been
I've talked about Fissure Machamp in another video, I forget which one though
I Remember That Crazy Shit . 😂😂
If its not 100% accurate, its 50% accurate
ain't that the truth
70% of the time it works every time
Ice-types are also immune to Sheer Cold. In gen 1, Rock Throw had 65% accuracy, less than Rock Slide and Stone Edge. It was buffed to 90%, but still. For a basic rock-type move, that's pathetic. Also, justice for Darkrai, who's suffering from Smeargle's crimes.
Forgot to mention glare in the parlaysus section :0
I remember when I hit 4 sheer colds in a row. Good times
Ice types should get sleep powder/spore equivalents now that thawing can occur randomly. Call em Frost Bite and Deep Freeze or something and give them to every slow ice type.
Did you know they killed egg bomb in the recent games? The one little bit of Pokémon trivia I know
Something not many people know about is that quite a few moves had much different stats in Gen 1. A few of these are minor, like Clamp being 75% accuracy until Gen 5 where it got buffed to 85%, but lot of the drastic/stranger changes happened from Gen 1 to 2. A few of these were already covered in this video, but I'm going to explain a couple more that are notable. Feel free to comment if I missed anything!
Several of them are arbitrary and numerous enough for us to infer that they were coding errors, such the accuracy of Poison Powder, Bind, Mega Kick, Razor Wind, and Slam being 74.6% while Hypnosis gets 59.8% for some reason.
Then there are the weird duplicate ones like Wing Attack and Dig that were carbon copies stat-wise of Peck and Earthquake aside from Dig still taking two turns. Notably there are a ton of these that are normal type multihit moves, and almost none of them have been changed from their original iteration so stuff like Double Slap and Barrage are still identical to this day.
Then we have some moves that straight-up changed type. Bite was originally Normal type, which makes sense considering we didn't have the Dark type in Gen 1, but then you have both Karate Chop and Gust being Normal as well, with the latter even mentioning that it's "a NORMAL-type attack used by bird Pokémon" for some reason.
Finally, we have the moves that received drastic changes between Gen 1. There's some that are pretty well known like Jump Kick and Hi Jump Kick, so I'll list the ones that you don't really see people talk about much. Pedal Dance was 70 base damage even though it acted like Thrash that was 90 and then both of them were buffed to 120 in later generations, Struggle was considered an actual Normal damaging move that did 50 base power so not only could you miss it ghost types were unaffected leading to softlocks, Self Destruct and Explosion used to be 130 and 170 power, and then arguably the most egregious examples are Poison Gas being 55% accurate and Rock Throw being 65%. However for the last one it gets worse, as in the Japanese versions of Red and Green it was a measly *50%!* This means that it is the lowest (intended) accuracy damaging move in Pokémon's history; the OHKO moves don't actually do damage so they don't count here. Man, Rock types couldn't catch a break.
Sleep Powder is really useful if you have a Pokémon with the ability Compound Eyes lol.
i run dynamic punch on my no guard machamp and it's a good turn 1 move
your videos are funny and i really appreciate the cc you have on them
Can't they just make Spore have negative priority? Toedscruel wouldn't have to be screwed over like this.
Does trying to act when tripl-y Paralyzed, Confused and Infatuated not count?
Loved the focus miss joke, I meant focus miss, I meant focus something 😂
You forgot smeargle on the spore section lol
9:19 LOL
I put this video at 1.5x speed and have never had so much fun 😂
1:26 Breloom!
I still don't get how strong Freeze is in modern Pokemon. Anytime it does happen the frozen mon just defrosts immediately or after a second turn. And any fire move defrosts regsrdless.
The reason freeze is so strong is because it completely shuts down a Pokemon for an unknown amount of time. It’s only a 20% chance to defrost each turn, and the fire type move immediately defrosting you obviously doesn’t matter if you don’t have one to begin with. If you consistently defrost immediately or on the very next turn, you’re just lucky
Fire type moves also don’t necessarily defrost the user, that’s a property that’s assigned to individual moves, not types. Flamethrower and Fire Blast don’t unfreeze you if you know them
9:17 nice
Well if it's not100% accurate it's 50% accurate
Smog does hit both opponents in doubles, which is something. Smog is still terrible though.
But could you use a x accuracy to counter the low accuracy of the moves?
I refuse to believe Focus Blast has more than 20% accuracy.
19:42 Bless you.
ugh they fucked CZcams up Trying to put way to many ads on even small channels
stubbed my toe is my favorite move.
Lovely kiss 75 acc. Yeah tell that to Lorelei.
1:47 that’s my real name and i got scared so bad 😭😭
What music is that in the background of the video?
I composed the intro/outro music, as well as I believe one other piece of music in this video, but the rest are pulled from various game series. Pokemon, Smash, Ace Attorney, that sort of stuff
@@MEPlaysGamesyou should post the music as its own videos so people can listen to it if they want!
play rough misses 90% of the time
Nea6t analysis video! Thanks for uploading!j
supersonic dosn't make the list because those cave zubats use it with 100% accuracy
Lovely kiss is the second best choice after sleep powder? Isn’t there another signature move that’s 80% accurate and sleeps both opponents; being the whole gimmick of a sleep based pokemon and making it unique in a sea of mediocre legendaries?
Oh yeah, Smeargle happened…
Wait minute, fire blast got an accurateness boost!?
Fire Blast has always been 85% accurate
@@MEPlaysGames Well I'll be I must have never paid attention. Neat
Ah yes dynamic miss.
Focus Blast wins, it has 1% accuracy.
its called focus miss though
Any move when I need it to hit
Why does stubboing your toe have 475 power 😭
Why DON'T stubbOing your toe have 475 power 🤨
19:41 Godblessyou!
Did they miss fire blast?
No, Fire Blast is 85% accurate
10:09 LLLLMMMFFFAAAOOOOOOOOO
If you guys keep making videos in the style you do, this channel's gonna grow. New subscriber :D
I had to rewatch so many parts hahaha. This is the first video I've seen from you guys and I'm excited to see what else gets put out :D the way you both record a type of classification video at the same time (rather than a battle/challenge video for example) is really cool and sets you apart because of the realism in your interaction (?)
Basically, yes keep going
Pfft… the real champion is me 😎
Ah the death sentence to any nuzlocker
Stun spore can hit electric types
Electric types have been immune to paralysis entirely since gen 6
Another piece of fun trivia about the Spore users, Brute Bonnet isn't particularly fast, but in theory Protosynthesis and/or Booster Energy could boost its speed and make it a decently fast Spore user, possibly the fastest... except that Brute Bonnet's base stats are distributed in such a way that its Attack stat will ALWAYS be higher than its Speed (at least, at levels 50 and 100), which means that it can't ever get that Speed boost and start Sporing things
What if you give it -6 Atk +6 Spe and then use Sunny Day?
Yeah that's a tidbit I've been wanting to talk about in a video for a while, gonna find somewhere else to sneak it in probably
@@edgargaebolg9307 That won't work, because Protosynthesis (and Booster Energy) only take into account the actual stat, without worrying about modifiers like boosts or Choice Scarf or things. I guess they really did not want this thing having fast Spores lol
@@Invisibool It takes stat modifiers from moves into account, it's items and status conditions what don't count. A -6 Atk Iron Leaves will boost its SpD on Electric Terrain
@edgargaebolg9307 Ah, my mistake then!
Still... good luck getting that set up in Singles format,and even then sleep clause exists, and even in VGC it's just really not worth it because good luck getting an opponent who will let you do that, because even then Bonnet's not gonna be *that* fast, so while it's nice in theory, the hoops just aren't worth the effort.
9:18 🎶🎵
9:38 🥚💥
your forgetting that one hit KO moves like fissure and the others are reliant on the levels of pokemon. they have to be the same level as you for them to hit. the more you out level your opponent the more accurate they are. still though i find these moves to be absolute bullcrap and unfair. but theres 1 move i think is VERY unfair, even more so then a 1 hit ko move. thats toxic. literally EVERY POKEMON in the entire game can learn this move, minus a few select pokemon. a poison type move being able to be learned by literally any type of pokemon in the entire game. i question this as well because how the hell can pikachu learn toxic? how can minccino learn it? i think they went overboard with toxic. but to me toxic represents alot of the pokemon community to. almost every pokemon can learn it minus a select few, it shows how much of the pokemon community is toxic in my eyes. ive seen people in tournaments win under unfair circumstances and even trash talk others to. so i guess it fits. i mean am i wrong?
1/8 is not a buff from 1/6
It's a buff from 1/16, which is what we actually said
Am I the only one who has Focus Blast hit more than 70% of the time?
Absolutely yes everyone else envies you
We’ve found them: the one that has been taking all of the Focus Blast luck.
@christiancinnabars1402
Funny part is, I tend not to use it a lot. Also, have a blunder policy equipped when you use it. It makes it more accurate
Arceus is pronounced Ark-eus not Arse-eus
Both pronunciations have been used in official media, so they're both valid
@@MEPlaysGames Nope. The "Arseus" pronounciation was only used by mistake in official media. Pretty much every single piece of official Pokemon media in the last 10 years is unified in using the k sound
Anyone who doesn’t use these kinds of moves, is a coward
One of you talks to fast. Its hard to understand at times.
9:47