Status conditions

[musicrazy2488]

Anyone else think status conditions are OP in this game, at least for NPCs? I'm probably just unlucky, but in one battle against a kahuna, I flinched from the move headbutt 5 times in a row. Another of my Pokemon was too paralyzed to move for 4 turns in a row (her Pokemon was also paralyzed, but was able to attack every turn). She also got 5 critical hits through the course of the battle. My Pokemon were almost 5 levels above her's and she still stomped me. Freaking Nospass and Boldore screwed me up.

 

[stzy]

Yeah I feel like you're absolutely right. I think they must have messed with the mechanics regarding status conditions, accuracy percentage, etc. I've definitely been in the same boat with this game: missing upwards of 6 times in a row, flinching, being too confused for life, the list goes on. But I think this adds to the difficulty of the game so I'm not too worried about it.

 

[Arjay]

I was going to post something about this. The worst one for me is poisoning. It seems like every move that has a chance of poisoning will poison my Pokémon 100% of the time.

 

[Nah]

welcome to the fun fun world of the RNG and hax friends

But yes they have made changes to some status moves. Poison Gas now has 90% accuracy instead of the unusable 55% percent, and paralysis only cuts Speed by 50% instead of 75% now, for example. Confusion also only has a 33% chance of causing the confused poke to hit itself.

There's probably other changes too that I'm not aware of atm.

 

[Hikamaru]

Wow I didn't know Poison Gas got an accuracy buff. No wonder it annoyed me when I was fighting stuff like Grimer and Salandit.

But like mentioned above, status has had a lot changed this generation, such as the aforementioned paralysis and confusion, but also burn's residual damage being less than it used to be.

 

[Hikamaru]

This isn't related to status in particular but hax:

There was an NPC near Hakulani Observatory and he had an Absol with a Z-move and it kept using Night Slash and it kept critting every single member on my team and it was incredibly frustrating to deal with.

I think that Absol had Super Luck. That might explain all those crits it handed to you.

 

[Palmer-Granate]

Unless I was using Pikachu or Electabuzz, Paralysis wasn't quite an issue unless it came from non-Electric attack. (By that same token, my Decidueye and Leafeon wouldn't feel Oddish/Bellsprout's nasty Powder attacks. (Not just Oddish and Bellsprout, but they're the most common Grass examples. Their Powders were especially devastating in 1stGen Kanto.) Oh, and ask me how I like Sleep, one reason I respect/hate Hypnosis. (Thx, Gastly/Drowzee line.)

None of that seems to matter, with the introduction of Refresh. Ask me how many times I had to go to the Center for status-related reasons in the prior games, because I only go there for HP/PP restoration nowadays. Thanks, GF.

I bet I'm not the only one who'd praise Refresh. :)

 

[KillerTyphlosion]

Rng hates you and favors the npc in my experience. Like I got like 3 crits in my whole adventure. The npc got so many 10% secondary effects on me combined with 3 crits in a row and hitting trough paralysis and confusion I mean like wtf. There hasn't been one boss battle where I wasn't critted. Or maybe I am just that unlucky, because yesterday on showdown I got frozen 3x and almost every turn got critted.