Frontier Brains are cheating assholes

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I just got done with a battle with Frontier Brain Thornton, or whatever, of the Battle Factory. All I can say is, wow.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Serene Grace does not apply to critical hits, and even with a scope lens or razor claw, he should only have a 12 percent chance of a crit. Even if serene grace did apply to it, The crit rate SHOULD be only 24%. Nope. Apparently, Thornton can cheat. The crit rate is his bitch. There wasn't a single hit that wasn't a crit in that entire FUCKING AWFUL match. My team, up until that point, was unstoppable, not a single faint. But guess what? Thornton brings out an unfair team that should not be in the level 50 group. All I saw was Togekiss.

Wow, you =missing=, I wish I could bring in my own team and use a gameshark too, but I'm not cheap like that, slut.

My team consisted of a Lumineon, a Sudowoodo (who just happened to miss the Stone Edge on the only possible turn he had on attacking him, GO FUCKING FIGURE (That was seriously a pivotal point in the match whether Sudo would hit or not with stone edge. Ha. (DRAIN PUNCH? REALLY?))) And Venomoth. He 2HK everybody. Wow.

=missing= me.

So, share your stories of unbelievable luck not in your favor.
 
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To be honest, you didn't really have the best team for the match anyways.

But yeah, it's been proven that NPC's cheat. Try the battle tower sometimes with hacked pokemon that have no guard and know all one hit KO moves. every opponent will negate those moves.
 
First, cool it.

Secondly, the NPC's cheat. We get it, it's a known fact.

Lastly, I like the thread, not your language.
 
Even though the language is a little coarse (it's just a video game, don't get a conniption) I think this thread can stay open for discussion.
 
I breed a team in platinum to take on the battle tower because it was the last obstacle to me getting a black trainer card for the first time. This team was IV breed to have no less that 31 in at least 2 stats, ev trained with a varied move pool and good type coverage. I get to palmer and my attacks that don't have 100% accuracy always miss and his always connect and are critical hits. I'm not talking every other attack but all of them. So my team is taken down no problem I thought I just need some advice. So I ask for help on building a new team. I built 2 different teams just like before IV breed in 2 or more stats one of them had 31 in 4 stats. they again are all ev trained. If it wasn't for the different pokemon I would swear it was the same battle. So a friend of mine offered to lend me his hacked pokemon and against my better judgment I used them and guess what a hacked team with 31 iv's in all stats and ev trained and can you guess what? ugh Palmer I hate you so much.
 
The only thing that really just Irks me in Battle Frontier is it feels like everyone has a pokemon with Fake Out. especially in Multi-battle (which is a majority of what I do). Other than that, I like the Cheating NPCs. "if you can dodge traffic, you can dodge a ball" type of thing. "If you can beat a frontier brain, you might be able to take those Pokemon online in a competative team" is a bit too wordy a saying though.
 
Lv. 100 Goukazaru (my Infernape) VS Lv. 86 Ninjask.

Ninjask used Aerial Ace!
Critical hit!
It's Super Effective!
Goukazaru fainted!

Me: ._. <(..................)

And then followed some intelligible profanity. The one thing that always, always, ALWAYS breaks my gosh-darn streak: critical hits. Why can't the COM be more original? ;A;
 
I remember this moment as if it were yesterday:
Electivire used Cross Chop!
Electivire's attack missed!
Kangaskhan used Earthquake!
It's super effective!
Electivire fainted!
(Battle Tower)
 
Well after maybe 7 battles with Dahila, I put her into a corner! Now all I need to do is attack their ludicolo twice and I will win. So I attack once and they nearly faint, they are in the red zone! Then Ludicolo uses razor leaf and I'm liek, razor leaf, WTF, it's not gonna kill my (insert whatever pokemon this was(note-This happened last year in November))! But then it was a critical hit and I lose!
 
I've always suspected that the game cheats, but I always put that down to paranoia. Is there a thread somewhere that documents this sort of thing?
 
As far as I'm aware, the computer cheating is a known quantity. Doesn't make it any less annoying.

I seem to recall missing once or twice with 100 Accuracy moves, despite having nothing done to either my Accuracy or my opponent's Evasion. Also, I've noticed that in the Battle Frontier in general, my opponents' Pokemon have a suspicious tendency to hang on with one pixel's worth of HP without a Focus Band or Focus Sash going off, even beyond the 15% random variation in attack strength that I've read about. Which would be not to mention the anomalous critical-hit rate that computer opponents seem to be blessed with, but I feel that topic has been sufficiently covered already.
 
The computer is a cheating bastard. There's even a trope for it. Pokemon games are on one of the first comments on the Tropers' Tales page.

It is a fact that the AI has a better chance of getting a Critical Hit, waking up/defrosting/etc and every other thing that is supposed to be equal to yours. When we have a 30% chance of something hapenning, the AI has 60%.

And I can't help but wonder, why? Seriously, why make it this unfair?
 
Fairy Red said:
Lv. 100 Goukazaru (my Infernape) VS Lv. 86 Ninjask.

Ninjask used Aerial Ace!
Critical hit!
It's Super Effective!
Goukazaru fainted!

Me: ._. <(..................)

And then followed some intelligible profanity. The one thing that always, always, ALWAYS breaks my gosh-darn streak: critical hits. Why can't the COM be more original? ;A;
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Huh, so I'm not the only one. It's nice to know. The only thing that ever broke my streak was... crits. I almost started to wonder if all of my opponents had a scope lens. They were kicking my ass in painful ways... not with skill, with luck.

Anyways, I toned down the language a little bit on the first post. Yes, I realize it's a game, but it took me an hour and a half to reach that evil bastard. The only thing I got out of it was 10 BP.
 
First time I got to the frontier brain, I was cheated upon too. I battled, and got a ninjask BP to metagross, who took little from rhyperior. then I meteor mash (which amazingly hit), and Ko'd the rhyperior... until focus band activated, screwing me over. He kO'd metagross with earthquake, and in comes ninjask with 1 HP to finish off rhyperior. Dragonite comes in and kills ninjask after taking little damge, then flygon comes in and KO's dragonite. Unfortunetly, it doesnt KO milotic, who ice beams back. Stupid focus band, screwed me over.

However, in the emerald Battke factory I actully had luck on my side when facing the Brain, in a game I shouldn't have won, I did win. but here is not the place for it, I guess.
 
I'm just looking forward to the trainers after defeating the Brain for the first time. I already saw Dubious tactics like CS tricking from a Kecleon, I'm worried about what's next... Fortunately, it did have the predicted result of making me switch, but the AI, thankfully is too stupid to take advantage of it.
 
In the battle tower of sapphire version, I was on a 70 or so win streak, basically where every trainer aha a milotic, and my Metagross had manage to be the only one left after that dumb water snake had ko my Latias and Blaziken. Metagross beat it with about half it's HP left, but then came the Croconaw.

That thing was somehow faster than metagross, so it headbutts me. I flinch, whatever. It goes on to ko metagross by making it flinch 12 times in a row while spamming headbutt. I almost wasn't even mad it was so impressive.
 
Dedo said:
Wow, you =missing=, I wish I could bring in my own team and use a gameshark too, but I'm not cheap like that, slut.
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Haha, I didn't thinked about using that stuff. That's stuff is a trash for a hardgamer.
 
You're damn right the brains are cheaters! I must've battled palmer 12 times before I beat him. MMy team was always Garchomp, Milotic, Electivire. They usually always win. Garchomp SHOULD have a higher speed than dragonite considering the fact that some websites have it as an uber because of it's high speed stat. Palmer's Mother-Frigging dragonite actually hit garchomp EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. So I gave garchomp a quick claw but this isn't the thread for that... anyways, yeah. The game is a lying, cheating, alcoholic. The end.
 
GHU Jockmaster said:
In the battle tower of sapphire version, I was on a 70 or so win streak, basically where every trainer aha a milotic, and my Metagross had manage to be the only one left after that dumb water snake had ko my Latias and Blaziken. Metagross beat it with about half it's HP left, but then came the Croconaw.
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Are you sure you actually fought a Croconaw? In the Ruby/Sapphire Battle Tower there are only Hoenn Dex Pokémon programmed to appear in the facility, so you couldn't encounter one unless you mixed records with a player that entered the challenge and lost his/her winning streak using a team with Croconaw in it, or maybe if you scanned a Battle e-Card in your game whose team can be battled later in the Tower, but as far as I know, no e-cards with a Croconaw were released ever.
 
Worse than Critical Hits is the dreaded Hitmonlee from Emeralds Battle Tower. I don't know if anyone else remembers it buy every turn it hung on with it's Focus Band even though there's only a 10% chance of that happening. Every time I got a streak up the Hitmonlee came and ruined it. I think it was on 1 HP for 5 turns one game until it had destroyed my team.
 
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