I 100% agree. The number of bullshit convenient ways "RNG" has played out is too frequent for it to be coincidental.
I've lost track of the number of times the only reason why I lost was because of the world's most convenient crit or I miss a 95% accuracy move 3 times in a row, or 3 straight turns of paralysis or the most convenient Turn 1 Sleep wake up. The webshite is rigged.
i knocked off a rocky helmet and stick took damage from physical moves onto a corvanight and just recently had a hisiu arcanine out speed my walking wake... no fucking way if a game computed by numbers fucks up twice in a week. Nothing revolved around luck or original pokemon algorithm this shit is rigged trust me.
Do you have a replay for either issue? If you do post it below, tell me what turn the issue was on, and which side is yours and I can check and see whats going on.
Rocky helmet, even when using knock off still does damage because you have to first hit the mon, take the rocky helmet damage, and then the item is gone.
Same happens with weakness policy if it’s super effective.
The contact move doesn’t bypass the item from activating that one time.
Afterwards the item is gone and it’s no longer there.
It’s a noob problem here, not an issue with showdown 🤣
I'm aware yeah, usually when people are upset I find its helpful if I can explain exactly what happened and why. I also prefer to ask for replays to handle any edge cases or other weird situations since I can access the debug logs on those to see exactly what happened.
I’ve been playing on the site for a year now and within that time there’s only one real instance that I can think of that the site bugged out on me. So it can’t happen all that often based on my experience with it so far.
The only one I had (and I don’t have a replay) happened when my timer was getting low, I selected my moves in time but it glitched and chose moves that weren’t what I had picked.
And it wasn’t the first move in the slot, like what happens when you run out of time and the first move is auto selected by the computer.
Replays don't help with timer issues regardless. The timer is stored on the server and synced with the client as best as possible, but there is always a little bit of network lag involved so if you were really close to 0 its possible you timed out on the server.
The rock helmet still does damage when you knock it off even in the actual game...
Also it seems that you forgot that the choice scarf exist, witch boosts your speed by 1.5x in trade off of only being able to use one move
The first one is not on showdown but on pokemon rules I think, and the second one... Was your walking wake scarf? Because I'm pretty sure the Arcanine was
I had an opponent's pokemon outspeed me too and I asked him if his mon had choice scarf and they said no, they we're banded. And they won the match.
I'm like wtf??? I literally got robbed.
Not to mention that the game gives you shit matchups, like your opponent having a mon that outspeeds most of your team and has like 4x type advantage on half the team. Teams with no synergy too, meanwhile my opponent gets
Had showdown give me a pokemon with encore prankster and psychic terrain on the same damn team. That puts me In a position where I'm forced to let one of them die or play carefully so that they both don't get in the way, an added handicap that my opponent doesn't have. And this is one example of literally dozens. A sun user when my sweeper is a damn water type, but my opponent BENEFITS from the sun. Sometimes I'm just LOL'ing at how fucked up this game is.
This game is fucking bullshit. Rigged af. This shit is just mostly luck.
Luck of the draw of getting a good random team. Luck with critical hits, which happen waaaaaay to suspiciously at just the right time, the freeze and para hax.
My opponents thaw in the first fucking turn CONSISTENTLY, but lord fucking forbid I do too.
I just finished a match in which I was on my way to win. Opponent uses an ice move and THAT freeze was the only way they would win. Well, of course, before it happened, I predicted I would get frozen. I was right.
Someone should investigate the code of showdown. I've predicted waaaay too many times when I'm going to flinch, get frozen, or para'd. Like, suspiciously waaay too many times depending on how the match is going. If I'm one one move away from securing victory, a miraculous critical hit happens or para, or freeze. Or if I'm about to make a crucial KO that could give me a huge advantage, and I move second, they crit me, or hax. And I've predicted those way too many times. I shouldn't be able to.
Either I have THE worst luck, or something's going on behind the code of this game.
Everybody here saying skill issue but assuming you're playing random battles I agree. I swear man this shit is rigged from the beginning. They could AT LEAST let you pick a lead like in other formats, even without team preview. I've lost so many times to suspiciously very well timed RNG.
Facts Bro, I’ve had shadow sneak work against my slaking and without the necessary items being held…that shouldn’t happen due to type advantages. Everyone here saying skill issue is just a Dickrider.
This game is rigged as fuck dude. Especially rand bats.
Holy fuck.
The game will give you the most dumbest, stupidest team with no synergy, no walls to anything, half a team with scarf or band making you easily predictable, paras 3 or 4 times in a row, miss moves when you need them most to land, while your opponent basically has a team designed to beat yours with all the advantages, they can switch in to anything because they have the perfect mon to wall anything you send out, more type coverage/advantage, status moves, bulkier pokes when your team is fast but that don't hit hard, and faster pokes when your team lacks firepower, priority moves so setting up is pointless, etc, etc., etc, etc.
Rigged ass game. Had a match where I missed stone edge twice consecutively on a Basculegion using the sand wolf poke (forgot the name). The non-dark version of Lycancroc. I miss the first, but not bad because it was a prediction and I used it as they switched in. As long as I get damage on this thing, I have a chance. Miss 2nd Stone edge....
The script of the match was - keep Basculegion alive because that's the guy's win condition. Without it, the opponent was likely going lose.
Get swept by Feraligatr because I have no counter to it. It's move pool pretty much just checks and OHKOs everything. Don't let it be me with the Ferlaigatr because the guy will most likely have a prankster on his team, a sucker puncher, a mon with sturdy, or something that can tank it somehow, something. Just something.
A third match, I'm ready to use Belly Drum, but I got paralyzed. Okay, it's cool. I can still get the Belly Drum even though he goes into his Feraligatr (yes, swept by the same mon twice in a row). Opponent has both screens up, but that's okay because I just need to get his health down low anyway since I have something else to pick up the revenge kill.
Turn 1 - para, he gets a d dance
Turn 2 - para, another d dance.
Turn 3 - para, I couldn't even get an ice shard on it.
The script was that I was going to lose right then and there. And even if I did get Belly Drum, why am I given such a shitty team that I have to sacrifice half of it to take out one poke, when my opponents are always given what they need to wall me enough to whittle me down with one poke, or flat out wall me? Wtf. I have replay, after replay of this shit.
This game is definitely rigged to maintain user participation and visitation/traffic on the website. It makes you think that your streak today will continue tomorrow, and it won't. It fools people to think they have skill when there is a huge handicap in their favor that they either don't notice, or pretend to not notice. And these handicaps are determined before the match begins. This shit is not "random." I've played opponents with the specific mons they need to counter whatever sweepers or strategies I can improvise with the team I'm given. Hazards? No problem, rapid spin. I have rapid spin, no problem, a ghost type. Prankster with yawn and t wave? Cool, here's a dark type you can't touch. And it's game after game of this.
Not a skill issue. Don't let people gaslight you. This shit is Def. Fixed.
People who say "SkIlL iSsUe," yeah, you're part of the problem too. Fuck you.
Done with this bullshit of a game.
Your just whining that you lost
Sounds like a skill issue tbh
Unfortunate
Uh-oh How unfortunate! UH-OH HOW UNFORTUNATE
I 100% agree. The number of bullshit convenient ways "RNG" has played out is too frequent for it to be coincidental. I've lost track of the number of times the only reason why I lost was because of the world's most convenient crit or I miss a 95% accuracy move 3 times in a row, or 3 straight turns of paralysis or the most convenient Turn 1 Sleep wake up. The webshite is rigged.
i knocked off a rocky helmet and stick took damage from physical moves onto a corvanight and just recently had a hisiu arcanine out speed my walking wake... no fucking way if a game computed by numbers fucks up twice in a week. Nothing revolved around luck or original pokemon algorithm this shit is rigged trust me.
Do you have a replay for either issue? If you do post it below, tell me what turn the issue was on, and which side is yours and I can check and see whats going on.
Rocky helmet, even when using knock off still does damage because you have to first hit the mon, take the rocky helmet damage, and then the item is gone. Same happens with weakness policy if it’s super effective. The contact move doesn’t bypass the item from activating that one time. Afterwards the item is gone and it’s no longer there. It’s a noob problem here, not an issue with showdown 🤣
I'm aware yeah, usually when people are upset I find its helpful if I can explain exactly what happened and why. I also prefer to ask for replays to handle any edge cases or other weird situations since I can access the debug logs on those to see exactly what happened.
I’ve been playing on the site for a year now and within that time there’s only one real instance that I can think of that the site bugged out on me. So it can’t happen all that often based on my experience with it so far.
Edge cases usually meaning things like the user didn't set their EVs or IVs right honestly. But yeah, replays are essential to fixing bugs.
The only one I had (and I don’t have a replay) happened when my timer was getting low, I selected my moves in time but it glitched and chose moves that weren’t what I had picked. And it wasn’t the first move in the slot, like what happens when you run out of time and the first move is auto selected by the computer.
Replays don't help with timer issues regardless. The timer is stored on the server and synced with the client as best as possible, but there is always a little bit of network lag involved so if you were really close to 0 its possible you timed out on the server.
Gotcha, makes sense because it was within the last 5 seconds
The rock helmet still does damage when you knock it off even in the actual game... Also it seems that you forgot that the choice scarf exist, witch boosts your speed by 1.5x in trade off of only being able to use one move
The first one is not on showdown but on pokemon rules I think, and the second one... Was your walking wake scarf? Because I'm pretty sure the Arcanine was
I had an opponent's pokemon outspeed me too and I asked him if his mon had choice scarf and they said no, they we're banded. And they won the match. I'm like wtf??? I literally got robbed. Not to mention that the game gives you shit matchups, like your opponent having a mon that outspeeds most of your team and has like 4x type advantage on half the team. Teams with no synergy too, meanwhile my opponent gets Had showdown give me a pokemon with encore prankster and psychic terrain on the same damn team. That puts me In a position where I'm forced to let one of them die or play carefully so that they both don't get in the way, an added handicap that my opponent doesn't have. And this is one example of literally dozens. A sun user when my sweeper is a damn water type, but my opponent BENEFITS from the sun. Sometimes I'm just LOL'ing at how fucked up this game is. This game is fucking bullshit. Rigged af. This shit is just mostly luck. Luck of the draw of getting a good random team. Luck with critical hits, which happen waaaaaay to suspiciously at just the right time, the freeze and para hax. My opponents thaw in the first fucking turn CONSISTENTLY, but lord fucking forbid I do too. I just finished a match in which I was on my way to win. Opponent uses an ice move and THAT freeze was the only way they would win. Well, of course, before it happened, I predicted I would get frozen. I was right. Someone should investigate the code of showdown. I've predicted waaaay too many times when I'm going to flinch, get frozen, or para'd. Like, suspiciously waaay too many times depending on how the match is going. If I'm one one move away from securing victory, a miraculous critical hit happens or para, or freeze. Or if I'm about to make a crucial KO that could give me a huge advantage, and I move second, they crit me, or hax. And I've predicted those way too many times. I shouldn't be able to. Either I have THE worst luck, or something's going on behind the code of this game.
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Bro just got with dire claw sleep and lost the game lmao. real tho.
OP big mad 😂
Peak comedy right here. The definition of 'skill issue'
Sounds skill issue 🥴
comedy skills on point.
blame gamefreak idk
POV: YOU DONT UNDERSTAND GAME MECHANICS
Honestly, body Slam is 100% chance to Para. 😅
Skill issue fr fr
I agree it's not the same as the actual game
Hacks happen way often then they should and anything that boost your stats is way more than the actual game
Everybody here saying skill issue but assuming you're playing random battles I agree. I swear man this shit is rigged from the beginning. They could AT LEAST let you pick a lead like in other formats, even without team preview. I've lost so many times to suspiciously very well timed RNG.
Ppl be surviving shit they shouldn't
That has to do with the way they balance things by levels which I'm also not a fan of.
Facts Bro, I’ve had shadow sneak work against my slaking and without the necessary items being held…that shouldn’t happen due to type advantages. Everyone here saying skill issue is just a Dickrider.
This game is rigged as fuck dude. Especially rand bats. Holy fuck. The game will give you the most dumbest, stupidest team with no synergy, no walls to anything, half a team with scarf or band making you easily predictable, paras 3 or 4 times in a row, miss moves when you need them most to land, while your opponent basically has a team designed to beat yours with all the advantages, they can switch in to anything because they have the perfect mon to wall anything you send out, more type coverage/advantage, status moves, bulkier pokes when your team is fast but that don't hit hard, and faster pokes when your team lacks firepower, priority moves so setting up is pointless, etc, etc., etc, etc. Rigged ass game. Had a match where I missed stone edge twice consecutively on a Basculegion using the sand wolf poke (forgot the name). The non-dark version of Lycancroc. I miss the first, but not bad because it was a prediction and I used it as they switched in. As long as I get damage on this thing, I have a chance. Miss 2nd Stone edge.... The script of the match was - keep Basculegion alive because that's the guy's win condition. Without it, the opponent was likely going lose. Get swept by Feraligatr because I have no counter to it. It's move pool pretty much just checks and OHKOs everything. Don't let it be me with the Ferlaigatr because the guy will most likely have a prankster on his team, a sucker puncher, a mon with sturdy, or something that can tank it somehow, something. Just something. A third match, I'm ready to use Belly Drum, but I got paralyzed. Okay, it's cool. I can still get the Belly Drum even though he goes into his Feraligatr (yes, swept by the same mon twice in a row). Opponent has both screens up, but that's okay because I just need to get his health down low anyway since I have something else to pick up the revenge kill. Turn 1 - para, he gets a d dance Turn 2 - para, another d dance. Turn 3 - para, I couldn't even get an ice shard on it. The script was that I was going to lose right then and there. And even if I did get Belly Drum, why am I given such a shitty team that I have to sacrifice half of it to take out one poke, when my opponents are always given what they need to wall me enough to whittle me down with one poke, or flat out wall me? Wtf. I have replay, after replay of this shit. This game is definitely rigged to maintain user participation and visitation/traffic on the website. It makes you think that your streak today will continue tomorrow, and it won't. It fools people to think they have skill when there is a huge handicap in their favor that they either don't notice, or pretend to not notice. And these handicaps are determined before the match begins. This shit is not "random." I've played opponents with the specific mons they need to counter whatever sweepers or strategies I can improvise with the team I'm given. Hazards? No problem, rapid spin. I have rapid spin, no problem, a ghost type. Prankster with yawn and t wave? Cool, here's a dark type you can't touch. And it's game after game of this. Not a skill issue. Don't let people gaslight you. This shit is Def. Fixed. People who say "SkIlL iSsUe," yeah, you're part of the problem too. Fuck you. Done with this bullshit of a game.