Super effective move AI flaw
Amazing Man (Red and Blue only) |
Cable Club escape glitch |
Celadon looping map trick |
Champion Blue music muting glitch |
Coastal Flooding |
Confusion and Substitute glitch |
Cooltrainer move |
Cycling based glitch maps |
Escape sprite handling glitch |
Evolve without an evolutionary stone (Red and Blue only) |
Evolving Raichu (Red and Blue only) |
Expanded item pack |
Expanded Pokédex |
Focus Energy glitch |
Get stuck in a wall |
Ghost Bicycle glitch |
Glitch encounter system |
Glitch City RAM Manipulation |
Infinite Blaine Door |
Introduction Nidorino glitch (Red and Blue only) |
Invisible PCs (Red and Blue only) |
Invisible tree glitch |
Item stack duplication glitch |
Mute the music in the Pokémon League |
Partial trapping move link battle glitch |
Pokémon Tower Pokédex glitch |
PP underflow glitches |
Recovery move glitch |
Rival's effect |
See a Ghost without a Silph Scope |
Selfdestruct and Substitute glitch |
Silph Co. PC Glitch |
Slot machine glitch |
Stand on a tree |
Statue behavior glitch (Red and Blue only) |
Super effective move AI flaw (Red and Blue only) |
Super Glitch |
Surf down glitch |
Swift miss glitch |
Transform assumption glitch |
Transform Empty Move Glitch |
Trick Zone |
Vending machine purchase glitch |
Walk around with only fainted Pokémon (Red and Blue only) |
Walking lag glitch |
Walk on water through Surf |
Walking Pikachu happiness glitch (Yellow only) |
Wild appeared! |
ZZAZZ Glitch
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Feel free to update it. Reason given: Since this subject, there have been various more in-depth studies of AI for Generations I through III (possibly later Generations as well). The article describes a very brief simplification of one type of AI flaw. The subject is a lot more complex and the article might better be reworked into something different, such as a page about AI flaws in general. This is a good summary video by Abyssoft. |
In Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow, enemy Pokémon from some computer controlled Trainers (but not wild Pokémon) prioritize super effective moves over regularly effective or not very effective/non effective moves even if the move does not deal damage.
Example
In Pokémon Red and Blue, all three of Lance's Dragonair know Agility as their only Psychic-type move. Agility is a status move rather than a damage dealing move, however, these Dragonair will be 'locked on' to Agility against a Poison type Pokémon such as Zubat, because the Psychic type is super effective against the Poison type.
A low level Poison type Pokémon could eventually beat one of Lance's Dragonair, and the process could be made quicker with a poison inducing move such as Toxic.
As enemy Trainers don't use PP in Generation I, Dragonair running out of PP on Agility is not a problem.