Luck and Misplay - What would you blame?
Hello everyone!
As I've seen many people complaining about the impact of luck in this game, I was wondering what people are thinking when both some bad luck and a mistake costs the win. Would you still blame the luck? Would you blame yourself?
Scenario 1:
An opposing weakened Scarfed Basculegion defeated one of your Pokémon with Last Respects. You knock out Garchomp with your second Pokémon, but also faints from Rough Skin.
It is now your Sinistcha and your Scarf Ditto against Scarf Basculegion locked on Last Respects. You put Ditto on the side to activate imposter, lose the speed tie and miss Matcha Gotcha.
Do you blame this terrible game where the luckiest player always win, or do you blame yourself for not putting Ditto on the other side?
>!By not activating Imposter, you could have side-targetted Transform, PP-wasting Last Respects and secured the victory (or, if they somehow predict it and let you transform in Sinistcha, you could have improved your odds to "hit one Matcha Gotcha in two tries").!<
Scenario 2:
This time, your Sinistcha has Shadow Ball, but you are not sure about the damage roll (it barely KO's at that range, you'll know it for the next time!). So you risk Matcha Gotcha and miss. Is it still a terrible luck-based game, or do you just take the L?
Scenario 3:
Tired of missing, you teach Energy Ball to Sinistcha. Final 1v1 against Sylveon, you can defeat it in three hits (two if you crit) while not taking a critical hit yourself in two hits. You click Energy Ball, they Hyper Voice, you click Energy Ball, they Hyper Voice, it's a Critical Hit! Sylveon wins.
This time, there was nothing you could have done to guarantee your win. BUT you could have started with Shadow Ball instead of Energy Ball: the slightly higher chance to drop the Special Defense means that, if it happened, would have made the difference.
So you get the picture now. When do you consider that the luck is too much? When the opponent wins from a nice RNG roll, do you consider you didn't deserve the loss when 1/the winning like was obscure and very hard to see in the heat of the battle, 2/ the winning line was missed because you didn't know something you could have known, 3/ the winning line was barely better than the chosen one?