Why is the extent of the AI in these games that gym leaders and elite four only restore their pokemon's health if it reaches near or at red? That's it. No other strategy whatsoever.
>>26716449
It's a children's game. Not Dark Souls
>>26716518
>he thinks dark souls isn't a childrens game
kek
>>26716518
>he thinks Dark Souls has especially impressive AI
>>26716449
Because pokemon is a game with no mechanical skill aspect, only pure decision making. Aside from extremely sophisticated AI with fuzzy logic that could make guesses and predictions, pokemon's AI would be limited to two absolute states. Hyper simplistic AI like we have now, or absolutely overbearing AI that colludes with the RNG and reads inputs. It's extremelu difficult to make an AI that adequately doesn't fall into one of the two extremes.
>>26716900
Where does anon say that it has impressive AI? Pretty sure they were just saying that we shouldn't expect as much attention to detail
>>26716449
They do a little more than that. They will prioritize super effective moves over neutral.
>>26716900
Just give them Battle Maison hax where they know everything you do before they make their own moves.
Gen IV they actually switched out Pokemon sometimes in bad matchups or if health got low
Shame the AI that gen also sometimes at what felt like random did dumb shit like have a Figting type with Fighting type moves spam Thunderpunch on a Normal type, at least when I replayed XY recently the AI always went for the weak point
