I Entered a Tournament with a One-Hit-KO Team

One hit KO moves should be some of the strongest in the entire Pokemon franchise. A move that KOs whatever it hits, regardless of its stats, ability, or typing? That should be completely broken. But it isn't. Although these moves can pick up surprise KOs when a Pokemon would otherwise be safe, they have a massive drawback.

They only hit 30% of the time. Of course, there are ways to increase a Pokemon's accuracy. Moves like Gravity even increase all moves' accuracy on both sides of the field. But these guaranteed kill moves are special. They can't have their accuracy boosted by Gravity, or by raising the accuracy stat, or by lowering your opponent's evasion.

These moves are stuck hitting only 30% of the time. No matter what you do. At least that seems to be what Game Freak intended when they designed these super powerful moves. They didn't want there to be a way of increasing their probability of hitting, because if there was, they would obviously be completely broken since, you know, they K.O.

whatever they hit in one turn. But unfortunately for the big Pikachu, there are hundreds of different abilities and moves in Pokemon. And it turns out when you put just the right combination together. But wait, why are we even talking about this in the first place? Why would anybody want to build a team around these one hit KO moves anyway?

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