I wondered if this will work?

Mar. 31, 2014

Ok I looked at flinching and I thought of a strategy. If you have a Pokemon with serene grace(doubles chance of flinching)and you use a move like air slash with a 30% chance of flinching it would double to 60% plus kings rock would be 70% chance. So if I send out 2 Pokemon with serene Grace I could flinch a lot unless they have an ability. Am I missing something?

Pleaselog inorregisterto add a comment.

No, it doesn’t work like that.

For example, a Serene Grace Pokemon using Air Slash while holding King’s Rock has a 0.6 + (1 - 0.6) * 0.1 = 64% chance to flinch.

You could send out 2 Pokemon with Serene Grace and flinch hax everything, but remember that only Togekiss has Serene Grace & Air Slash, since Shaymin-sky is not usable over wifi (it reverts to Shaymin when put into a PC box). The other Pokemon that have Serene Grace don’t have Air Slash, closest being Dunsparce with Headbutt.

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