In-Game "Pokemon" Generation 2 (G/S/C) [3] Quiz

Answer: 3/8 (37.5%)

Both the accuracy and the evasion of a Pokemon are affected by this way (evasion is boosted and accuracy is lowered):

0 = 100%
1 = 75% (3/4)
2 = 60% (3/5)
3 = 50% (3/6 = 1/2)
4 = ~43% (3/7)
5 = 37.5% (3/8)
6 = 33% (3/9 = 1/3)

An attack will hit if H > 1 in the following formula:
H = Attack's accuracy * Accuracy / Evasion

Answer: 70

Pokemon caught without a Friend Ball always starts with a base happiness of 70.

Happiness can vary between 0 and 255. Actions such as leveling up the Pokemon or giving it vitamins will affect happiness positively, while letting the Pokemon faint, for instance, will affect it negatively. Some Pokemon such as Eevee and Chansey can evolve when 220 happiness is reached.

Answer: 1

Frustration and Return can go as low as 1 base power. The formulas used to calculate their base power is:
Frustration's base power = (255 - Happiness) / 2.5
Return's base power = Happiness / 2.5

The base power is set to 1 if the formula outputs 0, so the minimum possible value is 1.

Answer: Twenty-five

1,250,000 experience points are required to raise to level 100 a Pokemon of the slow experience group, whereas 800.000 points are required if the Pokemon belongs to the fast group.

An interesting glitch regarding the experience rates is the experience underflow glitch. Pokemon of the medium slow group use a complicated formula and are calculated to have -54 experience points at level 1 (level 1 Pokemon are unobtainable through regular gameplay). If a level 1 Pokemon of this group gains less than 63 experience points, so that there aren't enough points to reach level 3 or more, the Pokemon gets automatically to level 100. This happens because the game reads the unsigned integer equivalent of -54, this is, 16777162, which are more than enough experience points to reach level 100.

Answer: Whether the Pokemon is holding an item

The formula used to calculate the total score is:

(Maximum HP * 4) + Attack + Defense + Speed + Sp.Attack + Sp.Defense + A + int(Current HP/8) + B + 1
(int means that Current HP/8 is rounded down)

A starts with 0:
If half the Defense DV, rounded down, is odd, add 16 to A.
If half the Attack DV, rounded down, is odd, add 8 to A.
If half the Special DV, rounded down, is odd, add 4 to A.
If half the Speed DV, rounded down, is odd, add 1 to A.

If the Pokémon is holding an item, B is 1; otherwise B is 0.

This means that the maximum possible score is 387 points if the perfect Scyther is caught.

Answer: Location of the tree within the map and player's ID number

The probability depends on the trainer's ID number and the X and Y coordinates of the tree, and various calculations are done with these numbers. This means that each given tree has a set probability of giving a Pokemon until the player starts a new game (because the ID number changes).
One out of ten trees will produce a Pokemon 80% of the times, while other trees will produce a Pokemon either 10% or 50% of the times.

Answer: 13/23 (~56.52%)

A traded Pokemon won't always obey you if you don't have enough badges. If you have no badges, only Pokemon up to level 10 will always obey you if the Pokemon was traded. Otherwise, the game generates a random number between 0 and 10 + L - 1, where L is the level of the Pokemon. If the number is equal or greater than 10, the Pokemon won't obey.

A disobedient Pokemon will randomly go to sleep, use another attack, or do nothing, for example.

Answer: Seven

For each time of the day and for each route with tall grass or cave, the game uses a total 28 bytes for wild Pokemon data (but uses less space for surfing Pokemon).

2 bytes are required to define each Pokemon; likewise, 2 bytes are used for the level of each Pokemon. This leaves us with space for seven different Pokemon, although in practise, in most cases, there can only be found less than seven species of Pokemon, to allow including the same Pokemon with different levels, or just to increase the encounter rate of any given Pokemon.

Answer: Unown "V"

We saw in Part 2 which are the requirements for a Pokemon to be shiny, let's now see what determines the form of an Unown:

Unown letter = ((A+B+C+D)/10)+1

If Attack DV is 0,1,8,9 -> A = 0
If Attack DV is 2,3,10,11 -> A = 64
If Attack DV is 4,5,12,13 -> A = 128
If Attack DV is 6,7,14,15 -> A = 192

For B,C,D apply the same logic, but using the Defense, Speed, and Special DVs instead respectively. Not only that, but also divide the value by 4 progressively (so that: B can be 64/4=16, 128/4=32, 64; C can be 16/4=4, 8, 12; D can be 1, 2, 3).

The result is the position in the alphabet of the Unown form (for example "C" if the result is 3).

This means that only the shiny "I" and "V" forms exist.

Answer: 13/8/10/8

The DVs of male Rocket Grunt's Pokemon are:

Attack: 13
Defense: 8
Speed: 10
Special: 8

Thus, the HP DV is 8.

Generally, DVs are low for the most common trainers (like Youngsters, Lasses and Fishers for example) and very high for Gym leaders, some Rocket executives, Elite Four and Champion. Male trainers usually have Pokemon with a good Attack DV while female trainers often have Pokemon with a better Defense DV instead.