Why do status moves used by the computer enemy fail in Gen I

Question

When I play Yellow it and I am facing a trainer sometimes when they use things like Growl or Leer they fail. Why is that? But so far my Pokemon have not had that problem.

Comments

I've experienced this while switching.....

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I got pokemon yellow too and it does that a lot

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It is probably just a glitch. After all, the pokemon games were glitchy until Gen. 3.

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Doubtful. It was a website version of the game on PlayR.

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Don't Forget Gen.1 was extremely glitchy and had quite a few bugs in it's system. But since you say it is a PlaR,It's most likely a bug in the program.

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The bug was the same in the original games as it was in the program made on a website? doubtful, Can you give me a source?

Answer 1

There is a special AI handler for status moves that causes these to miss 64/256 of the time.
This is not a bug, it's just some AI weirdness.