Not A Bug I Get Crit A Lot

[Fayari]

What type of bug are you reporting? Mechanics

What is the bug?
Is Crit rate broken or something? I swear that keep getting hit with crits way more often now. Just now, I got hit with two crits in a row and it killed my Cosmic power Clefable with 2x Def and SpDef boost.

It's also happened many times this past week, like dying from half HP to moves that I should barely take 10% damage from due to 4X Def and SpDef boosts.

Are you able to replicate it? If so, how?
Step 1:
Play Clefable with Cosmic Power and Stored Power
Step 2: Set up on a passive mon and comfortably get 1000+ Def and 800+ SpDef
Step 3: Realize it's useless because a random non-super-effective move just decides to crit and ignore your 1000+ Def, killing you instantly

 

[HoeenHero]

Here are some resources to help with RNG:
- https://pokemonshowdown.com/pages/rng
- https://github.com/smogon/pokemon-showdown/issues/8491#issuecomment-939298131

It may have also been something like the opponent using moves/items/abilities that increase the crit rate, but no replay was provided so I can't check that. Please provide something more concrete next time if you really think theres an issue with the RNG as every time this gets claimed I run tests and everything appears to be normal (expected number of crits, expected number of misses for a move's accuracy, whatever). So more than likely, its just your perception of the RNG rather than the RNG itself (this is a very common issue across all games, not just pokemon).