I just lost my run to barry in pastoria and dont understand why. I tried to stall out the staraptor with magnezone and rotom, switching between aerial ace (20) and double-edge/close combat (15+5) so that both moves would have no pp left at the same time. I wanted to setup on the remaining roosts (with the assumption that staraptor wont randomly roost on full hp and leave roosts for me to setup on). I lost my run due to staraptor randomly choosing between aerial ace and double edge on my magnezone (once the close combats were gone). As far as I understand the ai: the damaging moves, that do not do the most damage, get a -1 flag. Since double edge does more damage than an aerial ace crit (i dont know if crits get rolled in the damage check as well) i assumed staraptor would ALWAYS choose double edge here. Is Close Combat still the highest damaging move even though its out of pp? That would result in a -1 flag for both moves or is there some other variable I am not taking into account? I checked wether aerial ace circumventing the accuracy check changes something and wether the recoil of double-edge in combination with reckless and possible risky ai changes anything. From the reasearch i did: the specific moves change nothing. Do you know where my logic went off track/of a source that explains the AI in a way that reproduces this behaviour? I read through: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1\_FP5FMyyZQkL93jEf6288WtMxOBLPd-Bsemg5HxMbR4/edit?tab=t.0](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_FP5FMyyZQkL93jEf6288WtMxOBLPd-Bsemg5HxMbR4/edit?tab=t.0) and [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CzTIoDbwdOX2cvQN9yldL7zLXfKQtBy\_UWuxccpJnAM/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CzTIoDbwdOX2cvQN9yldL7zLXfKQtBy_UWuxccpJnAM/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0) they are optimized for emerald (specifically kaizo), but a different thread claimed the move ai is unchanged in gen 4. Help would be much appreciated. At the moment I'm not learning anything from the wipe and I could wipe in the same way in future runs since I dont know what to change... (predamaging so the ai sees kills with one move and gives additional +4 flags might help in this specific case, but it would have introduced uncertainties due to aerial ace crits (and its besides the point)

Move Ai Randomness - Renegade Platinum