What is the LEAST Damage You Can Deal in Pokemon?

Sure everyone knows how to deal the most damage in Pokemon, but have you ever wondered what the least amount of damage you can do is? Before rounding up to 1 and ignoring 0, of course.

If I catch any of you in the comments saying to just use a type immunity to deal 0 damage: I know where you live and I'm in your walls

[KingTheLuck]

Got a question or think I could have done it differently? Check out the follow up video! I answer some questions and use an even better method to get a smaller result 🎉

[sohamkhedkar]

The lowest damage you can deal is actually by using focus blast on any pokemon. When it inevitably misses, you will deal 0 damage which is ever so slightly less than 0.0074

[Sunset_Sketch]

Cannot believe you had to bust out the misogyny strats, good stuff!

[Known_as_The_Ghost]

What's the lowest possible chance to attack your opponent?
Things like, Accuracy, evasion, confuse, infatuation, etc. All stacked, on a super inaccurate move.

And then add the Truant ability. lol

[piplupfan]

This is the kind of useless information I love filling my head with. Good video.

[hppypanbuter]

7:22 i find it so cute when all of the other pokemon start using protect at the final turn for some reason

[connfdm]

I looked into this myself a while back and it's great to see how much of this you got right compared to other videos on the topic, but there are still some ways to go lower:
- Mimic + Reflect Type allows you to get Water/Dragon/Grass on any target Pokemon that learns Mimic.
- Guard Split can be used by Shuckle to average its raw Defense stat with the Defense stat of any target. Its stats reset when it switches out, allowing you to repeat this process until your target Pokemon has 613 raw Defense (one less than Shuckle's maximum of 614). Combined with Eviolite and +6 Defense, this allows you to get the absolute maximum Defense stat without the use of an ability, 3, 678.
- Much more importantly, Gen 7 is more optimal than Gen 6, as the utility of triple battles is offset by access to Hydro Vortex from Aqua Jet, which applies a ×0.25 modifier when protected against.
These optimizations let you get to a minimum of 0.0024919 damage, or about 402 Shedinjas. (P.S. to show just how little the Defense optimizations matter, if you still just use a +6 Kingdra you get a minimum of 0.0024934. :P)

[Gnolte]

2:53 btw water spout (eruption water type clone) turned into one of Kyogre signature moves for the first time bc neither wailord or Jellicent line is in the game

[enderstorm]

something i haven’t seen people try is forest’s curse + tar shot onto an aloan sandslash(for max damage). i calculated it once and it was more damage than the previous record with schuckle.

[Rytex-nhpm]

One way you could do less damage is in gen 1, in gen 1 it is possible for a move to do zero damage but the game will count that move as missing even if it cannot miss. One way to do this is to have a the lass from mount moon use absorb with her Oddish on a level 29 or higher Ivysaur

[lasagnapig]

I got .00332 !

the trick is to switch to gen 7. you lose the ability to run triple battles, but gain z-moves, which have their power reduced by 75% if the opponent uses protect. besides that, my setup was pretty much the same

[robertlupa]

7:37 I love that little _"(per hit of Water Shuriken)"_

[Horystar]

You can use False Swipe on a mon that has 1HP left. It'll deal 0 damage.

[israelnevarez]

If only Gourgeist was in S/V, you could use trick-or-treat to add ghost typing to a quad resist Pokemon for even less damage.

[PansyPops]

Improvement:

If you use a Pokémon with Reflect Type to get gain the Dragon/Water typing, you can decrease the amount of damage even more.

The options are either Mew (base 100 SpDef) or Toedscruel (base 120 SpDef), both of which are higher than Kingdra’s base 95 SpDef.

I’m not sure how much this would effect the final damage calc, but it would certainly decrease the amount dealt.

[yellowishnesses]

I wondered about this in the past. I think you could probably go lower using an Electrified Frustration affected by Forest's Curse and Mud Sport. In gen 7 Chansey can use Gigavolt Havoc on a protecting Pokemon Guard Split with Shuckle and Reflect Typed with Zekrom. I have a replay, but I think it is outdated because I forgot about Rivalry at the time.

[mondoeamon]

Good stuff, don't even follow pokemon but the editing and story keeps me here

[a.p.studios]

Personally i’d say Pain Split does the least damage because if you have more hp than them, they *GAIN* HP which is essentially megative damage
Pain split mismagius in Pearl helped me snag Cresselia that way

[mariokarter]

5:26 I wonder why you didn't type that one out.

[xxgioxx]

if you add to this setup 252 HP EVs to torkoal you can make eruption slightly weaker (11 BP)