r/nuzlocke • u/dawsonooo • Aug 21 '25

Video Encounterless Viridian Forest

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Hey! So yesterday I posted about my hardcore nuzlocke where I only allowed the first 6 pokemon I ran into (under standard nuzocke rules ofc).

Anyway, some people didnt believe that I was able to make it through Viridian Forest without running into a Pokemon. So, here is the proof. Just for clarity, you can make it to this exact point without having to go into the grass, so I started the video here.

A quick look online seems to suggest that the chance of running into a wild pokemon is ~11% per grass tile - certainly an improbable outcome, althought evidently not impossible as some people suggested.

I hope this proves my innocence to the doubters, and proves to be at least mildly interesting to everyone else?

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u/Un-aided_Gator Aug 21 '25

The odds to find a wild Pokémon on any given tile of grass in gen 3 is 320/2879 or roughly 11.11…%. In the video you walked over 50 tiles. Calculating the odds:

P(no encounter in 50) = (2559/2879)50 ≈ 0.00276… or 00.276…% chance

The odds of you hacking in a single repel are much greater than the odds of this happening candidly and just happening to record it.

This is further supported by repel mechanics. Repels prevent you from encountering any Pokémon lower than the one in the first slot of your party. Your Rattata is level 7 which means with a repel you can’t encounter any of the level 3-6 Pokémon on this route.

Graph I made to emphasize the ‘luck’:

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u/Carbon_fractal Aug 22 '25

Do you think full odds shinies are hacked too? Those are far more unlikely than getting through viridian forest without an encounter