Pressure

[RachelPiplupLover]

Pokemon like Dialga, vespiquen and Palkia "exert their pressure" when coming into battle. Does anybody actually know the point of this?

 

[KoL]

If a foe is "exerting its Pressure," it means that every move you hit the opponent with will have 2 PP taken from it instead of the usual 1.
Apparently, having a Pokemon with Pressure leading your party will also increase the odds of finding higher-leveled wild Pokemon by 50%, although I have never tested this out and thus can't confirm it.

 

[Doctor Oak]

Wrong forum, this is for teams only. Moving to the Games forum.

 

[Kyupper]

Apparently, having a Pokemon with Pressure leading your party will also increase the odds of finding higher-leveled wild Pokemon by 50%, although I have never tested this out and thus can't confirm it.

I've tested it, but it seems to work better where there are low-level Pokemon (for me, at least).

 

[Ruko]

according to serebii, that is backwards... it should DECREASE the chance of finding a higher level pokemon to 50%

but I have never tested it...

 

[KoL]

I got my info from Bulbapedia - wouldn't surprise me if my info was wrong, since Wiki pages can be edited by literally anyone.

 

[Doctor Oak]

Then again, Serebii is littered with inaccuracies, typos and his statements just generally making no sense at all. In this case, though, Serebii's correct. Pressure decreases wild Pokemon at a high level appearing by 50%.

 

[KoL]

Just edited the Pressure page on Bulbapedia. It now says it decreases the odds of finding high-levelled Pokemon by 50% as well.

 

[Kyupper]

Then again, Serebii is littered with inaccuracies, typos and his statements just generally making no sense at all. In this case, though, Serebii's correct. Pressure decreases wild Pokemon at a high level appearing by 50%.

Whoops. That's what I meant. How I can make a mistake that obvious is something I'll never understand...
But, anyway. It seems that if you're against a foe who's got Pressure and you use a move with 1 PP left, it still goes through. So at least there's that.